* Posts by ecofeco

8166 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

No hack needed: Anonymisation beaten with a dash of SQL

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This was proven years ago

See title.

A million UK homes still get crappy broadband speeds, groans Ofcom

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Re: Simple solution

You forgot the /s tag.

Oi, force Microsoft to cough up emails on Irish servers to the Feds, US states urge Supremes

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Re: It's always amusing when lawmakers are hindered by their own laws.

They do indeed think its just a statement of intent.

That they only have to pay lip service to. The rest of us get the hammer.

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Re: Feral Criminality

D) All of the above.

Not even joking.

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Re: Yeah, but common sense, too...

ROFLMAO. The international agreements of which you write already exist. This entire episode is the result of the authorities in this case choosing not to use them.

I am amazed at how many people are not understanding this!

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Re: UK not much better (in the quality of its arguments)

Because it would be illegal under EU law. And the penalties for Microsoft in the EU are WAY higher than likely for ignoring a US judgement precisely to trump such an attempt to sidestep EU rules.

Exactly

Reminder: Vast majority of serfs toiling away as Mechanical Turks for megabucks Amazon earn less than min wage

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FAIL

Re: Stop it

So they aren't facilitating the situation?

Oh do tell.

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Pirate

Re: opportunity

You joke, but do you have any idea how MANY middlemen are in the world's supply chain?

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Facepalm

Better yet, don't take the fucking job.

It's a two way street, bub.

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Pirate

Tried my hand at it years ago

Realized right away it was a labor scam.

Disk drives spin, are you listening? In the lane, servers glistening...

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Those LED lights

A beautiful sight

Walking in a data wonderland

Hell's bells! Lights out at Diablo Technologies as plug pulled on website

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Who?

*snerk*

FBI tells Jo(e) Sixpack to become an expert in IoT security

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FAIL

Re: Don't use a router provided by an ISP

Not all ISPs will LET you use another router.

But that is beside the point. The product should be safe from the factory. THAT'S where the responsibility lies.

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Gimp

Same mistake all tech support geeks make

Every tech support geek thinks users should know as much as they do and they are just stupid if they don't.

Stop making this assumption. Computers are cool as hell, but really are designed by some seriously deranged people.

No one saw it coming: Rubin's Essential phone considered anything but

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No accessories

Where are the accessories? Even the new Moto seems to have figured out that you've got to HAVE the accessories if you say there are going to BE accessories.

https://www.motorola.com/us/moto-mods

Why bother cracking PCs? Spot o' malware on PLCs... Done. Industrial control network pwned

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Re: Not a real view of how things are, Ivan

Exactly.

Brrr! It's a snow day and someone has pwned the chuffin' school heating

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They certainly need their feet held to the fire.

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FAIL

WTF people

Just WTF.

Why are ANY goddamn infrastructure control systems even connected to the WWW?!

Kaspersky dragged into US govt's trashcan as weaponized blockchain agile devops mulled

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Re: Sigh... it's geographical as well a geopolitical, innit.

Holy crap, Muscleguy. Just googled it. There's quite a few subs sitting there, aren't there?

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Re: Fail spelled backwards is liaЯ, right?

It's America. Blame everyone but the culprit is SOP.

Coventry: Once a 'Ghost Town', soon to be UK City of Culture

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Just did a Google Image Search

Looks nice. Quite modern mixed with historical preservation.

Anyone currently living there with more information?

Lifestyle pin-up site Pinterest: Hack attempts blamed on 'credential stuffing'

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So yeah, how's that cloud thing working for ya?

I NEVER get tired of saying this!

Tired of despairing of Trump and Brexit? Why not despair about YouTube stars instead?

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Re: "Ten Ordinary People Paid HUGE Amounts For Entertaining Others"

Are you saying YouTube has nothing to do with computers or the interwebs or markets?

What color is the sky in your world?

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Concrete proof.

Have an upvote!

