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Former UK PM Tony Blair urges governments to sort out online ID

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Digital ID cards

Oh you mean a PornPass, why didn't you say so.

The government are already trying to put this into place, they keep failing and having to slide the deadline back and back but they are trying(very).

None of the likes of the DailyFail mind when it's introduced for PornSurfing, so they get the thin end of the wedge hammered well into the crack of liberty.

There are already rumours that they plan to expand the PornPass requirement to things like social media sites where it will become illegal to show things along the lines of "likes" for posting of people under the age of 18. The DailyFail brigade won't mind this either, as it's all to do with social media and they probably think that's as bad as porn.

Now the wanna be dictator wants the idea extended to cover everything.

How are we not surprised.

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It's now officially the WhackBook Pro: If the keyboards weren't bad enough, now MacBook Pro batts are a fire risk

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Re: The setting you need to disable is....

Many thanks

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Re: I'm reminded of... @Dazed

According to HP quickspecs, Zbook 17 G1 (I'm guessing the model here) is no heavier than 8730w or 8740w

Well the quick specs can say what they like. The Z is heavier and it has a much bigger power brick.

You're right that the 87x0w boxes have 1920x1200 as had my circa 2002 Dell. The "best" option on the Z was that laughingly called FullHD 1080 line. Since my standard bit of work involved having a remote desktop, which I needed to be at least 1280x1024 plus the usual surrounds fits comfortably on a 1200 line display and doesn't on the 1080 line display, the missing 120 lines make all the difference in the world. So the Z sits on my desk attached to a 32" 2560x1440 monitor which is good, I don't think my eyes are up for a 4K display unless I stepped up to 40" or so.

The dreamcolor wasn't available when I got the Z or at least wasn't listed on HP's website, or I'd have bought it.

You're also right, I got the colour depth wrong, it's 10 not 12, it's still 4 times better than the Z.

The 1040 has the 2560x1440 display

Then you should disable that setting.

I've never found a way to stop it. If you know a way, I'd love to hear it.

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Re: I'm reminded of...

I'm not sure whether you were agreeing with Michael or I.

My decision in buying a slim laptop was driven by deeming that at that moment in time what I wanted most out of a laptop was portability, and If I could find a machine that did enough of what I wanted and was really portable then great.The machine I'd ended up with was about 8lb plus at least another 2 for the 200W power station that went with it. The slim box is pretty shiny shiny, but it also weighs less than the power brick of the other one. Admittedly it was made easier by my requirement to have 24GB of RAM in my laptop finishing too, the baby one only has 8 and I'd have bought a version with more if it had been available. But for what I've used it for that has proved enough.

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Re: I'm reminded of...

I'm quite definitely an old curmudgeon.

But

I've had a succession of "mobile workstations", I had the HP equivalents of your IBM, I loved by 8730 and even more so the 8740 that followed it (a laptop display you could comfortable read in the mid day sun in a coffee bar on the med, oh with 12bit per colour and 1920x1200 ). I spent years flying around the world with two of these buggers in my laptop bag, fortunately no airline ever asked to weight my laptop bag!

When my much loved box started to play up I bought the replacement system, a ZBook or some such, which I loath, partly as the display is crap and partly because it is so damn heavy I just can't be arsed to carry the thing around, consequently it has hardly ever left my desk.

So I've added an a super slim EliteBook 1040 (not an Apple, but they're all based on an Intel reference design which was shown here on El'Reg years back) laptop which is easy to carry round. It's light, it's slim, the display is light years ahead of the damn ZBook and it's fine for 90% of what I do when I'm not at my desk. OK, it's not upgradable, well it's got a 1TB M.2 SSD(OK that was an upgrade it's a standard slot), I really can't remember when I last wanted a cd when I wasn't at my desk. Extra disks, again normally only when I'm at a desk, my a multi TB USB device is easy enough, other than that I can access storage over the network. It would be nice if there was a low profile rj45 plug so I didn't need a dongle for wired network access, but most of the time WiFi lets me do what I want.

