* Posts by JaitcH

3904 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2009

TfL deploys privacy-busting voyeurcam

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Troll

Not only in England

There have been several incidents reported where cameras have been directed in an inappropriate direction.

In Toronto a camera mounted atop a Bell Canada building was frequently observed scanning a nearby high-end condominium apartment block which was 90 degrees off it's designated target - the Don Valley Parkway.

In some jurisdictions screens have been affixed to camera mounts to prevent the lens 'accidentally' capturing inappropriate images or invading privacy. Speed trap/traffic light cameras are not permitted to photograph facial images of occupants.

Of course, in Britain the government seems to pursue a policy of zero privacy, except for MPs expense claims.

Apple silences Psystar's rebel yell with injunction

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Easy to beat - new company

The people behind the errant company need only to set up a new company and Apple has to start all over again.

There are plenty of countries where you could sell the kit legally.

Tell me: why does anyone want an Apple THAT badly?

Microsoft cops to webcode theft

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Alert

But governments do get involved ....

if you have enough money to pay off the pols - in England read the Labour Party - to help them get re-elected.

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Gates Horns

... equally inconsistent with Microsoft’s policies respecting intellectual property...

The statement: "equally inconsistent with Microsoft’s policies respecting intellectual property." undoubtedly refers to the repeated theft and purloining of others I.P. over the years as being an unpublished Standard Operating Procedure of MS.

Home Secretary unmoved by last-ditch McKinnon protests

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WTF?

Actually, blame Blunkett

Obviously Blunkett was so taken with scoring a married woman he forgot a clause in the vile act.

"This act does not come into force until that of the U.S.A. becomes effective."

The British screwed, once again, by Blair.

P.S. Last thing I heard about this idiot Blunkett was that a Derbyshire cow had scored on him.

Cops need warrant to search phones, say Ohio Supremes

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Frustrate the cops ...

use multiple pagers!

They don't let on where you are.

Digital Dividend could cost cable TV dear

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What's good for the goose is ....

Cable TV uses signals on cable that fall within the Aeronautical VHF/AM Band - the one used at airports.

On occasion, when a cable system is damaged air/ground comms can be compromised.

Perhaps cable TV should free up 108 to 137 MHz on the same basis.

Data collector threatens scribe who reported breach

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Grenade

Publxih and be damned

Lookout Services reminds me of a sign I once saw in a Texas bar in El Paso.

Beware of the bullshit!

Lookout Services is obviously an immature company, and not too reliable, either. Hopefully some of the people exposed will sue Lookout Services so they know who did wrong, certainly not the reporter.

Major helicopter reorganisation for RAF and Navy

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Pint

Out with the Army, Navy and Air Force!

Other countries have more smarts than the War Office/DOD/whatever as they scrapped the quaint appellations of Army, Navy and Air Force and replaced them with the more appropriate name ARMED FORCES.

There is so much that each service does of the others it only makes sense that they become one.

Loud sex woman coughs to ASBO breach

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Troll

Science or Tech? I'm confused

The Register's title proclaims Science and Tech; could you explain which title this news item fits under.

As for the twit, Mr Jeremy Freedman, he is most likely a 'missionary' aficionado and his partner is most likely is so uninspired by his performance that the party falls asleep and makes no responsive noises.

Top cop's 'stop stopping snappers' memo: Too little too late?

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ACPO - Out of control

Usually it is the government that sets policy and rules yet in the UK this conference of top cops has assumed this mantle.

These 'make believe police' (PCSOs) are the dumbest of ideas for inevitably these little Hitlers always end up claiming greater powers in the belief that they will garner respect but end up like Peter Sellers portrayal of a union official in I'm All Right Jack.

Not even in China or other authoritarian countries do the police try what the real, or play, police try on the UK.

The complaints with the Rent-a-cop are the same, however, in these countries and they don't know how to handle youths attitude towards them, or that of tourists.

I remember the days when a UK policeman was considered a friend, in smaller towns and villages. No more, though.

Microsoft China accused of pilfering webcode

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Gates Horns

Not again! Got to love these hypocrites

Microsoft piously preaches the ills of copying yet it has repeatedly done just that, paying off those I.P. owners who had the guts to take them to court.

