Posts by Mark 65

Reprogrammble routers axed by TP-Link as FCC bans custom firmware

Re: Stupid

The best bit is that if users cannot flash firmware then that means they cannot update it, ergo all security flaws in firmware become permanent. Now that is retarded and does nothing to secure US infrastructure.

German lodges todger in 13 steel rings

Re: Hmmm

Does that make the medical staff and the firemen the Fellowship of the Ring?

Re: Hampton ????

Pity those who reside in the seaside town of Littlehampton.

'Microsoft Office has been the bane of my life, while simultaneously keeping me employed'

Re: The deep mysteries of VBA bugs

That "wait" issue is as old as Windows itself. If you're doing hard loop processing, mess with a UI context directly (like switching sheets) but fail to Yield/SleepEx or otherwise defer to the message queue to process the WM_PAINT etc. then bad things can happen.

Does DoEvents not handle it?

Microsoft joins Eclipse Foundation. Odd thing for a competitor to do

Re: Convoluted plotline

Exactly. They may not want to use your languages or IDEs but if they use your cloud then that's still cash in the (offshore) bank.

Investigatory Powers Bill: Spooks willingly entering the light?

Re: In politics, Burnham is a ...

Recent history makes it eminently clear that Burnham is a cock

FTFY

Photographer hassled by Port of Tyne for filming a sign on a wall

Re: This is pure and simple paranoia

This is preciesly fuck all to do with "government"

Not so sure about that. I'd say they started it and provide fine examples themselves. Police hassling photographers anyone?

Gov opens consultation on how to best to use your data

Re: Clearly a Need

yet I read the other day that school authorities have suddenly woken up to the fact that demand for secondary pupil places will go up in the very near future. My goodness, these pupils have only been in the pipeline for 10+ years. Wow statistics processing must be very good to miss that issue out.

Might also have something to do with the large net migration into the country over recent years and future years given the Syrian crisis. Perhaps it is demand above that which they were expecting and planning for?

No, this is what happens when the public cares about what the Kardashians are up to more than what politicians are up too.

FTFY.

Diffie, Hellman scoop $1m Turing Award for key work on crypto keys

Hellman said – adding that the pair owed a huge debt to Ralph Merkle, his former graduate student who played a huge, and mostly unrecognized, role in developing public key encryption

So, are they giving him a cut of the money or not?

Mathletics promises security upgrades after parents' security gripes

2016

Let me see:

1. No https for login and JS delivery

2. Requires flash and hence an insecure machine in the house

Their CTO isn't worth the steam off of my piss.

Crowd-funded OpenShot 2.0 delivers graphic Linux package

iMovie

One thing iMovie does offer, although very basic, is the concept of library management. I am yet to find the equivalent of Lightroom for video offering both digital asset management and editing. And, no, Lightroom doesn't work as, although it can load videos, when I tried loading my existing video library it simply froze. There's no 4k or anything but it just didn't cope.

The Nano-NAS market is now a femto-flop being eaten by the cloud

Surely this sales split between <3 drives and 3+ drives is simply down to being able to stick 2x6TB drives in RAID 1 and have as much storage space as you'd previously have needed 4x2TB drives in RAID 5 not too long ago? Thus a two bay will do rather than a 4 bay.

Computer Science grads still finding it hard to get a job

Re: Unfortunately...

The world went to shit when on the job training disappeared and everyone started wanting to recruit newborns with 10 years C++ experience.

We're going to use your toothbrush to snoop on you, says US spy boss

Re: The marketing target has definitely changed

The fridge may always be on but it won't be always connected. If no unsmart fridges are available when I get my next one:

I'm not going to let it on the network

They're not going to fit it with a mobile connection - too costly, too unreliable

Powerline comms should be pretty easy to block - they get screwed over by certain power boards.

At that point IoT is DOA.

Who would code a self-destruct feature into their own web browser? Oh, hello, Apple

Alistair, meet convenience. Convenience is the modern day replacement for intelligence. Intelligence has been consigned to the waste bin because it just wasn't convenient.

Sure, encrypt your email – while your shiny IoT toothbrush spies on you

IoT

I view the IoT as an intelligence test based upon what you think the best possible outcome is of connecting shit like your fridge and TV with microphone to the internet is. If the answer is "convenience" then you'll get what you deserve.

Brit airline pilots warn of drone menace

Re: I guess its kind of nice to see that this idiocy is not restricted to the U.S.

I'm not keen on the way DJI is putting all sorts of restrictions into its auto pilot / control computer but it appears there are just a few too many idiots spoiling things for the rest of the fraternity.