Oh and the battery life of 1040 is way better than that of the big buggers I had before.

As to heat, mostly it runs pretty cool. The only time it gets hot is due to MS arrogance. They think it's OK to load updated and reboot my laptop when it's in sleep mode. Except the stupid ****s don't understand that it's locked with pre-boot encryption, so it can't reboot till unlocked and HP's damn FW does not do the power management stuff before the OS is running, so if you've dumped the laptop on the bed when exiting the bog you can come back and find that it's damn hot. The workstations did the same and got just as hot.

PS, why isn't there an standard for a micro Ethernet connector, or at least more micro than the RJ45.

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We ain't afraid of no 'ghost user': Infosec world tells GCHQ to GTFO over privacy-busting proposals

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Re: Here we go again...

> Has no-one thought of the safety of children yet?

A bit like the porn viewer blackmailers charter.

Let's put these rules in place so everyone who wants to perv at porn has to prove they are an adult... Oh and now we've got a regulations coming that will ban things like "Likes" for kids on social media. OK, prove you're not a kid. Oh look we've already got an age verification system in place. Before we know it you'll need to be using AV to access anything online and suddenly they got a system of digital ID cards in place without needing to do it through parliament.

https://news.sky.com/story/sky-views-the-government-is-quietly-creating-a-digital-id-card-without-us-noticing-11726548

All by claiming they were thinking of the kids

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Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption das boot: Law requiring decrypted plain-text is in the works

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Re: Mystified; how will they force it?

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy

-- Phil Zimmermann

No idea whether these chat apps allow plugins but even if they don't there will be nothing to stop people using cut&paste and an encryption app. Even in a walled garden there would be nothing to stop the encryption app being web-based, well unless these crazy German politicians want to ban SSL while they are at it. Asking to back door that might draw larger protests.

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RIP Hyper-Threading? ChromeOS axes key Intel CPU feature over data-leak flaws – Microsoft, Apple suggest snub

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Re: the most impact on intensive computing tasks

may reduce performance by up to 40 per cent, with the most impact on intensive computing tasks that are highly multithreaded."

Hyperthreading aids work loads with, usually, L3 cache misses, computationally intense apps are typically designed to minimise cache misses. All the tech does is to allow a hardware based context switch when execution stalls due to memory accesses.The highly multithreaded bit I get

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Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

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Re: Remind me...

Beta

Are you sure they got that far?

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Loose Women woman's IR35 win deals another high-profile blow to UK taxman's grip on rules

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Re: It's called a sales tax

Or, for individuals, an "income tax"; individuals pay tax on their turnover, not their actual income, which is turnover less expenses (e.g. cabbage.)

In the UK most tax payers are taxed on income and there are very few deductibles they can offset against their tax. This is largely what IR35 is about. If you run your own company or are self employed you can deduct your expenses.

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Re: Avoidance vs Evasion

I'm know that more details need to be worked out.

This probably needs some international agreement, but when the UK based child company puts it's claim in that 99% of profit needs to go to pay offshore parent company then they perhaps they need to provide the tax office details of where the parent is paying their tax. This would allow the UK authorities to talk to the overseas ones. Perhaps the rules should be that it would only legal for a UK company to import stuff (license in this case) for duly registered companies. It would certainly be necessary to follow the chain of transactions. There have already been proposals for a register of beneficial owners to help combat money laundering.

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Re: Avoidance vs Evasion

Businesses aren't really taxed on profit, they're taxed on 'profit minus whatever other bogus expenses they're allowed to bung in' (bringing us again to my first point, which is that big businesses can write their own rulebook as to what is deductible).

The point is that the existing rules are allowing them to stick bogus stuff in. As others have said it's the fault of those that write the rules that they are allowed to claim stuff that they probably shouldn't be allowed. If the politicians spent a quarter of the time doing the job they are paid to do that they spend whinging about people who follow the rules, then perhaps they'd write better rules and we'd not have the problems.

