* Posts by EnviableOne

2000 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2016

Reality check: We should not expect our communications to remain private

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Re: "Saying if you don't want it on the internet, don't put it up there is too trite a response"

Franklin said it better "three people can keep a secret, if two of them are dead"

Use Zoom on a Mac? You might want to check your microphone usage

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Re: Zoom.....

the difference with Zoom, is unlike the others they CLAIM to be secure

WebEx, Teams(Lync), Vidyo, Scopia, etc. made no such claims

The problem is not that Zoom isn't secure, its that it constantly claims to be secure where it blatantly isnt

Facebook exposes 'god mode' token that could siphon data

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Re: Simple Solution

I have a copy of Netscape navigator 5.5 if you want retro

Ransomware crew dumps stolen Optionis files online

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Its all gone wrong

they were great when the entire company was Parasol, then they started clear sky and optionis rewards and it went downhill from there.

SOme people really should stick to doing one thing well

Microsoft to block downloaded VBA macros in Office – you may be able to run 'em anyway

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Re: A tighter security method.

the problem is, $company will pay for Office, but not a development environment.

Excel just about does 90% of things, with VBA it does 99.99% of things,

why should the finance wonks shell out for something more capable/

US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans

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What i want to know

who the hell cleared him to TS-SCI

Crypto outfit Qubit appeals to the honour of thieves who lifted $80M of its digi-dollars

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Re: The protocol was exploited by 0xd01ae1a708614948b2b5e0b7ab5be6afa01325c7

that's the fire brigade, i think the police have a 2 on the end

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Re: As someone who understand blockchain ...

Fiat currencies are a Ponzy scheme, they are only worth what you allow them to be.

The USD and GBP, along with BTC, ETH et. all are Fiat currencies

The pound left the gold standard in 1931 followed by the dollar in 1971 since then they have been fiat currencies

Cyberattacker hits German service station petrol terminal provider

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Re: Sounds expensive...

BT dont bother with the French they mumble something along the lines of MBORC (I think it means Matters beyond our reasonable control) but sounds to close to My bad to me...

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FAIL

repeat after me

SCADA Equipment MUST NOT be connected to the Internet

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

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Re: Sanctions

Geeley currently own

Volvo, Proton, Lotus, LEVC (maker of London taxis)

SAIC own MG and have joint ventures with:

Volkswagen Group and General Motors

Most of the major manufacturers have Joint ventures in China only Tesla has its own factory and Elon must be paying Xi for it.

SAIC, Dongfeng, FAW, Chabg'an, BYD, GAC, Geely, Brilliance and Chery all make cars to EU/US Spec

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Re: Sanctions

find a cold war history book written by someone without a bias towards one side or the other and I'll be surprised.

The Cold war was just that, both sides were on a war footing without any actual fighting.

Both sides rapidly developed technology and weapons that one-upped each other.

the latest MiGs and Sukhoi aircraft are a match for the frankly failed Raptor and Lightning.

Each side would convince you that they won the cold war, but to be fair the only ones who did were the arms dealers.

The Russians could always be guaranteed to do what was in their own interest, but Xi is a completely different animal, under his stewardship, the PRC have surpassed the Russians and his rhetoric is about as aggressive as you can get. I have no doubt that he means what he says and his actions bear that out. what was before him a semi-capitalist country, is rapidly returning to the hardline state control, and building up its military and industrial capability.

In the not too distant future, the western economies will be sidelined by the two behemoths from the east with populations over 1bn, China and India, that are both rapidly becoming skilled digital workforces and outputting superior products at a greater rate and lower cost.

Russia's naval exercise near Ireland unlikely to involve cable-tapping shenanigans

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Re: Tubular infrastructure

not so much, NORDSTREAM, soon to be assisted by NORDSTREAM II allow the Gas money pipes from Europe to be kept flowing, plus the cutting of the pipes doesn't affect Russia much, but will affect the nations that Ukrainian hopes will be Allies, currently lying to the west.

