Posts by Mookster

Use ad blockers? Mine some Monero to get access to news, says US site

Teh Independent

Anyone had problems with The Sindy? 3 open tabs kill my PC - it would be an outrage if they weren't mining.

Let's Encrypt plugs hole that let miscreants grab HTTPS web certs for strangers' domains

Liability

Without any liability for misuse, it's all a confidence trick. The identity proofing done by let's encrypt isn't that far from what's done by goMommy et al.

What do we want? Consensual fun times. How do we get it? Via an app with blockchain...

Hasn't this been around for a while?

Didn't it used to be called "Marriage"?

Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs

TEE

So, does this also shaft TEE?

Happy birthday: Jimbo Wales' sweet 16 Wikipedia fails

Re: The Jenkem effect

all very well, but the article hardly screams "hoax" at the top...

(Paris, 'cos I'm shure she'd love to)

Gemalto: Cheers for that 'unsolicited' €4.3bn bid, Atos. We'll think about it

"mobile chip-smith Gemalto", says hack having read 2007 annual report. What about HSMs, biometrics, passports?

Oregon will let engineer refer to himself as an 'engineer'

UK had IEE not IET

The IEEE is for USA-ians. Back in the day there was the Institute of Electrical Engineers, in the UK. After a grand merger, maybe 10 years ago, it's the Institute of Engineering Technology, (http://www.theiet.org/)

..and still the bcs hasn't been mentioned.

Java security plagued by crappy docs, complex APIs, bad advice

Re: General issue

'"They found that many developers do not understand Spring"

Problem java EE over engineered complex bloated.'

er, Spring pretty-much replaces java EE. You can use tomcat instead of jBoss...

The power JavaScript: 'Gandalf of JS' Wirfs-Brock on ECMAscript 2017

It's really best to avoid threading on a webserver, otherwise it confuses the code-monkeys. KISS: each caller gets their own thread.

Bloke fesses up: I forged judge's signature to strip stuff from Google search

"Of course that is a real sapphire. Look at this certification of natural gemstone I have for it, signed by a noted gemologist"

Look, the signature is on the blockchain...

Why the Apple Watch with LTE means a very Apple-y sort of freedom

Re: Virtual ?

It contains an env that mobile operators (just about) trust to download their secrets into i,e, it's probably independent, certified, etc.

Video nasty lets VMware guests run code on hosts

VMware is mainly for servers, right? Why would anyone _really_ need a server with a head?

Vodafone won't pay employee expenses for cups of coffee

Re: Fair enough

Did you never notice that salary is taxed, while benefits aren't?

GTFO of there! Security researchers turn against HTTP public key pinning

OCSP

The mechanism is there, browsers don't use it - FFS they're online. A couple of extra extensions, to tell the next cert' if the current has expired, and bob's your uncle.

UK IBMers lose crucial battle in pension row

At Sony, in the late 90s, they decided that new employees would be on a defined contributions pension. Existing employees were given the option of staying with defined benefits or getting a payout to switch.

2009 seems a bit late for this sort of thing..

Android-ocalypse postponed: Jide withdraws Remix OS from consumer frontline

Re: Expensive PC...

I can't imagine a 600 Euro PC lasting more than a year... In the real world, you are given the next Dell every 3-4 years.

Thanks for U-turning on biz-killing ban, Ofcom – now cough up, say GSM gateway bods

Re: 999

Back in the day, mobile phone marketing in the UK was based on "using in an emergency". Emergency calls always cost something.

Royal Navy's newest ship formally named in Glasgow yard

Bridge?

Numpties. The bridges are named after the river that they cross - the river Forth.

Build your own IMSI slurping, phone-stalking Stingray-lite box – using bog-standard Wi-Fi

Surely the only thing worth having would be the Kid? As for tracking - isn't the phone's WLAN MAC address exposed anyway?

Re: Can't see that happening - 2FA

Pascal and Dave clearly don't understand that the two factors aren't restricted to the set of [SMS, password]. Authentication from a SIM is relatively strong

Brexit may not mean Brexit at all: UK.gov loses Article 50 lawsuit

SNP?

Dirty COW explained: Get a moooo-ve on and patch Linux root hole

His sin was in not leaving comments in the code

Which would let any hacker do a quick:

find . -name "*" -exec fgrep linus-bug {} \; -print

Hacking "by mind alone"

So what about all that Fuzzing then? that's about as mindless as it gets..

Acronis: Yep, we're using blockchain for backup now

WTF has blockchain got todo with tracking?

