Posts by Whoopsie

Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it

Still making this a "CISOs are in danger!" issue

Sullivan belongs in jail. He's brought the CISO's role into disrepute, he still fails to accept any responsibility, and news sites and conferences still give the grifter stage time and column inches.

He wasn't charged because of the breach - he was charged becaused he colluded with the CEO and head of legal to *lie to the regulator* about the breach.

At a time when the regulator was already investigating Uber's dodgy exec team. As an ex-prosecutor, he was completely aware that he was choosing to break the law.

And he decided that his Uber stock options were worth more than the chance of getting found out, and now he continues his "woe is me" world tour.

IBM to build biometrics system for UK cops and immigration services

Given IBM's past history doing something similar for the Nazis in WW2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) I'm not surprised they won the bid. Cruella Braverman must have been falling over herself to rubber stamp this.

Snyk: 50% of security jobs unfilled… any solution predicated on devs 'becoming security experts is doomed'

Podjarny repeating the tired old nonsense from The Big Boys like Google - "waah, there's a skills shortage!".

There absolutely is not a skills shortage in cyber security. At all.

What there is is a abundance of companies who don't want to pay for in-demand skills, who don't want to train their people, who have ridiculous job description demands and broken hiring processes, and enforce short sighted and medieval working practices.

A quick search on LinkedIn just now shows 3 positions advertising someone with 3 years cyber security experience who also has a CISSP.

The "lack of skills" is not the problem here, and never was.

How Apple's M1 uses high-bandwidth memory to run like the clappers

Glad to see Apple continuing their 'innovation' by copying what Silicon Graphics did in their workstations, what, 25 years ago?

Linux 5.10 to make Year 2038 problem the Year 2486 problem

Glad to see the legacy of Silicon Graphics living on

Ironic though that someone from Oracle pushes patches to an SGI filing system shipping with Linux, while Solaris still has unresolved date issues.

Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan

This is all a nonsense justification for asset stripping the UK

If the government cared, even slightly, for UK tech companies, they would have done something to stop the sale of ARM - the UK's single most successful tech company - to Softbank.

And they wouldn't be continuing to try and destroy the IT contractor sector, in favour of turning a blind eye to the tax dodging antics of ..... US tech companies.

The author of that blog post clearly has no idea at all what they're talking about.

'VPs shouldn't go publicly rogue'... XML co-author Tim Bray quits AWS after Amazon fires COVID-19 whistleblowers

I wish El Reg would stop repeating this lie:

"Amazon boss, and frightfully wealthy person, Jeff Bezos committed $10bn for dealing with the impact of climate change in February 2020."

He didn't. He transferred $10bn into the Bezos Earth Fund, which - under US rules - is allowed to lobby the government, invest the money wherever it wants, return a profit for it's investors, and allows tax writeoffs for Jeff. He is not putting $10bn into dealing with climate change - he's hiding it from the tax man, while making it generate even more money for him.

The whole thing is a combination of tax dodge, alternative way to lobby the government, and an alternative income stream for Bezos - all while he can claim he's trying to save the planet, while literally doing the opposite. All while continuing to exploit his workers and contribute as little taxes as possible in every single geographic area that Amazon trades in.

Link spammers go on social networking rampage

Net security firm Websense?

Since when has Websense been a 'net security firm'?

"Clueless purveyors of sub-par content filtering for the lazy" more like.