* Posts by razorfishsl

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You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse

razorfishsl

Actually they are NOT getting worse.

What is getting worse is the amount being bought from China.

As regards the Changing of the Density, this has been on going for 20 years.....

It does not shorten the life of the cells, the issue is the range comparators, the level of the charge on the cell has to be detected, if the Vref for the comparators drifts , the WHOLE content will be misrepresented or will dissapear. (actually it is still there, but not detectable correctly)

They are actually more reliable is they are used now & again, since the cells get re-written based on the aging of the comparators.

If you write the contents out and the comparators Vref moves , then its game over.

also if you get hold of some very well known chip brand datasheets, after signing the NDA, you will see that they spec all the way down to 1 or 2 writes, with multiple reads.

they even spec specific pages missing... all this shite ends up in the market, since it may have a valid use in writing hardware that only needs to be written once at manufacture, but with changing parameter data.

all you are seeing is teh bottom of the barrel criminals going below the bottom of the barrel to make a profit., since now everyone else is doing the same.

it's all the big retailers, that are involved.

D-Link clears up 'exaggerations' around data breach

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Re: Why would D-Link have end-user data?

Phone home & direct sales as well as registration data.

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Only a complete Moron would use any of D-LINK'S kit.....

And before anyone says "it's safe if not connected directly to the internet.... no.... no it is not.

We have seen Russian malware come in via Chinese mobile phones provider networks , then attempt to bridge over to the other networks they can see,

Thereby attempting to bypass corporate firewalls.

Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service

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Won't work....

There are may oracle type things that just cannot be implemented in PostgreSQL.

Then there is the potentially massive PLSQL code base that would need to be migrated in hte stored procedures...

After injecting pop-up ads for Bing into Windows, Microsoft now bends to Europe on links

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They have also started doing it on their website for support.

It is impossible to open many pages , unless you use edge.

Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office

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They should also look into MS perverting the HTML standard so it only works with Edge.

Stolen Microsoft key may have opened up a lot more than US govt email inboxes

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And guess what.... Microsoft will slime its way out of this with ZERO liability.

When will this be stopped with legal requirements that prevent such companies from setting up shite services , then using users as testing agents.

A single company just totally destroyed a countries security & privacy...

WTF does it rely on a single key to access the whole of the system.

Quick: Manually patch this Zimbra bug that's under attack

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You would have to be insane to be using Zimbra.....

This software has been absolutely riffled with critical exploits since the release of the original version...

every few months its "hay look another critical 9.x bug in zimbra"

Framework starts taking orders for 16-inch repairable, upgradeable laptop

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Re: I have to say I would really like a laptop with the touchpad to the right

The main board is replaceable

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Let's just hope it is better than their totally non existent website

https://frame.work/

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

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Dump the name dump the shame....

More worrying is the fact that they are adding in links to their services & websites that only work on their browser.

Just waiting for them to pull that shit on BI.

Japan's digital ID card gets emergency review amid data leaks

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In Hong kong , Identity cards are done in person , by individuals of the government it two separate areas or floors.

and with fingerprints + facial identity..

it's not rocket science...

One person's trash is another's 'trashware' – the art of refurbing old computers

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Even linux only moves forward...

The whole industry is eating CPU cycles to produce banality...

Hay look the window has rounded corners.....

A (cautionary) tale of two patched bugs, both exploited in the wild

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TP-Link again.......

Time to geet some real programmers....

Microsoft stole our stolen dark web data, says security outfit

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Well, if you supply a service , that relies on fixed data sets, serves you right...

Fortinet squashes hijack-my-VPN bug in FortiOS gear

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fortinet is garbage kit...its the Australian Version of TP-LINK.

There are all sorts of problems , right from their earliest implementations , we battled with endless bugs ,strange behavior, 1980's version GUI and in the end we dropped their kit completely, due to their attitude of , well we shipped buggy OS but you still have to pay, despite hte bug being there from years before your support contract ended.

ALL companies should be responsible for "free fixes" to their kit, if bugs existed, it's time we grew up and stopped allowing companies to get away with this endless bullshit of

"well you need a support contract before we will give you the fixes for our own mistakes"

Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside

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Just repackage & re-package all the E-waste.....

Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres

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The paper ill be keeping an eye out for..

Anal probing on a Nanometer scale..