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The various Madoffs.

Ponzi is so last century.

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Re: I too want to scream incoherently into the void...

If one cannot discriminate about and against mindless crap, one should not be telling others how to think.

Shit by another name is still fucking shit.

These very wealthy nobodies produce and contribute artless nothing. The are literally wankers.

Sloppy coding + huge PSD2 changes = Lots of late nights for banking devs next year

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Re: companies prioritise user experience over security

companies prioritize profits over any other experience

Fixed.

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Re: Consultant make it better

Is that you Pavlov? Be sure to take your shoes off at the door, luv.

And have a star.

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Why not both?!

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What is this quality control thing you speak off? You some kind a damn commie?!

Don't rely on us to protect the open internet, warns FTC Commissioner

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What fascism?

You have problem with Corporate Communist Capitalism, comrade?©®

Would-be startup crew charged with stealing employer's tech

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Re: The cycle of history

License? Royalties?

Are you posting on the right article?

Lap-slabtop-mobes with Snapdragon Arm CPUs running Windows 10: We had a quick gander

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What's old is new again

Anyone remember the days of aircards? PCMCIA slot?

Google pushed update that broke managed Chromebooks' Wi-Fi

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The wi fi ate my homework?

Love it!

No, BMW, petrol-engined cars don't 'give back to the environment'

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Just another reason to love Europe

This would have NEVER been questioned in America and in fact, inspired great debate and knashing of teeth.

Because in America, the sky is whatever color you say it is.

Former US State Department cyber man: We didn’t see the Russian threat coming

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Re: “Tech people need to tell policy people about the next coming threat.”

Policy people have this bad habit of only pretending to listen to experts.

Fuck 'em. If they want to make policy then they need to educate themselves. Can't or won't? Then they are not qualified to make policy, are they, so fuck 'em.

Apple looks forward to wiping $47bn off its overseas profit tax bill – thanks to US shakeup

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Re: Or...

They are already saying that. But they also believe the earth is flat as well.

Once again, UK doesn't rule out buying F-35A fighter jets

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The biggest assumption?

Is that they will work at all.

So far, the analysis by everyone at the MOD is how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.

WW2 Enigma machine to be seized from shamed pharma bro Shkreli

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Rich guy talking about doing good while doing bad

See title.

Irony. He haz it.

Foil snack food bags make a decent Faraday cage, judge finds

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Re: Doubing down on stupid

"Doubling"

Damn conference calls.

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Doubing down on stupid

So he did a stupid thing, not being as clever as he thought he was and then doubled down on it when caught.

Good riddance. Future Darwin Award candidate right there.

Oracle rival chides UK councils for pricey database indulgence

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Pint

Re: Pity the infected

...and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Cheers!

That 70s Show: Windows sprouts Sets and Timeline features

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Oh so THAT'S what Hypercard was for

Would have been nice if they had fucking explained it back then, because I never did understand just what use there was for it as there were NO support docs of any kind.

Wondering why your internal .dev web app has stopped working?

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Derp

Derp.

I mean, really?

The End of Abandondroid? Treble might rescue Google from OTA Hell

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As it should be

Computers were supposed to make out lives easier, not provide a future dystopia of vendor lock-in.

Bring it.

Judge stalls Uber trade-secret theft trial after learning upstart 'ran a trade-secret stealing op'

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Re: It's part of the greed culture

Exactly. Nailed it.

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Re: Will UBER IPO

based on the sheer scale of the criminality it appears willing to try and get away with

There's your answer to most any question regarding the financial world.

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That's American corporate strategy 101.

It took 15 years before the folks in Prince Williams Sound, Alaska, received one penny of compensation for the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and by that time, the payout had been slashed to just 10% of the original judgment.

I rather like the Chinese way: execution.

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Re: "Stealing trade secrets"?

What frickin color is the sky in your world?

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Sterben, Uber. Sterben already

Because "die Uber" doesn't translate well.