Posts by Matt Bryant

Spanish police cuff three Anonymous hack suspects

RE: Re: Matt Bryant's post

Please, holster that hogwash cannon of yours. What "freedom" was defended by attacking the PSN, other than to try and force corporates to not prevent security holes that morons like the Anonyputzs would use to steal other peoples' cash and online identities? You can whine all you like about historic Sony wrongs like DRM and CD rootkits, but if you don't like Sony's work then don't buy their products and leave the rest of us alone. If the rumours I hear are true, the police Worldwide are not going after the deluded LOIC users, they're targetting the people behind them that hack other peoples' servers to use as DDOS machines, and finding that those same people are using those servers for other crimes like creditcard theft. 30 new idiots can step up all they like, but if the police keep finding the people running the core systems then those 30 are just going to be twiddling their thumbs. And expect the law to come down on those caught like a ton of bricks - prevention is better than a cure, and the authorities will want the message going out loud that cybercrime carries a hefty sentence.

RE: 3 fall and 30 more step up

I think you'll find that's more like "3 go down and 30 that would otherwise get involved in the stupidity suddenly see that it's not all fun and games, think of their careers/liberty, and decide to go do something useful instead."

iCloud Communications sues Apple for 'irreparable injury' to trademark

LOL!

What iCloud Communications LLC just said to Jobs: "Hey, you, moneybags! Buy me! BUY ME!"

Should be a nice earner for the iCloud Coms shareholders either way. Someone in Apple HQ must have really skipped on the homework on this one, or does Steve really go to market with the attitude "Full speed ahead and damn the icebergs!"

Ex-Google engineer dubs Goofrastructure 'truly obsolete'

RE: What about support?

It's called "documentation", and I don't mean a few comments in the code. If you have good design, implementation and operational documentation, plus well-commented code, you can take a green code monkey and get him to modify and update code written by the best dinosaur. Problem is, most people are like you - they don't know fudge about how to document anything. The other problem is good documentation was rare 25-odd years ago because few realised how essential it was. Most companies thought they'd only be running the same code for a few years, not thirty! Which is why we have so many companies running inhouse COBOL or C/C++ code from the '80s, and they are too scared to change because they don't actually know how it works.

RE: they wouldn't let me do what I wanted

And coders get upset when we tell them managing them is like herding cats! Agreed, it does sound like he was most upset about the lack of pace when he didn't stop to consider that everything has to move in lockstep to avoid one new component stuffing the whole lot up. A large corporate system is often composed of many applications all working together, and the control issues of managing development grows exponentially with each added application. I worked with one system that had grown at one point to just over three-hundred individual projects, all of which had to be kept in lockstep to ensure it all worked seamlessly. Most of the project managers had ten-plus individual projects on the go, and most hadn't a clue about other projects they impacted on but which weren't in their immediate area. Everything from overall strategy to individual project and total solution testing had to be co-ordinated. Quite often, everything would go on hold whilst one small but crucial cog in the machine lagged on development. It was a monster, and the biggest cat herd I've ever seen, but I'm sure it wasn't as big as the Google system is.

RAF Eurofighter Typhoons 'beaten by Pakistani F-16s'

RE: PAF not trained by USAF

"PAF is not really trained by the USAF...." No, but the PAF F-16 pilots got trained by the Yanks as part of the deal. All their tactics come right out of the US manuals. The Indians know this and have the manuals in question, and have developed counter-tactics.

"....If you want to blame anyone, then blame Władysław Józef Marian Turowicz...." A lot has changed over the last 60 years. During Musharef's rule, for example, only a few pilots of known "reliability" were allowed to fly, and they were very restricted on what they could do just in case a jihadi had snuck into the PAF and intended to crash his jet onto Mushie's headquarters. American satellite and observer analysis showed that PAF bombing runs during the Western Frontier campaigns against the rebel tribes were of a very poor standard, presumably because the pilots hadn't the air time or experience to do the job properly.

