Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

CEO arranged his own cybersecurity, with predictable results

Re: Shameful confession time:

So the best passwd is the keyboard serial number ?

It's long, random, written down so you wont forget it and nobody looking under your keyboard is goign to suspect it's your passwd !

Re: Customers are the security liability

A special red one that you shake to reset ?

Re: Customers are the security liability

Our dear leaders sent out a fairly good phishing email with a login to a fake O365.

I reported it and got told it was a test and I was a good little minion for not clicking. I also suggested that they have an address to forward these so they can be blocked.

A week later a commandment came down that we were all to install a 'report phising' button by downloading and running a chrome extension from some 3rd party site and granting it all these permissions.

Re: Customers are the security liability

>attackers just needed a "10-minute call with the help desk

That's where our corporate overlords win.

To access the help desk you to be on the secure intranet site. To access the secure internal site you need a security token. Instructions to obtain the token are on the secure internal site.

If you have any problems just raise a ticket, on the secure intranet page.

A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not

Re: All because of crypto

>Challenge: find a way to get £10M from someone who has it and is willing to pay it, into your hands without the police identifying you

1, Call Swiss bank

2, Deposit pile of gold teeth and some bars of god with a repurposed Hindu symbol on them

3, Receive elite premier customer status

ps I wonder how drug dealers do it? I don't see many of the folded fans of fentanyl in downtown east-side memorizing public keys

Re: Like horse thieves

We know who the bad guys responsible are, it's posted on a chalkboard outside the DoD

Today we are blaming Russia ISIS Iran China Belgium Cuba Hamas

So we just need to drone strike any of them that don't have the ability to drone strike back

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

Re: Did something crazy

But that kills music and (checks notes) funds drug dealing and terrorism

Re: UK: Consumer Rights Act 2015 - Chapter 3 - Digital Content

One does not simply walk into Apple HQ

Although apparently lots of workers do walk into the stylish glass walls and concuss themselves

Re: UK: Consumer Rights Act 2015 - Chapter 3 - Digital Content

>As may be expected, American-based companies are usually operating well outside European law

Although the Apple hardware you buy in a shop on Oxford St is actually sold in Ireland, the software sales all legally take place in Narnia and disputes must be lodged with Apple's customer service dept in Mordor

Re: At which point....

>If I write a bestselling book, I don't see why my great-great grandchildren should be entitled to royalties from MY work

Yes that's ridiculous, only the publishing company should still be getting money in the next millennium

Re: To remove DRM, you'll need the open-source library, libdvdcss

>At just ten years old she was already on the "watch list" ... What kind of useless milquetoasts are her generation going to become, anyway?

Perhaps don't let her get a white cat or order a monorail for the shed - just to be on the safe side.

Re: insult to injury

Tutti-Frutti only just resurfaced after the big mans' death because although the BBC had the rights to the songs, they didn't have the rights to make new recordings sung by Coltrane

Re: To remove DRM, you'll need the open-source library, libdvdcss

No the T-shirts were free speech and so protected by the constitution.

Interestingly with the Met police arresting people for having blank signs at Chuck's kingification, would they arrest you for wearing a plain white T-shirt ?

Apple's timepiece turmoil taken to appeals court

Re: Stolen tech

And then the filing fee would be $1M to cover the costs and liability

Also the future of your invention would be decided by some faceless bureaucrat rather than the honest yeomen of an East Texas jury

Re: Stolen tech

>We're in America now.

Didn't Apple buy America ?

Apple's market cap is several times the USA's defence budget - couldn't they just create their own army (only slimmer and with rounded corners) ?

How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip

Plan implemented - staff all eaten by polar bears

Please send more staff, and a plan to remove polar bears

Re: Carrying 1,000 amps

That's why half the pins (or rather balls) are now power and the other half are clocks. Don't know how they get the data in or out - probably magic (or Bluetooth)

Why Nvidia and AMD are roasting each other over AI performance claims

Re: Fight! Fight!

My CEO could beat up your CEO (Unless Dr Su knows Karate)

China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA

Re: We have to thank the USA

With a bit of luck they will even force innovative new solutions - like how Britain blockading Germany in 1914-18 led to artificial fertilizer or French sanctions on America led to the invention of cheese in a can.