If the rules were better we wouldn't have so many problems.

Fix the rules.

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Re: VAT - a tax paid based on turnover not profit.

No, only on cars. For everything else, VAT is a Value Added tax. I charge my customer based on a turnover figure, but I claim back the VAT on the supplies I buy in. So under normal circumstances it's a profit related tax.

There are odd exceptions. So if you print books then your supplies are all subject to VAT while your product is not. So your quarterly VAT return is a letter to the taxman say "Hey guv, you owe me this much". But in most cases it's a profit tax.

Cars are the exception, if you buy your staff solid gold desks with diamond encrusted pen holders, that would be a legitimate business expense and you could reclaim the VAT on it. If you need to buy a car for your saleman to visit customers, that wouldn't be a legitimate expense for the purposes of VAT and you'd not be allowed to reclaim the VAT on the car.

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Re: Avoidance vs Evasion

When I work in India I have to pay Indian tax, they give a receipt for this which I can use to prove to the UK taxman that I've already paid that much tax on that much income, which I can then claim against my UK tax. If the UK rate were higher, I'd have to pay the difference. If the Indian rate were higher, I'd not owe the UK any money on the deal.

Lots of countries have similar withholding tax rules. The US included, although with the US it depends on the type of work I do. I know that some of the work I do for US based customers I cannot do while inside the US if I wish to remain outside their tax system.

I don't see why this type of scheme can't be applied more generally.

You use the example of Starbucks, they use things like licensing to shift their profit abroad. If they had to bring the UK taxman a receipt saying that for every £1 worth of coffee they'd sold they had to pay their licensing company 99p and the licensing company had paid 1p tax on that then the UK taxman would be able to claim the UK amount of tax less the 1p already paid. The effect is that the company pays tax at the highest rate in the chain rather than the lowest rate.

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Facebook is not going to Like this: Brit watchdog proposes crackdown on hoovering up kids' info

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How are Facebook and other platforms supposed to verify whether a user is under 18?

They've already mandated an age verification requirement for a lot Internet usage, even if getting it working is on hold again. Why should FB be any different to PH. If they require all Internet users to verify their age they'll soon manage to get to a point where they can track all Internet usage by all citizens. Which is surely their goal.

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French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?

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Re: Seems the principal problem is not the legislation

The Dutch are too well mannered to do such a despicable thing.

The Portuguese of course understand port (while I don't recall being offered a cheese board as such while there I have enjoyed some nice cheeses, plus some of my favourite red wines are Portuguese).

No this aberration, as far as I know, is just with the French. Of course not all French people feel this way, the friendly barman from whom I learned of this trait was equally appalled by his countryman's behaviour and promptly poured me a glass of St Joseph to calm my nerves.

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Re: Seems the principal problem is not the legislation

> Make that a bottle of red port (or even white port), please.

I wouldn't recommend you ask for that in France though, they serve port from the fridge!

If one is expected to take one's service revolver, walk outside and do the decent thing for passing the port to the right, what fate is reserved for those that serve port that cold!

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Re: proposed UK law about website that are promoting 'harm'

The porn block will go the same way too.

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Re: French elections

Very much remind me of the Douglas Adam's piece on lizards and the danger that the wrong one would get voted in. A heated debate over a lunch table was translated to me as "We have to chose between a thief and a Nazi"

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Re: Seems the principal problem is not the legislation

> the British Cheese Board states over 700 British named cheeses.

Please kind Sir, please can you direct me to a cheese board where I can have 700 cheeses.

Sod, starters and main course. Sod, even, dessert. Just bring bring me the cheese board and a damn good bottle of red will you.

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You were warned and you didn't do enough: UK preps Big Internet content laws

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Re: Here we go...