It's just a glorified timestamping machine.

Is this the worst Blockchain idea you've ever heard?

Re: Good lord, he's invented the digital timestamp

Exactly. Blockchain is just a <span class="strike">rather</span> fantastically complicated way of timestamping.

You call it 'hacking.' I call it 'investigation'

Re: Please keep your biometric nettles away from my arse

There are cap-emv readers that let you put your credit card in your pc..

Reactive? Serverless? Put to bed? What's next for Java. Speak up, Oracle

Re: Hasn't Java EE been long dead?

Anything more that Servlets, has been unnecessary, slow and stupid for many years (what with hibernate et al). Java will be around for a long time yet..

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!

Amazon is particularly bad, showing me ads for stuff that I already bought from them....

(fuckwits)

How to make the move from ISDN to SIP

Microsoft lync? (or Skype for business)

Celebrated eye hospital Moorfields lets Google eyeball 1 million scans

Getting large samples of biometric data is normally very expensive and complicated. Giving them for free to an internet giant to make money off is just madness

Sorry, kids. Microsoft is turning Minecraft into an 'educational tool'

Until you use autoconf

..then your dreams die.

Brexit-bored Brits back to bashing the bishop after ballot box blues

Pull Johnson?

(Paris, cos I'm sure that she would)

Hacked in a public space? Thanks, HTTPS

Only if your browser trusts the man-in-the-middle's cert'

Android Pay may, er, pay... providing it gets over security hurdle

Re: eliminating the need for consumers to carry a wallet

If it were SIM-based it would work even without power..

BOFH: Thermo-electric funeral

It's now a hammer, it's a Russian Screwdriver

In our part of the world the "russian screwdriver" is indispensible

BOFH: If you liked it then you should've put the internet in it

Re: Tracking

[Also, the "no tailgating" rule is impossible to enforce pretty much anywhere outside of a secure mental health unit or a prison]

for proper security you use man-traps: Go in, doors close, show badge, type PIN, exit doors open.

If only hackers could stop slurping test and dev databases. Wait, our phone is ringing ...

Clearly you paid for copy-pasting marketing sh1te.. but by whom? (The Reg or some snakeoil vendor)

Machismo is ruining the tech industry for all of us. Equally

Questions are an invaluble part of warefare :-)

" is how we treat anyone that dares to ask a question."

Ach, your doing it wrong. Questions are the only way to expose technical incompetance....

"I might be stupid, but you seem to be saying X, but, don't you think that X is really a pile of steaming shite because of A, B & C whereas Y would be much better ?"

Everything bad in the world can be traced to crap Wi-Fi

Ericsson says slow video streaming as stressful as watching a horror film

And to top it all, Ericsson says slow video streaming as stressful as watching a horror film

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-mobile-buffering-horror-ericsson.html

Re: Shit coding

Avian Carrier?

GCHQ spies quashed this phone encryption because it was too good against snoopers

Lawful interception gateway

All telco systems have a lawful interception mechanism. Why does this sort of thing come as a surprise to folk?

ETSI TR 101 943 - Lawful Interception (LI);

Concepts of Interception in a Generic Network Architecture

Microsoft scares the bejesus out of Skype users with x12 price hike

Re: Re:

I wouldn't count on that. They, at least, share an R&D team.

PHONE me if you feel DIRTY: Yanks and 'Nadians wave bye-bye to magstripe

Re: Won't withdraw my earlier post,

doubt it. Smartcards are French.

Only a CNUT would hold back the waves of the sharing economy

Re: Which causes

not "oop north"

T únt T

Why do driverless car makers have this insatiable need for speed?

Patents, patents, and more patents...

Mozilla: We don't give a damn about cheap smartphones

One guy at work had the FF phone. He gave up after a month due to it being unbearably sh!te - nothing todo with the lack of apps (which would be html anyway, right?)

Apple patents NEVERSMASH iPHONE for fumbling fondlers

This is way old... read about it in the Summer. (does this mean that there's prior art on the Patent?)

REVEALED: Apple fanbois are 'MENTALLY UNSTABLE' - iShop staff

Re: Assholes with a sense of entitlement?

It's Grim Up North London

Pagers shout data center creds, pop star airport arrivals

For me, this doesn't count as hacking. More "listening"

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/05/12/how-to-make-a-cheap-pager-scanner/

Apple's new iPADS have begun the WAR that will OVERTURN the NETWORK WORLD

Re: Almost a good idea

was it a cheap Chinese SIM? (you can tell by the pattern on the chip)