Posts by William Higinbotham

'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

Check out Go Pro video in helicopter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=5NxxIxi_MHQ&feature=emb_logo

Breaching China's Great Firewall is hard. Pushing packets faster than 1Mbps once through is the Boss Fight

Through Earth - The Other Side

I remember a long time ago -"Flush twice, it is a long way to China"

ICE to see you: Homeland Security's immigration cops tap up Clearview AI to probe child exploitation, cyber-crime

Knock Knock. Who's there?

We see how Amazon's AI for offensive posts work. Be ready for a knock at the door, or more like tactical offensive into one's home:-)

This NSA, FBI security advisory has four words you never want to see together: Fancy Bear Linux rootkit

Find more information from hospital sector than our own:-)

https://www.aha.org/other-cybersecurity-reports/2020-08-14-fbi-cybersecurity-advisory-tlp-white-russian-gru-85th-gtsss

University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14m as BBC publishes 'dark web negotiations'

Write-off instead

I wonder if they tried to bargain a official form showing the organization donated $1.14 million worth of technical support for tax deduction instead?

One year ago, Apple promised breakthrough features to help iPhone, iPad, Mac owners with disabilities. It failed them

IBM has had tools for handicap/disabled and blind for years.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Encyclopedia_of_Blindness_and_Vision/l7UN5asLD0cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ibm+disability+blind&pg=PA119&printsec=frontcover

Wow, Microsoft's Windows 10 always runs Edge on startup? What could cause that? So strange, tut-tuts Microsoft

It does what it wants to do, brought to you by Open SourceProject

This is why it does what it does. Under About Microsoft Edge - "This browser is made possible by the Chromium open source project and other open source software." I had older Windows 10 and for some reason, Microsoft Edge did not update itself to this new version. Then I came across about it and installed the new version on top of the old. I have not a clue. This is why I have 4 different versions of browsers on my machine:-)

As Uncle Sam flies spy drones over protest-packed cities, Homeland Security asks the public if that's a good idea

Re: You asked my opinion about drones...

Until your wife and kids are in the back yard sunning themselves and gets leaked.

Sony reveals PlayStation 5 will offer heretical no-optical-disk option. And yes, it has an AMD CPU-GPU combo

Here is the Sony PS-X5

I was looking for their manual and came across this. https://www.vinylengine.com/library/sony/ps-x5.shtml

Russia drags NASA: Enjoy your expensive SpaceX capsule, our Soyuz is the cheap Kalashnikov of rockets

Re: Foot in mouth

There are 2 other countries that can offer lifts - China for one and the other that may become a contender is India. But I wonder if China's seats are big enough for American astronauts, should we even ask how their toilets work? :-)

Hooray, space boffins have finally got InSight lander's heat probe back into Martian ground again

Temperature of planet?

And we will find out the planet has COVID-19 infection.

Amazon declined to sell a book so Elon Musk called for it to be broken up

Reply to Author

We are a creature of habits and I am still learning about my own.

Virgin Orbit at last ready to live up to its name: Branson's other space adventure set for maiden flight this weekend

Other counties nuclear readiness alert.

I sent a question off to the company as to how they are reporting the launches to other nations so that they will not think we are delivering a first strike:-)

Behold: The ghastly, preening, lesser-spotted Incredible Bullsh*tting Customer

Spooked Myself

Companies keep tweaking up features with their software, and like all above, I catch myself asking what the hell !? I then wish for the old Norton Commander and Compuserve again for a short minute. Then I realize I am stuck with this feature until I try to see if I can turn it off.

Old ASCII Guy

Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word

Word is dead anyway.

Everyone is going to Twitter and who would use double spaces in this app anyway?

Linksys forces password reset for Smart Wi-Fi accounts after router DNS hack pointed users at COVID-19 malware

Password Reset???

I logged into Linksys website and my old passwords worked?

Why did Linksys not ask that we change this one too.

Some people use same password on both the router and company website login:-)

Academic showdown as boffins biff-baff over when Version 1.0 of Earth's magnetic core was released

Asteroids can have magnetism

Even asteroids can have magnetism. The gravitational perturbation of Mathilde on the passing spacecraft was apparent.

EA boots Linux gamers out of multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas respond by demanding crippling boycott

The only Lynix Game I Play

Stream's DEFCON where no one wins:-)

https://www.polygon.com/videos/2019/7/17/20694625/defcon-wargames-nuclear-war-game-chernobyl

Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why?

Where is the Proof

So I went through the feed here. Still no IP address to prove that this article is true. How do we know that the IP may not be that in China but in the back door of NSA or some other US Cyber Warfare/Security site?

Free?

I want to get my information for free. What is the ip address? But if I have to download the whole database first, forget it.

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

Birthplace of Rusty n Edie's BBS

http://timeline.textfiles.com/1987/05/11/1/FILES/page-22.htm

The time PC Tools spared an aerospace techie the blushes

Hard Disk Failure

A software database manager was working on a PC where the HD failed. Sent it to Ontrack recovery services for a thousand dollars only to not be able to recover the ones database file he needed.

Where's our data, Google? Chrome 79 update 'a catastrophe' for Android devs with WebView apps

Re: Where, where... There!

It all went to a cloud called Old Smokey that never rains back down.

