* Posts by EnviableOne

2001 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2016

We sat through Apple's product launch disguised as a dev event so you don't have to

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just wait until they get animated ones ...

Campaigners warn of legal challenge against Privacy Shield enhancements

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GDPR Allows SUbjuristictions

I'm ok with CCPA protections, so maybe we could deal with California, but not the rest of them?

Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack

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Re: GM online account

I thought it Was Fix It Again Tomorrow ...

but that's the competition (FIAT own Chrysler)

US-APAC trade deal leaves out Taiwan, military defense not ruled out

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Wording is Important

there is a big difference between "consider military intervention" and actually putting boots on the ground.

Basically, the US will not commit to anything but makes clear to Xi that if he tries to do what Putin has with Ukraine, there will be consequences.

After all, people can live without gran, but semi-conductors are essential

Florida's content-moderation law kept on ice, likely unconstitutional, court says

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Megaphone

the problem is a large minority of people nowadays have issues decerning the difference between facts and opinions.

I firmly believe that we need to restore the balance of critical thinking and wider opinion in this algorithm-driven opinion funnel world, where our views are curated sorted and centralised and opposing ones excluded as irrelevant.

we need to think about subjects from multiple angles and weigh multiple points of view, make our own decisions on motives and how the facts affect us, and not just accept the opinion of someone not directly involved, just because they are from our "team."

the world needs to stop dividing into "US" and "THEM" and come together as one for the common good. Until we actually have some discourse, outside our digital bubble, we don't realise the breadth of other views that exist and that they may be reasonable and the people that hold them might share some views with us, and the extremes painted by either side, of the opposition, may be exaggerated, possibly to the absurd, to get us to take a more extreme stance in the other direction.

Now there are no perfect solutions, but if everyone has a voice and is free to speak from their perspective, we will realise we have more in common than divides us, and we differ far less than we think. allowing us to find common ground to forge a path where we work together to combine our strengths and not exploit each other's weaknesses, and as a whole achieve a fairer, more contented society, that allows us to understand that life isnt a zero-sum game, and we can all be the best we can be, without the need to tear each other down.

Software patching must work like car safety recalls, says US cyber boss

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Re: An interesting viewpoint from Mr Inglis

"Interesting, only because he seems not to understand the existence of Open Source and its implications."

No, it seeks to enforce that they obey the terms of the licence (eg apache licence clause 7 final sentence that says :"You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Work and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License.")

Microsoft patches the patch that broke Windows authentication

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Re: "patches to fix patches seem to be becoming a little too common"

seems a little bit of schadenfreude that they managed to lay them all off in an effort to save costs

The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

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Re: So what would a a 21st century UI look like?

or that loveley website:

whorepresents.com

that tells you who is pimping out your favourite celebrity

Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests

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Re: So technology works as intended...

you forgot the major feature of the system. each of the variable speed limit signs is linked to a speed camera behind it that automagically using NPR fines you for breaking whatever arbitrary limit was on the sign at the time.

Hot glare of the spotlight doesn’t slow BlackByte ransomware gang

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Re: Additional admins

protected groups are also a good thing, and prevent access to the necessary admin permissions...

Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law

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Re: Social Media sites should welcome laws like this

they're not broadcast, they are unicast, individually paid for and dispatched.

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Re: Gaping hole

I keep having to say this, the constitution isn't the only recourse, the Universal Declaration of Human rights, which both the European Charter and HRA are based on is a foundational treaty of the UN, and applies to all members.

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Re: SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM!

Does anyone have contacts in the Pro-Choice advocacy community? I feel they're the right people to rapidly force that section to be repealed.

China's Kylin Linux targets second RISC-V platform

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Re: You Mean

just like redmonds own basic or full telemetry options (not no none)

Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way

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Re: Too late

well said.

there are only two solutions to the Northern Ireland trade situation that please both the Nationalists (no border on the island of Ireland) and the Unionists (no border between NI and the rest of UK) both rely on their being free trade between Ireland and the UK.

The first method that was working perfectly fine was both countries are part of the EU and hence have the rights to internal market as all members do.

The second is both are outside the EU and have the right to negotiate their own bilateral agreements, and form part of a separate free-trade area.

Ireland is not going to leave the EU, as they have some sense.

