Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Yes, you can remotely hack factory, building site cranes. Wait, what?

Re: RF control for trains.

It's also safer having a guy standing next to the coupling moving the train rather than one guy standing between the cars handling the coupling and a train driver a 1/2 mile away moving the train.

Re: Hardly surprising

This is the norm for all industrial crane control handsets. Some of the encryption might be a bit naive IF you were close enough to sniff the packets - which would generally mean on site.

The problem detailed in the report is that some of these remote handsets had external ports (for testing/updates etc) and people were connecting these to networked PCs to allow more remote control or easier updates - these extra links weren't secured.

Re: The lowest bidder, with inadequate criteria.

No mining/off-shore stuff built to insanely high standards and costs a fortune.

But the standards were created decades agoand are for physical ruggedness, waterproofing, electrical safety, explosion proof, EMC emissions, reliability - not for being hacked by North Korean Cyber Ninjas.

Re: Trams

It's hard to make some of these things fail "safe"

A lot of equipment gets damaged/causes risk if stopped suddenly so having a system slam on the emergency brakes because a controller loses line-of-site for a second while the operator scratches their nose - might not be the safest option.

But you also don't want to use 2-factor authentication and enter a 16 digit password for an emergency stop.

Re: This weekend

life size remote control Tonka toys

Re: Not good

>Though you would hope that the controller itself would prevent some of the dangers as part of its functional safety management.

How would the controller know that moving the load N instead of E would put it through the window of the bosses car?

The cranes have load sensors and load/angle/extent limits but they don't generally have a map of allowed traverse space - in the way an industrial robot would. Imagine a building site where you had to redefine the safety envelope everytime a delivery arrived or a new wall was built

Re: How does "Offline" and "Wireless" fit in the same conversation exactly?

The radio control handsets are (relatively) secure and "offline"

When they have a port into the remote control handset and you use that to "remote control" the "remote control" from some PC on a wireless network .....

The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins

Re: It is not a lot of money

>spend it on genetics and bio-chemistry,

Using current tools - or have genetics and bio-chemistry employ the physicists to develop new tools ?

Would be tricky to do genetics and bio-chemistry without x-ray diffraction, NMR/IR spectroscopy or the other tools of blue skies particle physics research

Directly MRI, indirectly 1000s of physicists/year - not all of who work as quants for hedge funds.

Re: It is not a lot of money

But the Eu's defence budget is about to drop by £39.7b in a few months.

What a cheep shot: Bird sorry after legal eagles fire DMCA takedown at scooter unlock blog

Re: Legal question

Does anybody happen to have a $30 board that would replace the tracker unit in a Car2Go?

Always fancied a free smart car - especially one that you can park anywhere for free.

...asking for a friend ...

It's the weekend. We're out of puns for now. Just have a gander at China's Moon lander and robo-sidekick snaps, videos

Re: El Reg grammar bonus

Don't give Musk ideas

If I could turn back time, I'd tell you to keep that old Radarange at home

Re: Pesky microwaves

If the Earth was flat all the users would have fallen off by now

Re: Running backwards ?

Perhaps we are rushing toward Germany at high speed and the reference frequency is blue-shifted ?

Re: NTP

>And the network will reach a consensus between computers at different distances from the oven.

NTP = Nuclear Triangulation Protocol

Dozens of .gov HTTPS certs expire, webpages offline, FBI on ice, IT security slows... Yup, it's day 20 of Trump's govt shutdown

Re: Trying to maximise the pain

Unless you go from "Taxes - Govt - park ranger" to "Disney - park ranger - profit"

>Totally agree... right I'm off to catch up on current british politics and brexit.

I think the difference is that everybody on both sides thinks that Brexit is a fsckup

While the government shut down is just politics as usual.

Re: Trying to maximise the pain

Because the only thing more efficient than public servants is PPI deals with Capita.