Microsoft also pinches names, like the name Internet Explorer.

Still, their knock-off did have a better range of menu colours and they spent a little more time on their graphics.

Since it's Microsoft, and Chinese oriented, what else are we to expect?

Free software lawyers hit Best Buy et al with GPL 'violation' claim

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Gates Horns

One name seems to have been missed!

Microsoft ... the oldest cribber of the lot.

Modders turn nook reader into Android tablet

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Pint

Barnes and Noble should celebrate ...

and embrace these new features as the basis if Nooky 2.

If they did they would outsell that dog called Kindle (which is crippled outside the U.S.A.) and become number 1, or at least ahead of Kindle.

What a marketing opportunity.

P.S. Congratulations to the modders.

Police moot pop-up social network warnings

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Grenade

The Home Office and ACPO ...

might think they rule the world nut their particular bit of the world comes to a screeching halt a few miles off the Blighty coast.

The U.S.A. is the domain of choice as their Constitution protects free speech, which is an anathema to the Blair, now Brown, Gestapo.

I reside in VietNam and we have more freedom than that place that once had a saying: "A mans home is his castle". No more.

IT first to abandon Tiger Woods sponsorship

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Pint

A perfect match

Given that Accenture is a reincarnation of the formerly disgraced Arthur Andersen I would have thought Woods is THE perfect front man.

Police snapper silliness reaches new heights

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Troll

Dumb bloody British Bobbies

Why haven't these uniformed fools figured that people taking pictures in plain view are the most unlikely 'suspects'.

If someone wanted to acquire images the most effective way is to do it surreptitiously and by using different techniques it is possible to get excellent images from inconspicuous locations.

Good way to drive away tourists, too, as they love taking pictures.

Unused phone lines to be taxed for rural broadband

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Black Helicopters

You read my mind!

"The duty will be payable on all local loops that are made available for use by an owner whether or not the lines are actually used," the Treasury said today.

This seems a typical Labour orgasmic thought. They don't think anything through before opening their mouths.

Why tax unused capacity It will wind up to what we have in VietNam in the larger cities - miles of 'washing lines' each one installed from the switching centre to the subscriber when someone signed up.

Many systems are adopting a prewired gridded cabling layout where the major cables intersect in street wiring cabinets and each home has two pairs, installed to provide back-up in case of failure.

The article also said: "It will also be payable on all local loops regardless of whether the loop consists of a copper pair, a co-axial cable or a fibre connection."

Does this mean wide area WiFi/Wimax us tax free?

BA.com titsup

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BA.com tits up?

So are air operations. Never use them now as they could care less about passengers and they are minimally responsive when searching for lost baggage.

Bankruptcy would be a good alternative.

National space agency for Blighty, says Drayson

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Grenade

Waste of bloody money!

Given that the UK has a minimal aircraft industry, as well as a minimal industrial base, why is Brown wasting money on this?

It will make Britain the butt of even more jokes, like those Navy ships floating around waiting for their armament. What would Nelson say?

Maybe they will draw up specifications for fireworks and meteorological rockets?

Headteachers slam 'disproportionate' vetting database

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One good thing about database' is GIGO

I opted out of Labour's database privacy invading Britain by emigrating.

The only good thing about all this mismanaged British government computerisation is that the users (government) are so myopically convinced it works that feeding Garbage In really does result in Gospel Out. The added bonus is that they are so inept with implementation.

And I am dedicated in furthering their misplaced belief.

Since the UK uses linked databases it follows that updated incorrect data ripples through the others. Another country whose passport I use employed purposely unlinked database, for reasons of privacy, and to stop civil servants from rummaging through them looking for data. They must be effective as the police complain about them. It takes very much more work to fill these databases with inaccurate data.

If people only knew what data government has on them they would be much, much more noisy about privacy stripping activities by the authorities.

Asus said to be making gadget inspired by gadget Apple is said to be making

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Go

ASUS - one of the best (better than Acer)

Although a small company we have 41 work stations each equipped with between three and six screens/computers per workstation and 50% are rotated for new equipment each year.

ASUS has consistently proved, to us, to be the best choice as they supply a full compliment of drivers and associated software whereas our Acer machines had only drivers for XP and Vista.