During the time since the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement, the economy of NI has become dependent on that of the non-UK part, due to the economies of scale and the limited size of the market in the UK bit.

the only viable option for NI, with the majority either for(SF) or Indifferent to (Alliance) the union of both parts of Ireland, is for that to take place and both to be part of the EU.

Intel shareholders revolt against Pat Gelsinger's pay package

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Re: Translation

I remember another vote that was non-binding back in 2016 that royally screwed up the organisation it was non-binding upon...

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Re: Median Income $100,000

yes but that's not AWS, its Amazon as a whole

the median is heavily skewed by those hired in their distribution chain that is there "until robots replace them" on minimum wage or just over.

Amazon needs AWS, AWS doesn't need Amazon

Cryptocurrency laundromat Blender shredded by US Treasury in sanctions first

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All currency that is not linked to something with a real-world intrinsic value eg gold is pretend money, including those Dollar Bills

AMD approaches '30%' x86 CPU market share, thanks to servers 'n' laptops

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Re: Epyc

yeah, processing per watt and per dollar EPYC knocks spots off Xeon

Apple to replace future iPhone Lightning port with USB-C next year, this guy claims

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The Type C connector

but the protocol will be all apple/intel colab Thunderbolt 4

India to upgrade mobile networks near Maoist insurgents to 4G

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Re: Faraday Cage or localized jamming?

mosts schools have a cheap one built-in, the cavity wall is lined by Chain-link fence connected to the steel roof and the ground.

FBI: Cyber-scams cost victims $6.9b-plus worldwide in 2021

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tbf 90% of infections are Phishing, its about 5% RDP and 3% Zero-days.

Why go to all the effort of actually cracking something, when if you ask someone the right way, they'll give you the keys to the kingdom

Phishing operation hits NHS email accounts to harvest Microsoft credentials

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Re: Correction

be grateful she's not john.smith238@nhs.net or jonhsmith165 which both exist.

they have the ability for organisation specific sub-domains, but its a "receive only" alias

e.g. john.smith@<mytrust>.nhs.net

the misdirected email thing is a huge issue

but getting back to the story, it may be 136 NHSMail accounts, but its a wider O365 issue, that all orgs have to face, and NHS mail is too monolithic to handle

Critical vulnerabilities found in 'millions of Aruba and Avaya switches'

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Re: Well there's your problem

they'll get to C for cisco soon,

they're just finishing the A's APC, Aruba, Avaya ...

Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates

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Re: So you wrote it, and it works

currently still holds a 0.33% market share of the desktop OS market, still better than BSD.

AWS CEO: We're not spinning out, likely to seek acquisitions

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or cisco or blackberry or Dell or HP

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Re: There is no cloud

fully agree, Cloud should be replaced with the acronym OPT

Other Peoples Tin

cloud invokes some kind of ethereal intangible location that is unreachable and unobtainable.

when TBF the cloud is more like Dave's Bitbarn in a sleazy industrial estate where there might be CCTV cameras, but they dont all work, and the main entrance may be secure, but there are tons of others...

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Re: Why separate?

Amazon without AWS is making about 2% on sales

AWS is making IRO 30% on sales

Amazon needs AWS, AWS doesn't need amazon

Rivals aren't convinced by Microsoft's one-click default browser change

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Re: Browsers

the problem is Mozillas single biggest source of funding is Google (Paid Search app preference)

Russia bans foreign software purchases for critical infrastructure

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Eugene's revenge

this is direct retaliation for the US putting Kaspersky on the entity list

UK spy boss warns China hopes Russia will help it take over tech standards

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swings and roundabouts

on current form, I'd rather fly in a COMAC than a Boeing

Senate edges US chip world closer to $50b subsidies

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the era of american corporate capitalism is over

just like the era of Empire was 100 years past, the USA will just have to deal with it being someone else's turn, probably better than the colonial powers have.

Meta's plans to build hyperscale DC in Netherlands on hold

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Re: Timing….

Ask the Estonians how well the national digital id went.

and they are the furthest down this road.