Alpine Linux 3.18 fixes DNS over TCP issue, now ready for all the internet's problems

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The whole UDP case was for SPEED.....

over TCP, you have to setup a formal connection , do your communication , verify the data, hold it open until you get it all, then tear it down.

as a result it is easier to DOS in tcp than over UDP ,as regards to taking hte DNS down..., then there is the issue with FIN packets...

Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not

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it's started already in Asia.....

all the 21H n are updating to 22H2 in the last few days..., caused all sorts of problems and required the rapid purchase of extra ram...

Alien rock causes cosmic disturbance in New Jersey home

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it's clean on one side, which means it exploded after getting burned, so there are likely other pieces nearby...

Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO wades in

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Ahhh yes.... IBM

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

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For Christ sake finally.

you aught to see this win 10 Crap in asia.....

There is adverts all over the menus and some damned cat or girl appears, just like clippy used to...

It is absolutely pounding our leased lines with the continual GARBAGE, that dose nothing to add value to a business.

More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some

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Sadly it is IMPOSSIBLE to move from windows, when many of your customers insist that they can only use office .

We have tried a number of times with trial migrations and have always had them destroyed by the customers insistence of using MS office.

There is a set of "copy" windows programs by a Chinese company "Kingsoft" that run on linux, but after taking a look at the network traffic from these programs we decided against using them.

Until someone comes up with a 100% viable way to GET OFF office, migration to another platform is impossible for many companies...

Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments

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Actually them splitting out the "attachment" is potentially fraud...

Since they also handle business & legal emails for client storage, they are changing the email contents, to strip out the attachments.

Thereby tampering with the emails and changing the content...

since that content is no longer "inline" but extracted from the actual email.

in the real world an attachment to an email is NOT an attachment but inline text..., which they are both removing from and converting from the verbatim copy that went thru their systems.

there is no guarantee the email they reconstructed , is IDENTICAL to the email sent.

so in-effect they are fraudulently changing the contents of emails and misrepresenting the actual copy sent., specifically it is fraudulent ,because they do not state it is reconstructed and a misrepresentation of the actual email...

It's like me taking a 50 pound note, scraping off the ink, grinding the paper down, then reconstructing a new 50 from the material, then claiming it is genuine...

that is even before we get into are they storing the base 64 content of the email in one-drive , deliberately chewing up storage, or are they converting it back to binary, thereby potentially corrupting the verbatim copy..

UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears

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They need to replace the equipment

Microsoft delivers 75-count box of patches for Valentine's Day

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Yep... just like they screwed over virtually Evey SYS admin.. a few months ago..

by preventing Computers from re-registering into AD using the SAME computer account.

so if you have machine "A", there are situations where it will not be allowed to register back into the AD if it disconnects...

they shout "Security fix" and "hardening"

Really...

so if it is "security hardening" , why is it only CLIENT side & not AD side?

What a crock of shit.... a "Security fix that any hacker can bypass locally on the machine... and no i'm not talking about the registry bypass.

They are deliberately throwing rocks in the road, to force people onto Azure... and off inhouse authentication.

Scammers steal $4 million in crypto during face-to-face meeting

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Re: The entire operation used a clone phone

Yep... I keep telling HSBC about this in HK that thier shitty SMS messages about all the bank transfers can be listened into...

they say it is for security of their customers...

more like they are providing a feed to the HK government...

but they insist phones are secure devices if they have not been rooted....

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They must have done it by intercepting the WIFI traffic....

bet they have found a way to merge data into a transaction to redirect it...

China's Yangtze Memory reportedly lays off staff, evicts them from company housing

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Ah yes....... no matter how advanced they claim to be.... their main business is corruption...

Microsoft swears it's not coming for your data with scan for old Office versions

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Re: Strange way to respect user privacy

LOL you are really funny......

AV programs are the biggest offenders of Telemetry....

Go see the amount that their cloud front end offers , every false positive & every file scanned that has malware is squirreled up into their cloud , including the users name...

when a virus is found a complete path is uploaded to their cloud.. which includes ur name folder and path... such as "big coloured girls" as was recently seen on our cloud av solution... along with the directors name...

So much for the rule for our stock market listing requiring all security risks files to be identified to the board & CEO in writing in a monthly report........

sometimes i really love my job..

