Posts by Jove

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

After Market ...

So from all of this we can probably safely assume that there is a functioning after-market in stolen Apple kit.

A rough guess at the M.O.:

- leave the kit switched off for a few moths to filter out most attempts to recover kit via tracking features,

- Remove victims data from disk - possibly to sell-on - before attaching to a network,

- Sell the kit into the export market or to unsuspecting victims in the second-hand market before they realise it is stolen (there are a few articles suggesting that this is what is happening),

- Use in a shared access facility where the long arm of the law has not reach.

No good whinging ...

... you should have used your light sabre - failing that, your 9mm automatic would have saved the day.

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Re: That's just it

Don't you just love posts where some school kid copy/pastes from wikipedia or any other source on the web?

Do they get brownie points for the number of inane posts they make? Does these posts count towards A Levels grades now?

"the poor Windows support"

Well, no one actually does software development on Windows; The monkeys that work on Windows code just churn out garbage and leave it to their end users to identify the parts of script the monkeys did get lucky with.

That is a common thread to hosted services - surprised that this is still not widely acknowledged in the industry.

Re: Good. I'll never have to use it, again.

Are you sure that you have been using hg?

TLTR: Just post a link to this drivel on your blog, then we can all ignore it.

Re: "has ever used Visual Sourcesafe."

Did you mean Hg?

Re: Git

"I can only imagine that none of the contributors to this thread has ever used Visual Sourcesafe."

Even if they had access to Sourcesafe, that was no guarantee that it could be used: one consultancy (I will spare that bunch of charlatans the embarrassment) that chose it spent more time trying to recover 'lost' code than ever using it in a productive way.

Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb ...

"There once was a biz called Bitbucket,

that told Mercurial to suck it.

Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected ..."

and the Directors have retired to Nantucket.

Bunch of US states said to be preparing fresh antitrust investigation into Google 'n' pals

Re: Politics.

For the Clicktard with the down-vote on the above post: What's the matter? Did having to engage with facts for a change offend your cissy Snowflake sensibilities and spoil your twisted view on reality?

Re: Options

"Maybe in a similar way that it worked with Ma Bell and the creation of the RBOCs?"

That only addresses the USA; other nations/supranational bodies - such as the UK, France, the EU want jurisdiction over the operations in their own territories - a USA-focused solution will not work.

Re: Options

How would the legislation for that work?

Re: Politics.

The following are some of the states that are/have been involved in the discussions:

Florida

Louisiana

Mississippi

New York

Texas

... along with three others.

Also:

"Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential candidate, has said that Amazon, Facebook and Google should be forced to divest companies they have purchased. Other progressives agree with her."

Does that list fit with the narrative you are trying to concoct?

How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband

Re: Control plane policing?

On the contrary; it is quite understandable if you have ever had to work such businesses States Side.

NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down

Re: Deep State is as Deep State does..

No. A Right-Wing response would be an instant Death Penalty administered on the spot, and the family and friends of the suspect put under investigation.

Re: deleted data

Have you never had to purge records?

Re: Deep State is as Deep State does..

TLTR: Just post a link to this drivel on your blog, then we can all ignore it.

Deligate ..

... to Russian Intelligence Services, and then just snoop on their databases.

That is all within their remit and everyone will be happy - Snowflakes included.

And we're back live with the state of the smartphone market in 2019. Any hope? Yeah, nah

Re: I dropped my telephone

"Only things they may need to consider are a shift to the li-ion battery for the 3310 (6310i was already li-ion IIRC?), and support for 4G + VoLTE, considering 2G will eventually disappear."

So you ask for the original designs to be re-launched, then straight-away suggest expensive changes to those designs.

Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged

Re: "London"

why the quotes in, 'So far police in Sussex, where the "London" airport is situated.'

Indeed.

FUD ...

... lots a of posts spreading this - dismissing that there was a drone. Suggests an exercise by the culprits to cover their tracks.

Re: "London"

I live in London, yet it takes me more than an hour to commute into town.

The seven airports are described as London because that is the principle market they serve.

... and yet the BBC published footage of what appeared to be a drone.

Re: Not just people with smartphones.

Google maps indicates that there is a viewing area in Terminal 4, but it appears to be enclosed.

There is/was an open viewing area at a building off the Bath road.

However, enthusiasts can get close enough to cause potential problems in the area around the Hatton Cross junction with the A3 which would be difficult to police with closing off the roads and businesses in the area. That must still be a big concern.

Re: Millions

"To be honest, it is difficult to see why the UK police and UK taxpayer should be doing anything other than trying to diplomatically light a fire under the Portuguese police force."

