Posts by mc nobby

More Secure

Since the media gives the impression that every app store is crawling with malware and every phone is infected with malware from the NSA tracking everything we say and do. A dumb feature phone is doing to be more secure

you just can't have it both ways

These people in power are moronic.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have your failing health system not get compromised by ransomware because there are , flaws, bugs or back doors in code that runs that.

And by the same token have a back door or no encryption on all other data transmission

The two are mutually exclusive. The IT industry is wasting it's time securing systems, if the idiots in bower come along and demand that they be insecure

Do we need a "if your a terrorist please download this insecure version of whatsapp, but if your a white christian please download this secure version"

a Mystery DDoS attack you say

So the ABS is claiming some mystery DDOS attack, yet there seems to be no evidence of that at all

If you look www.digitalattackmap.com for last night there was no recorded DDOS attacks in this country.

Also if you are paying $10M for a cloud service

a) I would hope the SLA the ABS should have with IBM would mean they can get a fair amount of compo

b) That someone would have thought about a DDOS and designed the system to cope with is.

Update: I see in the press conference that they had, they are now blaming an overloaded switch.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/10/census-2016-website-was-not-hacked-or-attacked-government-claims

so they obviously have never heard of redundancy, or distributed infrastructure

never mind the Quantum computing

Would have been nice if they had spell checked their paper. The lesser known TOJAN makes an apperance on page 2

it's not like they start with the best models anyway

@Wathend.

Hmm popular misconception, which I'll pass onto my wife as she leaves at 6.30am to be at the school for 7.30 for a round of meetings. And she is normally home after 5 after some more meetings.

No teacher is allowed to leave the school (any school) at 3.30 thats just plain wrong. If they are they are breaking the terms of their contracts.

And the 12 weeks a year, well the kids may not be at school but my wife and her colleagues are doing the prep for the next term.

And to answer your question. They complain because the pc's which they are asked to rent are just the lowest of the low spec , are barely adequate to run windows 7. Then they stick on their own departmental crap, which eats memory. They chimps that have as IT techs are idiots, Their idea of fixing a problem is just to re-image the laptop. Inevitably they don't backup any of the bookmarks of other handy things that teachers will save on them.

I had to get my wife a whole separate laptop for her to use for work because her work one was so crap. but my should we have to pay for a work pc that is basically useless and another work pc for her to do work on? The PC's at work are just as shit as the laptops because they buy cheap underpsec rubbish and get them maintained by idiots.

I dont recall a port spec in the contract

I dont recall anything in signing my contract that says some ports will be charged and some wont? Does this mean that some ports will be charged at a higher rate than others, will it be based on the increment factor? 443 is four times as much as 80

errr

Well technically, if we are nit picking. Via also make x86 processors and so do D&MP . It doesnt say it cant be a cluster of embedded x86 processors does it? Might be a bit tricky getting the network connectivity tho

sounds familliar

This wouldn't be the same problem that Hutchison/3 seemed to manage to introduce to the Vodaphone Australia network, rendering Vodaphone customers rather pissed of at not being able to use their handset to do fancy things like make and receive calls?

and with good reason

I have seen how a lot of them do them....or just don't bother. A lot of business owners had never even thought about it and those that had see it more as a necessary evil rather than actually investing the money in safeguarding their investment.

A lot of companies will still be rotating 5 +year old DAT's and DLT's. Or I backup to an external usb drive. And where do you keep the drive? Over on that shelf there. So the disaster you are protecting against is clearly not fire flood or other natural disaster

um, hang on

Hang on just a cotton pickin minute here.

As was discussed by the business manager of the NBN on ABC radio some weeks ago. They have noted that yes uptake has been lower in Brunswick. And they attribute this to the demographic that lives there which is predominantly renters. And they expected the process with renters to take longer because the owner of the the property would have to be contacted to approve knocking a hole in the wall. What Turnbull doesn't mention and the NBN guy does is that in most of the other rural settings they have seen well above the expected uptake something like 80%.

And yes he is an annoying little tw*rp because before the election he was claiming that why would anybody ever need more than 10Mb/s and most of this could be provided by wireless technologies such as HSDPA. And if you happen to be a Vodaphone Australia customer at the moment you will know what a nonsense that is since you cant actually make a phone call usually

And the govt has plans for several uses for the network that will require slightly more than what malcome is offering by his dodgy wireless model. There are for example several tests on the cards using HD 3D video streaming for medical diagnostic purposes in remote parts of Australia