Posts by DontFeedTheTrolls

Re: Depends if decent efforts at data security made by Morrisons

"At some point, somebody has admin privileges. If your admin is intent on committing criminal acts, what can you, as an employer without that expert knowledge, do?"

I work in a place where certain privileged pieces of work are performed under "four eyes" - the policy says you need two people present when the change is made. The admin accounts required are secured against use and must be "checked out", and there's an audit trail of the whole process.

It doesn't guarantee against rogue employees, but it does demonstrate an attempt to prevent an individual rogue using certain admin privileges in unintended ways. It isn't practical for every privilege, however that is a risk assessment each business must make.

Re: The United Scaredycats of America

#Swordfish

Re: This is going to hurt Britain

"...they are staff by another name, but without recourse to they are staff by another name, but without recourse to Holiday\Sickpay & other benefits.."

but receiving payment in cash up front in lieu of Holiday\Sickpay & other benefits.

FT Properly FY

The Limited Company engaged to complete a job still has an obligation to meet employment law regards holidays, sick pay, benefits etc for all employees. How it chooses to meet those obligations is a matter for the board of directors to agree with the employees.

Re: GDPR

So in order to comply with EU legislation, they are breaking EU legislation. Lucky for the CAA we're leaving this European thing and they won't need to comply with EU legislation any more. Except of course for every fucking aircraft, balloon, drone they oversee.

Re: What was that you said?

Got an email from Scottish Power recently stating the meter "was 20 years old and therefore needed to be replaced for accuracy".

Except my family has owned the house for 42 years, and the meter has a sticker on it from 06/77 confirming a reading when we moved in. Strange they NOW think 20 years is too old but didn't think that 20 years ago before Smart Meters...

Re: No need for ballot security

Why even hold a ballot in the UK and waste time counting votes, Labour do it on a show of hands and decide the result aligned with the directives of the party Executive.

Re: Torx plus?

Is that not the Security Torx with the little dimple in the middle of the screw and the hole in the centre of the bit?

Re: "only expose MSSQL servers to the internet if necessary"

"plug them into the Internet just for the fun of it. For lots of people, it's the only way they can do business."

Then they need to learn how to do it properly. There are LOTS of ways to front the SQLServer and protect it from nefarious actions, and I can't think of a single valid reason for a SQLServer to be connected to the Internet.

n tier architecture folks, its not difficult.

Re: Not enough time?

"Assange was convicted of skipping bail and should have been released on 22nd Sept"

As I understand it he was "released" following his sentence. His time was done and he was no longer held for that conviction.

He was however remanded in custody for the extradition charge, and his previous skipping of bail prevented the granting of bail in this instance.

NSA, GCHQ, etc?

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my drive?

"so I just set a forwarding address for him"

Good man, have a pint!

Re: Why no subdomain!?

"If they can't find the client, what's the betting they've lost the meter too?"

Call me cynical, but if there's one thing you can guarantee they haven't lost its the meters. It will have been number one on the list of requirements to ensure all meters were transferred.

Re: set top boxes are a pain in the arse

You've got a second plug to connect, usually a bulky power adapter that doesn't play nicely with the other plugs behind the telly.

You've got to put the set top box somewhere, and its not going to be on top of the set - they don't fit these days.

You're using up another HDMI socket - TVs that are going to need a set top box only have a couple of HDMI sockets.

You've got yet another remote control to lose down the back of the sofa.

Should I go on?

Re: Why obsolete?

According to the totally reliable Wikipedia it was five times more expensive to operate than on road vehicles (disputed by the Communications Workers Union who said it was only three times as expensive).

Yup

Like 56% of Americans saying the teaching of Arabic numerals should be banned in schools.

Snopes validated

Re: Unwanted LEGO?

That's like the ProLifeTip that you can freeze unfinished wine and use it as ice cubes next time.

Like there's ever going to be unfinished wine :O

Re: Redundancy?

Redundancy will introduce latency for little benefit if there's no data to lose.

If all the data to be processed can be recreated from the source why introduce latency to all work for a failure resulting in just one failed piece of work.

Re: It's no problem...

Awwww, don't be nasty, Boris the Cockroach probably needs comforting now.

They're, their, there.

Re: Seems like a clear case of mail fraud

"focus on the harm bad actors do, particularly to the levels of political engagement, levels of trust in institutions (both public and private)"

HEAR, HEAR!

Any bad actor for any side is a problem. Even if a door created for good is open to anyone then anyone can be a bad actor. While the alleged abuse by the EFF may have been proven false, it is entirely possible that a freedom organisation undertook similar tactics to the lobbyists and some of the anti-NN comments were fake (I'm making no allegation, just pointing out that if the opportunity exists).

And if you agree to the above premise that back doors created for good can be exploited for evil, this should be a HELLO wake up call moment to proposed government back doors in encryption!

Re: NI is just tax

Yes, it is just tax, hence why it should be absorbed into one straightforward income tax set of rates applied across all income.

"fund the appalling waste that is the NHS"

While the NHS may have its inefficiencies, I'd much rather have the coverage we do than to need to have insurance for everything. Nearly 5 million Americans filed for Bankruptcy between 2011 and 2017 due to medical bills. In the UK, Japan, Norway, France and Taiwan ZERO filed for bankruptcy over medical bills over the same period.

Re: Yes, but

Going to be plenty of spoiling milk available when it all stacks up at the border...

Re: Servers in space ?

There's an El Reg article about HP's Supercomputer's return from it ISS. Radiation is a significant problem.

COTS hardware is not up to the job of operating economically in space given there were 200 servers seized in this raid.

Re: They're only encrypted whilst in transit

Not on iOS. The entire device is encrypted, the messages are stored within the encrypted device, so without the unlock code/fingerprint/face the message remains encrypted at rest. Read the iOS Security Guide.

I'm not au fait with Android but I'll bet there are ways to keep the messages encrypted there too.