Posts by neilhd

iOS 18 added secret and smart security feature that reboots iThings after three days

Rather than reboot

Couldn't it just remove the encryption keys from memory and alter itself back to the BFU state, requiring a "first" login again? It could do that every couple of hours without affecting much, no?

Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth, just 1,100 job losses

Imagine

Working for a company that made over $20 BILLION in profit, and being laid off to "reduce costs".

Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info

What kind of Mickey Mouse outfit

Doesn't revoke credentials immediately as an employee leaves?

Client tells techie: You're not leaving the country until this printer is working

A title is required

I used to work for Emirates, and got summoned to Dubai to complete the work on a systems integration.

Was due to fly home on the Friday. Thursday morning it wasn't finished, and they said I couldn't go until it was done and that they'd cancel my ticket.

They were joking. I think. Luckily it was done by the evening...

As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much

Re: What all cloud providers forget

Even if it's 100% guaranteed (which, of course, would be a lie) there is no chance of my employer agreeing to have source code outside of our own data centers. We rely on absolute security that we control.

No cloud. Ever.

We have roughly 1000 developers/testers/devops/product people in our organisation and we use Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) deployed in-house. Nice chunk of change for them about to disappear I imagine.