Blockchain = Bollockschain :)
Posts by Anonymous South African Coward
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Dudes. Blockchain. In a phone. It's gonna smash the 'commoditization of humanity' or something
What can $10 stretch to these days? Lunch... or access to international airport security systems
Re: I was "hacked" via RDP
I had a discussion once about the concept of doubling the time between login attempts:
start with a 1 second re-try and double the time for every wrong login attempt. Has anybody ever implemented this?
That's what a good BOFH would do
WITH THE ADDITION of a "bandwidth throttle" the more failed attempts, the more that specific IP or connection will be throttled.
Hopefully the attacker will give up in despair after increasing timeouts and a connection that get progressively slower.
Come to think of it, if it was possible to do a GPO where your timeout increases the more incorrect passwords you type, I will implement it most definitely.
Geoboffins spot hundreds of ghost dunes on Mars
AAAAAAAAAA! You'll scream when you see how easy it is to pwn unpatched HPE servers
Tired sysadmin plugged cable into wrong port, unleashed a 'virus'
Remote site phoned early one morning, network was down. Toddled all the way over (1hr drive)
Had to play the usual game of "Hunt-the-Terminator" but found none. Went round the site a second, then a third time.
Found two terminators hidden neatly into a recessed conduit in the floor, and an extra T-piece. Disconnected the coax cable from t-piece, plugged in the one terminator, added the "spare" T-piece and second terminator to the other cable and voila.
I'm just glad coax networks have gone the way of the dodo.
Snooping passwords from literally hot keys, China's AK-47 laser, malware, and more
And in current affairs: Rogue raccoon blacks out city power grid after shocking misstep
AI bots suck at marking written essays, not too shabby at old Atari games, and more...
"History by mimic has not, and presumably never will be precipitously but blithely ensconced. Society will always encompass imaginativeness; many of scrutinizations but a few for an amanuensis. The perjured imaginativeness lies in the area of theory of knowledge but also the field of literature. Instead of enthralling the analysis, grounds constitutes both a disparaging quip and a diligent explanation."
Whut?? 0 out of 100 for you, then.
Japanese cryptominer slapped with suspended sentence
Sysadmin cracked military PC’s security by reading the manual
Security guard cost bank millions by hitting emergency Off button
ZX Spectrum reboot firm boss delays director vote date again
Dear Samsung mobe owners: It may leak your private pics to randoms
The Notch contagion is spreading slower than phone experts thought
RIP Peter Firmin: Clangers creator dies aged 89
Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR
Automated payment machines do NOT work the same all over the world – as I found out
Here in SA you will need to wait for an attendant to come and fill your car for you.
They have some sort of electronic key fob on the pump which need to be triggered by its counterpart which the attendant have on his person. (Think it is meant to stop theft of fuel).
So you rock up, attendant activates the pump, and fills you up, then you pay (or drive off if you want to feel lucky). To counter that sort of thing, all fuel stations have cameras all over the place.
And currently we're paying over R15 for a litre of engine juice. :(
Drug cops stopped techie's upgrade to question him for hours. About everything
The butterfly defect: MacBook keys wrecked by single grain of sand
IBM memo to staff: Our CEO Ginni is visiting so please 'act normally!'
Firefox hooks up with HaveIBeenPwned for account pwnage probe
It's getting more and more Azure'd: For Microsoft, sorry seems to be the hardest word
Software changed the world, then died on the first of the month
At last! Apple admits its MacBook Pro butterfly keyboards utterly suck, offers free replacements
Cops: Autonomous Uber driver may have been streaming The Voice before death crash
BOFH: Is everybody ready for the meeting? Grab a crayon – let's get technical
Please tighten your passwords and assume the brace position, says plane-tracking site
By gum, that's chewy: Samsung's NF1 fattens M.2 card capacity with wider gumstick format
Atari accuses El Reg of professional trolling and making stuff up. Welp, here's the interview tape for you to decide...
Microsoft Azure Europe embraced the other GDPR: Generally Down, Possibly Recovering
The Cloud = another man's computer. Somebody else's responsible for the hardware and other things such as cooling, electrical supply etc etc.
The Cloud = as soon as somebody else's experiencing DC issues, you can do nothing.
Your own server = you are fully in control of things and you are responsible for everything.
So therefore people who go over to cloud-based solutions want to offset part of the responsibility of their businesses to somebody else, whilst paying peanuts for that, and expecting no problems.
Surprise. Whether you're in the cloud or hosting it yourself, you will still get issues, no matter what you do.
Google cloud VMs given same IP addresses ... and down they went
Re: Five nines of uptime
Once a month: An engineer makes a mistake and everything's dead on a Friday afternoon.
A law need to be passed that anything critical must not be done on a friday afternoon, only on a moanday morning (or, even better, tuesday morning).
This will allow world+dog techies to collect their beer at pub o' clock and not having to waste their friday afternoons wrestling with issues some daft ******* caused in the first place.