Southwest Airlines lands $140M fine for that Christmas IT meltdown

It's more a legacy issue. Every airline, airport, atc region and aircraft manufacturer would love to implement new improved operation software features as soon as everyone else in the system does so that they can use them.

Re: It was horrible

That's the advantage of flying with a major airline.

You might pay 2x as much for the tickets but that's because they have an empty spare plane and crew following each flight to make sure that delays never happen

You also gave to allow more consolidation. Only UnitedAmericanDelta can make the investment in IT to give an optimum customer.experience

I thought this was America ?

The government fining companies for poor customer service is communism

If people don't like how they are treated by airlines they are free to drive

UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan

Re: Late

>Tempest is fully fly by wire capable as part of the requirements.

Wouldn't wireless be more suitable for an aeroplane ?

Re: Amenities

>I bet they were even more amazed that the grog ration had been abolished

One hopes that the other two pillars of naval tradition are still going strong

Re: Amenities

I understand that when the treasonous colonials were allowed to fly their aeroplanes onto HMS her maj and HMS our kid, they were amazed that there were bars on board.

Re: Late

Do the drone pilots have epic mustaches ?

No ?

Then sir, I rest my case

PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here

Re: All those other exceptions

Writes "round objects" on a report

Report comes back "who is round, and to what do they object?"

ObYesMinister

And it probably was

Re: Please speak to George

One in a million errors occur 9 times out of 10

Damn, even the Pope thinks AI and autonomous weapons need reining in

Re: Hmm

>South American socialism hardly has a glorious history

Although probably better than the last wearer of the big hat, and his more Teutonic National version

The St Michael Heavenly Avenger - with multiple independently targeted thuribles can reduce heritics to dust within 3 hail Marys

Re: warned against relying on machines to make moral and ethical decisions

Remember to not look back when leaving Basingstoke or it's pillar of salt time

Re: I'm athiest for a reason!

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

Re: warned against relying on machines to make moral and ethical decisions

No we trained the Kill-o-Matic drone on the message of the old testament.

It now only targets Egyptians, Cananites, Amelekites, first borns and anyone without an ark

Four more months of Section 702 snooping slipped into $890B US defense budget bill

>OK. Do we have any *actual* democracies left? Norway?

You trying saying anything bad about Herring

(in case any vikings are listening in: I love Herring, the more rotten and stinkier the better, I'm glad your entire culture is based on the worship of reject cat food)

Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about 'corporate greed'

Re: Government leasing the infrastructure

5G by the people who brought you the Post Office computer system.

In London at least, the plan to extend mobile phone service to the north has been canceled after a government minister visited Birmingham and got scared

Here in HM's dominions we have a choice of 2 mobile providers who compete ruthlessly to exactly match each other's prices.

We also pay many times more than Europe but we are reassured that the telcos provide a unique cultural role and we should be proud to pay them

Re: Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about 'corporate greed'

Well it would be returned to His Majesties Post Office, so it's his money

Re: Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about 'corporate greed'

The only solution is to nationalize all of them, then without having to waste money on advertising and competition they would be free to invest unlimited amounts of government money into infrastructure and provide a free and unlimited service to the citizenry.

We could achieve this in 5years with a central plan.

Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update

Re: Incomplete

>we have a "TV/movie" reading style when it comes to the Bible.

Well the storyline is a bit children's cartoons

Britain's Ministry of Defence fined £350K over Afghan interpreter BCC email blunder

Also how do they collect the money from the Army ?

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

Re: Emmmmmm

Even I'm not old enough to remember a world pre-ed

It can, along with the much more scary licenses for all the codecs installed.

This isn't 2000s Microsoft

You can install the whole of Ubuntu from the Microsoft app store

Re: EDLIN?

Not a butterfly?

https://xkcd.com/378/

I think you misspelled 'ed'

British railway system is getting another excuse for delays – solar storms

Re: In what world would a solar flare affect a [] train from "shorting" a the section signal out.

Or increases the ground potential between 2 points so that the shorted rail section now looks like it has voltage difference and so isn't connected

To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled?

Re: Remote

The great mistake the master criminal made was to create his own social media platform to announce his crimes on

Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor

Warrants should be banned

Surely the FBI should be allowed to do all it needs to in order to protect us from America's most dangerous enemy - Americans