UK Home Sec's defence of bulk spying: We 'found' a paedo (we already knew about)

Re: Time to get real

With such stunning naivety and all round ignorance the world will truly be a wonderful place to live in if views like yours are in the majority. Two things from this..

1. The vote needs to be means tested for intelligence

2. The prospect of trial by jury should frighten everyone.

Re: Credibility

Did she have any to start with?

Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP

Re: Makes perfect sense

You are crediting them with far too much intelligence and capability. More likely is that either your's or your granny's place will get a dawn knock by CO19 and you will be threatened with prison time unless every communication is decrypted for them. You will then be spoken of in a press conference as the reason why the laws exist as they do. Heaven help you if they find out you're brown or have a history of brown anywhere in your ancestry, you utter dissenting bastard.

Re: Ok with me

Really? Recent Paris attacks had metadata, data, watchlist members, the whole kit and caboodle. Did it prevent it? Nope. I have no faith that these twats have any idea of what to do but collect data. Binney pointed out the level of utter stupidity that now pervades the ranks of the five eyes.

Re: Victoria's Secret v Mujahedeen Secrets

Did you say "get up at the crack of Dawn"?

Re: So much this...

@AC: FFS stop talking common sense, they don't like it. More data, more data, need more data. And still won't prevent terrorists attacks by arseholes sending unencrypted messages to each other. This is no more than common dissent crushing apparatus - it has fuck all power over nut jobs.

UK Home Sec wants Minority Report-style policing – using your slurped data

Re: That Minority Report reference...

You're not sleep-walking into a totalitarian state, you are already firmly there. The case of someone being found not guilty and yet having to report to the police is prima facie evidence. The totalitarianism is currently set at "mild" but, make no mistake, the UK is already there. Look forward to a visit from the police for a familial DNA match on the dogshit database at some point.

Re: ... clears throat ...

Yep, They could also prevent crime by, errrm, having more coppers out and about rather than sat behind desks doing paperwork or fuck all telling crime victims "it's not worth following up on".

She is truly a repugnant fuck.

LastPass in 2FA lock down after 'fessing up to phishing attack

Re: Never saw this coming

To be fair they've had 2FA for quite some time. If you choose not to use it for your convenience then you should be aware how it weakens the security of your centrally stored data. I have KeePassX but find the idea of using that at home, work, and mobile to be next to impossible.

Microsoft’s Revolution Analytics buy pays off, Linux-based R Server launched

The way I understand it it is about targeting for sales. Think supermarket loyalty schemes sending you particular promotions. They want to squeeze every last drop of sales cash out of you by analysing your past behaviour and shopping patterns along with trends occurring in similar customers. Where a company owns multiple stores/brands they want to piece that data together to get a totally invasive picture of your behaviour. Not sure how a myriad of useless shite from connected light-bulbs will help.

BTC dev: 'Strangling' the blockchain will kill Bitcoin

Re: Bit bollocks more like

So, what if you like the properties of pseudo-anonymity of BitCoin? I know it isn't truly anonymous as you know what wallet moved money to what other wallet but not necessarily the owner of said wallet. However, how do you get money into the system in order to maintain that anonymity? Mining isn't practical and any card or deposit is observed.

Re: "So what has 'Murica done for anyone lately?"

I'll wait and see how that propaganda pans out. Didn't they (the Americans) originally unseat a previous ruler of Iran in one of their many CIA meddlings in the Middle-East?

Anyone using M-DISC to archive snaps?

Multiple backup drives of the NAS rotated offsite and produced using rsnapshot with the checksum flag set for rsync.

Re: Media works … DVD a bit tight for all you snaps.

Organise them using Lightroom from Adobe. I know that last word is pure poison in IT circles but Lightroom is good software and is excellent at cataloguing and retrieving photos. Pretty handy at enhancing/developing in the digital darkroom department too.

Re: M-DISC

The problem for me is that the media is not large enough. WIth a collection of over 19,000 photos taken over the years on digital cameras with ever increasing pixel count (think 24mp RAW) and 1080p video blu-ray of any type just isn't an option unless you own a Glacier/Facebook style robotic library system.

We know this isn't about PRISM, Matt Warman MP. But do you?

Nothing worse

There's nothing worse than someone who thinks they're smart, especially when they're an MP and think they know something about IT.

Oz gummint's miserly data retention cash-splash launched

If the Government aren't coughing up the necessary money then they should make sure the costs are minimised by having zero backups and using WD Green drives. Get what you pay for and all.

Firefox will support non-standard CSS for WebKit compatibility

Re: I'm sorry.....

