* Posts by NoneSuch

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'I do not wish to surrender' Julian Assange tells court over US extradition bid

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Black Helicopters

Yes and the Swedish warrant should take precedence. However, you have a weak PM combined with strong US pressure, so that may be over-ruled. Don't be surprised if Assange (TM) flies west and not east.

He is in no way a journalist. At best, he's a intermediate source. Journalists take responsibility for what they publish, after appropriate fact checking, review and consideration. Assange put peoples lives at risk when he blanket released information including names of active undercover agents in hostile countries. Whatever good he did in the past (when he released the video of the Reuters journalists being killed by a US helicopter gunship) has been over-written by multiple idiotic and self-serving narcissistic actions since.

Apple, Samsung feel the pain as smartphone market slumps to lowest shipments in 5 YEARS

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Devil

Not Buying Another Samsung

Until they stop Crapware sideloads I neither want nor need.

Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034

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Re: Well done (see icon)

Days?

"He believed that a single computer would have to be running for 35 years continuously, where the hardware would have to be upgraded every year to the next fastest chip available."

The NSA have multiple clusters of Cray computers and the best mathematicians in the world. Assuming they didn't have backdoor access, it would take them minutes of computer time.

Boeing boss denies reports 737 Max safety systems weren't active

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Here's a Thought...

Have pilots actually fly the aircraft.

By all means, have technology aid and prompt them, but any changes in flight attitude should be controlled by a human being, not a code segment.

Neil Armstrong did all right with much less technology (which was freaking out at the time of the moon landing with 1201 and 1202 program alarms).

Powershell, the Gandcrab infection and the long-forgotten server

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Hi, We're From GCHQ...

...and we're here to help.

Mind if I plug this tiny insignificant little USB key into any one of your work PC's? Cheers.

Apple hits back at devs of axed kiddie screen-time apps

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Re: Who to side with....

Anyone who develops on the Apple platform is essentially cutting their own throats, IMHO.

Lightbits? More like Latebits amirite? Israeli outfit finally swings by the all-flash array party

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Happy

Looks Good, But...

Can it boot Crysis?

Now here's a Galaxy far, far away: Samsung stalls Fold rollout after fold-able screens break in hands of reviewers

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Who Wants It In The First Place?

Two thousand dollars for a phone? Pass.

Why Qualcomm won – and why Tim Cook had to eat humble Apple pie

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Happy

Easy solution

If only iPhone users held them the right way, any performance issues would disappear.

Google Cloud woos the open source crew with cash-rich kisses for coder's compute time

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Devil

If Open Source code is used for a free service then that's fair play. If it is being used for profit then some money should go to the authors.

I'm all for free software, but corporations expect money for people using their IP. Only fair to pay when you use other peoples IP to make a buck.

I know what EU did last summer: Official use of Microsoft wares to be probed over slurp fears

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Devil

Get Current Time For All Domain Workstations

Not being able to turn off the data slurp on Enterprise level software should be judged as illegal by the EU. That has the makings of massive law suits when confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements are in play. At best, it's Microsoft trying to catch Google. At worse, it's kibble for the NSA.

And while we're at it, lets get rid of the XBox, Zune, et al crapware that is shoved down our throats with no way to avoid it on Win 10 Enterprise.

What do WLinux and Benedict Cumberbatch have in common? They're both fond of Pengwin

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Devil

Anyone who loves Linux should NEVER use this abomination.

If you're worried that quantum computers will crack your crypto, don't be – at least, not for a decade or so. Here's why

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Devil

The article assumes todays crypto is secure.

Most of the algorithms were generated by former-NSA folks or those with ties to the US gov.

Romford Station, smile! You're in London cops' final facial recog 'trial'

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On an unrelated note...

...sales of the Guy Fawkes full face mask soar.

Want a bit of privacy? Got a USB stick? Welcome to TAILS 3.12

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Re: An ARM version might be more useful...

"The TAILS gang warned that a USB stick loaded with 3.12 might fail to boot a second time"

A "Burner" USB stick. Use it once and chuck it.