Go to security school, GoTo – theft of encryption keys shows you need it

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The other company to watch is those arrogant clowns over at 1password....

LastPass admits attackers have a copy of customers’ password vaults

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I think we are about to see this whole thing go sideways... very badly...

TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation

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And if you believe this... i have some highly valuable FTX Crypto currency to sell you.

Apple accused of censoring apps in Hong Kong and Russia to maintain market access

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You have to laugh that a homosexual who demands freedoms & runs accompany is then prepared to strip others of the same freedoms he demands...

What a hypocrite......

China declares victory over teenage video game addiction

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Hurray ... Communism wins again...... until the restrictions are lifted , and then it starts all over again....

Mind you they did build the pyramids and found Egyptian civilization, so clearly they know they are right...

Just like their laws communism is retroactive, it invented EVERYTHING and was responsible for all learning in the world ... long before it was even considered an idea.

Tech companies in the crosshairs as China proposes antitrust law revisions

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Let's also not forget..... that many Chinese laws are "retro-active".

so it's not about what you do after the law passes, but what you did before...

DraftKings gamblers lose $300,000 to credential stuffing attack

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This is what happens when you let retard addicts use computers....

Biden administration earmarks $13b to modernize electric grid

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Re: IT does not matter

you have had 2 years of illegally pissing the US down the drain... only now do you try and blame the republicans...

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Spend spend spend... like there's no tomorrow....

could have done this 2 years ago.....

Federal bans aren't stopping US states from buying forbidden Chinese kit

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Re: Perhaps the buyers

That is incompetence ,not malice.

Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process

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So basically the start of caging linux... putting it under the control of MS

Canonical makes Ubuntu Pro free for up to five machines

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It's a trap... just like red hat

Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline

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Simple reduce the merge window to a week for submitters., and use the last week for Linus.

FYI: Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption relies on insecure block cipher

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it's enough for the plebs....

We were audited for accounts, during that time i had to sit an listen about being audited for IT,

Specifically being told that a Data center is actually the cloud.

Then watching them twist and turn when I called them out on it, only to be told by top management "it does not really matter"

How the hell can anyone act as a "professional auditor" for IT, with this level of understanding.

Boss of Chinese memory maker Yangtze departs for no obvious reason

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So they can keep their hands clean and still get to hte U.S to do "collaborations" & research.....

China upgrades Great Firewall to defeat censor-beating TLS tools

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The google.com, is not blocked in china.....

it is blocked by google, we ran some tests outside of china looking the the DNS resolution and how it was blocked

we found we could get a computer outside of china blocked by google, if we triggered a DNS lookup inside of china.

The addresses returned resolved to addresses inside google over in calafornia data center , but access to google was blocked.

Even for a non China based computer....

So er let's not be blaming China on this one.....

US border cops harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database

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The fact that it's just been disclosed that the FBI has been tagging parents with a Monika used to identify terrorists

means that these people would be on that potential target list every time they fly.

Funny how the pieces fit together is in ton?

Crooks target top execs on Office 365 with MFA-bypass scheme

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Re: Unbelievable

DO NOT use the MS authenticator

it is a dog collar GPS up your ass.

it reports geo-location of any one using it , back to MS every 5 minutes....

They are building a massive tracking system of personal information... just like Apple & google.

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They did not "discover" anything..... Been dealing with this since jan 2022 with multiple MS reports.... took them until June to admit they could duplicate it.

There is another interesting caveat to all this...... where even resetting the users PW will not return the account to normal & remove this setup. (even account shows no other authentication systems)

Had some MASSIVE arguments with both MS engineer staff and our so called support provider.

MS was at one stage INSISTING we give control to our service provider to come in as super admin above our organization so that they could insert other users to

manage our instance.

When that failed the blocked our ability to place support requests, other than via the service provider , and THEN they refused to act upon their service requests unless they were filed from OUR MS instance, basically they wanted any excuse to NOT deal with what we found.

Then when we pointed out that it was possible to log into other instances that were NOT allocated to our Admin PW or even domain name!!!, they almost shit the bed shouting its not possible.... actually yes it is.

needs certain conditions to exploit it, but doable.

Esp. when we refused to tell them how.. in view of them treating our business with such disrespect, why should we...

so for over 8 months not only do they have this shitfest.....but also a way to exploit admin login into other instances.

Their whole front end for security is a JOKE.

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