* Posts by chivo243

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Communication, communication – and politics: Iowa saga of cuffed infosec pros reveals pentest pitfalls

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petty skirmish

Just a bunch of willy wagging between the state and the county. Too bad these guys got caught in the crossfire.

Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice

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worse yet

he could have walked in on a Chris Farley type of binge with hookers and blackjack!

Controversies aren't Boeing away for aircraft maker amid claims of faulty oxygen systems and wobbling wings

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Once a year

on average I fly once a year, I will be paying close attention to the aircraft manufracturer of my flights.

There must be an emergency parachute in this coat somewhere!

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

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separate groups?

That would cement the deal for me!

I know what they were doing: The were mining coin to buy the gear to set up their home plantation to grow the weed to sell to pay the electric bill... all going on in the living room... Nicely done!

'Peregrine falcon'-style drone swarms could help defend UK against Gatwick copycat attacks

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Re: Snouts in trough time again?

"The fear is already in place"

Funny that is the the first thought I had reading the first paragraph. And then reading there is some tall cash being offered for solutions...

An incident, that may or may not have really happened has now generated a "security need" which is being funded by the same group who declared the incident in the first place.

Cause ~ instill fear

Effect ~ play on that fear ~ Profit!

If you're going to exploit work's infrastructure to torrent, you better damn well know how to hide it

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Re: "he didn't dare put anything into a company calendar"

All of that for "a popular BBC documentary " and getting creds too!

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Sounds plausible

But, highly unlikely... nice story though!

Top American watchdog refuses to release infamous 2012 dossier into Google’s anti-competitive behavior

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Big deep pockets

Google has them, and it feels like a lot of people in positions of authority are in them as well.

Cubans launching sonic attacks on US embassy? Not what we're hearing, say medical boffins

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Read this a while back

Says that they were exposed to pesticides...

https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/10/05/pesticides-may-be-linked-to-havana-syndrome/150802.html

UK taxman goes chief digi officer shopping at the bank: Appoints ex-Barclays CIO

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Love the tag line

One gets the feeling he might not give a shit about the work... only the pay?

IT protip: Never try to be too helpful lest someone puts your contact details next to unruly boxen

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Re: Where were you 20 years ago?

20 years ago? Dinking around with NT4 and win95\98 + macOS 9.2. Time has marched on!

Cyber-security super-brain Rudy Giuliani forgets password, bricks iPhone, begs Apple Store staff for help

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Re: Clueless

What on earth must he have been thinking?

Oh you know, sunshine and lollipops....

You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords

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Re: Who needs it?

I thought twatters only used a mob to twit their shit? Who knew? Who wanted to know?

FYI, we're now in the timeline where Facebook decides who is and isn't a politician on its 2bn-plus-person network

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more a loosely woven throw

one with many, many loopholes to be sure. I would even go as far as calling it cheese cloth.

Facebook ends appeal against ICO micro-fine: Admit liability? Never. But you can have £500k

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When fines mean nothing

17 minutes of profit... and they'll pull the same stunt for another £500g.

Hi Alex, I'll try breaking the law for £500g. The Answer?! A Daily Double!

Google goes full Anti-Flash-ist, boots Adobe's insecure monstrosity out of web search index

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Re: This is about

I remember a web dev-ish kind of person told me I needed to learn Flash, it was the future. So glad I didn't.

Are you coming to the party dressed as an IMP? ARPANET @ 50

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Boffin

L O G full would have been my guess ? I was feeding quarters into pinball machines back then.

Aw, bad day at your air-conditioned, somewhat clean desk? Try shifting a 40-tonne fatberg

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Re: The guys...

Gives a new name to hazard pay. Surely our tech-wiz-bang tunnel maker, Musk, could make a roto-router tunneling robot of industrial proportions to ream out the tunnel. Won't someone think of the humans?

My hazmat coat for these guys!

Huawei with you! FCC's American Pai proposes rip-and-replace of scary Chinese comms kit

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Headmaster

When it comes to 5G and America's security, we can't afford to take a risk and hope for the best.

Who writes this stuff? Who proof reads it? Did a 15 year old write this?

I hadn't heard Idiot Pai's name for a while, I thought maybe he fell off the face of the planet... Guess not.

Like the Death Star on Endor, JEDI created a ton of fallout and stormy weather in cloud market

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Hi ho the Dario, a trolling they will go!

We're late and we're unreliable but we won't invalidate your warranty: We're engineers!

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only because he had some ladders!

I see we've hired the same guy!

Give me Buttle, I mean Tuttle any day!

BOFH: Judge us not by the size of our database, but the size of our augmented reality

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"You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs!"

Just like the Directors eggshell head! Mr. Know-it-all pffft. Second liar doesn't stand a chance in that room! Once again, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit!

I wish my meetings went as smoothly!

Thanks Simon!

Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?

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two strikes twice

Have 2 users who have spilled red wine twice on their laptop while working at home in the evening! One never shows their face in the office, another is in regularly and we joke about it!

Franco-stein's on the move: Spanish dictator turfed out of decadent mountaintop mausoleum

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Keep him on ice

Until New Years Eve, they will be digging up John Dillinger's body, we could throw a zombie themed party...

my coat, name patch Igor..

