Posts by Tom Paine 2256 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Aug 2008
They could be using any damn bandwidth they want that's functional with the size and distance requirements. There are a lot of assumptions being made about the type of equipment being used by the attackers. Let's see what public info emerges about the crashed vehicle they've reportedly recovered -- if any.
Some pretty obvious inferences can be drawn from what's on the public record. The "AV companies write the viruses themselves!" bollocks is, well, bollocks. It's obviously not a test of anything. And the spotty teenager would have had his bedroom door kicked in with Standard Issue within a couple of hours, for extremely obvious reasons.
We don't yet have a large enough sample size of cases like this to study, from which we could draw conclusions about the deterrent effect of more severe sentences. (At the time of writing, n=0, as the perps - if any - have yet to be found or motive etc established.)
To pick some groups who've been speculated about - jihadists, eco-whatevers, engineering students out looking for lulz, highly sophisticated criminal gangs pulling off Italian Jobs, sinister politicians conspiring with MI5 and persons confused about the best way to express their opinions about Brexit -- all have a different propensity to think again in response to another year on their possible sentence.
Arguably, as there's no precedent for the purported attack, there's no deterrent at all. There are no previous perps they could look up and think "Hey, this guy shutdown Stansted for 18 hours and got 12 weeks and 1000 hours community service!" or "...had his goollies cut off"* , as the case may hypothetically have been.
* With apologies to Jones, Smith and Stephenson https://youtu.be/p6aQC-1-GF4
Now don't shoot the meesenger, OK?
Police tell BBC News they “cannot discount the possibility that there may have been no drone at all”.
https://twitter.com/TomPugh212/status/1076874388761440260?s=19
Yeah, that's pretty much what I said, too. I shouldn't really have sneaked a look a Twitter during the service, but the family were very understanding when I showed them.
...teams from the Marshall Space Fight Center worked to reassure nervous NASA managers that a further uncrewed flight of the Saturn V was not required, demonstrating on Saturn test articles that their solutions to the Apollo 6 vibration issues would work.
But they didn't. Little known fact that one of the near-misses that came really close to killing the entire crew of Apollo 13 was massive pogo that developed on one engine that was so severe it bent the mountings 24" (yes, inches) vertically out of true. Another few seconds and the first stage would probably have broken up. As luck would have it, for reasons that were and remain unknown, the malfunctioning engine spotaneously shut itself down. IIRC this was /not/ as s result of the pogo - not directly, anyway.
Tons of fascinating detail (and more likely to be correct than my recollections from reading this article years ago) : https://www.universetoday.com/62672/13-things-that-saved-apollo-13-part-5-unexplained-shutdown-of-the-saturn-v-center-engine/
I's easy to buzz an airfield with a non-geo-fenced UAV. Doing so without burning through a lot of drones and/or getting caught will turn out to be a lot harder, especially now every airport will be on the lookout and will know what to do next time. Prediction: a few amateur copycats will caught in the next year or so.
These guys are not amateurs.
When a serious civilization-threatening asteroid approaches, our best bet right now is to either leg it or batten down the hatches, and make sure we have a space program to keep some survivors safe off-world.
To preserve the species from an impact capable of destroying civilisation, you need a colony with sufficiently large population and industrial base to be ENTIRELY SELF-SUFFICIENT on decadal to century timespans. Spoiler alert: never going to happen/.
(By "self-sufficient" I mean "capable of building and launching crewed interplanetary spacecraft from scratch, starting with digging out the titanium ore".)
Bear in mind too that incidence of quality engineers is maybe 1 in 10,000 of the population.
See what I mean? NEVVVVVER GONNA HAPPEN.
I have to pick the troll icon even though I'm perfectly serious and this is surely obvious to anyone with half a clue who thinks about the problem for 5 minutes, because there are an awful lot of Trekkies here who seem to think it's a documentary.
They all look happy, even the ones that aren't grinning inanely.
If I live long enough to retire one project I've mused about for years will be photography - documentary portraits of commuter faces. Regret, despair, angst, miseries of all sorts -- there's a vast palette of them on the 17:44 back to suburbia.
I enjoy the stock photos that illustrate the stories. When a computer can explain why they work when similar stock pics are a signifier of lameness, maybe AI will be real. anyway. The guy on the left is having a fag! Takes me back to my first job, where I had an ashtray on my desk.
...can I gently observe that late April 2019 is likely to be a really, /really/ interesting time to be surprising a lot of XY chromosomed people who don't keep up with IIT related legislation, digital rights and so on?