Core blimey... When is an AMD CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide

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Joke

Is it a jury of twelve?

Or only six jurors sharing the same table?

Google faces another GDPR probe – this time in the land of meatballs and flat-pack furniture

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Devil

Go Get Em GDPR...

Sick em boy. Sick em....!

A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

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Re: How about a high power laser burst ?

Lord.

Just imagine if Churchill stopped the Spitfires from flicking the wings of V1 Buzz Bombs, because it might scratch the fighters paint.

American bloke hauls US govt into court after border cops 'cuffed him, demanded he unlock his phone at airport'

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Linux

Factory Reset Your Phone

When I travel to the US, I factory reset my phone prior to landing. That is recommended after a software upgrade anyway and I usually do updates when on an airplane as I have lots of time and can't use the phone regardless. That's the reason I give, if asked.

They can search it to their hearts content. It is unlocked, has no data and is without a password; search / image away. You are cooperating and it's the equivalent of carrying an empty carry-on bag. They can search all they like, there is nothing to find. They don't like it, but there is nothing they can do. I'm always polite, even in the face of idiocy.

When reset, there are no contacts, no emails and no software installed save Android itself. You are legally obligated to give US Border Guards passwords to any software, apps, email or encryption installed on your phone. You are in no way obligated to download and install apps to your phone or tablet, or sign onto a mail/web/social media account that is not active on your phone or tablet. How can you sign in, it isn't installed? I have few social accounts regardless and the few important telephone contact numbers I need are memorized.

When out of the airport, I sign into my Samsung account, and my phone repopulates with all apps and data in minutes on decent Wifi.

Who's watching you from an unmarked van while you shop in London? Cops with facial recog tech

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Re: Funding cuts lead to this

@Mike Richards

"The future is somewhere between OCP and Facebook."

I'd buy that for a dollar...

Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!

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Linux

Easy Instructions

1. Under Settings->Privacy->Activity history: ensure the setting "Let Windows sync my activities from this PC to the cloud" is not checked

2. Under Settings->Privacy->Diagnostics & feedback: ensure Diagnostic data is set to Basic

3. Open CMD window (as Admin) and type: Format C: /fs:FAT32

4. Download any decent Linux distro.

Virgin Galactic test flight reaches space for the first time, lugging NASA cargo in place of tourists

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Walking Baggage

Airlines use that term for passengers.

$250K + travel expenses for slight weightlessness then back on the ground ten minutes later... Will think about it

Vomit Comets are cheaper ($5K a pop, or rent the entire plane for $165K) and give you a lot more less gravity.

https://www.gozerog.com/

http://www.airzerog.com/en/

Register Lecture: Right to strike when your boss sells AI to the military?

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The Eternal Cycle Continues...

Drones kill people, without trial or in some cases without any evidence of wrong doing. Their family members get angry and seek revenge. Farmer waiting at the side of the road waiting for his cousin to pick him up, drone pilot see a suspected ISIS member planting a road side bomb. *blam* Wedding party in progress, drone pilot sees suspected terrorist gathering. *blam*

Terror levels rise when those folks get tired of the murder and start shooting back. More drones are fielded to combat the rise in hostilities, etc. etc.

In the meantime, corporations get mega-wealthy supplying flying instruments of death, while normal people pay the price.

The Americans kill more people annually than all terrorist organizations combined, and by a wide margin. Arrogance tempered with ignorance and funded with greed.

Qualcomm axes staff, winds down data center processor efforts ... while China takes the blueprints and runs

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CPU Back Doors For National Snooping...

Jesus wept.

Let's hope Anonymous gets into these Chinese chips before the US / UK / Oz governments have the same moronic idea.

Remember Misco? Staff win protective award at employment tribunal

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At least the lawyers made out all right. Happy Christmas to them.

Wow, what a lovely early Christmas present for Australians: A crypto-busting super-snoop law passes just in time

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Just watch...

The first radical organizations to have their backdoors activated for monitoring will be the newspapers and online media.

