Posts by Crisp

Surely this is just market saturation

Identity fraud has dropped because all the good ones have been taken.

This sounds like a really well thought out piece of legislation

Unfortunately it isn't. And it is predicated on a massive misunderstanding around how encrypted services on the internet works.

If Alice sends an encrypted message to Bob, then the only point the message should be unencrypted when it's displayed on screen.

For those who happen to know where a cash machine running a 15-year-old C3 might be found

This knowledge might be used for endless entertainment purposes.

Payment card details might not be at risk

But someone somewhere has a list of addresses and knows when the houses will be vacant.

Is received wisdom like perceived wisdom?

Enquiring minds need to know!

Only 1 in 3?

If my career is anything to go by that's a very conservative estimate.

This hot industry journalist has just finished banging out a headline

And you wont believe what they do next!

Because no one has ever stolen records from a filing cabinet before.

Although to upgrade security they could always hang a sign on it saying "Beware of the Leopard" or something.

Nice to know that Facebook has gotten rid of all the bad actors.

Now I have to go. Sophie Dee has contacted me on Messenger and is asking me to buy her a an Amazon gift card.

There is no evidence that any fraud has resulted

Yet.

How do you get a job with these people?

I imagine writing software is a lot easier if it doesn't actually have to work.

Didn't DARPA already do this?

I'm sure I remember them developing some sort of interconnected system of computers designed to withstand a nuclear war or something.

For its part, Capita has apologised

Oh that's all right then. Because whenever I can't get the medical care that I need an apology is always just as good.

In 15 years we should be getting the broadband speeds we should have had 10 years ago.

And I'd be willing to bet that even in 2033 we'll still be lagging behind our friends on the continent.

Make Luna Green Again

Give us a couple of years and we could have a self sustaining water mining operation with domes for producing fuel to power the rockets to send Moon grown vegetables to Earth.

Regulator Ofcom has reported a decline in complaints

Due to complaints changing absolutely nothing.

My internet was sold to me as Fibre to the Premises

Surely that has to be breaking some kind of law when that is blatantly not what I've got.

"After being alerted to this unauthorised access"

Except it wasn't an unauthorised access. The system was doing exactly what it was designed to do.

What they have there is an unauthorised disclosure. They had a duty of care regarding that data and they left it on a window sill where anyone could take a gander.

I didn't know my government was selling democracy so cheaply

Just like everything else they've privatised.

Unknown callers currently go to /dev/null

All this does is automate the process.

White mice or brown mice?

They're mice. What else is there to ask really?

It's starting to look like if they want this Brexit done on time and working...

Then they probably should have started working on it five years ago.

Unsolicited Leaky Dick Pic As A Service

I honestly had no idea my phone had that as a feature.