But the Acers do have one unusual feature, they are silent! Acer service still hasn't found the right driver or a driver that will work with our XP OS.

I think the secret is that Asus, in making computers for other OEM's, learns from others mistakes and avoids them.

Hackers root Motorola Droid

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Jobs Horns

Sold! Now its jailbroken ...

I will go ahead and buy one as long as I can remove TWITTER and FACEBOOK (etc) logos and insert services that are important to ME.

The ONLY way we consumers can teach Jobs and The California Fruit Company is by NOT buying their products until the OWNERS of their products can decide what WE want to run on OUR COMPUTERS and PHONES.

In VietNam CDMA is being removed and GSM 3G installed with almost the whole country covered.

UK air traffic control goes after Wikileaks

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Megaphone

Safe behind the Great Firewall of China

Several 'leak' sites are safely mirrored on servers in China including Wikileaks and Cryptome.

Long live REAL open government!

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Alert

Whose copyright is it anyway?

The NATS fools seem to forget that apart from the fact air frequencies are open to anyone one with a VHF band AM receiver is that not all the voices are of people employed by NATS and therefore they are over-reaching.

I hope they have the appropriate assignations of copyright and that they are not back-dated.

WiKiLeaks is needed because of the obsessive use of secrecy whilst it, in turn, wants to know every last secret of its citizenry.

Little wonder people are turning to PGP and TrueCrypt to protect their data or SecureGSM for voice.

Gov confirms plans for Sky box in charge of your house

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Grenade

The basic ...

load shedding device is a fuse.

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Badgers

How about ...

sex?

Hard to regulate for sure.

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How about a ...

Android OS for the meter?

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WTF?

Keep Big Brother out - ferrites work wonders!

My 'friendly' power supplier decided the sub-division I reside in was to be one of the 'lucky' beta test sites in our province.

There was not much information forthcoming as to what these wonderful boxes would/could do so I thought tit-for-tat and installed a couple of large ferrites (similar to those found on computer power cords) and Hey! Presto! I am opted out of their monitoring although the house-side data feed works fine.

The techs came around and probed with their test equipment and they were dumbfounded. They even changed the meter, with no effect.

Before they departed they left a pile of mail-in cards as a substitute.

Score one for the Luddites (and people wanting privacy).

Crooks 'too lazy' for crypto

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Good idea ...

but may be use DOS or Windows 3.1 ... unlikely Plod's snoopware could even handle these OS. The user would have to arrange the boot sequence properly.

Plods usually rely on menu driven attacks; GCHQ most likely get more creative.

The cell I actually carry across borders is an old Mitsubishi that has few of the features needed to check it's use.

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Only in the UK ...

can ask for a password with a penalty for non-compliance.

Bloody Blair.

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Pint

My computer ...

says Power and On, Off.

Likely the majority of Plod could figure that much but a 101 keyboard might be beyond them.

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Grenade

Primer for crooks.

(1) Switch your cell off when doing crime better still - leave it at home (your alibi);

(2) If Plod comes in sight, switch off cell (empty storage frustrates them);

(3) Get a (cold) netbook with SD memory socket and remove hard drive;

(4) Install XP OS on a SD chip as well as NoTrax browser < http://www.heidi.ie/node/7 >;

(5) Use unusual, small. e-mail providers in distant countries and store your data there;

Note: SD chip should be carrier type with smaller MICRO memory chip < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital >. (Hint: In desperate times they make good eating).

I have now been stopped for 'secondary' customs screening on 7 occasions in the past 21 months in the UK and North America and it is amusing trying to see Plod and Company trying to 'forensically' check a driveless computer! A powered down SIMless GSM phone provides little data, either

Assume all password 'protected' software is unlockable except for Skype and PGB (thanks Phil Zimmerman). NoTrax cleans all the usual tracking respositories.

Catholics slam PETA nude adopt-a-mutt poster

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Stop

Back in your pulpits, preachers.

I am fed up with some damn preacher telling ME what HE thinks I should see.

If his flock of sheep, as in spineless followers, want to follow what some Rome-based enterprise that's fine. But include me out. They already have their hands full keeping the preachers away from the little kids.