Ideally you want to reduce the big bills first. There are going to be a lot of Angolan 'freedom fighters' unemployed now that their civil war has ended. Replacing the DoD with a bunch of Africans on $1/day will save $$$$Tn. And it mans that politicians no longer have to be worried about poor white kids are being killed in the next war.

Re: Just an idea

>so that works out at 1 in every 160 full time employees in the US is furloughed. That is f%&king insane!

Presumably the perfect Republican argument for slimming government.

If 1 in 160 of US workers are non-critical government employees - doesn't that mean the USA is a communist country?

Re: About this new wall

Obviously one Mexican wall wouldn't be enough.

Officialy, as far as ignoring the constitution goes, the border exists 100mi from the actual border, coasts or international airports. So we simply need to build more walls along these 'borders'

Re: Operational Incompetence

>With Let's Encrypt it the renewal process can be fully automated.

Not when the renewal process is, get qualified as an approved government bidder, respond to an RFP, certify that you pass all the ethical standards, make a contribution to the correct politician's campaign fund, promise a massive number of jobs in the right area.

Get the contract

Submit an invoice, be paid 180 days later unless there is a shutdown or some new politician gets elected

Re: Just an idea

Or you just have a permanent shut down.

Agencies like TSA, DHS, the nuclear bit of DOE are rolled into the DoD and get funding.

Those workers in agencies you want to keep (IRS, SEC) are "paid" their regular salary in the form of 99year interest free loans every two weeks from the Army/Navy credit unions .

The fed credit unions are then "bailed out" - there is never any problem with paying banks.

Then all the agencies that certain Republicans have wanted to remove (FCC, consumer protection, FDA, DOE etc) will close when it becomes obvious to their staff that they are never going to get paid

Re: About this new wall

If they were smarter politicians the democrats would support it.

But only so long as it would do what Trump promised and be impenetrable to middle eastern Mexican terrorists.

So they get a quote for a Berlin Wall++, with a 5mile deep minefield, dozens of electric fences, machine guns, anti-tank missiles etc etc until it is going to cost $squillion. Then demand that the senate produces a bill funding it from tax revenue.

Strictly speaking he didn't order government shut down.

The government is only allowed to open if it has a budget, congress hasn't agreed to the budget and therefore they can't legally spend anything (except for things like defence that have a rolling pre-approved budget)

Re: Operational Incompetence

You can't renew them before they expire - that would be spending next years budget

Senator Wyden goes ballistic after US telcos caught selling people's location data yet again

Re: No Warrant Required

Unless it's for national security, or covered by an existing "all customers all places at all times" warrant, or they are at the border (ie within 100mi of the coast, border or an international airport).

Of course if you break these laws you can expect a swift and decisive pardon

Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free

Re: Easily solved

You just build a small section of wall and move it to where the news cameras are showing the president inspecting it.

Another great Russian invention

Cambridge Analytica sister firm pleads guilty, fined £21k for failing to obey UK information commish

Re: So reading between the lines

I was an unofficial BOFH for a startup that went bust.

The administrator's lawyers sent me a bunch of letters demanding that I make all the data available to them = I come into their offices and reassamble a bunch a servers in a store room, restore them and go through them for any IP that might be valuable. I asked if I was being paid and got back a bunch of more threatening letters about my legal duty to hand over any information.

Unfortunately I had wiped the ssh keys from my personal machine and they didn't know anything about boot disks.

Amazon exec tells UK peers: No, we don't want to be dominant. Also, we don't fancy being taxed on revenues

Re: Heh?

It paid £1,7M on £72.M profit, so it paid abut 4% tax - apart from the question of how it made only £72M profit on ££££££ of AWS sales

AT&T (sucks) upgrades folks to 5G (Evolution) that isn't actually 5G

They said FTTP, they didn't see which "P" .

Many of these telcos have Fibre To Their Premises - it's just that they don't have fibre to yours!

Re: 5G is 20 Gbps?