Partially because the members of the local police and officials were/are amongst the suspects, and because of the history of similar cases in the country.

Re: 900k Vs 14M

"Birds have been recorded with calls mimicking all sorts of things. I swear there's a gull around here who has incorporated a mobile ringtone to it's routine."

We had a song bird that mimicked the Motorola ring tone at all hours of the night for several years.

Re: 900k Vs 14M

"No need to worry yourself - DJI drones have geofencing built into firmware."

Posting that comment on a Reg forum sounds more like a challenge to the community than a relevant defence of the specific vendor's products.

Re: 900k Vs 14M

"... a drop in the ocean compared to the millions being spent on anti drone measures that won't stop this kind of thing happening again."

Perhaps the deployment of a few Jedi atop departing jets might be more effective in your view.

UK or NATO Partner exercise ...

... such exercises have been reported to take place to test aspects of security around specific installations and sites of significance; could it not have been such an exercise?

Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue

Re: Minor Browser?

Squid does a fairly good job of blocking undesirable artefacts.

Subcontractor's track record under spotlight as London Mayoral e-counting costs spiral

Smartmatic

"The company was also recently blamed for a number of technical glitches in the Philippine elections."

Glitches or back-doors/additional functionality/voter identification facilities?

Data cops order Ireland to delete 3.2m records after ID card wheeze ruled to be 'unlawful'

Bigger concerns with transaction records ...

... collected and analysed by the data businesses that we all sign-up to in those contracts we do not do due diligence on.

Even bigger concern when the data is lifted from said companies with them not realizing it and remaining in denial so that there share price does not get hit. ;)

Re: ID cards...

"The Dutch learned from their history. We Brits don't seem to. Ever."

... and yet, the UK does not have an ID Card, unlike other Member States of the EU.

ID Cards ...

... will be so old hat - once facial recognition and various other forms of finger-printing are production ready.

Once that is done, you will not even get to know your identification. Every little helps ;)

Re: Data cleansing

It is currently the only form of birth control blessed by the pope.

Re: Does the UK government know Ireland is independent?

Since the Lisbon Treaty.

How powerful are Russian hackers? One new law could transform global crime operations

Exactly teh kind of walled garden ...

... Western democracies - the EU included - are considering as being necessary to be able to have jurisdiction over the web.

Transport for London Oyster system pulled offline after credential-stuffing crooks board customers' accounts

Re: Who logs in to an Oyster card?

Credentials:

- Home address,

- Contact number,

- Debit card details

- Security questions and answers that may also be used elsewhere

In short access to sufficient details to secure transactional clearance on other sites.

Re: That Means The City...

Ah - sounds like a version of the British Rail excuses for delays:

"Delays due to hackers on the line"

Re: Who's lying?

It was Capita - and I think the contract got renewed recently

Re: We encourage all customers not to use the same password for multiple sites

IIRC the original Oyster system did use a unique ID but they later switched over to using the email address as the ID.

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's two-dozen government surveillance balloons over America

Re: Risks ...

Anyone that is not a member of the USA security community.

Re: Deter narcotic trafficking and terror threats?

There is also a problem with bringing a successful prosecution without compromising the methods by which the evidence was collected.

Risks ...

... I wonder if they have fully assessed the risks of such a vehicle - and the equipment it carries - falling into the wrong hands - such as being brought down by anomaly weather events or incapacity via weaponry?

Another rewrite for 737 Max software as cosmic bit-flipping tests glitch out systems – report

Re: Who, in the Western Hemisphere, Actually Cares About "Cosmic Rays" ...

That is not true.

Re: Designed by toddlers?

Indeed; I would avoid flights that advertise a 737MAX as being the aircraft. Unfortunately IAG jumped right in there when they saw that they could get a big discount from Boeing, and placed a large order.

Apple: Ok, ok, we'll stop listening in on your Siri conversations. For now, but maybe in the future

Without personal profiles, updates and purging - the listening is the lost of money and time.

... is this an example transcript from Siri? It is certainly as unintelligible as a some of the recordings might be.

Re: Salt the data ?

... they could organise a "Speak Welsh Only" day - that should cause a few problems for the listeners.

Re: What the article leaves out

The data collected from devices in the first instance is rarely anonymous - it is tied to a device, individual, agent in some way in the first instance.

You are also ignoring the third-party data gathers that make available other data - either to customers or leaks ;) - that can be used to restore identity information to anonymized data sets.

DoH! Secure DNS doesn't make us a villain, Mozilla tells UK broadband providers

Re: NIMBY

... thus blocking such subnets is in the national interests as they move towards walled gardens of content subject to national legislation.