* Posts by EnviableOne

2001 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2016

UK government publishes guidance on security rules for tech takeovers

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Re: We are a technology colony of the US; this is just icing on their cake

television, turbines, steam engines, railways, Jet Airliners, Supersonic Airliners, SONAR, Programmable Computers (Colossus,)

and these are just the era-defining ones

Boffins find way to use a standard smartphone to find hidden spy cams

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Re: Another Use

S Korea has a specific problem 30,000 plus cases reported last 5 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45040968

they are not alone

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Coat

have to settle for Sea-bass (all be it slightly mutated ones)

Mines the one with the mini-me in the pocket

Ecommerce platforms (cough, Magento) need patching before Black Friday, warns UK's National Cyber Security Centre

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Re: Magento updates are a mess

this is the reason it's bottom of every review of e-commerce platforms

Cisco requires COVID-19 shots for all US staff – even remote workers

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Headmaster

Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.

It may carry the same force, but it is not a law. It's a Presidential Proclamation until codified by both houses it does not become a law.

UK data watchdog fines government office for disclosing New Year's gong list

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HAS just got a budget increase

£500,000 i presume

Sovereignty? We've heard of it. UK government gives contract to store MI5, MI6 and GCHQ's data to AWS

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Re: US CLOUD act

UK Cloud is the best option:- https://ukcloud.com/our-platform/

31-year-old piece of hardware not working very well: Hubble telescope back in safe mode over 'synchronization issues'

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Re: "servicing the HST is no longer viable"...

the last example of Black Arrow is sitting in the science museum, could probably be made to fly

REvil gang member identified living luxury lifestyle in Russia, says German media

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Re: If they know who

Should have passed it on to Mossad, and the next thing that will be heard is: "REvil gang Member arrested in rural german town"

Microsoft wins JEDI contract, Amazon complains. Amazon wins NSA contract, watchdog says Microsoft right to moan

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It got complicated but...

AWS did actually win JEDI the first time around, GCP and MS pulled out in the final rounds, then Larry and IBM sued, and The Cheeto in chief threw his toys out the pram.

SatNad quickly reviewed his stance and found the money to make the changes to pass the requirements, and then MS got awarded the contract. so Trump could stick it to Bezos.

then AWS rightly sued...

it does however seem part of doing business with the US.gov, everyone bids, someone decides, then one of the other bidders decides to sue, cos they thought they should have won.

Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland

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The monarch doesn't actually own the castle

The Crown estates belong to the people as surrendered by each monarch in turn under the various civil lists acts since 1697, until the Soverign grant act in 2011, when they are granted to the nation in purpetuity, in return for a payment of a 1 quater share of the profits they generate for the nation, to afford the expenses of the queens household.

US boffins: We're close to fusion ignition in the lab – as seen in stars and thermonuclear weapons

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Re: I guessing ...

Optimists assume its daylight

Realists accept its more likley a train comming the other direction, but could be the daylight

Pessimists assume its the train

Cloudflare says Intel is not inside its next-gen servers – Ice Lake melted its energy budget

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The big problem Intel have being stuck on 10nm+++++++++ and 7nm is that the power consumption per flop is considerably higher that on the smaller architecture.

TSMC have perfected 5nm, and are sampling on 3 and working on 2 and 1.4

RISC-V FTW - why payARM for licencing if you're going to build your own.

the hyper-scalers will be moving to RISC just as the internet did to Linux

UK's Surveillance Camera Commissioner grills Hikvision on China human rights abuses

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Re: An Easy Equation

Cos those florists give me sneezes designed to make the chemists loadsa money from selling pills to stop them

China puts continuous consent at the center of data protection law

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Re: uppity billionaires

Ask Jack Ma, or any number of the Chinese CEOs is they or the CCP are in charge you will sharply find the answer

Trial of Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes begins: She plans to say her boyfriend and COO Balwani abused her

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Re: Mad as a cut snake

the original iteration of the iPad was the Newton, and that went well

Brit says sorry after waving around nonce patent and leaning on sites to cough up

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Re: UK law

the invention is not the software, but the algorithm that calculates the nonce

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Re: Worst Patent Troll. Ever.

exactly what I thought was going to happen with Brexit (might still do ....)

"apologies for all that leaving and article 50 stuff, lets just forget it all happened and have a jolly good brew....

Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

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Re: Designers

Trigger is that you?

