Re: ChatGPT - help me write
He wouldn't be a hoopy frood if he had to ask that.
Posts by It's just me
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ChatGPT, write a report about database glitches that crashed you today
Uncle Sam wants to strip the IoS out of IoT with light crypto
FreeDOS puts out first new version in six years
Intel chases after Bitcoin miners with dedicated chip
Linux tops Google's Project Zero charts for fastest bug fixes
Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95?
Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling
Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?
Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture
America says banks can now transact using so-called stable crypto-coins. What does that actually mean?
Thursday 14th January 2021 22:07 GMT
Re: The long march
I'm not so worried about criminals breaking another law. As you say, they will always find ways to hide their actions. I was arguing against your point 3 which boiled down to "you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide" I'm more worried about the government using these laws to persecute and/or steal from lawful users of the system. Lowering the "suspicious amount" threshold from $10K to $3K means that a lot more innocent transaction will come under their scrutiny and there are already too many examples of people being relieved of their money by the authorities for the "crime" of carrying too much cash.
Thursday 7th January 2021 17:22 GMT
Re: The long march
You say "Structured transactions are one of the core features of these systems." However, the regulations that mandate currency transaction reports (CTR) on transfers over a certain amount also make structuring transactions to avoid the CTR illegal. So you are giving the authorities a very low threshold to harass anyone they take a dislike to as well as increased opportunity for outright "legal" theft, see the abuse of civil asset forfeiture.
Attack of the cryptidiots: One wants Bitcoin-flush hard drive he threw out in 2013 back, the other lost USB stick password
Linux developers get ready to wield the secateurs against elderly microprocessors
Monday 11th January 2021 19:17 GMT
Re: People still make these older CPUs last I checked...
64bit also has greater memory costs. A number of years ago I ran some tests, I configured 2 identical bare bones Ubuntu server VMs running Apache, one 32 bit and one 64 bit. The 32bit system used 170MB RAM while the 64bit system used 270MB.
US Treasury, Dept of Commerce hacks linked to SolarWinds IT monitoring software supply-chain attack
Google reCAPTCHA service under the microscope: Questions raised over privacy promises, cookie use
Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope
Big IQ play from IT outsourcer: Can't create batch files if you can't save files. Of any kind
Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz, derailed 16,000 Teams accounts
Tens of millions of Internet-of-Things, network-connected gizmos at risk of remote hijacking? Computer, engage shocked mode
Wednesday 17th June 2020 19:21 GMT
Re: Details needed
On the JSOF site they have a video of them exploiting the flaw against a HP printer, a UPS, a smart light, a Digi board and a medical pump. According to the messages displayed during the exploit the devices were behind a NAT and the exploit was delivered in DNS replies from a malicious DNS server. Other methods mentioned in their "Risk Evaluation and Mitigations" include fragmented packets, broadcast & multicast traffic and ICMP.
To test its security mid-pandemic, GitLab tried phishing its own work-from-home staff. 1 in 5 fell for it
Real-time tragedy: Dumb deletion leaves librarian red-faced and fails to nix teenage kicks on the school network
It's 2020 and hackers are still hijacking Windows PCs by exploiting font parser security holes. No patch, either
Wake me up before you go Go: Devs say they'll learn Google-backed lang next. Plus: Perl pays best, Java still in demand
Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11
Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls
Tuesday 14th January 2020 23:33 GMT
Re: one would think
Microsoft already owns the Lindows trademark.
In 2001 the founder of mp3.com released a Linux distribution names Lindows OS.
Microsoft sued them in 2002 and in a 2004 settlement MS gave them $20 Million, they transferred the Lindows trademark to Microsoft, and changed their name to Linspire.
https://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/screen_gallery.php?bsgfx=linux/lindows/shot0-scr-.jpg
Step away from that Windows 7 machine, order UK cyber-cops: It's not safe for managing your cash digitally
Tuesday 14th January 2020 22:23 GMT
Re: Upgrade from Windows 7
Unless you surf to such malicious sites as the BBC, The New York Times Online, The London Stock Exchange, Spotify and The Atlantic. All of which have in the past served up malware in the ads they display to their viewers. Just because it's a reputable company doesn't mean that crooks haven't found a way to inject malware into their site.
H0LiCOW: Cosmoboffins still have no idea why universe seems to be expanding more rapidly than expected
Rowhammer rides again as FPGA attack, RSA again reportedly up for sale, anti-theft kit to nuke laptops, etc
Monday 6th January 2020 18:58 GMT
Re: Rowhammer/JackHammer
As much as I would like that, I doubt it, as a prerequisite of these attacks is for the attacker to already have their code running on the victims computer. In the case of consumer devices it's already game-over at that point. The only place these attacks are really a concern is situations such as cloud computing where you share the hardware with untrusted third parties, or perhaps DRM where the untrusted party is the owner of the hardware.
Latitude 9510 lappy has a speakerphone so you can tell the conference call all about your 30-hour battery
Friday 3rd January 2020 19:37 GMT
There are several things that may limit a system to 2TB. MBR formatting has a 2TB limit and certain SCSI commands have a 2TB limit. So if the system doesn't support UEFI booting to a GPT partition with a 64bit OS or it doesn't support LBA64 then it might have this limit. Or they might not want to list all the caveats or deal with the increased support load and its simpler and cheaper to just say they don't support it.
Managing the Linux kernel at AWS: 'A large team of security experts' dealing with fallout from Spectre, Meltdown flaws
Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much
Close the windows, it's coming through the walls: Copper Cthulu invades Dabbsy's living room
That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman
Microsoft joins Google and Mozilla in adopting DNS over HTTPS data security protocol
Tuesday 19th November 2019 22:06 GMT
Re: not going to work
It's known as MITM or MiddleBox TLS interception/inspection. Doing it without raising a warning/error on the client requires that either you get your own certificate installed as a root CA on the client, or you are able to obtain, via theft or coercion, a signing key from one of the several hundred CAs your browser already trusts.
One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark
Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice
It's 2019, and Windows PCs can be pwned via a shortcut file, a webpage, an evil RDP server...
The NetCAT is out of the bag: Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network
Call Windows 10 anything you like – Microsoft seems to
Tuesday 3rd September 2019 19:26 GMT
Re: "Naturally, all user data is wiped with this option"
But windows explorer still doesn't know how to properly deal with the folder mounted partitions. If you have a 1GB D: and have a 1TB partition mounted on D:\Data\, using explorer to try to copy a > 1GB file from elsewhere to D:\Data\ fails with a insufficient disk space error.
Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled
This summer's hottest sequels: BlueKeep II, III, IV and V – the latest wormable RDP holes in Microsoft Windows
Y2K, Windows NT4 Server and Notes. It's a 1990s Who, Me? special
Monday 5th August 2019 21:22 GMT
Re: Even to this day...
RE: ghost systems
A few months back we had an AWS instance that experienced some hardware failure, was given the commands to shut down, and then restarted so aws brought it up on different hardware. But the old zombie instance kept running for a couple weeks with us having no way to access it, but it continued to send notices and warnings that took a while to track down as there was no trace of them on the supposed source machine.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