> You can quibble about how it can be circumvented, but that's not really the point: we all know the circumvention only works on suffrance,

I don't think that VPNs only work on sufferance. They are so integral to some many valid uses of the Internet, they are so easy to implement in any encrypted channel. I've got over a dozen connections from this PC currently that provide VPN functionality and none of them call themselves that, they're just the tools of my job. I'm in place A and I need secure access to place B. The only way not to have VPNs is not to have any encryption. I know that a lot of governments abhor the idea that voters should have access to encryption but they'd find it difficult to argue that your conversations with your bank should be done in plain text.

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Re: Here we go...

> But I have no idea why Facebook / Twitter / Instagram wouldn't just 451 the entire of the UK. Yes, we're worth money to them, but...

It would be great to see, imagine how most of the politicians would react if they were blocked from twitter :-) Brilliant, without the oxygen of their own publicity they'd probably stop breathing.

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PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted

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Re: "basically operated by one volunteer in charge of a small team of volunteers"

> ...and the hardware...

And now we all know that you can't trust the hardware.

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Re: PuTTY's days are numbered

> P.S. Yes I know some smart alec will come saying that some people "have to use" old versions of Windows.

Well I have to run an old version of windows because the new one is so totally unstable it means I can't use it! I PuTTY (or other wise SSH) into a system, kick off some command that'll take more than a few minutes to run. Wonder off for a cup of coffee and when I come back some wanker from M$ has decided that since I wasn't fondling the keyboard then now would be a great time to reboot.

You might argue that rebooting to load updates is good practice. Sure.

Well down time is still down time whether it's caused by BSOD (with it's pretty new shade of blue) or whether it's caused by planned downtime which was planned by some cretin who has no idea that people actually use their PC's to do some work on.

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What do sexy selfies, search warrants, tax files have in common? They've all been found on resold USB sticks

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Re: Seconhand USB sticks?

I'm sure I remember reading here, many years back, a posting by someone who'd bought a second hand laptop off eBay only to discover the waste basket full of very intimate photos of the previous owner who was rather well known and her public persona was very different to that shown in the pictures on her old laptop.

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What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters?

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Re: NSA Upgrades

Nah, the e NSA are going to be well pissed off with FB being down. I mean all these people volunteering to spy on themselves and everyone around them. Even Erich Honecker never managed such a perfect citizen surveillance system.

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Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing

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Re: Polish plumbers

One significant contribution they made was demonstrating that the German codes were susceptible to attack and that machines could help. Without this we may never have had the teams at Bletchley to make the later breakthroughs.

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El Reg talks to PornHub sister biz AgeID – and an indie pornographer – about age verification

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Re: This Identity thing is the key

> because no one will publically admit to being a customer (in politics anyway).

And when they're caught out because the documentary evidence in the form of their expense claim (they don't like paying so they think we should pay for them) become public knowledge of course they blame their husbands.

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By gum(stick): Samsung speeds up 970 EVO Plus drive

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Lets hope

That the current supply of evo 970s are dumped on the market at attractive prices, coz they're last weeks model

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The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit

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Re: what?

2) My initial thought was "WTF is the logging daemon doing with root" then I checked my CentOS6 box and realised that rsyslog also ran as root.

So back to the start "WTF is the logging daemon doing with root" even when it isn't systemd.

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More nodding dogs green-light terrible UK.gov pr0n age verification plans

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Re: Just like buying a magazine.

'Education' is a bad word. If people start being educated, they might vote wrong.

VikiAi, it's worse than that, they might even start to think for themselves and then where would we be.

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Re: Just like buying a magazine.

I'm not saying there isn't a problem, what I am saying is that this isn't the solution to it.

I don't feel that this will fix the "problem" it sets out to tackle whilst at the same time it will be a blackmailers dream.

Education is the biggest thing that could help tackle the issue, but I can't see any government in this country ever forcing through the sort of rules needed to make realistic sex education compulsory, education which teaches kids about the issues with porn, the issues with life in general.