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RRH Portreath in Cornwall provides interleaving coverage and the UK has access to the NATINADS NATO air defence network, which has ground stations in Spain, France, Iceland and The Azores, that cover that area

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Currently, 4 nations in NATO meet the 2% the US exceeds it to over 3% of GDP the UK uses creative accounting to meet it (by including training and other co-operative civilian spending, through the MOD) and Greece, Estonia and Poland just about pass the test

UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators

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Re: Yeah, but guys

the problem is it hasn't all happened yet ...

there are still parts of the transition working themselves out, and categories of goods that have yet to have full restrictions enforced.

The only way to keep the Good Friday Agreement Intact is for there not to be a border either in the Irish Sea (unionists hate this), or on the island of Ireland (Nationalists hate this) is for both The Republic of Ireland and the UK to have the same customs regime, this requires that both are either in the EU or Out. The Irish are not leaving.

If the UK want to go back, they have to follow the rules for non-members, Accept the Euro, be part of the Schengen area, have no active disputes with member nations (Gibraltar / NI,) Paying their fair share (No-rebate (was about 2/3rd of what we paid in,) Accepting the oversight of EU Institutions (ECJ,ECHR,etc) Be approved by the Council of the EU, Be approved by a majority vote of the European Parliament.

The deal we had as a legacy member was a lot sweeter.

California's net neutrality law dodges Big Telecom bullet

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Re: Be Careful What You Wish For...

cue the new CHEAPNET Act (Paid for by AT&T, Verizon, Comcast et al.)

Congressional Harmonisation of Enabling Alternative Pricing on Network Enabled Traffic

being federal legislation specifically allowing differential pricing to overrule neutrality and SB822

Internet Society condemns UK's Online Safety Bill for demonising encryption using 'think of the children' tactic

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Re: So, 0.2% eh ?

I See your RFC and raise you an international treaty:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 12:

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

all members of the UN are signatories, and this is a direct breach

ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion

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I think the F1 Managing Director of Motor Sports definitely can (the man who writes the rules) aka Ross Brawn.

The problem is the new race director doesn't have the benefit of the experience that good old Charlie Whiting had, to allow him to interpret those regulations in a more nuanced fashion

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the good old BSI confers a 50% discount on its members, which isn't as expensive as you think...

IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health

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Re: “IBM remains committed to Watson"

IMHO Watson is still a solution looking for a problem.

They built a chess computer at exorbitant cost, and are still failing to make it pay...

UK data watchdog slaps Ministry of Justice with Enforcement Notice for breaking GDPR law

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Not entirely correct, if you read DPA18, it basically transcribes GDPR as it is on the date of Brexit into UK law, this is the UK-GDPR people talk about.

Any changes to GDPR after this date do not apply to UK Data Subjects but continue to apply to EU data subjects.

Want to check out Windows 11 but don't want to buy a new PC? Here's how to bypass the hardware requirements

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Re: @DavidYorkshire - Even better....don't bother yet!

Unless they're the CXO who signs your paychecks/ budget

HMRC tool for measuring IR35 status is so great, employers are ditching it in their droves

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Re: I’m clinging on

you dont take home anywhere near double, if you read the rules right, and aren't being employed by someone who doesn't know the going rate, you end up with about the same money, a tonne of extra paperwork and a lot more flexibility in when and how you work.

To some people this is important, to others, they are happy being Employees, where their pension, holidays, transport, tax, NI, student loans, employers NI, etc. are all taken care of.

If you are outside IR35, you have no flexibility, no holidays, no pension, and you are basically left with the disadvantages of both situations.

Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors

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Re: Is that all

top google search:

A mostly dull uninteresting film with little in the way of surprises

Pop quiz: The network team didn't make your change. The server is in a locked room. What do you do?

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Re: Under the floor

0000 or 1234?

Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips

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Coat

Re: The answer is

Ah, but what is the question?

IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success

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Re: "I don't always need to look up the address of a bit of kit I need to contact"

Obscurity is the issue, IPv4 is Ubiquitous, IPv6 is niche, why go to the effort of scanning IPv6 space when there's plenty of low hanging fruit available on the easy to use v4 space.

It's the same reason there used not to be malware for mac, but as it became more prevalent, there is more profit in it.

v6 is just the DIAMETER to v4s RADIUS, both the first two are better protocols, but the second two are in use, people don't like change, and several features have been backported to make them last longer.

IPv4 addresses aren't exhausted, just their allocation is. a good 90% of them just aren't seen on the internet.

TBF if the internet core was run on v6 with BGP and everyone used NAT and RFC1918 addresses internally, there is no need for the added complexity of v6 inside an organisation

the NHS internally uses the RFC 1918 class A space and it hasn't exhausted it yet.

with proper use of NAT and CIDR and a re-allocation of unused addresses, v4 can last for a long while yet.

IMHO when they designed v6 they went overboard on the address space, there are enough v6 addresses for every atom of every person on earth to have 7

WebSpec, a formal framework for browser security analysis, reveals new cookie attack

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Re: Impossible to get right

take the server, dont take it down, drop scripts on the users that telegraph their location outside of TOR

Thats how the FBI broke the Peado rings https://www.theregister.com/2015/10/01/fbi_busted_malware_creep_on_dark_web/

US Army journal's top paper from 2021 says Taiwan should destroy TSMC if China invades

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the problem is in Taiwan, the popular opinion is that maintaining the status quo is the preferred option, there are small factions that favour declaring independence from China, which has never actually been done, as well as a small faction for unification.

the middle group are roughly 70% of the population with 20% for independence and 10% for re-unification (if I remember the study correctly)

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but the country it was on lease from wasn't the PRoC, it was the RoC.

its government was elected by the people, and made all domestic policy decisions, much like the other British overseas territories.

its foreign affairs were managed by the UK, and the transition and the 50years of continued democratic government, and one country two systems were part of the withdrawal agreement singed back in 1984 of all years...

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only three years, I believe this would lead to compulsory re-education an appropriate public apology stating that Hong Kong and Tibet are peaceful parts of the greater China, the Uhgiars are not pressed, whoever the discovered members of the ETIM terrorist organisation are imprisoned and re-educated, allowed to re-pay their debt to the people by working with limited pay in other regions, and the CPC have a legitimate claim to the islands in the south china sea.

Or failing the willingness to make such a statement, "never be heard from again"

Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

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You can signup any time you like...

But you can never leave

All cloud providers are the same, getting info in is easy, getting it back out is a PITA!

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Re: Plus addresses

Zoho support plus addressing

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Re: Just great.

if you're using less then 5 accounts: Zoho have a forever free tier, I have been using it for many donkeys, the family all have accounts and saves them having to change addresses.

Zoho support + addressing and have a great process for setting up security too.

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Forever Free Plan

Up to five users, 5GB/User, 25MB attachment limit.

Web access and free mobile apps*.

Email hosting for single domain.

UK police lack framework for adopting new tech like AI and face recognition, Lords told

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Red Tape

what it boils down to is the police services in England are so bound up in red tape and without the procurement support they need, the fact there is a national police computer is a miracle and their use of e-mail and some-what effectiveness against cyber-enabled crime a Herculean achievement.

Big shock: Guy who fled political violence and became rich in tech now struggles to care about political violence

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Re: "I recognize that I come across as lacking empathy"

Like it or not, he's telling the truth, the cost-benefit of speaking up has been weighed and come down on the side of Xi and the regime over the suppression of the Uighurs.

It comes across as heartless, and lacking in empathy, especially due to his "lived Experience" but however it appears, it is anything but clueless, it in effect states the obvious truth.

