Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Chrome add-on warns netizens when they use a leaked password. Sometimes, they even bother to change it

How did they know "Our results highlight how surfacing actionable security information can help mitigate the risk of account hijacking." is my password?

And you thought the cops were bad... Civil rights group warns of facial recog 'epidemic' across UK private sites

Re: Hypocratic oath for maths and tech

The important points are to ensure it doesn't default to 'localhost' if you leave out the parameter

and be really sure you aren't on the production system when testing it.

Re: private ANPR too...with results fed to the police

Until you tie it to specific people and start treating them differently because their car was tracked going to synagogue last Saturday

Re: Legal right

So you live in a country where the police can say 'so you want to hold an exhibition of early Chinese sculpture?' 'well I suppose we could allow that if you install facial recognition'

Re: Hypocratic oath for maths and tech

Basic engineering ethics mean no programmer would make a destroy_london() function.

They should make a destroy_city() function that can take any city as a parameter

Subcontractor's track record under spotlight as London Mayoral e-counting costs spiral

Re: Costs a lot

Arguably gps tracking of ballot boxes would detect if they had made a detour to a party office to be stuffed.

Alternatively you could install an electronic system and give the job to whoever got the lowest vote - on the basis that they weren't being supported by American/ Russian/ N Belgian state sponsored hackers.

NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down

Sounds good

If the US only spies on its own citizens isn't that good for everyone else?

Perhaps we can get the CIA to only overthrow US leaders ?

Simons says don't push us: FTC boss warns regulator could totally break up big tech companies if it wanted

Re: Forced breakups have unintended consquences

Without a broken up ATT there would be no internet, no cheap cell service, no smartphones

If you are in the UK - imagine if the GPO was in charge of all telecoms....

Re: Won't happen

In the USA with a history of "duty to shareholders" it would be certainly negligent and possibly illegal for a CEO to NOT do this

Re: Spoiler Warning?

>Why wouldn't they feel just fine about breaking up those companies, at least?

"Together, the FAANGs make up one percent of the S&P 500.... they were responsible for 38 percent of the index's gain"

Attack these stocks, they move out of the USA and re-register themselves in some more friendly jurisdiction - your stock market falls by more than the 2008 crash.

Everyone blames you

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

Re: Just returned from Holiday

TSA screeners are highly trained in cyber threat detection

One insisted that I turn on my laptop.

It booted to a UEFI prompt

No that wasn't "on" enough

I had to boot Linux login, start X and show him a mouse pointer moving around

I assume bombs only run windows and so once he was sure I was running XFCE he was happy

An Army Watchkeeper drone tried to land. Then meatbags took over from the computers

Re: Stupid humans, or heroic intervention??

The squirrels had weapons of mass destruction

Re: Crew Training

Because if the people flying them are pilots why would the army have them ?

The reasoning is that drones are just guided missiles and therefore artillery.

Pentagon says ethics complaint against JEDI mega-cloud is a non-issue. Its Time Lords say: That is not logical

Oracle are complaining about ethics?

The end is nigh

Seoul cycle, rinse and repeat: South Korea kicks Japan off white list

Re: Two points and a stupid suggestion

>Maybe they could develop a monstrous mining robot?

And use it to invade Australia

(too soon ?)

Re: ... as the US exports toxic nationalism

Except the USA can reasonably do it. There is nothing much they absolutely NEED to import and apart from investment banking and social media not much they rely on export markets for.

Japan is a little trickier - if it can no longer export cars or electronics and so can't afford to import oil its domestic economy is going to get very bad very quickly.

(Not unlike another little island nation that just decided it doesn't need friendly trading relations with its neighbours)

Crunch time: It's all fun and video games until you're being pressured into working for free

Re: Government can act

Vancouver

Government can act

There were complaints about this sort of thing here. So the local government passed the "high tech workers exemption" aka the "EA law" it gave this vital industry special workers rights = no limits on unpaid overtime, no stat holidays, no minimum wage, exempt from almost all health and safety and working condition laws.

Science and engineering hit worst as Euroboffins do a little Brexit of their own from British universities

Re: Brexit bollocks

From now on Baldrick you will stand out in life as an individual.....

Indeed. All the other slaves will be black.

Re: Brexit bollocks

>its because know nothing, paid nothing, never worked and clueless doesnt make an informed voter

But it does seem to make you to prime minister

I could throttle you right about now: US Navy to ditch touchscreens after kit blamed for collision

Re: Too bad it took a collision

The advantage of the touch screen is that ANY of the panels can be configured to do all of the controls. So if one helm is knocked out you can control every from somewhere else - infinity duplicate controls.

It's just that the interface was too complicated and there was no training and the trainees were supposed to learn on the job while doing 24hour/day shifts

Xbox daddy bakes bread with 4,000-year-old Egyptian yeast

Re: Eh?

People expect houses to have the smiley face version

The code for hospitals and some industrial installations requires earth at the top

(I'm betting contractors charge more for the earth at the top medical grade installs)

Alexa, can you tell me how many Chinese kids were forced into working nights to build this unit?

Re: Exporting Misery

We used to force 16-18 year olds onto YTS schemes to keep the unemployment figures down, no scheme no money.

Re: Children?

It's ridiculous that employers are paying 16 year olds a pittance to perform menial tasks under the excuse of training.

Haven't they heard of YTS? - the government should be paying them for this

WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all

Re: How many networks?

