Posts by Martin Summers

Re: "captured audio of the killings, and subsequent removal of the bodies"

So what's the murderer going to have said "Alexa play my bludgeoning playlist"? There's not likely going to be any useful recording on there but it's possible. I have an echo dot and I can replay the recordings on my phone in the history, I can hear exactly what it records. Sometimes it records what it thinks was its wake word when in fact it was random stuff. The recordings don't last for long though. I wonder if they've tried getting at the history in the phone of the victim if they had the app.

Re: 4G+ icon?

Apple haven't invented it yet.

Re: Merkins, eh ?

A Merkin is a pubic wig. Some commentards also rejoice in the use of the same word to describe our American cousins. Not on this occasion though.

Re: Ringtones are cringworthy

"Are 14 year olds allowed to post on here?"

Apparently yes

Re: I Will Fucking Murder Mail

This and reverting Edge to be default PDF viewer everytime Adobe Reader has an update.

There is a powershell command to remove mail app for all users on a machine BTW.

Re: Are you 18 or older?

"the parents should be bringing up their children and leading them into the world"

Well if this plan goes ahead they won't be able to find out how until they're 18.

Re: Blimey!

"I just saw a dog and a cat walking together down the street paw in paw, I think so!"

I'd imagine more likely limping given the difficulty for them of doing that. ;-)

Re: I'd like to know

If they can't man in the middle encrypted traffic, by decrypting it on the monitoring equipment and then re-encrypting with their own certificate to send it on to its destination, then they can't see what's in it. The bad guys used an encrypted connection to carry out their nefarious activities.

Re: Do Not hide the URL

"It's still the first (not literally) thing I do."

Are you sure it's not the other you?

Well I hear they work well in cameras so good idea.

Re: Regarding an earlier 121102 FRB

Ooh I didn't realise you had a blog. You've been around a bit haven't you!

Re: Am I being thick ?

"so it is not a simple task to add another encryption layer on top without rooting phones"

Maybe not but bad people can go old school and come up with code of their own, like "the geese fly to the pink elephant tonight" and they'd not have a scooby what they were talking about without an informant. So maybe they should stick to proper spying and concentrate on paying bribes to informants.

Do we actually still have Bond types out there or have they confined them to desk duties now?

Also your point about WhatsApp backups, hadn't actually considered that!

Re: FFS

"You just described about 99% off all council members."

Makes for a nice popularist soundbite come back which no doubt would get you a lot of up votes. It is however not accurate to that extent at all and all walks of life suffer this not just the political world. So many people think of just themselves rather than the greater good. Councils and politicians have nothing to do with that.

Re: Phone Reset

And then they ring back even more irate and possibly to one of your colleagues who has to pick up the shit you left for them.

Re: For His Masters Voice Transport Missions with Tramp Steamers/Sleek Tenders

"Eh?"

Resident 'on the wonk' bot.

Re: pot / kettle

"First ever - breakthrough PPI checker is 100% online - no phone call, no paper..."

Got a link?

Re: Of course they're still spending...

"Not sure about that, I was looking for an alternative to Amazon for ebooks and there basically isn't one now."

No maybe not now, doesn't mean there won't be one in the future. These things take time. It's like offshore call centres gradually coming back home, in another ten years some bright spark who wasn't around when they first tried it will decide it's a good idea to outsource. The world goes around in trends.

Re: 'Don't route the messenger'

You yanks pronounce it wrong, so no.

Re: Swamp -- Alligators

Erm, what else would be in charge of a swamp?

Re: haven't ad's died yet?

"Nobody looks at them, nobody clicks on them, apart from by mistake"

That's actually just not true. I do click on ads that show me something I'm interested in. It's how I found Digital Ocean on the Register when they advertised on here some years ago. I'm still a customer and it saved me money over who I was with. So ads do work and the way the Register presents them is exactly how it should be done.

Re: What I want to know is...

Google AI has worked out that dogs created the earth hence the anagram for God. God is actually a Border Collie hence the 'Lord is my Shepherd' stuff.

Re: Google braced for giant Android fine from EU

"Nice map but cripes, look how many terminate at Bude. That's only pissing distance from the spooks over at Morwenstow. That can't be a coincidence can it?"

No, it isn't.

Great and this is relevant to the article how? This article doesn't even point out any fault with Microsoft either.

What I don't get though is if there are so many building and industrial systems compromised why we don't hear anything of the results. Surely someone wreaking mayhem with such a system would result in some sort of press coverage even if they didn't know what caused it to begin with.

Re: Never mind that,

I'd like to see you try and get a mortgage on the cave you're presumably interested in buying. ;-)

Yes it's definitely age, you're right. I'm only mid 30's at the time of writing this. You didn't need to be anonymous I wouldn't have been offended :-)

And Flightradar24, actually yes that was the last new shiny exciting thing I saw actually,good point.