Posts by Halfmad

Re: Incognito mode isn't incognito

Tinge of irony that you post this whilst AC :)

Re: Voting systems aren't fragile at the moment

Electrion fraud still happens in the UK, it may not be as common but it's no easier to detect and prove.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/electoral-fraud/data-and-analysis/cases-of-alleged-electoral-fraud-in-2017

Re: That's cute but you are wrong!

Give them credit they are actually going beyond what they said they would in order to try to protect customers who clearly don't give a **** about their own security.

Re: The countdown to disaster has started

Which is why we need legislation to hold executives personally liable for breaches that occur under their watch, particularly if they took any decisions which weakened protections around it or prevented protections being put in place.

Re: Brexit Unlikely Reason

Peripherals can be ever worse. I paid $75 plus P&P and import taxes for a peripheral last year. In total it was around $92 all in. Same thing from the same company (only the .co.uk) here was over £190.

Re: monthly readings not appearing on accounts

I also don't have one, never seen the benefit from a consumer perspective - it's all the utility companies who benefit and the smart meter installers.

Re: Computer says no.....

Which is why I still haven't bought one even though it'd be handy to have a NAS backing up to my offsite backup rather than my PC.

Just not sure I trust these cheap NAS boxes.

Re: take a supercritical dryer with you.

and when things are tight and time is running out you'll magically get more time than you needed to succeed.

Re: Almost a good thing

This **** is on the same level of retardation as "I don't do math".

Just move to Linux if you honestly never want updates etc and stop wasting money on poor value for money hardware.

Bragging that you are running an out of date operating systems is like bragging you drive without insurance. It's stupid.

Moving to Linux would make far more sense at this point for you rather than whinging about an out of data OS even MS don't want to touch.

Re: Send for stick tape, my side are splitting...

Allegations, doesn't mean they are validated.

Re: This is a controversial opinion, no doubt, but....

Agreed, I genuinely don't think I've ever seen anyone in IT not change a default password. It's almost like a rite of passage when a device comes in to make it "ours". Same at home.

If it's sitting on default, I don't trust it and even when it's not, I still think it's an IoT piece of junk usually.

Re: "Google will take £7.99 a month off you for 2TB of space"

Which is fine if you don't want offsite backups*

*managed by someone else who may "lose" data without explanation.

Re: Yet another....

Don't know if I can bash them for Windows CE, if nothing else at least they gave it a shot.

We love bashing MS on here but truth is them entering a market has pushed that market to up it's game and yes MS then crash and burn - but without it the market would have become complacent.

Re: "the reality of long and costly recovery projects means"

Great in theory but complete nonsense when you try to implement it.

For all we know the local IT folks were all screaming for more resources, had a risk register stating how open they were to ransomware attacks and yet were never given resources to tackle it. Chances are we are talking the basics of IT, backup tapes etc. However what about staff and training?

I'm not looking to make excuses for them but having worked in some pretty ****** places in the past I wouldn't be surprised if this shower of idiots hadn't outsourced key parts creating gaps and then handed management of it to a non-IT literate manager with zero experience in running IT services and business continuity.

Re: Bonkers

I don't see how people can be sceptical of cypto currency but all for this sort of pie int he sky valuation tbh!

Re: Bollocks.

Yet it's been published anyway.

Fan boys of any kind are pretty sad and not good for any industry.

Go for the tool that suits your needs and those of your customers, but don't be the tool.

Re: Someday

The land of the free, but you can't even choose the ISP you use.

Re: Liabilities

Doors will close and reopen almost immediately with a new sign on it.

Re: Right click - Share C drive as read only...

Been a good few years since I touched IIS but isn't it actually quite fiddly to configure it that poorly? By default it's way more secure?

Re: So, not great, not terrible

Of course they wouldn't, thing is if Microsoft folded tomorrow and Linux became popular many on here would simply move to another, less popular OS anyway.

Re: Black Hat black-lists congressman

They don't care. The fact his views on abortion are utterly irrelevant to the conference make no difference either, it's a case of people might get upset. De-platforming has been proven time and again not to work but some can't get their head around it. All it does is make him look like the target of the deranged and irrational, rather than anything to do with his views.

They'd have been better getting him on and IF he said anything about it whilst there turning up the heat to 11 on him in public. I doubt very much he would have said a thing though, it's a singular issue.

Make it PENSION-ABLY liable - in other words long term impact personally and you'd have an answer straight off the bat. This should be the case for execs the world over. Taking the pay cheque and on paper responsible.. but have little interest.

Re: Have done just this.

No, they didn't learn lessons in the past as Ransomware has been around for years and business "leaders" need to sort their shit out.

I'm sick if hearing lessons learnt etc when clearly they aren't looking at mistakes others have been making for ages. I know one person businesses with better backup plans than many large companies because the person in charge is actually giving a shit.

Re: Not impressed with so called smart TVs full stop.

It's also made TVs incredibly slow to update. EPG etc are no where near as fast as they use to be prior to the "smart" features all being thrown in..

More to the point why is only Avast and Sophos borking? I can understand MS AV products running along happily but the other security products would surely have thrown a fit too when Sophos did.

Makes me think that some aren't as secure in some areas, particularly boot as they claim.

Because Bing brings in a huge amount of revenue for them simply by being default on MS browsers. The more browsers the better particularly if they can get direct competition in Chromium/Chrome browsers.

Re: Not hidden, just not disclosed.

"Secret feature" ? ;)

Oh dear you need to crawl back to that safe space. What you describe is not right wing, it's bigoted and no the two are not intrinsically linked.

But it's not for the sake of it - it's so that utility companies can tweak plans to charge us more, so the government can justify funding this farce (via our money) and so we can strip away our critical national infrastructure to the bare minimum of resilience.

I don't have one either.

Re: Spooks and mirrors

Refused to even try it out for free, they weren't willing to discuss pricing until it was installed.

IMHO that's just taking the ****. They call me frequently, and I simply tell them I'm not interested in shady practices.

Re: Taking Back Control

All those Backup Exec jobs will fail again..

Re: Goodbye Red Hat

Taking bets on how many staff IBM dump in the first 12 months? I'm guessing at least 25%

ASUS software has always been terrible, almost certainly outsourced as it receives infrequent updates at the best of times and stops supporting products fairly quickly (even top of the range mobos).

I doubt any third party has ever really dug deep on it other than this attacker.