...and I'm not f***ing joking.

Intel eggheads put bits in a spin to try to revive Moore's law

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"operates via spin–orbit transduction", which is "the coupling of an electron's angular momentum with its linear momentum".

Not that old chestnut. :P

Tesla autopilot saves driver after he fell asleep at wheel on the freeway

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Plan A

Fall asleep in the back seat and when pulled over, claim your Uber driver must have jumped out.

I'm amazed the Highway Patrol haven't pulled over a couple in the back seat of an auto-drive Tesla yet.

Little FYI: Wi-Fi calling services on AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon are insecure, say boffins

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Been that way for years

I used to work for an electronics company and listening in on a cell call is trivial.

Seeing as Bitcoin is going so, so well, Ohio becomes first US state to take biz taxes in BTC

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WTF?

What About the Credit Card Companies?

How ever with they survive without their lucrative 2.5% on top of 18% interest?

You can bet their lawyers will be filing something soon to stop this.

Blighty: We spent £1bn on Galileo and all we got was this lousy T-shirt

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FFS

This is the reality of a post-Brexit Britain.

You voted for this (or didn't vote at all) and now it's time to pay the piper.

Scumbag who phoned in a Call of Duty 'swatting' that ended in death pleads guilty to dozens of criminal charges

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Re: So the police bear no responsibility ?

Gun laws and proper use of deadly force have nothing to do with each other.

The police shot a man because he dropped his hands to his sides with no weapon visible. Police TRAIN for this over and over. Nervousness should not enter into it. Use of deadly force has a hard series of parameters that must be met BEFORE pulling the trigger. The US police are simply trigger happy with a "shoot first and ask questions" attitude with little repercussion when they screw up. To the same argument, they also choke out unarmed suspects, then fail to render CPR once unconscious, resulting in death.

The US is on a slippery slope. In the US, 'suspicion' is enough grounds to arrest someone, then hold them almost indefinitely. They can seize your money / property and you then have to prove it was not gained through criminal activity to get (only part of) it back. Federal law enforcement can lie to you without blowback, but lying to a federal official is a felony and can result in up to one year in jail. Their prosecutors hide evidence that undermine the defenses cases, they threaten the innocent with 30 year sentences unless you plead guilty to reduce that sentence and the government protects them. They are becoming a lost people.

The idiot that picked up the phone and called in a false report holds part of the blame, but responsibility for shooting an unarmed man falls squarely on the police. They are supposed to protect the citizenry.

Russia: We did not hack the US Democrats. But if we did, we're immune from prosecution... lmao

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Just have the US Cyber Division retaliate and create photos of a Speedo wearing Putin holding hands with some blond hunk surfer dude on a tropical beach somewhere.

Drop them onto everyone's social media feed from Murmansk to Minsk and job done.

Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale

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Re: If you don't like it then resign

"If you don't like it then resign

If you feel that strongly about it then leave. No one forces you to work for that immoral company.

And try to get used to the fact that your personal feelings about something aren't so important that they override the decision of the rest of the company however many times you repeat them."

A lot of decent people left Nazi Germany before WW2. That improved things, didn't it?

Microsoft points to a golden future where you can make Windows 10 your own

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Re: What about the stuff that we really don't want...

@phuzz

"OneNote, and the Bing stuff can be uninstalled with a simple right click > uninstall."

That just removes the shortcut from your profile. Anyone else who logs in on that PC still has that program there.

Taking out the crap will remove 2+ GB of files. Why an Enterprise version of Windows needs XBox and Zune is beyond me.

If they did remove the bloatware, Windows gets closer to being an actual operating system instead of a large scale vendor browser banner.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is worth 154 median minions

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Coffee/keyboard

Can we start FundMe pages for them? 14 and 25 mil respectively does not go far these days. Must be hard to make ends meet.

Yes, Assange, we'll still nick you for skipping bail, rules court

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Re: @Sparty ... "arguably wrong"

"The court should have both taken judicial notice of the EU's resolution demanding his release without prejudice and the fact that the original Swedish warrant that commenced the whole problem was withdrawn."