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Re: Just like buying a magazine.

There is a fundamental difference. When a 14 year old Confused used to go to see the old dear behind the counter in Smiths to buy a smut rag she'd smile benignly and put it in a paper bag, the one thing she didn't do was to log exactly what I'd bought, she didn't follow me around recording how long I'd spent gazing at which picture. She didn't create a log that will sooner or later be stolen by people who'll then use it to blackmail me. (How many emails have you had in the last month or so with one of your old passwords in the subject line?)

What ever your thoughts are about porn I suspect you feel that there are things in your life you are entitled to keep private. Would you agree to have cameras installed in your bedroom to record what you're doing in there?

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Detailed: How Russian government's Fancy Bear UEFI rootkit sneaks onto Windows PCs

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Re: Unbelievably, Everyone Forgave Intel (again)

Is UEFI specific to x86 and/or x86-64 systems? That's where it came from initially, right?

EFI pre-dates x86_64, it came into this world when Intel were still desperately trying to kill off x86.

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Re: UEFI = ?

Unix Exclusion Firmware Interface

Well EFI was running Unix enough years ago that it would be getting the vote any day now and even UEFI was a long time back.

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Re: 5 second fixes

Sure, you can "fix" the bug in 5 seconds but let's add a day or two for testing afterwards.

NO!

Don't do any testing PLEASE

The bloody testing keeps find holes in my fixes!

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Apple iPhone X screen falls short of promises, lawsuit says

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Re: Screen measurements in inches are tube size

Screen measurements have always seemed a bit unrealistic because, in the days when most TVs and monitors were CRT devices the measurement given was that of the physical tube diagonal, not the visible screen size.

The HP workstation monitors used to quote the visible size, then they got fed up with people saying that other peoples monitors were bigger, so they switched to tube size and upgraded all their existing monitors. But once upon a time they were accurate.

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Tumblr resorts to AI in attempt to scrub itself clean from filth

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Re: @imanidiot -- Let the Prisoners go Free!

You did miss the point about it being the "devils workshop".

Presumably only if there was three of them.

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STIBP, collaborate and listen: Linus floats Linux kernel that 'fixes' Intel CPUs' Spectre slowdown

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Re: hyperthreading being a terrible idea in general

which doesn't help much performance much if any for most workloads

This is very application dependent. If you're getting L3 cache misses then the HyperThreading helps, it's just doing a context switch in HW. If your application is clever enough not to spend most of its time waiting to get data from memory then HW multithreading won't work. I seem to remember that for the TPC-C benchmark it made about a 50% difference when you enabled the HyperThreading, but then TPC-C is a bloody stupid app. Mind the biggest problem with had with TPC-C and the multithreading was that for the CPU involved a certain DB vendor doubled the license fee, so you got a 50% speed up for a 100% cost up.

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Openreach names 81 lucky locations to be plugged into its super-zippy Gfast pipe

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81?

81 they say, looking at the list aren't at least half of them "London" maybe they mean 81 exchanges, but even that seems doubtful as areas outside London are often in clumps. Some of the London locations listed are awfully close together.

The technology sounds interesting if it means that another 10fold increase in bandwidth is possible without needing to dig up all the streets.

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Facebook spooked after MPs seize documents for privacy breach probe

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Re: Missing Information

But

a) how and why was the "victim" of this attack carrying such sensitive data around with him in the UK...

A couple of thoughts.

1) Who can be arsed to clean up their PC before making foreign trips. He probably just had the stuff all over his disk. 14 copies in different emails and a few actual copies in folders he was working on at various times.

2) He was over in London consulting with legal types for fresh approaches to the attack. He presumably allowed to discuss the stuff with lawyers. Alternatively he's talking to banking types about financing the legal case. Sure there are these services in the US, but he might be thinking it never hurts to get a second opinion.

Beer? coz it's beer o'clock and this all sounds like a pub conversation.

