Posts by Stoneshop

Re: So how long...

As far as user accounts are concerned, where I'm at, we are bound by HR's decisions.

In all cases that I can remember, the command

$ mc authorize mod <user> /flag=disable/pass=<arglebargle> was issued roughly in sync with the door closing behind him/her, after which HR could (and sometimes would) take their own sweet time asking for the account to actually be deleted.

If HR is stupid enough to object to that*, just point to the ICT department's task description, which should include "taking all required steps to prevent unauthorized access", or words along those lines.

* as the request comes in to delete the user's accounts you just answer "done", not "done already a week ago".

Re: The Deep State Strikes Back

Well, _I_ voted for the guy, I'm happy he's there, and it's fun to watch the media+Demo-Rat MELTDOWN in progress.

Your near-namesake, Baghdad Bob, was funnier

Re: a mature security posture

Misspelling. It's "amateur"

Re: Can ya vague that up a little for me?

Please engage brain while reading.

The "awful" classification is regarding Confide, not OpenSSL

At 7 bytes per stored phone number

You would need your own brain to augment this with a name to go with each of those numbers. You appear to be leaving off area codes as well, where they're actually mandatory for mobile calls.

32 bytes would be the very minimum for a simple phone book entry, which would just about allow the name "Anonymous Coward" to appear next to your phone number including area code and international prefix.

Re: Buy the German U-boats

Diesel-electric subs are good to patrol around the coasts - but if you need attack capabilities and recon in the high seas - maybe escorting a carrier battle group - or close to enemy coasts, those aren't the subs your looking for.

Well, if the MoD is planning for no more than three days of action per week then DE subs are sure to be a better choice than ones that can be out under the high seas for weeks on end*.

"Public announcement to all adversaries, current and future: please contact your assigned MoD representative to obtain an up to date schedule of the offensive and defensive forces you can expect to encounter, so you can plan accordingly. He or she can be reached during UK office hours. Thanks in advance for your cooperation."

* at least, if they're not in for repairs/retrofit/upgrades/etc. in the first place.

Re: Appearance costs

to cover over the pealing paint

Does it ring in harmony with the selected ringtone, or just whenever the hell it feels like it?

Re: Bah!

Six plus the one in the little terrorist's hands makes seven. The desire is for a seventh suicide bomber martyr Barbie.

One just exploded.

Re: "two regulations are torn up for every new rule introduced"

Trump supporters believe their 'gut' is smarter than their brain

It is.

Note: there's no suggestion of some absolute level of smartness in the above.

Infections via local LAN

I've cleaned over a dozen of the various ransomware infections and they don't spread from PC to PC..they hit the local users PC and then start hitting network drives (which if the org is smart does shut down).

Do they have 1000 people all clicking the same stupid link at the same time or what?

You're way out of date. Infections can and do spread via networks without users' action (except that first one clicking on a dodgy link or document infecting their PC). The infected PC then scans the LAN for any systems that run software with remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. Network file and printer sharing is also used. And especially ransomware will first try to infect as many systems as possible before activating its payload (and only some time after that will it actually lock the files and display its demands).

Oh, how I wish

In IT we put a new system in about every 5 years due to hardware getting too old and the software being unsupported.

Ah. Ahahah. Ahahahah. Snicker. The architects will get new systems to dicker with every couple of years, and in the odd case a not-totally-bonkers design happens to come out, that particular model will be found to be EOL and the whole circus needs to be restarted. The actual production systems, already years out of service with OS and software a decade old, will then obviously need to be kept going (using spit and baling wire) for another cycle.

Re: re. "GitLab's prose account of the incident..."

No, "push" DOES NOT rhyme with "flush".

Re: 25 years? Hah! Try 25 months

Warranty period + epsilon.

Re: Makes me long for...

Chain, belt and drum printers have particular character sequences that cause all the hammers to fire at once printing such a line. A few pages of those will probably blow a fuse if not the entire power supply or, in case of a chain printer, break the chain. How's that for bricking?

Re: What else do you expect from a glorified hotel manager?

Hotel Carly Fiorina?

optionally some stuff to reduce friction

In which case you want a lubricant with a high Scofield rating.

Re: The problem with the concept of "Fake News"...

let people get used to using their BRAINS when reading.

It's a pity then that a fair lot of people do not have brains trained in critical thinking, or can't be bothered to expend time and energy on that.

Re: Numbers

I remember my school maths & science teachers repeatedly telling us not to blindly trust calculators or computers (or humans!).

In university I had a sie job doing remedial teaching* to secondary school pupils. Pretty often there would be one who'd forgotten his/her calculator, asking me for one. The less dim ones would quickly notice that RPN doesn't work like your average calculator, where others took up to five minutes before the lack of an 'equals' key penetrated their cranium. Five minutes of pushing buttons and writing down whatever had appeared in the display.

I doubt that doing magnitude checks and estimates stuck with those, and I can only hope they didn't end up in jobs where such skills are essential.

* it helps you explaining stuff too, as you have to switch back to their knowledge level.