Given the problem with roaming, homeless pets PETA needs to use 'shock' tactics. I am upset with the positioning of the cross symbol. it is a little excessive, better that it was omitted.

Virgin Media network goes titsup in Brum

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Another sexually evocative headliner

That PC bible-thumper from a North Carolina should really have his knockers in a twist today. Readers might remember he objected to the use of the word 'cherry'.

Register has really done it today using colloquial British language that the former colonials of North Carolina will never understand. Even a PC TV type could identify with parts of "tits-up" but the :Brum" will leave him appropriately confused.

Keep up the good work (he likely only visits The Register to plagerise your stories).

Villagers revolt over BT chairman's broadband

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Unhappy

Leading Edge Britain?

I reside in VietNam and many of the more remote towns have fibre optic broadband. Almost every telephone has dial-up **digital** InterNet access.

We have multi-Tera-byte fibre backbone along the north-south axis of the country and only today they made live a trans-Pacific direct fibre link, to the U.S.A., rated at 2 Tera-bytes.

We also have digital services through our own satellite

Yank objects to Reg cherry-popping headline

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Grenade

Dumb Southerner thumping his bible

The fool who complained is apparently unaware there are cultural differences between most countries and America, mainly because America lacks culture.

The prime audience of The Register is British and technical so it is unlikely deviants, xuch as the complainant, would be attracted to this web site.

Given the visual trash that is shown on TV in his town, including less than innuendo when it comes to sexual content, instead of writing to England he should direct his remarks to adjacent TV stations.

BTW, Jeff of North Carolina, on your stations web site the following titillating words need your attention: "holes, many critical" (10/14/2009); "hole - 5 times" (11/20/200); and, horror of horrors "breast " (10/24/2009) ELEVEN TIMES!

I think breast is much more licentious than cherry, wild or otherwise.

Microsoft ordered to halt Win XP sales in China

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Badgers

MS still stealing IP

The is par for the MS course.

They purloined the name Internet Explorer and later paid for it's misdeeds.

And on and on. Now the big software thief of the northwest (USA) has been caught out (again) it will try to solve the problem by pouring money on it.

I always think that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and therefore I only buy one copy of MS software and use it on each and every machine I desire. Windows V7 are selling for $3 down the road; I still prefer XP.

Police sitting on forensic backlog risk, says top e-cop

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Grenade

A picture to engender confidence.

The Mugshot of Janet Williams hardly inspires confidence although she might scare off people she meets with.

I love all this security as it makes people alert to just how nosy civil servants, police and governments are. It also lets their intended victims, the innocent computer owners, check out the alternate methods of storing data, which are the best encryption programs, etc.

Get out of UK and US mailboxes and don't bookmark or autofill usernames/passwords, either. Use browsers such as NoTrax so there is nothing to trace.

Dual booting is good with Wincrap for the cops and a hidden access to the other partition for the working OS.

HP, Dell punters furious over Windows 7 upgrade delays

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Stop

Why doesn't HP step up to the plate and simply mail ...

The complainers should be more patient.

Doubtless HP are busy sourcing oversize packaging, as is their custom, and waiting on suppliers to deliver.

MS forensics tool leaks onto the web

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Black Helicopters

What a pity; only Microsoft you say?

Our pain-in-the-a*se security guys disabled the USB's on all our computers years ago. Then they gave some of us removable media manager software that seems to be very effective.

Not that it matters, we have lately switched to Linux and all our stuff is via VPN and passwords delivered through our cells over Bluetooth.

Now, because of the penchant of UK and US customs to check laptops we have to travel with everything offloaded and a fresh OS installed. Canadian customs are active, too, but since it is our destination country we just look on bemused if any of us get hooked for secondary checking.

Another requirement is that none of our travels route us through any UK or US airports, either.

I guess MS never thinks about these things. IMHO they have scored another own goal by demonstrating MS software is insecure. A real help to sales figures, undoubtedly.

BTW, the Register piece said: "copies of the software leaked onto the web and were briefly made available via BitTorrent, before the torrent tracking file was pulled". Not so, I have just found 11 .torrent links and have downloaded 7 of them onto 7 machines for crosschecking,

A friend in BeiJing said there are several sources on-line in China and they don't even listen to their own government, let alone foreign ones.