"....The air war lasted two weeks and the Pakistanis scored a three-to-one kill ratio..." The PAF CLAIMED that kill ratio, but post-war analysis of the 1971 Bangladeshi conflict through grave doubts on the PAF claims. It's not surprising the PAF would seek to inflate their claims as it was another war they lost to India. There's also the little fact the PAF were flying defensively and mainly against Indian ground-attack jets at low levels. When the fighting was fighter vs fighter at high levels there seems to have been little between the two air forces.

"....ask the Israeli pilots during the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars - they downed 10 Israeli AF planes with 0 losses flying Arab planes at a time when the Arab AFs where getting shot down all over the place....." Incorrect. At least one PAF officer in a Syrian MiG-17 was shot down by Mirages in '67, and that's proveable because he fell on the Israelli side of the border. Several PAF pilots are thought to have been killed by Israelli jets, but the PAF pilots only claimed four kills (and that's claimed, not were verified, and definately not 10-0). The only verified case of a PAF pilot shotting down an Israelli was when Gideon Dror was shot down and taken prisoner whilst protecting Vantour bombers attacking Iraqi airfields in '67. The PAF pilot claimed to shoot down three Israellis in that attack but only Dror's loss could be verified. The majority of the PAF volunteers didn't arrive until after the war had alerady finished and then flew Syrian MiG-21s in the "peace" that followed, achieveing a big, fat nothing.

I would suggest you seek a more balanced view rather than swallowing whatever injured PAF pride spouts.

RE: well

Yeah, except that, when the Septics needed to "re-discover" dogfighting, they had to go ask the RAF how it was done. Strange that no-one has mentioned that the Typhoon has had no problems beating F-15s and even (alledgely) the F-22, both of which are flown by very capable US pilots. That would be the same US that is the source of PAF training. Was the PAF guy called Captain Mohammed Pinnochio by chance?

Was the PAF guy lying?

Well, let's put it this way - the Pakistanis have gone to war three times (declared wars, that is) against India, and according to Pakistanis they won each time.....

Time to say goodbye to Risc / Itanium Unix?

RE: Throughput is key

".....sure the Power 7/AIX combo is expensive but the X86 world (in these particular circumstances) lags well behind the RICS System....." Congratulations, you found the perfect solution. For your application. To pretend that means you will see the same performance across all applications in all environments is either naive or deceitful.

".....IMHO, the X86 architecture is well past its sell by date......" Seems to be going quite well, though. By the way, did you stop to consider that RISC is at the point where future performance gains by anything more than die shrink are unlikely? Why do you think there is so little info on the IBM Power public roadmaps, it's because there is little more they can add to a geriatric design.

A peek inside Apple's iCloud data center

How many datacenters?

Only one dc means one disaster = bye-bye iCloud. I know Apple never got that whole high-availability idea because they never got deeper into the enterprise than the crayola department desktops, but surely hp and/or NetApp would have pointed out that they need site redundancy too?

Greek police nab Pentagon hacking carding suspect

More clay feet spotted!

Yet another net "libertarian", no doubt, who turns out to be just a petty crim.

Oracle whips out private cloud with blades

Ah, just like old times!

I feel quite nostalgic! It so reminds me of all those carefully-crafted price and performance comparisons we used to see for SPARC-Slowaris. First question I'd ask is were the hp blades allowed to use Virtual Connect and FlexFabric?

HP threatens Oracle with legal action for jumping Itanic

So, how does that work?

"I'm going to force you to write software?" Yeah, I'm sure even if hp win that Oracle will put their best people on it right away - not! Even if hp win, I'm sure what will happen is Oracle will then continue to rig their software to run best on unwanted SPARC. I don't remember there being a legal commitment from Oracle to hp to ensure Itanium releases come out the same time as Slowaris releases, even though hp did push for that in the past, so it looks like Oracle could lose and still cripple their software development on Itanium. I hope Leo enjoys putting Larry on the rack, but I'd much rather he put some money into developing better options to replace the Oracle products.

Why do I think Oracle might lose? "......Oracle declined to comment on the matter....." When Larry goes quiet you know it's serious!

