* Posts by TheMadMuskateer

4 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2013

What do sexy selfies, search warrants, tax files have in common? They've all been found on resold USB sticks

TheMadMuskateer

Re: Photorec

Not sure how true it is that you can still get old data from the edges of the track or print through to deeper in the oxide layers - modern hard drives need enormous amounts of processing and error correction just to get back the data you *last* wrote.

Automated payment machines do NOT work the same all over the world – as I found out

TheMadMuskateer

French ones tend not to like non-French cards. I have learned to be sympathetic to fellow Brits as I stick my Credit Agricole card in the machine which has just refused all the pieces of plastic in their possession.

UK NHS 850k Reply-all email fail: State health service blames Accenture

TheMadMuskateer

It took me about 10 seconds to figure out what was going on when I saw the first email. After that it was amusing to watch everyone get more and more irate.

At last: EU slashes mobile roaming fees

TheMadMuskateer

Just had a fruitless conversation with Three customer support about how the €50 cap will work - is data "free" once you hit 50 euros or does it stop.

I'm no more enlightened.