Posts by Paul

El REg wrote "researchers recommend that service providers use a VLAN connection"

shouldn't that be VPN connection?

The problem with lithium fires is that regular fire extinguishers won't save you.

Airlines need to start carrying the special fire extinguishers required, both in the cabin and the hold.

Even with chrome, which sandboxes the pepper flash plugin, i still run a flash blocker extension. Then flash only runs when I let it. This solves most problems.

I don't install Adobe flash and so flash doesn't run in Firefox, but I don't care.

apparently there are versions for retro computer enthusiasts which can make the sound effect of a floppy drive in action, even including the gronk gronk sound that an Amiga used to make.

I can imagine that there was a bug in TalkTalk's bug tracker along the lines of "under specific circumstances a customer might see another's data" which was marked down in priority over adding a specific new feature like "add another advert on the page for TalkTalk's products".

I can also imagine that the developers probably shouted out this needed to be investigated and fixed, and requested more hardware and QA/testing staff to work on it, and they were told that giving Dido and other directors a bigger bonus and a new car was more important.

And I can imagine that when the bug went public, the developers would have been berated for not fixing it.

hopefully microsoft use a strong and secure hash to validate each chunk that's P2P'd, so that people can't generate their own update chunks and mangle them to product a using a hash collision!

Am I the only person who goes through the list of CAs in my browsers and removes most of them?

Though I admit, I don't do that nearly as often as I should.

Just don't use this near the aurora watch project, otherwise they'll cause a global panic!

Government minister seeks to use technology to solve social problem without understanding the effectiveness of it and how easy it is to defeat it.

Nothing new here then.

Security is a lower priority than the director's bonuses, fancy offices or new car.

I've often thought stupidity is a fundamental force of nature.

It's no good changing the SIM once they know your IMEI, which they will be able to track.

It's difficult to change the IMEI, but not impossible, depending on your exact phone model.

Your html for a link to a Reuters article is broken

Your html for a link to a Reuters article is broken

lenovo make a smartwatch?

their spokes-person wrote:

"Our sites have been operating for over a decade without an major issue with security"

chances are they have no way of knowing whether their systems have been compromised and root-kitted to hell and back.

But a judge in Virginia said that if you connect a computer to the internet, you have no expectation of privacy,

http://www.eweek.com/security/home-computers-connected-to-the-internet-arent-private-court-rules.html

so Lauri L can't have done anything wrong!

Should I feel sad for Oracle?

Naah.

Does Oracle have any friends?

Naah.

Just pay up!

RIP

I'm very sad we've him to the great /dev/null in the sky

No Facebook apps on my devices

Since my phone is rooted, I was able to delete Facebook app entirely off my phone.

If I partly go through installing the app off Google Play Store, the privileges it wants are vast, it might as well want root!

So there's no way I'm going to install their messenger app or their main app.

two companies claiming trademark over a commonly used word in the dictionary.

the only winners are the lawyers.

How many different prime ministers have they had in the last six years?

"political stability"???

Now most Apple kit is sealed, anything with a battery will only be useful whilst the battery has capacity or Apple are willing to service it.

Kate Moss had been the stone's previous fiancee, but he still wanted to roll, and the relationship didn't survive.

And in other news, GCHQ has found a way to make horses run backwards into the stables they bolted from, so that they can retrospectively lock the stable door.

Why am I reminded of "things I won't work with"?

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/things_i_wont_work_with_peroxide_peroxides

it's worth checking you've turned on the a bunch of headers that make the site less prone to these problems

try https://securityheaders.io/

on your site and fix it. I've been doing that.

You'd have thought they'd know about the Streisand Effect by new

I remember streetmap being pretty crappy, and even the first version of Google maps being so much better that I stopped using streetmap straight away. Frankly, had streetmap been any good they would have been able to hold on to their user base.

Lazytown computers run Debian

Lazytown computers run Debian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Sphh1QOpU

I guess he's being paid in iWatches, he gets a couple of the most expensive ones every day.

If found this article to be confusing, like it was written by someone who was very tired, by them dictating it to someone who simply spell-checked it and didn't bother to restructure it into simple clear english with good punctuation.