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Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)

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Perhaps its just as well

That I couldn't get the poking HW encryption working on my Samsung 850 EVO then.

The steps Samsung suggest you need to go through, like pulling out certain cables while standing on one leg in a vat of cold porridge were clearly written by someone who'd never seen an M.2 device.

So I've ended up with bitlocker using SW encryption. I suspect there are ways around that too, but the customer who's paying the bill insists on bitlocker on the PC.

There has to be a way for the system to access the disk before getting the password since normally with bitlocker W10 boots first and asks for the password later.

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We (may) now know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE

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RHEL7.6 release notes and IBM

So I was quickly scanning the release notes on Wednesday night and noticed lsslot, Bugger! thought I why hadn't I seen that before, saves all the messing around in dmidecode. I got all excited till I realised it only runs on IBM boxes, it's not in the x86 version

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BT, beware: Cityfibre reveals plan to shovel £2.5bn under Britain's rural streets

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Roll on some competion

The more people wanting to get into the FTTP market the sooner people are likely to get it and the more more homes are likely to be offered the service. Left to themselves OpenRetch (or any company) will just cherry pick and invest the minimum they need to to make a profit rather than take any risks.

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Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app

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Re: Let this be a lesson

All it needs is a heavy footed JCB operator and you are locked out of your home possibly for days.

Well when I couldn't talk to the alarm over the interweb I just used the keypad.

Pain in the arse, YES, but not like not being able to do stuff.

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Party like it's 1989... SVGA code bug haunts VMware's house, lets guests flee to host OS

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Re: A standard dating back to 1987?

Indeed - I remember reading about the awesome new tellyboxes that were going to be able to display 720 horizonal lines...I was reading the story on a rather elderly monitor running at 1280x1024 and wondering either what the fuss was about, or what the misprint was

Likewise, workstations had been running 1024x768 for years by then and most had switched to 1280x1024. In about 1991 Sony were pushing 1920x1200 as their proposal for HDTV and lent me a graphics card and a 40" reference monitor to go with their workstation we were marketing. Could have sold them by the lorry load at the AliPali computer graphic show that year if we'd had any SW to run on them, the stand was usually swamp with people wanting to take a look.

By the early 2000s 1920x1200 was pretty common on laptops then came to big switch to HD (HA!) and screens went all crappy again and we lost lots of our lovely pixels.

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Microsoft Windows 10 October update giving HP users BSOD

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Re: HP keyboards are special?

> They've got a bunch of keys to launch the browser, printer, calculator, etc...

The last W10 update hosed the key I used, I found it very useful having a key for controlling the screen brightness rather than having to going through all the settings menus. But since it was useful MS decided it would no longer be allowed and stopping it working.

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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me tea... pigs-in-blankets-flavoured tea

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Re: which is vegan, don't you know?

Yes, we can just see little Timmy's eyes light up at the thought of slurping down a nice hot cup of meat-flavoured liquid (which is vegan, don't you know?)

I call cultural appropriation!

I've no problem with people deciding to be vegan, but if they want to be vegan they shouldn't be allowed to enjoy the flavours belonging to meat eaters.

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Re: Crimble Free Zone?

> Can we please make this site a Christmas free zone until say... 1st December.

Please, Please, Please, not just this site but this whole country!

Anyone marketing or even mentioning Christmas should be banned from celebrating it in any way shape or form for at least 7 years.

AC, just be glad you don't live in Oz. Since Christmas day arrives midsummer lots of places down there have added a second commercial Christmas in the middle of their winter too. ARGH!

Now why isn't there a humbug icon when I need one, oh well beer will have to do, role on December when I'm more than happy to fall over with a few jars of Christmas Ale, but even that has a time when it's acceptable.

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Microsoft gets ready to kill Skype Classic once again: 'This time we mean it'

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Re: Similarly...

Oh yes, Skype for Business because sometimes normal Skype just isn't bad enough.

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