I'll get my broom

TSMC to hike some chip prices 'by as much as 20%'

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The Wealth of Nations

TSMC are a textbook case of absolute advantage

they make the best chips, so everyone buys from them

they can then afford to spend more on R&D

they continue to make the best chips

Also, this is a case of supply and demand.

Supply is low, demand is high, prices go up

Sysadmins: Why not simply verify there's no backdoor in every program you install, and thus avoid any cyber-drama?

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Re: Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

Simple:

"Build your network as if the endpoint is owned.

Build your endpoint as if the network is owned. "

Don't trust anything, set constraints so you can only send what you have to, and only collect what you have to.

TurstNo1 - VerifyEverything - BeParanoid - BeASecurityProfessional

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Re: So your solution

just because you need a wheel, doesn't mean you have to include the cart it was built for.

maybe you don't need the whole library, just the one function

BOFH: They say you either love it or you hate it. We can confirm you're going to hate it

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Re: I suppose...

would you consider pondscum plant life?

US legal eagles representing Apple, IBM, and more take 5 months to inform clients of ransomware data breach

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Re: Reviewing our existing policies

They probably already have one:

CISO = Certified Incident Scapegoat Option

Microsoft warns of serious vulnerabilities in Netgear's DGN2200v1 router

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Re: Netgear is like IE

helps that the modems are quite good, or at least they used to be ...

the Netgear ADSL modems would sync on a wet piece of string, which was great if your line is piss poor and you live in the sticks...

Richard Branson uses two planes to make 170km round trip

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Re: Bring back Concorde - much more impressive.

Virgin are well invested in BOOM!

All hands on Steam Deck: Fancy a handheld Linux PC that runs Windows apps, sports a custom AMD Zen APU and a touch screen?

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Re: Does it have a SIM slot?

can always connect to your Mobile's hotspot though.....

United, Mesa airlines order 200 electric 19-seater planes for short-hop flights

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Re: I wonder

1MW is a substantial draw, some of the airports(fields?) would not have power for that, so that expense will become augmented with grid storage costs too, you are probably looking at considerably more than the $500k to power the charger

1MW for 40 mins is 0.67MWh, In the smaller places you'd be looking at a battery pack that you can trickle charge and rapidly discharge; at larger hubs, you are probably looking at extra generation capacity, at least in Arizona Mesa have plentiful solar available...

Battery recycling boosted by dentist-style ultrasonics, if manufacturers can cooperate

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Re: This is news

the issue is at the moment there is not a lot of closed-loop recycling (product A recycled to make more Product A) most recycling produces a lower quality raw material so they get downcycled, to a point where it then becomes useless to re-cycle.

bottles get recycled to garden furniture which gets recycled to road material

Tyres become playground surface

until bottles become more bottles and tyres make more tyres, we are not really recycling and still need to make virgin materials.

Audacity fork maintainer quits after alleged harassment by 4chan losers who took issue with 'Tenacity' name

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Re: Why the age restriction?

it's in regard to their supposedly coming online platform, and related to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act or (COPPA)

As COPPA doesn't allow storing details of under 13s without "verifiable consent from a parent or guardian," so they are pre-empting this, its the same reasons under 13s make up their date of birth to get on facebook

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Re: physical harassment

Trespassers will be shot, survivors...

Will be shot again

MI5 still risks breaking the law on surveillance data through poor controls – years after it was first warned

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evryone is overthinking it

its just in standard S3 buckets that arent secured, and in the EU west region

UK urged to choo-choo-choose hydrogen-powered trains in pursuit of carbon-neutral economic growth

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Re: I wondered the same thing

it's not a new technology: they have been in service in Germany since 2018

the technology has been around since 1908

it's far more environmentally friendly to create and re-cycle the energy storage

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Re: Huh

still better than the average Diesel engine or grid transmission loss.

H2 is basically a more efficient nigh on a drop-in replacement for diesel.

The improvements needed are just coming on stream, there are materials now that are cheap and readily made that prevent leakage.

Green hydrogen is being revolutionised by Graphene-based Membrane PEM fuel cells and electrolysers, and with the increase in offshore wind, it is becoming easier, cheaper and more efficient to store electricity as H2 and ship it to shore rather than build undersea cables.

Hydrogen as a replacement for Fossil fuels is a lot more environmentally friendly than Li-ion batteries, when you take into account you can re-use (with some modification,) most of the distribution infrastructure, and you don't need to collect the rare earth metals....