There's a chance - estimates vary about how good a chance, but a chance - that the country will be in a somewhat febrile, over-stimulated state by then. Everyone who watches porn but doesn't keep up with digital rights and online legislation and suchlike topics is going to be surprised, and I bet they all blame it on Brexit.
It's all about the Festool!
https://www.axminster.co.uk/festool-ctm-26-e-ac-cleantec-dust-extractor-m-class-ax991204
Aka "nah mate, that's not an M class dust extractor... THIS is an M class dust extractor"
Unless you're building a proper general airspace dust extractor, of course, but those can't pass as vacuum cleaners like the Festool can (just).
https://youtu.be/UJQXUbRG-oA
I need a new Axminster catalogue, the pages of this one are all stuck together...
In the US, at least, mobile operators and VOIP services were supposed to tell customers not to rely on the service for emergency services, as the networks don't have sufficient Ma-Bell approved reliability and resilience - as of a few years ago anyway. In other words, have a landline backup if you care about 24/7/365 availability guarantees for 999 service. Trouble is that no-one thinks about that nowadays, and the mobile network's probably almost always there. (Would be interested in the number of emergency calls missed due to network outages, presumably someone somewhere tracks that number.) Bet it's an infinitesimal fraction of the total number of 999 calls.
Oooh, my cue to post the L5 ground loop audio from Eileen Collins's launch. Stay with it for the low LOX level premature SSME cut-off half a sec before the scheduled MECO, which IIRC was due to a big hole in a nozzle cooling circuit. (The auto cut-off is there because apparently cryogenic gas turbopumps tend to explode if suddenly fed vacuum when running.)
"Yikes!"
"Concur."
Oy, this makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time I watch it!
https://youtu.be/O9WjCyWq-iA
Context https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/sts-93-we-dont-need-any-more-of-those/
And there's a WP article of course.
Samantha has to nip off early now, as she's meeting Bob, a retired spook, as part of her research for a new book on cryptography and public policy. He likes to take her through the backdoors, and then with the help of Samantha's friend Alice they will explore a Man-in-the-Middle compromise.
(With apologies to Messrs Lyttleton and Nasmith.)
If the people who were in charge of these things were given a basic salary and given a bonus if - and only if - they avoided or sorted out cock ups, you'd probably find nobody willing to do it!
Quite.
They're all in it for the money and essentially if it all goes tits up their attitude is - meh, I'll be on an island in the sun whilst someone else repeats the process.
Same as 99.8% of El Reg's readership, then, I'd have thought. If you're not doing it for the money, why don't you go in and work on your days off?
>>> it is a free service
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>> Then you are the product.
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>I t is clear that none of the 9+ down voters even tried checking out 1337.no as it is free
I seem, so a wealthy philanthropist funds the servers, the software, the network transit, the admins to look after it --- and all because he loves us, and wants us to send a lot of email.
Yeah. right.
At the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, apart from the obvious stuff like the ethnic cleansing of hte UIghers - there are concentration camps right now, on this planet, and your phone (and mine)was made in the same country - the thing is that Australia's our ally and China is a hostile foreign superpower.
Is it really that big a stretch to find spying by the one to be a bad thing, and the other to be a good thing?
An exploit could allow the attacker to run arbitrary commands with SYSTEM user privileges.”
Malware running locally on a machine, or a malicious logged-in user, could abuse this hole to gain system administrator rights
Malware running as SYSTEM already has higher privs than Administrator.
Oh god, does this really need explaining in 2018?
If you haven't got some rules written down. you can't fire someone or block them from access without the risk of putting yourself inline for a law suit - depending on which country they and you are in. How many FLOSS projects rub their hands with glee at the thought of months with lawyers?
Welcome to the 1990s, enjoy your stay.
After external auditor KPMG asked for copies of various data including the entire company payroll,..
I'm an infosec grunt in the trenches. See these scars? KPMG annual audit. These ones -- management consultancy at another Big Four firm who likewise wanted basically unrestricted access to everything. And so on and so forth.
we can deliver great customer experiences for businesses around the world.
A great customer experience FOR A BUSINESS is to rinse them of every penny they've got, and find them banging on your door hoping to sell you some of their family members in exchange for more of your products.
Er. And the CEO having to quit, and let's be honest, anyone involved with this at a senior level has it on their CV for the rest of their careers (if they still have one). And I think you'll find the FCA and PRA will be levying fines in due course.
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