>Do they really though?

Yes because it would be expensive to run 2 or 3 separate sets of network cables around a 747. Especially when there are incredibly strict requirements on the type of cable, the conduit, the routing, proximity to other cables, the insulation etc. All of it is very tightly controlled - just not the data on it.

Re: How many networks?

IIRC it's a common physical network for avionics and non-critical data with virtual switches.

There was some eyebrow raising on el'reg of the "wtf" variety at the time.

Of course even if somebody did hack the system it couldn't get through to the secure network says team A. While team B says that even if you could get across the networks nobody could hack the system.

FBI, NSA to hackers: Let us be blunt. Weed need your help. We'll hire you even if you've smoked a little pot in the past

Re: From outside the US

>He failed the drug screen -- had to be terminated.

Really ?

I thought the x86 instruction set proved there was no in-house drug testing at Intel

Re: Depends on your clearance level

> not everyone applying or who might potentially apply is a traditional conformist 50s crew-cut type.

But that is the point of the vetting.

They aren't allowed to ask, do you believe in total obedience to the glorious leader and the superiority of our pure race?

So instead they ask, have you ever visited the wrong foreign country had a tattoo, smoked weed etc?

You don't want to hire the sort of person that might object to your spying on the wrong sort of American citizens

Re: Depends on your clearance level

So the people that are now at the top, when they were hired 40years ago they were presumably asked if they listened to any of that sinful rock and roll music

Re: Depends on your clearance level

Because drugs are only used by commie hippies, so if you use drugs you are a commie hippie and probably a member of ISIS.

The 'official' reason is that you might be blackmailed to keep the information that you had used legal weed secret, but that is only an issue if you get fired for using legal weed.

It's like not hiring gays because they are a blackmail risk if anyone threatened to reveal that they were gay.

Hack computers to steal someone's identity in China? Why? You can just buy one from a bumpkin for, like, $3k

Re: There’s no point in hacking systems to steal strangers' identities to use for nefarious purposes

>Why should your identity be worth less than that of some Chinese farmer?

Because every hacker from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar already has yours from a previous hack

Doesn't scale

> $3,000 per ID.

Why not pay a civil servant in the local office to generate 1000 new blank ids for you ?

It's not like the government is going to notice another 1000 Mr Wongs

F-B-Yikes! FBI bod allegedly hid spy camera under desk to snap coworker's upskirt pics

Re: Well....

Inconceivable

They claim he admitted it

Was this before he had access to a lawyer?

Was this while someone had a gun in his mouth?

Re: Well....

I mean it's not like a contractor would have free access to all their secret information...

Storied veteran Spitfire slapped with chrome paint job takes off on round-the-world jaunt

Re: darn it...

>Last time I looked Greenland wasn't west of West Sussex,

It's also east of West Sussex - but that is a long way around

Is this wise?

Leaving England defenceless in such uncertain times ?

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's personal MiG-29 fighter jet goes under the hammer

Re: I'll bet a plugged nickle ...

Or he will demand that Trump give him the sole supplier contract to run the USAF.

Choc-a-block: AWS sues sales exec for legging it to Google Cloud. Yup, another bitter battle over non-compete clauses

Re: Crazy

Company money lots have

Serfs money none have

Injustice there is

Cloudflare punts far-right hate-hole 8chan off the internet after 30 slayed in US mass shootings

Re: Content arbitration and politics

>Did a mass shooting or other terrorist act happen citing a website which is hosted or mirrored by a website infrastructure company? Yes -> get rid.

Would that include hosting the gun maker's site ?

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's two-dozen government surveillance balloons over America

Re: American railways

A misunderstanding, he wanted to reduce the dependence on foreign coal and use native wild growing shrubs as fuel

He actually made the trains run on thyme.

...... sorry .....

>the USA is becoming a fascist state and that is that.

Ridiculous, have you seen the punctuality record of American railways?

Re: Economics, mate.

>No, there is no experience of legally produced narcotics

not at all a narcotics maker

Another rewrite for 737 Max software as cosmic bit-flipping tests glitch out systems – report

>What do you think Aeroflot are flying?

Tupolev, and they are the greatest planes ever Trump's BFF says so

The NTSB was created because the FAA was originally in charge of both investigating accidents and promoting air travel.

As a result every accident was a one-in-a-million freak occurence, unless the pilots died in which case it was the fault of the pilots

Re: So...

> then have 2-out-of-3 voting on the outputs.Whatever happened to that principle for safety-critical systems

The new system has 3 computers voting, but the result from the most expensive computer is selected by the electoral college

> and ALL FAA decisions get to be second guessed for the forseeable future

Going to make international flights tricky for a while.

Everyone else bans Boeing aircraft until their own agencies have checked them out - in response the US bans airbus from its airspace.

Looks like the only people left flying are Aeroflot

Trump continues on the warpath: Now US tariffs cover nearly everything arriving from China

Re: Trump likes winners

>Recent stats have Vietnam at near maximum industrial capacity as is.

But presumably their capacity to unload a ship from China, re-stamp an export certificate and load a ship to the USA is holding up

Who's for another trade war? Japan hits South Korea, Seoul survivor promises to retaliate

Re: Enemies telling you to hate your friends

But if the economy is looking a it bad and you don't ave any immigrants to blame it's a good technique to distract the peasants.

Of course it would never work here