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Re: No all electric

that all got spent on the south coast, wales has a north-south divide too

Updating in production, like a boss

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Re: His name was not Nicolás

Yeah the regonimiser got some accents

Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)

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Re: Going back in time

Win Me was a hybrid of 98 and Win2000 as XP wasn't launch-ready as it was supposed to be for 2000.

Me was a marketing stopgap to get the funds to finish XP.

XP was the end of the MS-DOS kernel migrating to the NT kernel for consumer OS, and Me was its last hurrah.

You can track it through the actual version numbers, Me is windows 4.9 and XP is NT 5.1

BOFH: Here in my car I feel safest of all. I can listen to you ... It keeps me stable for days

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Re: People do need to be told

I have a long-range NFC antenna that will just about fit in a record bag and a card machine I can connect it to.

I wonder how many carriages I can get through before someone notices I am taking £100 off every card on the train...

Linux Foundation celebrates 30 years of Torvalds' kernel with a dry T-shirt contest

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As has recently been proven by the #InfoSecBikini on Twitter.

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Re: Tongue in cheek

Surely that should be the new improved Sego UI and a WSL logo in the corner...

Tax check tool CEST is the pits, say UK contractor consultancies as latest HMRC usage stats are published

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Re: Was this app developed in-house?

Nah, they were all deemed Inside IR35 halfway through and left (Public sector employees being first to hit the new rules)

‘What are the odds someone will find and exploit this?’ Nice one — you just released an insecure app

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Blame to go round

there is plenty of blame for the current situation, and it can be flung at all levels.

The issue is how to fix it and it needs a multi-threaded response

Education: Teach people secure coding, stop them from writing insecure stuff in the first place.

(don't tell me this is done already OWASPtop10 hasn't materially changed in a decade)

Enablement: Allow time to properly write secure code, don't allow it past checkpoints if it isn't secure, tested and documented.

Enforcement: make companies criminally and financially responsible for anything that is lost by exploiting their insecure code.

Tim Cook: Sideloading is a disaster and proposed App Store reforms would harm user privacy and security

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Re: So you're saying

Nah, Android opens up the API to allow scanning, so anything that's there has the chance of being detected.

Finding malware on iOS takes more effort as there are no APIs or permissions allowed for any security software and the response from them is awful when something is found.

if you look at the time to Jailbreak a new "impenetrable" version, compared with the similar process on android, or the complexity of issues fixed on AOSP compared to the complexity of the issues on iOS, then you can see it's still full of low hanging fruit.

this is purely down to the single driving factor behind Tim's Apple, the almighty dollar.

What a time to be alive: Cisco now offering 5G routers to ride along in cars

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Remind me where 5G is actually available in an environment that requires ruggedised equipment...

Gov.UK taskforce publishes post-Brexit wish-list: 'TIGRR' pounces on GDPR, metric measures

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Headmaster

Re: No business in their right mind wants to trade in imperial measurements

it all advertised in m2 and feet2 and has been for ages.

GPRS-era mobile data encryption algorithm GEA/1 was 'weak by design', still lingers in today's phones

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Re: Explanations? Don't hold your breath.

@AC you are forgetting that Europe has always been run by France and Germany, and until recently the UK had a bit of a say, and only by agreeing with Germany could they control the french...

British Medical Association calls for clarity on patient deadline for opting out of NHS Digital's GP data grab

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except at the dentist, the Optician, and the pharmacy .....

Microsoft approved a Windows driver booby-trapped with rootkit malware

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Re: Not inspiring confidence.

When your latest product obsoletes a considerable portion of your customers equipment, because security, and you sack your entire testing organisation and use automated tools, you can hardly be surprised that when something they would have caught gets past your tools, that someone points out the problem.

There was a crooked man who bought a crooked M1 iMac, and we presume they lived together in a little crooked house

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Re: Units error

the problem is Mark wrote first, Luke copied him, Matthew copied him, then John copied the lot

Whole lot of whispers going on there

Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked

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Re: Momento mori

the Pfizer modifications were made in less than a week and its variant effective vaccine is moving for approval, mRNA is easy to tweak and makes the process far quicker, they have a better design (that will work without the extreme refrigeration needs and for future variants, almost in production, whereas AZ haven't even finished making their Beta fix, let alone attempted their Delta fix