However, we may rage against the injustice and think of ourselves better than we are, there may be some bluster and words, or "Thoughts and Prayers" but nothing active will be done unless something drastically changes the cost-benefit.

The only thing I can think that might motivate the Western powers to Act is if MBS says Saudi will cut Oil production if they don't.

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Re: Too true

the reports weren't scotched by china, but by the US-based EcoHealth Alliance and the US government that gave $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to investigate Bat Coronavirus in 2014 and more when their funding was renewed in 2019 ...

Tonga takes to radio, satellite, motorboat comms to restore communications after massive volcano blast and tsunami

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Re: Maybe?

the Tsunami removed all the suitable buildings/trees in existence ...

but to be fair a field radio with a whip antenna should do the trick, and at least one should be in tsunami proof storage

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Re: Repairing the cable

The CS Reliance is usually found fixing one of the cables in the highly congested areas of the Malaysia/Indonesia/Singapore waters. They are pretty much the best team for the job.

Can't help but suggest that a bit more resilience for Tonga is needed (in terms of subsea cables) linking it to Nuie and landing the non-Fiji leg of Southern Cross there too would have been a good plan or linking the far end of the domestic extension to American Samoa...

AMD returns to smartphone graphics with new Samsung chip for your pocket computer

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FFS who needs 240fps at 4k ...

does it still need Qualcomm's CDMA, or can they bin that off and sell them freely yet...

International police shut down 15 server infrastructures as part of VPNLab.net's takedown

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I've always wondered

how my local sports store manages to sell 10 times the number of baseball bats as it does mits, and there are no diamonds in the area...

Multi-day IT systems outage whacks umbrella biz Parasol Group amid fears of a cyber attack

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Re: As a employee of Parasol

In My experience Parasol are one of the good guys.

I used them as My Brolly for donkeys (couldn't be bothered with the paperwork)

if they are having issues with paying you there is an issue with them getting paid.

At the end of the day, they can't pay you what they don't have...

Hopefully, they will get their systems back up and running and get something sorted, I hope my faith in the folks formerly from Warrington is not misplaced, if you are put into hardship sit on the chat all day, until they get their systems back up or send someone to camp outside their offices.

Autonomy founder's anti-extradition case is like saying Moon made of cheese, US govt tells UK court

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Re: Buyers’ remorse

Like you, I have been following this from the start.

the crux of the matter is, were HP in possession of all the relevant evidence with which they needed to accurately evaluate the value of autonomy

If they weren't, did autonomy's management wilfully defraud them by providing incorrect evidence that it should be valued higher.

From my interpretation, Autonomy were bending some of the accounting rules, but they broke none. HP were in possession of all the facts and all the paperwork, they rushed the assessment of it through to get the transaction over the line and overvalued Autonomy.

Basically, Leo Apotheker screwed the pooch and got fired, and Mike went laughing all the way to the bank

Google and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves

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Tell that to the UK banks convicted of fixing the LIBOR rate...

Weed dispensary software company's ambitions pruned after Spotify trademark clash

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Potface420

'IwlIj jachjaj! Incoming LibreOffice 7.3 to support Klingon and Interslavic

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Re: Wait, No Ferengi?

Ferengi have no interest in LibreOffice, Open Source is an anathema to the rules of acquisition

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Re: Fourth gender

linguistically English actually has 4 genders, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter, and Common.

He, She, They, IT.

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Re: Manx should be spoken

something like this happened on the Tube...

Behind us in the train were a group of Germans conversion in their native tongue and discussing how great it was that no one else could understand a word they were saying, but they could easily understand the locals.

My little sister, having spent considerable time over the preceding years visiting in southern Germany, and not being of the sort to stay quiet when a conversation is to be had, stood up turned around and smiled, issuing in perfect german the phrase "Ich Verstehe"

queue the four young germans going red in the face, some awkward silence, followed by an interesting conversation about educational differences and the propensity for young English people to actually learn german, some ahead of french as was more traditional