If you receive a speeding ticket, then kick the officer's posterior in frustration and later have the ticket thrown out. You're still on the hook for the butt kicking. Failure to appear is a UK crime, not Swedish.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/488503/Arrest_warrants_version_2.0__EXT__clean.pdf

PC makers: Intel CPU shortages are here to stay ... for six months

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"If it's not one DRAM thing, it's another"

Kudos on that chuckle fest. Well done Reg. Thumb up.

Google Cloud boss promises 'security built into every layer of the system' at UK shindig

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FAIL

Blah...

And every layer of security will have a back door that will search, index and file your content.

Uncle Sam gives itself the right to shoot down any drone, anywhere, any time, any how

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The United States of Gunfire

"It's coming right for us!" BLAM BLAM BLAM

Canadian security boss ain't afraid of no Huawei, sees no reason for ban

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Re: I know why they're so confident...

"which uses Huawei-funded "white labs" where products are tested for interception backdoors or "kill switches"

So Huawei is funding the testing of their own gear.

Nope, can't think of any flaws there.

2-bit punks' weak 40-bit crypto didn't help Tesla keyless fobs one bit

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Re: Problem-solution dichotomy

The German WW2 Enigma codes were 88 bit and were broken in a shed with machine based technology. Eighty years later, Tesla locks your car with 40 bit encryption.

(Best Doctor Evil voice) Riiiiiiight...

Trend Micro tools tossed from Apple's Mac App Store after spewing fans' browser histories

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I'm sure Apple made copies of all URL traffic for their own records.

How to nab a HTTPS cert for a stranger's website: Step one, shatter those DNS queries...

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Paranoid AF

Strong independant crypto is a necessity to stop invaisive governments and corperations from raping our data at will.

Almost eighty years ago, boffins in Bletchley Park cracked (up to) 88 bit Enigma by mechanical means. Today we have 256 bit AES protecting bank accounts, medical info and other private info. How secure do you really think we are today?

Avoid any US government approved encryption method, use the strongest possible keys and above all educate yourself.

Be paranoid, they are after you, journalists, whistleblowers and anyone who opposes our "public servants."

FBI fingers the Norks it wants to pinch for Sony hack, WannaCry attacks

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Big Brother

They'll be wanted for a while. I doubt these lads will be sucessfully extradited or taking a holiday in San Francisco soon.

Cover up your privates: Linux distro Tails drops a new version

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I'm on a List?

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!"

Courtesy of Patrick McGoohan.

Fourth 'Fappening' celeb nude snap thief treated to 8 months in the clink

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The Wrong Quote

"The whole unsavoury incident underlines the importance of multi-factor authentication in protecting sensitive accounts."

Should be:

"The whole unsavoury incident underlines the importance of not taking photos of your junk and expecting it to never be seen."

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

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Mushroom

Stuff Like This Should Be Illegal

This is why the US is doomed.

Their Corporations Lie.

Their Congress Lies.

Their President Lies.

The FBI Lies.

The NSA Lies, to Congress

Prosecutors Lie.

And no one is held accountable.

I give them twenty years max at this rate.

Ecuador's Prez talking to UK about Assange's six-year London Embassy stay – reports

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My Two Pence.

Oh Homer,

Wikileaks could have been a responsible arbiter keeping governments honest by just taking basic steps to parse the info they were given. Instead, they blanket released reams of documentation without review literally putting peoples lives at risk.

The gunship footage of US Apaches gunning down unarmed journalists needed to be made public and was an epic first step that made people aware of Wikileaks. Then they shot themselves in the foot repeatedly by releasing anything and everything that came their way, in full.

Assange (Tm) has more in common with a petulant diva than a journalist and he needs to step up and take responsibility for his idiotic actions. Any good he did has been long overshadowed by the need to feed his gluttonous ego.

The need for whistleblowers in the face of corruption or demagoguery is absolutely needed in today's world, but Saint Julian had his chance to fill that role and muffed it repeatedly.