Posts by Sheepykins

Shocker

No? Really? An underfunded and understaffed service was found to be vulnerable to outages and attacks?

/gasp

Scorchio...

"Warns that nation state hacking threatens corporate networks"

No. Really? you're PUTIN me on.

How about the FMVFS

The F*** you Microsoft virtual file sytem?

Their "on-premises" option always makes me laugh.

Lets purchase a cloud service. And then access it from our own data centre, paying far more for a service we could buy far more cheaply to install and run ourselves.

They are always very quick to establish that Azure is not Hyper-V during any conversation about their in-house offerings.

I did once query a MS rep about it and he made up some mumbo jumbo about better APP compatibility.

All hail Torvalds.

Blessed be the keeper of the kernel.

Thats not the way to get a-head in life.

*Austin powers smile*

This is where the power of Linux and IPTables comes into play.

I built a website, can't say which, constantly under heavy DDoS attacks and when that didnt work they went for the resource starvation - couldn't get a remote shell, was so slow had to run down to the server room :(

Anyway, with attacks against HTTP servers real idiots usually use a common element with their scripted efforts and using an IPtables string match to silently drop traffic is very easy to do.

Nice use of GDPR terminology though in this case wouldnt the uni by the controller and the processor?

At least they got away with a smaller fine than they would have paid under GDPR. 4 days to go before the fun!

I'd rather have my run box back

"£340 buys you a lot of blow."

And a good 6 months in rehab

Genius and madness are indeed two sides of the same coin.

Not that im calling his antivirus genius, but he a smart guy, who is quite clearly off his fucking trolley

yum erase NetworkManager

Honestly?

Its a shame, as Kaspersky and others point out their sheer proximity to Russia is harming their worldwide business.

I'd shut up shop and rebrand later once the heat dies down, but this'll still cost people their jobs either way.

Though on the brightside they could be market leaders in Russia as its likely the worldwide xenophobia will boost sales inhouse.

We're lucky we still have a good enough infrastructure in place that if Uber did go the way of the dinosaur, people can still get around.

I lived in Belgium for a year and let me tell you, UBER was a godsend.

Their trains were few and far between, rarely updated and the taxis were the worst.

If you called a taxi you first had to pay for them to come to you, then pay to your destination.

Half of the taxi drivers I had didn't even have a meter, or when learning I was foreign switches it off entirely and made it up.

I've paid as much as 60 euroes for a 10 minute journey.

I can see how this would lead to a lot of false positives.

We may be a nation besieged by CCTV but its terrible quality CCTV, with a conviction rate that hardly ever sticks without facial recognition.

Honestly as long as its not in my home, I'm all up for high def cameras everywhere.

My neighbours car was just stolen from beside mine last week, in our private car park, in broad daylight.

They bust in and recoded his keyless entry in about 3 minutes.

Humanity is just inherently lazy.

The question shouldn't be "how complex are they making their passwords?" But rather, "What steps are we taking to ensure the passwords are created to be complex?"

For example:

1. Default character limit

2. Add numbers, symbols, and uppercase

3. Rotated at minimum every 3 months

What can we do to improve upon that?

2FA is a good start, personally if I were smart enough I'd create a password creation system that doesnt allow proper words from a dictionary at all.

I've heard its a bad career move to ever go back.

I applied for my old company after working out in Europe last year, they were advertising for my old position (again, noone wanted it. MUGS JOB) but they were paying 15k more than they paid me for doing the same job for 3 years.

But then something better came along.

Practically every big organisation I've worked in has had a restriction on non-authorised or un-encrypted removable media.

Frankly I'm a little bit disappointed they haven't been doing this up til now lol.

As much as we'd like to think its not the case, IT workers are not immune to accidents and big business is not immune to corporate espionage.

There are certainly ways to manage this and yes it takes more time and wading through more tape, but ultimately it protects both the user and company.

After seeing the US Congress hearing I'd love to know if Conservative MP Collins is actually technically sound enough to grill someone over the abuse of technology.

I personally would refuse to answer a summons (officially) unless the people asking me questions were qualified to.

It's honestly going to be interesting once the DMZ or 'Peace' zone comes into force.

Surely the DPRK know how hard its going to be to keep spreading their propaganda and weirdo rhetoric, especially if tourism between the two states is established.

Infact the whole thing confuses me. 4 months ago it was fire and fury, now its happy friend time and throwing nukes away. I'm kind of hoping Kim had a near death experience and has finally decided its not worth it.

Internet

How do you measure the subtle nuances of conversation on the internet? Sarcasm, condescension are all things you really need to be talking to a person to 'get'.

Are they talking about groups on the site that are slurring women and minorities?

Or are women just "feeling" as if they are being marginalized?

There really needs to be some context to debates like this.

MUMSNET is craycray though.

Useless

This was just an exercise to placate some people and show that someone is doing something.

But at its core, a useless exercise.

There is no evidence to support a pay gap based on gender and none of this exercise takes into account job history, qualifications, on-call, lifestyle choices.

I dont mind SoftBank, the Akihabara store has computer accessories, camera lenses and at the top, hardcore porn.

They cater to everyone!