Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Omg, what is it with the headliens?

Except that they improved the speed by eliminating delay, so it's faster :)

Re: Ahh, the Brits

Care to elaborate on where you saw the Racism(tm)? I'm not sure I spotted it.

Re: ha hah hah

Which would still be more secure than a static password that never changes and doesn't meet complexity standards.

Sir

"but I'm sure I would have heard of FIOS outages from my wife."

How? Do you keep trained carrier pigeons to hand?

"It is now official: switching off AV software is the first step to securing your system..."

I installed Norton once, I had to leave the room and nuke it through the window. Never again.

I monitor my outbound connectivity and CPU processes for anything suspicious and turn off everything that isn't immediately required in my browser.

I've never had a virus, only the odd bit of adware etc, and those fscking toolbars got installed once when I was in a rush - so I must be getting old. With that in mind I'm moving to a VM based solution and just run a vanilla Vista image to browse the net. If it gets infected it's gone when I shut the thing down.

Re: It is

I've been seeing this at work a bit recently - someone uses the phrase 'appreciate much' - I just put it down to them being non-English (even though they speak the language perfectly well).

They aren't Chinese either.

Re: "Headings" list has probably already sent senior managers to sleep.

"Which is a pity as only their involvement is likely to get this done."

Especially since most of these items aren't free. It's as hard to prove a negative today as it was 20 years ago, but at least people know what you mean when you tell them that a breach will cost not just money, but reputation and career advancement as well.

Re: We can comment all we like but

"a burning ambition to get it done. If you lack the last then you are fucked."

Even (especially?) in high risk environments there are those who are more concerned about cost of deployment than the cost of breach (both material and reputation).

These people just consider what they do a 'job' and you could no more extract passion from them than you could the money for the cost of a round of beers for the tech team that save their nuts on a weekly basis for no real benefit.

However, it is possible to inject passion into a project - but it's a draining process and can go off the rails with one well placed internal political manoeuvre from someone looking to make departmental gains.

Sad, but that's the world we live in :(

Re: Another Example

If pretty much the whole developed world is in debt, who owns this debt? The banks?

Since the weeds that are choking the flowers is interest payments, perhaps we need a UN led initiative to allow a certain amount of 'recovery' time to re-stimulate the world economy.

E.g. An interest free year on national debt for ALL countries.

Obviously not going to happen, but perhaps it's time to start thinking of what can be done on a larger scale than trying to sort this out at a national level.

Re: Snowden

"Interesting article on how the hack was discovered."

Doesn't sound right. Unless the OPM are running a flat network and the computer running the demo software was just plugged into a meeting room ethernet port to run a scan.

Deploying this software into complex environments takes time and planning (aka projects) - I just don't seem someone plugging their laptop into the network and 'discovering' this malware unless that network is completely open - in which case there are more problems to deal with than I could list!

Re: Here we go again

Someone once postulated that the only things that were infinite were the Universe and human stupidity, expect they now know the Universe not to be infinite.

Re: I'm still not believing this...

"I wonder what odds one can get for a flutter on this incidentoid, in due course of course, being "traced" to Huawei network kit..."

That would be even more embarrassing than this leak since the spooks just signed off that kit as safe

FFS Tier-1 ISP's have been using AS filter paths for 20 years - how the hell is this still happening in 2015?

Re: It must be real, there's a _picture_!

Is anyone else thinking modified file table on a Flash drive to indicate more storage?

"All the US tech companies would move out of the US"

They would also have to stop using US banks and all the US citizens will have to renounce their citizenship* to avoid the World Police.

*I'm not sure if they still think they own you at this point, but I assume yes.

Re: failing to adequately address the issue of her cleavage

If they are objecting to the recordings of the abuse, then surely someone just needs to lay in wait for the Vogon woman and deliver a good slapping beyond the view of anyone else. Hey presto - no crime was committed because even if someone got it on camera it would have been without permission!

no populous either

If you are an IT professional then simply purchase a co-lo box and run openswan on it or something.

A subscriber base of 1 is hardly going to show up on their radar now is it?

Re: Bad Guys

The real question is: Does this conform to the law of intended, or unintended, consequences?

Re: Devils Advocate...

Doesn't aiding and abetting relate to criminal, rather than civil, offences?

I was under the impression that Copyright Infringement was a civil offence, or am I out of touch again? (Must be getting old)

Re: Measures will also be brought forward to promote social cohesion

"That's because simple VPNs cannot provide you with privacy. <snip> If you want privacy you use Tor."

I think you might be confused between privacy and anonymity.

Re: Paranoia will destroy'ya?

" designed to show that everyone is a backstabbing, lying prick."

So, not wrong then.

Re: @werdsmith

"Just need an Arthur Dent now."

What?

Wears the tee?

Re: 7/10 at best.

"head right back to Skyrim"

I've just started playing Skyrim (recently saw the whole lot on special offer).

Gotta say I'm enjoying it. Knowing from past experience you can only experience these things for the first time once I am going steady and not rushing through anything.

At one point I used the restoration potion upgrade cheat to get buffed equipment and magical items etc. but I'm selling all that stuff off now as it made things too easy, no sense of fear :)