Dev/design shops don't have the resources to do everything properly. Sites need to be built in a timely fashion, and updated to meet rapidly shifting requirements from all sides... which requires developing primarily in one browser (latest Firefox or Chrome), relying on a lot of 3rd-party code, and then debugging other browsers as an afterthought.

So what you're saying is that web developers are the new VBA record macro -> edit monkeys? There's not doing shit properly because you don't have time and then there's just writing shit. Web development is starting to seem very much like the latter.

Re: The Problem?

Those same morons are likely only just moving away from websites loaded with Flash. Yep, Dreamweaver drag-drop pros that call themselves website designers.

Dutch govt says no to backdoors, slides $540k into OpenSSL without breaking eye contact

Those global products only stem from there at the current time. Make the wrong law and wait for the exodus - it'll either be the companies or the users.

iOS 9 kludged our iPhones, now give us money, claims new lawsuit

Re: It isn't just Apple

I don't think it is about supportability so much as arbitrarily fucking up something you've paid a lot of money for then effectively telling you "tough shit we won't fix it, buy a new one" that is the issue. If I have bought the device outright the manufacturer has no right whatsoever to destroy my usage of it by forcing OS upgrades upon me or not allowing me to use a previously viable version. We're not asking for support, just choice.

I've always wondered the legality of not allowing people to downgrade the OS. If I've bought a device, it worked well on iOS 8.n and then goes to shit on iOS 9.x why can I not downgrade it? If I have kept the necessary firmware I should be able to reinstall it. I think they are on shaky ground with this diktat.

Brian Krebs criticises PayPal’s security as authentication flaws exposed

Re: The problem with entirely online companies....

2FA is only ever any good if the security it offers cannot be overridden by a fucking idiot at the end of a phone line, as was the case in this instance. Dumb human overrides any security measure.

Upset Microsoft stashes hard drive encryption keys in OneDrive cloud?

Ignorance is bliss

Fine. If you're a Windows Home user, click here, save a copy of the recovery key just in case, and then delete it from OneDrive. Microsoft promises to eventually scrub it from its cloud servers and backups.

...and naivety is costly. You dismiss the NSA question as tinfoil hat wearing buffoonery but, in the post Snowden revelation era where reality was worse than conspiracy, it is plain to see that this is MS yet again leaving the keys to your front door on their mantelpiece so the authorities can sweep them up. You think it matters whether they promise to eventually scrub them (time-frame anyone?)? Once they left your system and crossed the wire the game is over. It's true ignorance like this that makes the World a much less safer place and allows the idiocracy of modern politics to gain traction. Stop excusing this bullshit and call it for what it is.

I eagerly await the first dismissal using the "nothing to hide" straw man.

Feeling abandoned by Adobe? Check out the video editing suites for penguins

Re: Thanks for this

What I'd be interested in seeing is an open source video editor that can also handle the cataloguing aspect much like Lightroom does for photos. It seems to be the one thing lacking in offerings. Even iMovie has pretty piss-poor tagging and retrieval.

Windows for Warships? Not on our new aircraft carriers, says MoD

Re: Ah joke wallpaper ...

* Footnote for the do-gooderesses: as a self-employed person I could only sexually harass myself.

I'm guessing that was what the artwork was for.

Drunk? Need a slash? Avoid walls in Hackney

Re: Really, Slash?

Is that the same Slash that is usually seen sucking on a fag?

That's slander, and was never proven.

Big Brother is born. And we find out 15 years too late to stop him

Safe to assume

"as with the practice of previous Governments, we do not comment on security matters."

I think that you can safely assume you're on the money with your statement when that comes back as the answer.

FAA introduces unworkable drone registration rules in time for Christmas

Re: Shivers

@Dadmin: Dude, what the fuck are you on? You rant on about cars and guns and shit which has fuck all to do with the story. Calm down, take your meds, and read what I put. I'm commenting on the way Government tends to believe that if your viewpoint differs from theirs then you need "educating". As the article states, it is dubious as to whether the FAA even has the authority to undertake what they are up to.

Shivers

Registration gives us the opportunity to educate these new airspace users

There's a phrase that should send a shiver down the spine of any citizen when uttered by a Government entity.

Visual Studio Code: How to integrate Git

Re: SSH?

I think git offers multiple ways to communicate: git, http/s, and ssh amongst them. Local being the other choice.

Obama calls out encryption in terror strategy speech

Re: Given that

Having the right to own guns is one thing but the volume and type is completely another. Prevent the Government getting out of hand? Let me know how that works out for you. Clue: they already are and there's a reason the local plod have bearcats and other such military vehicles.