The article also said: "allow law enforcement officers ... without requiring any particular expertise" and, presumably, with minimal intelligence if its a 'police tool'.

Another thing that seems to upset customs inspectors are old cell phones. Seems they lack most of what this type of plod needs to 'forensically examine' the old models, switching them off and removing the SIM seems to complete their bad days. :)

So travel light, guys, no data, no live cells and no SIMs!

Gmail users howl over Halloween outage

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Stop

Bloody Freeloaders Are Never Happy

If all those cheapskates who use free Google services should shut-up and be grateful for the generosity of Google an others wgo provide free services.

Complain, complain ... I can't access my free service.

Worried about reliability? Set your accounts up so everything is copied to secondary accounts. And appreciate just how lucky you are.

Watford council punts parents from playground

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My kids - my access

"She further explained that this situation is no different from that which operates in schools or nurseries and parents would not expect to be allowed to come into those places."

Given the vulnerability of children by all adults I would never surrender them to a no access environment.

Bloody Labour government has screwed up so many things and lost sight of the fact parents have rights, too.

US plan would reclaim TV airwaves for iPhone

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Megaphone

TV trash should go to cable

The wasteful utilisation of spectrum to deliver what amounts to little more than video garbage via open spectrum is unsustainable.

Houses are fixed and like electricity, sewers, water, etc. services should be fixed - but in this case the cable fee should be free for all channels that can be received off-air at an address. Radio should remain on open spectrum.

The military spectrum should also be used: it can be peremptorily re-acquired in time of conflict in the specific areas it is fighting in.

Microsoft counters Windows 7 upgrade hack advice

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Black Helicopters

EULA? If MS doesn't honour it, so why should I?

My paper EULA says if I don't accept the terms I could return the licence and delete the software and ask my vendor - Acer - for a refund.

Acer hasn't given me a refund so as far as I am concerned the EULA is ineffective and I am free to do whatever I want with my copies of Vista.

Going free ... copies of Vista )I am in VietNam)

Westminster readies 'wave and pay' parking meters

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Lovely! New technology ... new opportunities for fraud

Check the classified, soon they wll be advertising hacker parking cards and Westminsters income will drop still further.

Ever heard of coin of the realm?

Eurostar frustrated by 'illegal' e-Borders scheme

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Pint

Britain? Not worth the hassle.

I was born in England, use the British passport (and others, legally) but I have avoided the country for some years and will even more so now because of the 'spy' mentality. I still get my pension money, though, and it exits without the Government knowing.

My whereabouts, activities, marital status, etc. are all unknown to the UK Government spy / intrusion network.

As one of my passports is legally in a different name, I could even get hack in the UK without their knowing my birth name!

It takes a little effort, and immigration, but it can be done.

Up yours, Blair and Brown (and Blunkett)

Belkin recalls fire-risk in-car iPod kit

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Pint

Seems to be a matched pair

The smoking iPod gets a matching car mounted igniter.

That should send car insurance premiums rocketing!

Half a million customer records: Zurich Insurance admits big data loss

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Pint

British Data in South Africa? Not Cricket

I thought data on UK people was subject to UK and Common Market strictures.

It's bad enough having the Blair/Brown enterprise opening up everyone's privacy for unaccountable civil servants, 'intelligence' types and police to rifle through without account, now we have the same risk from the South African government.

Maybe people completing forms should write on them this data is not permitted to leave the geographical UK.

Historian slams 'absolutely crazy' UK time zone

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Why mess with nature?

China has one time zone - BeiJing time. Physically it occupies 5 time zones. It is very, very light in the morning in the East - near Korea - yet in the West the same hour is where the sun is barely rising. It is hard not only on farmers but children, drivers, etc.

My country, Canada, has 5.5 zones and presents minimal problems except, possibly, with Newfoundland time. They are Newfoundland, Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones. We say the world is ending at midnight, 12.30 in Newfoundland.

The UK is a pitiful one hour behind (most of) Europe and Greece is one hour ahead of Europe.

Time is determined by geography where 15 degrees of latitude equates to an hour. Don't mess with nature.