Mayday in Moscow as devs will be Russian to Putin mandatory apps on phones, laptops, TVs

New Voice APP

On Russian devices will be an app like Alexa, but it will be call CHEKA!

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

Just like 'The case that just won't die'

JAVA will never be secure. But the winner will only find this out after the final court settlement.

Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger's PayPal! And I can't give it back

Forward to someone who cares

I would forward to CEO of PayPal with signage "PayPal is the Best"

Thanks to all those tax dollars, humans can now hear the faint sounds of earthquakes on Mars

Voice heard

Greetings Earthlings - It's Marvin the Martian.

Handcranked HTML and JPEG japes. What could possibly go wrong?

Netscape Web Page Tool

I built a web page once about my resume and father. Seems like great utility that did not last very long in this environment. Was fun while it lasted though!

Pi in the sky as ESA starts testing encrypted comms on International Space Station

Is it to study radiation effects in space or just grant money for creating more papers

The problems with all the spectrums in space has been studied. Shielding, manufacturing radiation hardening resistant process, error correction design, redundancy. - even dual mirror channel architecture with fault error design between the two was used in military hardware since the beginning.

We also have facilities that does this here on earth such as https://www.bnl.gov/nsrl/ . Someone convinced the grants team that they need real time data.

I think the biggest problem is radiation emitting contamination getting into our electronics (as well as all man made products including shielding) manufacturing which we have not been able to completely rid of since the beginning of the above ground nuclear tests and more recent nuclear disasters (Chernobyl and Fukushima)

Example Reference:

1987 - https://books.google.com/books?id=a-pQAAAAMAAJ&dq=redundancy+computer+space&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=redundancy+

1971 - https://books.google.com/books?id=cTuT_TnzCjUC&dq=space+radiation+resistant+computer+design&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=radiation

Recent - http://www-physics.lbl.gov/~spieler/radiation_effects/rad_tutor.pdf

Backdoors won't weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he's right. They won't – they'll fscking torpedo it

What Key

So I am designing a backdoor for the government. Problem is, I did not write a changing key algorithm to go with it, (was not specified in the contract.) Good luck.

You'll never guess what US mad lads Throwflame have strapped to a drone (clue: it does exactly what it says on the tin)

Lighting it up

Maybe they will have a device for lighting bovine flatulence in the fields till they get new strain of grass developed.

Low Barr: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General

Keys?

What if everyone put in the backdoor in but forgot to write down the pass key?

Iran is doing to our networks what it did to our spy drone, claims Uncle Sam: Now they're bombing our hard drives

Why is it the IRS does not get targeted?

I would have thought that Iran would target the IRS. How does the old adage go? Hit'em in their pockets... Oh, that's right; they use some arbitrary currency. https://www.xe.com/currency/irr-iranian-rial

Lenovo channels the spirit of IBM: Lays off 500 staff, savages Data Centre Group

Where are all the numbers

Interested in seeing hirings since 2015. Numbers of employees increase and decrease as per volume of sales (Lagging). Always been that way.

Apple in another dust-up with its fans: iMacs, MacBooks lack filters, choke on grime – lawsuit

Where is the instructions again?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204172

Stingray phone stalker tech used near White House, SS7 abused to steal US citizens' data – just Friday things

11Year Old

In the end it will most likely be some smartass 11 year old with embedded micro platform. Want to show his close black web associates his craft :-)

What if tech moguls brewed real ale?

Cannot have a Bit of beer without a Byte to eat :-)

NASA finds satellite, realises it has lost the software and kit that talk to it

Manual

Here is some of the manual for Image Spacecraft:-) https://books.google.com/books?id=hT_wCAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq="image+spacecraft"+title&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizn6WE6_TZAhUFSN8KHemtBAcQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The software and manuals are in the basement of one of the Smithsonian buildings. Good luck.

OK, deep breath, relax... Let's have a sober look at these 'ere annoying AMD chip security flaws

Look for those undocumented opcodes:-)

http://www.rcollins.org/secrets/IntelSecrets.html

NASA's zombie IMAGE satellite is powered up and working quite nicely

Open source the satelite:-)

NASA budget shock: Climate studies? GTFO. We're making the Moon great again, says Trump

Trump Plasa Moontel

DeepMind says it's given AI an imagination. Let's take a closer look at that

President Trump is the mental health model in this study in which to compare results against:-)

But how does our ransomware make you feel?

Kevin Mitnick wtote about all this in his books which are copy rrighted. Therefore all malware writers owe Mr Mitnick royalties:-)

Fan of FBI cosplay? Enjoy freaking out your neighbors? Have we got the eBay auction for you

Ask for VIN number. The van looks like there wad an accident - white on the side. Then ask the FBI why they did not report the accident?

Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer

Re: Do you...

I stand corrected. Or is it, Shall we play a game? Computer memory is better than mine only if not compromised by some random act.

Joshua: Would you like to play a game?

The brave British boat men hoping to poke Larry Ellison's lads in the eye

MisDirection

Untill a PIKACHU CHEAT shows up in their app and they go off course to capture it:-)

Why Firefox? Because not everybody is a web designer, silly

Screen of Help Me

I am for any web browser that does not show the Exclamation Mark.

A very Canadian approach: How net neutrality rules reflect a country's true nature

Tempature

Will Godfrey final comment sounded like Bob and Doug Mckenzie describing net neutrality:-)