DARPA to build life-saving AI models that think like medics

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the birth of the EMH

Time to ask Robert Picardo to be the model

Unit 42: Ransomware demands we're aware of averaged $2.2m last year

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World Leading

for once it looks like the Uk leads at something. perhaps US SMBs should have a look at the controls in NCSC/IASME Cyber essentials,

It won't protect you from everything, but it's about getting the basics right, which should stop someone who is not specifically targeting you (the spray and pray method)

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview

Okta acknowledges 'mistake' in handling of Lapsus$ attack

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They still dont seem to get it

Okta was at an event I attended on Friday, and the stock response of there is nothing to see here is all they'd come out with.

They don't seem to realise, the issue is not that they had an incident, it's how they knew about it for 2 months and didn't tell anyone. we would have been fine with "we have identified an issue at one of our sub-processors that may affect a limited number of our customers and we are investigating"

followed by

"the issue existed for 4 days from 10th Jan to 24th Jan, at our outsource customer service partner Sitel (Sykes) and may have affected up to 366 customers, we will update you when we receive the full report from our DFIR Partner <name>, and are informing the customers who may have been affected"

then

"here is the full report"

that would have maintained the trust with their customers, that their business is supposed to be built upon.

Fresh concerns about 'indefinite' UK government access to doctors' patient data

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Re: This data will be sold to USA 'health' businesses

selling of anonymised (however badly) data and aggregate data on the population is not controlled in any way and the unique coherence of NHS data covering 55million people in a similar geographic area makes it a commodity.

it allows statistical testing of outcomes, which is very much of use to the US Insurance companies and the healthcare providers

It also provides data to those American healthcare companies like the one that just opened a 184-bed hospital in Grosvenor Place, near Buckingham Palace, in central London, looking to gain access to the UK market and pay the Nation MPs handsomely for a specific trust/region

'Enterprise' browser maker Island valued at $1.3bn out of the gate

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90% of the NHS are using Edgium all be it with a few apps still running in legacy mode, but IE has gone the journey in most of the NHS

Okta now says: Lapsus$ may in fact have accessed customer info

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according to Okta, the precise number is 366 and that's the sum total of customers accessed by all agents ar their sub-processor over the 4 day period.

Outsourcing firm Serco wins £212m UK Test and Trace deal

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Fair and Open

"The contracts have been awarded following a fair and open procurement process, in line with public sector procurement guidelines and with the aim of achieving value for the taxpayer."

surely that should be a Fayre and Old Men process in line with private school cronies and achieving profits for the low tax paying oligarch doners of the party.

Authentication oufit Okta investigating Lapsus$ breach report

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Trust No 1

IMHO the way they have handled this has irreparably damaged any trust customers had in their business.

and in their field that's the most important thing.

they knew there was a breach back in January and didn't tell anyone until the threat actor did.

and trusting Sitel is always a recipe for disaster (there's a reason it's usually spelt with an additional h)

Android's Messages, Dialer apps quietly sent text, call info to Google

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Re: GDPR

TBF Google have that sitting in cash on hand

BOFH: Gaming rig for your home office? Yeah right

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compatibility issue in layer 8

AMD unveils first CPU with 3D V-Cache tech, cheaper Ryzens

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Re: compatible

like it said in the article, compatible with all existing chipsets back to the 300s whoich probably means we are talking AM4/AM3+

UK cybersecurity revenue up 14% on last year to £10.1bn

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Re: skills training

that's Why CISSP requires 5 years of experience

AWS to build 32 more small clouds around the world

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Re: Wot no London?

was expecting at least one in the UK, Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds all have significant digital firms needing good latency

IT technician jailed for wiping school's and pupils' devices

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Re: Hmm

TBF most of the cyber teams in HM Constabulary are pretty good.

The forces from the North East seem to be pretty good, surprisingly for the rest of the force's reputation, Cleveland's cyber unit is excellent. Durham and Northumbria's are not bad either

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that's not written in GDPR, they are using it as an excuse, but at least it works for you

Arm's $66bn sale to Nvidia is off: Deal collapses after world's competition regulators raise concerns

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depends where they list it

New York - Great for US companies

London - Vote of confidence in Post Brexit Britain

Frankfurt - Vote of confidence in Europe (no-confidence in Britain)

Hong Kong - Bad for the US, Good for china

Tokyo - Where SoftBank is at, probably the best neutral location.

but all of them will be competing, and it might end up dual listed