Posts by Will Godfrey

Hazy (hidden) algorithm

= security issue.

Well, who would have thought that would happen. If only this sort of problem had been seen before.

/s (in case it's needed)

Popcorn time again!

I shall keep out of sight and watch the fun

Dangerous

I believe it's called "Dicing with death by a thousand cuts".

What do these people actually hope to achieve?

Most countries are pretty much run by psychopaths, who are not likely to just give up. If anything they are more likely to double down.

No! Just NO!

These are not the "musicians" you are looking for.

Doh!

That secret removable floorboard looks more attractive by the day

Idiots

On the one hand they say Chinese kit is a security risk as they might be snooping.

On the other hand they say they need back doors into end-to-end encryption.

Interesting

Could be time to get out the popcorn. I can't think of any leverage that the US could apply to block this. Which I regard as good news - I strongly distrust any kind of monopoly.

Close (but no cigar)

If you are really that desperate for total reliability, you need something like the ancient system Racal had for one of their remote transceivers Two identical but completely separate units with independent power supplies and separate aerials. As far as I'm concerned dual processors (or anything really) in the same box doesn't cut it.

Event Horizon?

How close are we to the point where all these mitigations for attacks against speculative execution completely cancels out the improvement that was originally achieved?

Training

I firmly believe that anyone writing software (yes, even a 'simple' script) professionally should first prove that they can produce stable code for schools. This will be 'tested' by malicious attacks from pupils, multiple wrong guesses by absent-minded professors, and random entries by new, dreamy primary school teachers.

I have the scars!

great respect for Ukraine here

They really are standing out, during this time.

As far as I'm concerned those who set mines are a very special kind of sub-human. Yes I know the UK has done this too.

But, but...

Profits!

Need I say more?

... and nothing of value was lost.

I really can't thing of a more deserving bunch of wankers.

Hope they weren't too gentle with them

Nothing is too bad for these lowlifes.

0 out of 10

or maybe even -1.

Not only did they screw up catastrophically , but the warning message implied us punters were under attack - without any mention that they'd changed their keys, so I immediately shut down everything including the router to take stock. After a couple of hours of checking against backups etc. I went on line again, at which point I got an email from a co-conspirator who had also been bitten by this the previous day and told me exactly what happened.

We keep exact duplicates on sourceforge as well. Rather than letting either repository auto sync we generate the commits from the same source in house. If the worst comes to the worst and github gets trashed, our users can still get clean copies.

Image Thumbnails ???

I can't remember a time when that wasn't available with ROX session.

I have a real problem getting off social media

I never got on it in the first place. As mentioned before, I'm addicted... to reality.

Stupid

I've not doubt that the real crims will find ways to get round this, while while mum and dad sending ordinary photos to Aunt Mavis the other side of the world, will be jumped all over - especially if they quite reasonably encrypt the message for security.

That's settled then

The EU must have got it right, so our lot will do the opposite and us poor plebs in the UK will have to suffer yet more Microsoft data invasion.

Love it!

Talk about a gift that keeps on giving :)

It's OK

I didn't need any more reasons to keep well away from ubuntu

Once is happenstance

Twice is coincidence

Three times? Need I go on?

How does it go...

If you can't take it, don't dish it out.

We need a ROTFL icon!

Just when you think they can't get any worse...

The filthy bastards can't even leave hundreds of innocent victims of tragedy alone.