* Posts by DuncanT

5 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2017

Brit IT contractor wins appeal against HMRC to pay £26k in back taxes

DuncanT

It tends to go the opposite way - we don't prosecute the guy who stole 10 million, but we do the guy who stole 10 quid...

Your phone may be able to clean up snaps – but our AI is much better at touching up, say boffins

DuncanT

Re: Stating the obvious, much?

Obvious to you , maybe. Anybody who's know in their job for being good with photoshop will tell you they've been asked to 'just turn that house around so I can see what's in the back garden' or similar

Equifax reveals full horror of that monstrous cyber-heist of its servers

DuncanT

Re: Why on Earth are the clowns still in business?

BEcause credit reference agencies can afford more lawyers. Suing but business is mostly pointless, other than making lawyers rich. It's like the lottery - sure, somebody somewhere gets some money, but on average you're screwed.

Class action suits are even worse, for most people.

ESA builds air-breathing engine that works in space

DuncanT

Re: @A Non e-mouse

Or you could try setting up your machine properly to handle a very basic href standard.

Hackers can track, spoof locations and listen in on kids' smartwatches

DuncanT

Re: Rule 1

"I mean we know security on Apple Watch and Android Wear isn't perfect, but at least there have never been any exploits found that allow using them as a bug or tracker!"

Actually, with BlueBorne, android wear can be turned into a bug or tracking device...