Posts by Anon5000

The spying network is mostly used for corporate espionage and gaining political advantage over the rest of the world. Just so happens that by spying on hackers they can get some 0-day exploits that their guys missed or they would otherwise have to buy from Vupen type companies.

Not that it matters as the only reason they do it all is...because they can.

Watches for Dummies

Does one see instructions for how to do up the strap on the actual strap in the photo? Love the faith that Apple has in the IQ of the people who would purchase one of these watches...

Thanks Prof David Stupples

Would never thought about hacking the system to help my train jump the queuing system at London bridge or Victoria at rush hour, but now....

Love the story graphic, as listening with 3 eyes is better than 2 ears!

What was the vulnerable device story about again? Got distracted...by the big shiney picture at the top of the last site on the internet not to use HTTPs for their login.

If

If it was half the size and a tenth of the price, I would buy it.

A mini Bluetooth keyboard or even a small £5 usb keyboard connected might not look or feel as good in the hands as this product, but defo feels better on the wallet for what is essentially a plugin keyboard.

Zero day exploits do not bypass antivirus protection, no do they have anything to do with AV software as the article suggests. A 0day might be used as the initial step to get the malware on the machine but they are entirely different things.

Crypting your malware to avoid signature based detection, splitting and scattering the malware across many memory locations, unusual hooks to existing processes and also tricks to make individual AV's think they have crashed or timedout are just a few of the things that are done to bypass AV's.

'Legitimate work sites' should not be considered malware free. AD server farms sites that serve many top web sites are often compromised to serve malware and some even slip through the front door in that way. Both Google and Microsoft have had their ad servers serving up malware.

Take a layered approach to security and make sure to include network traffic analysis.

Makes no difference for the general public if the pirate bay is behind cloudfare or not. It's not illegal to browse the site or download a .torrent file or magnet link from there. If anything illegal is done it's done at the users end and away from the site. Nothing logged by cloudfare is of any relevance. I would expect staff login in a different way, bypassing the cloudfare part and going directly, so that their details are not logged.

Connecting to a swarm of a torrent gives away your IP address anyway so that is where someone would have to worry, not over cloudfare logging their ip as visited a site.

Lets also not forget that downloading/uploading copyright content is not actually illegal in every country, so some tpb visitors will not be breaking the law of their land anyway.

Totally agree with the point made above that TPB should not be illegal as it hosts no copyright content at all, just links to places that do (or meta-data), in the same way as search engines and youtube search do.

Never use TPB back but glad to see it back and sticking its fingers up at the copyright cartels.

Bono iPhone

Nothing in this that stops U2 albums being installed on your iDevice whilst you sleep though,

So many words - So little info

Really annoying to see a whole website full of loads of text that tells you nothing that could not have been said with just two sentences. Even advisories that give explicit details are a tenth of the size of all this twaddle.

It aint Shellshock or Heartbleed. Maybe a drip of a nosebleed.

When the BBC changed their design a couple of years ago to something resembling this el-reg change, it was universally slated in comments in a similar way to what we see here. The BBC ignored all the comments about shit layout and gave lip-service about fixing the 'too much white' but basically changed bugger all. Full expect el-reg to do the same.

Although community created userscripts changed the layout back to something similar, ended up hardly visiting the BBC website after that change which is still the case to this day. Not only looked horrid but there was much less words and worded for twitter type first paragraphs and some crap about being 'media rich' to explain the stupid size graphics and limited text while pretending it had nothing to do with phones and tablets. A slippery slope to resentment which I hope the register do not continue to follow although deep down we know the answer already.

I suspect this is because the security services are having problems with ANPR due to cloning of number plates, whereas a permanent tracker in a car gives a unique identifier. An added bonus of not having to pay for more ANPR cameras to gain better coverage and the cost is moved to the car manufacturer/motorist instead of the police/state/security services.

Needs a physical disable switch for the security conscious motorist. Or else Jolly John at the garage will be modifying unique identifiers in the engine management instead of turning back the mileage.

ECJ / European Court of Justice

In April the ECJ declared the ISP data retention stuff invalid as it went against the “fundamental right to respect for private life and the fundamental right to the protection of personal data” which lead to some ISP's in Sweden deleting all the logged data of their customers. I would assume that UK isp's should be abiding by this ruling too while we are still in the EU. Theresa May is attempting to trump this ruling among the many other atrocities she is attempting to rush through without oversight.

So, exactly the same as the techniques for 'targeted surveillance network injection appliances' that the NSA and co have been trying/using. Just a little bit late with this paper especially now this technique has come to light as already being used in recent leaks.

The reason

Is she asking for 'crowd engagement' reasons or because someone somewhere has told she will lose billions to piracy if people record little clips here and there? That and the time the label wanting to get a fat wallet from selling the dvd/blu-rays will have to spend searching youtube so they can send DMCA takedown notices of 8 second clips.

People are usually happy to comply unless there is a profit reason behind such a request.

Lousy VM Broadband

Sky's free broadband is the same as their paid adsl broadband. No different at all. Tom has lowered himself to the usual VM standard of misleading. No ASA to ban newspaper opinions like what usually happens to VM ads.

Having had both Sky and VM I would much prefer Skys lousy broadband over Virgins lousy oversubscribed broadband. Same with customer support and heldesk.

Power

The media corporations want to control the internet and use it as their money making tool. Every time a company or country gives in to them, they get closer to that goal.

If the media companies want to utilise the internet than that's fine but then to change the internet to fit their business model is out of order.

Already I can't stream Sky go to my phone simply because it's rooted but even if I could, Sky block the OTG/HDMI port from being used due to ridiculous licencing agreements. So I can't use it because of DRM and even if I could, I couldn't plug it in to my TV even though I pay for Sky.

DRM also means there is no easy way to get it running on Linux. A HTML 5 DRM solution would be the best option but it's still DRM.

Don't get me started about Amazon prime streaming being only working on Kindle devices and not other tablets or Pandora not working because i'm in the UK. I could go on and on about most services, their DRM , geo location blocking and even blocking paying customers from using VPN's but it all boils down to the media corporations and their ridiculous licence agreements. Until everyone stands up to them and says NO, they will keep chipping away at usability to maximise their profit.

When it's more convenient to pirate something you have paid for, there is something wrong.

@David W.

I just can't put my finger on whether you are pro or anti-copyright from that post. Similar to copyright lawyer waffle, lots of words but not really saying anything.