Posts by random internet moose

Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield

Re: Windows 11 is literally making people who would never use Linux suffer with with Linux.

CUPS is the "apple print server".

Rekal

I would insist calling it "Rekal".

I always find Philip K. Dick novels a bit of a nightmare and tad depressing, though.

IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security

Re: Wait, what?

Hmmm, who would.know you knew, and

- who would know you said anything, esp. to some hackers?

- who would know you did nothing?

You don't need to broadcast a password. A position of it, at most. Working for IT security you'd know how to do it so you wouldn't be tracked.

Re: The problem is law is old and tech is new

Oh, believe me, any security researcher fed up with people intelligent differently will not bother, just inform people who will happy to find good use of the information and will not drag him through courts.

Just don't complain when they are Chinese or North Korean hackers. And, after all, he will not be *using* the password, so nothing on him.

Cloudflare opposes Europe's plan to make Big Tech help pay for networks

Re: This old chestnut

"and no amount of yelling about net neutrality will change it." Then why do you yell about it? Please, solve tour fixations at the appropriate professional help.

"little grasp on real world economics" and don't project.