What's next, blackhead squeezing?... oh wait
Posts by Black Rat
160 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2013
Forget YouTube – meet ChewTube: Strangers watching millennials eat
Visiting America? US border agents want your Twitter, Facebook URLs
Patriotic Brits rush into streets to celebrate… National Cream Tea Day
Re: blown my savings on cake
Having cake will be the least of your worries.Two tech geeks in the UK currently between jobs were investigated by the DWP a few months ago because of bizarre tip off...
"We have received information that there are an unusual number of computers in the house"
Not the Inland Revenue with a discrepancy or police intelligence just a nosey neighbour who saw a five screen flight simulator through the window and had a paranoia overload.
Doctor Who: Oh, look! There's a restaurant at the end of the universe in Hell Bent
Brit hardware hacker turns Raspberry Pi Zeros into selfie slayers
UK.gov chucks another £260m at MOOC-based cyber security training
Alarming tales: What goes on INSIDE Reg hack's hi-tech bedroom
Re: Best alarm clock
AWAKE at the quietest whine..
or the tapping of nails of the kitchen floor
and tentatively touching dark lumps on the floor with an outstreched big toe trying to figure if it's a sock, a toy, half eaten dog chew or something unpleasantly squishy on the way to let them out. Illuminated only by the intermittant glow of the wifes mobile phone flasing to say she's got mail.
FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS: Microsoft faces prising XP from Big Biz
Snowden: 'I have data on EVERY NSA operation against China'
Screw Internet-of-Things: Boffins build Internet-of-Sound UNDERWATER
Sounds familiar
TCP/IP with bongo drums (circa 2002) http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/ and seems to crop up every five years since.
Around this time the USNavy was also experimenting with 'stealthy' active sonar* and incurring the wrath of various enviromental groups http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/10/1008_031008_whalebends_2.html
* Instead of going 'ping' and listening for the echo the vessel replays natural ocean sounds eg: dolphin clicks, whalesong, surf noise and iceberg fizzing.
Mac fans: You don't need Windows to get ripped off in tech support scams
Spam HandlIng Therapy
Your inglish is awful, please be speaking Hindi. Usually gives phenomenal results.
but if they are persistant there's always this...
Wrong department, you need to call this number .... 020 7632 3035 or
020 7664 9274 [ because nothing says "screw you" better than a diplomatic incident ]
Control panel backdoor found in D-Link home routers
Biometrics not so trustworthy: False Samsung stock-pump buy draws Swedish cops
GTA players get ersatz $0.5m each to make up for delayed hooker-beating fulfilment
Easily picked CD-ROM drive locks let Mexican banditos nick ATM cash
Canadian operator EasyDNS stands firm against London cops
21st Century Elite remake to support Oculus Rift virtual reality rig
Japan needs 80,000 EXTRA info-security bods to stay safe
Cambridge withdraws from World Solar Challenge
Yo, mall rats: Facebook and Cisco in Wi-Fi hookup to track your retail, social life
Beat this, cloud giants! Musk rocket flings 1TB hard drive into SPAAACE
LIVE, my beauty, LIVE! Nokia revives dead phone with LIGHTNING powered Frankencharger
Would you hire a hacker to run your security? 'Yes' say Brit IT bosses
An Experiment for All
Next lunch-time wander around your nearest Industrial estate looking for WEP hotspots. (no special tools required just a smartphone with WiFi)
When you find one go knock on their door and tell them how insecure it is. (for those still not aware it takes less than five minutes to slice through WEP encryption under optimun conditions)
Posibble responces:
1. "Yeah whatever", "We'll tell the IT guy", "That's Bullsh#t"
2. "Stay there, I'm calling the police"
3. "Thanks!, can you tell us how to secure our WiFi ?"
4. "Can you prove it !?"
However.. I should warn you all...
nobody has ever said Thankyou to me yet when conducting this experiment and outcome 4 is particulary rare from my experience.
NSA in new SHOCK 'can see public data' SCANDAL!
Re: Free intelligence
" ...free material from social media providers? They'd be mad to pass it up... "
Understanding the data however is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth. One wonders how often does a lie need to be repeated across the internet before agents are dispatched to investigate?
Radiation snatched from leaky microwave ovens to power gadgets
F-16 fighter converted to drone
Re: And the first step towards Skynet has been taken..
Hyperbole? In the event of direct command/control signal loss, degredation or deliberate interference some elements such as basic flight controls & navigation will have to be capable of autonomous operation till the human can be re-inserted back into the loop. From a military viewpoint it would also make sense that the aircraft be able to defend itself during this vulnerable period. It's not a great leap from that to letting it fly the complete mission by itself.
LinkedIn fires back against 'hack-and-spam' US class-action sue bomb
Firms fined $350,000 after yogurt sting uncovers review rigging
Google tries putting an NFC ring on it: Bonking will keep you SAFE
BBC releases MYSTERY RIDDLE poster for Doctor Who anniversary episode
400 million Chinese people can't speak Chinese: Official
IRON MAN MUSK: Elon reveals Tony Stark-style 3D design smarts
US military: 'Help us build the ROBO-WARFIGHTER OF THE FUTURE'
US gov preps sale of TOP SECRET disease research island
Boffins lay bare exotic Lara Croft meteorite element ununpentium
'Symbolic' Grauniad drive-smash was not just a storage fail
US court rules IP address cloaks may break law
IT now 10 percent of world's electricity consumption, report finds
Bug-finder chucked for posting to Zuck
Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic
UK.gov intros shiny CREST badge for cyber crime-scene cleanup squad
Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop – the subsonic tube of tomorrow
Mobe-slurping Wi-Fi SPY BINS banned from London's streets
100,000+ Earthlings star in 'reality TV contest' for ONE-WAY ticket to MARS
Transdimensional rift appears above Australian bolt supplier
Bad timing: New HTML5 trickery lets hackers silently spy on browsers
Exposed: RSPCA drills into cops' databases, harvests private info
"or find a charity that actually spends it's money on looking after animals"
Good luck with that, for several years I was employed by a direct mailing company that specialised in fundraising for charity. Time after time I was told the clients had no images of recently rescued animals for use on the flyers and was told in no uncertian terms by my employer to go grab a camera then find any fly bitten pony.