Japanese hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots

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Re: another thing I'll never experience

France still has toilets that are a hole in the floor too ( well it did 15 years ago ).

I've been there as recently as 3 years ago, and in the south, Toulouse, and have seen theses hole in the ground toilets.

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another thing I'll never experience

1. Doubtful I'll be visiting Japan

2. I'll never stay at a hotel with robots, even if it was called the Asimov Arms...

I see your blue passport and raise you a green number plate: UK mulls rewards scheme for zero-emission vehicles

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Go Dutch?

In NL the road tax is determined by two things:

1) Horsepower of the engine(emissions? and ability to tear up the road?)

2) Weight of the car (wear and tear on the road?)

My 1L engine on a roller skate works for me...

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Nice one! Before they start charging!

Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI: Naked kids, drunken frat parties, porno stars, and more

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Before we start mucking with AI

The human race needs to get\grow\ acquire some intelligence. If we keep training AI the way we are, AI will come to it's own conclusions about the human race. Skynet anyone?

Minigame: Celebrate Firefox 70's release by finding a website with 70+ trackers blocked

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I remember when

a browser was just another app. Now we have entered into BaaOS. Damn adverts anyway. I block as many as possible, at least until the websites can guarantee that the advert payload is pristine clean, so I guess I'll be blocking until they pry the Pi-Hole out of my cold dead hypervisor. Don't get me started about paying for the bandwidth ads chew through.

Big Red tells crypto-coin publication: One does not simply call one's website 'OracleTimes'

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Oracle?

sounds like coracle but not sea worthy! Or C worthy!

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Must be nice

to have boat loads of cash and boats, to be able to float a legal bombardment against any body who looks at you wrong...

Don't look too closely at what is seeping out of the big Dutch pipe

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yes, I've pardoned one or two

Back in the day, yes, I did tell a few, knock that shit off at work... The others on the my team may not be so forgiving.

Deus ex hackina: It took just 10 minutes to find data-divulging demons corrupting Pope's Click to Pray eRosary app

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what's the penance for writing a bug? How many Hail Marys?

Guess who's dreaming of facial-recog body cams now? US border cops: AI tech sought to scrutinize travelers

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anybody can see me coming

due to sport injuries in my teen years, I have a unique gait. An ex-colleague I hadn't seen in years spotted me in a large crowded parking lot. It would be wasted tech using it on me...

Pack your pyjamas, Zuck: US bill threatens execs with prison for data failures

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Re: 175 extra staff!

FCCfat finger, long week, but I was commenting on adding 175 staff on a Federal level, seems too few in my opinion. I picked those states, being small in size as an example. Bad example?

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175 extra staff!

Whoa! Are you sure that's not a bit overkill? I'm sure Rhode Island and Delaware don't need 3.5 extra FCC plods.

BOFH: The company survived the disaster recovery test. Just. The Director's car, however...

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Putting the Duh

in Duhrector! Nice one! I love it when a plan comes together!

A History of (Computer) Violence: Wait. Before you whack it again, try caressing the mouse

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Percussive maintenance

Usually with a big hammer? I heard stories about some old Apple gear that needed a whack to get the HD spinning in order to boot.

I'm wondering who the PFY was that set the screen saver setting to black? I'll have to remember that one!

A cautionary, Thames Watery tale on how not to look phishy: 'Click here to re-register!'

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My guess is that their data\billing was not all centralized in one office, and data from one location is lost, corrupted or skipped due to programming error?

Think your VMware snapshots are all good? Guess again if you're on Windows Server 2019

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Re: Bad link?

Like Candy and Ronnie?

Well, well, well. Fancy that. UK.gov shelves planned pr0n block

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Outsider looking in...

I get the feeling from reading the news here on El Reg, that those in charge finally woke up and realized this wet dream wouldn't cum true. Due to the technology involved in implementation, legal obstacles etc. I think they finally thought about something other than the children.

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

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Re: Water cooker

I am the old geezer in my kitchen!

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Dr. Ian Malcolm : God help us, we're in the hands of engineers.

I don't get it... My fridge doesn't need to be connected to the www, nor does my water cooker, lightbulbs, thermostats, TV, dishwasher etc. What kind of a world will my son have to endure?

Tearoff of Nottingham: University to lose chunk of IT dept to outsourcing

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Bonus? Sniff, sniff

I get the feeling someone will be getting a fat bonus should the budget be reduced. Who in their right mind would cut IT Support in schools? Follow the money...

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

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Lego-Lease

Very soon, I am looking at storing my son's estate now that he has other interests. Would be nice to recover some of the outlay for his lego estate!

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Re: I have the solution.

I also had Tinker Toys, and some other building set called Toggle Blocks, not eco-friendly either, all plastic with some metal axles.

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Re: I have the solution.

Do your, ah, um cats also visit your basement? A potato headed friend of mine made that mistake too...

Lies, damn lies, and KPIs: Let's not fix the formula until we have someone else to blame

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Kick that can full of fudge down the road

Fudge IT! It's the next guy's problem!

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

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Re: Way to go El Reg

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