5G is 20 Gbps (*)

(*) small print. 20gbps is the total data rate of all the phones on our network added together, your rate might vary

Tap mobile

Ours goes up to 11G

Attention all British .eu owners: Buy dotcom domains and prepare to sue, says UK govt

Re: How long until the new referendum will be called?

>The people that didn't vote, it's their own fault

Everybody under 18 when the vote happened gets to choose to stay in the eu

Re: industry practice?

Waiting for the orange haired one to remove all non-usa .com/.org domains

Re: How long until the new referendum will be called?

Surely it should be 'best of three' ?

Re: Don't worry, it's only money

Does anybody actually use a .eu ?

I suspect that the 275K UK registrations are all from a few ad agencies in London ensuring that their clients aren't domain squatted

You were told to clean up our systems, not delete 8,000 crucial files

Re: Backups

Stuff you want to keep is on the shared network drive.

Stuff labelled "temp" on your local drive doesn't get backup up

Stuff you want to use again is kept in the recycle bin, that's why it's called "recycle"

Nobody in China wants Apple's eye-wateringly priced iPhones, sighs CEO Tim Cook

Re: Hermès

Except most makers of Velben goods don't rely on locking people into their infrastructure for ongoing revenue. Volkswagon aren't planning on making money from Veyron buyers paying a 30% mark-up on Bugatti petrol

Re: Its worse than he is making out.

>What a country of >1 Billion people is its third largest market?

Better to think of it as two countries of 100M in rich cities on the coast and 900M peasants in the fields.

Re: There's disposable income then there's

> did Cook really believe the buyers of that model would have run to buy something costing almost thrice?

Apple doesn't care about you buying the phone so much as you buying apps/music/movies/etc on their infrastructure for decades. A cheap phone attracts poor people who don't spend as much online.

Huawei CEO defiant on security claims, vows to be so good, 'no market can keep us away'

Re: From the Article...

The trouble is that Intel, Microsoft, CISCO, IBM etc all also say that, and all also rely on friendly relations with America's 3 letter agencies.

Um, I'm not that Gary, American man tells Ryanair after being sent other Gary's flight itinerary

Re: It'll never happen...

Isn't ICO/GDPR precisely the reason that they don't fix this?

If some random Gary emails and asks them to change a customer data and they do - won't the real customer rain down fines and brimestone upon them?

It's the sort of thing that means companies now require a letter from your lawyer signed by 3 popes before they will deal with you

China's loose Chang'e: Probe lands on far side of the Moon in science first, says state media

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Re: Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

>why are substantial resources being wasted on the more or less pointless ISS?

Boeing looked like it would be in trouble if defence spending was cut at the end of the cold war.

Fortunately Boeing had invested heavily in politicians.

An upset tummy and a sphincter-loosening blackout: Lunar spaceflight is all glamour

Re: That Genesis reading

But they only reached the moon because of YHWH's guiding hand.

Remember if you want to achieve great technical feats in space you just have to pray harder than the commies (and capture better Nazis)

France next up behind Britain, Netherlands to pummel Uber with €400k fine over 2016 breach

Re: Stolen ?

But they didn't "steal" them - they didn't deprive the owner of the use of them.

This is more like - you made a giant photocopy of the credit cards in your wallet and put it in your window with a big sign saying "my personal card info"

Scrubtastic end to 2018 as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arianespace all opt for another day on Earth

A whole family of warning levels:

Disreputable uncle

Favourite auntie

Her mother

Red-headed stepchild

German cybersecurity chief: Anyone have any evidence of Huawei naughtiness?

Re: Coming up next

Don't the USA and Australia have laws requiring their electronics to be compromised and requiring people to lie about it ?

The Palm Palm: The Derringer of smartphones

2nd phone

Has anyone found an operator that will let you have two phones with the same number active on the same network at the same time ?

Or are you expected to swap the sim every time you want to go jogging, to the gym, etc etc