Nintendo takes control with next-gen games console

RE: not kid or screen friendly

Yes, but remember the wriststraps for the Wiimotes? Solved a lot of problems. A wriststrap for the new WiiU should suffice. And everyone said kids would break the DS, but they seem pretty robust. In fact, I hear more people moaning about keys popping out and case cracks in their iPhones than DSs.

RE: LOL

I can still remember the first blast of Mario Karts on a SNES back in 1990-something-or-other (1992?). That was after a lads' night out on the town. We have a Wii that gets fired up whenever friends bring round their kids, and Mario Karts is still one of the faves with all ages. Whilst the graphics have come on massively, it's still a simple game and doesn't require "awesome" graphics capability. I remember also many slating the SNES as having "poor graphics" and then comparing it to the original Sony PlayStation. It didn't stop the SNES selling well, because the games offered were good. When the DS came out there were plenty of "experts" saying its screen was too small and the graphics weren't good enough, usually comparing to the PSP, but the DS was an even bigger success. The Wii console itself was described as "cartoony" and "primitive" by Sony fanbois, but that didn't stop the Wii being another big success.

Why? Game play. High-tech, uberspec consoles are nothing without good games. The original SNES was good, but it had cabled consoles. So Nintendo got rid of them. Then parents complained that their kids were hogging the TV, so Nintendo have now made a way to shift gaming off the TV onto the handset. Nintendo seem to listen pretty well. And they'll probably do it with the same core titles that work so well now. Meanwhile, if I want real graphics performance, I'll go play on a PC - a much better games platform than any Sony PS-whatever.

Hackers jailbreak iOS 5 in under 24 hours

RE: It time.

"Jailbreaking? There's an app for that!"

Feds turn one in four black-hat hackers into snitches

ROFL!

There is no honour amongst thieves, whether they be muggers or geeks in their Moms' basements.

HP erects common storage platform

RE: Don''t screwup 3par!

If anything, it would seem the 3PAR products are getting more love in hp than the XP arrays.

Virgin IT dept shocked by donkey-shagging Taliban

RE: Maybe...

In many Islamic countries it's only a crime if it's not your donkey (or goat, or camel). Shias class it as a crime if you don't kill the animal afterwards ("sorry, goat, but you were just a one-night fling"), or if you sell the meat from the animal in your own village. Well, if you're a bloke, that is - both Sunni and Shia women are executed if caught enjoying anything hairier than the average Mo. I'm not sure what the Islamic punishment is if you are caught watching a vid of beastilaity - maybe go work for Virgin?

RE: Nothing new....

When we used to borg another comapny's network into ours, guaranteed if there was any pr0n to be found it was usually a hidden stash on some kit only their network/firewall admins had access to.....

When in Rome....

Being part of an international group is fun because you often get email sent to you by mistake from those a bit quick to click in the company addressbook. After we borged a French company, there was the funny incident of an UK's director's PA getting a series of naturist pics sent through to her because her surname and initials were shared by one of our new French colleagues. The guilty parties were quite surprised by the attitude of their new and prudish UK overlords, to the point where the French HR director even asked what the fuss was all about! Needless to say, the UK's HR scheme got implemented across Europe despite Continental objections.

RE: Could have been worse...

... or German cucumbers!

Aliph Jawbone Era motion sensing Bluetooth headset

Still stuffing it in your ear?

Bone conduction for both incoming and outgoing signals seems to be a better option. So-called "bonephones" even allow you to wear earplugs without affecting the headphones, a must for trackdays and useful for noisy datacenters.

FBI affiliates hacked by LulzSec

RE: The problem is...

"Military and TFOLAO don't tend to get on with people who think "out of the box"....." I call male-bovine-manure on that one! There are quite a number of "unconventional" people I know working in the industry, simply because they could show they could do the job as well as be unconventional. You seem to have swallowed the bilge put out by so many that can't do the job - "I only didn't get that job because I'm too off the wall, man!" There's a difference between being capable of working outside the box and being a lazy and unsklilled.

Yes, there are a large number of fakers in the security market, just liek any market that promsies lots of money, but just like with cowboy builders, they soon get found out and lose their customers.

Oxfam's 'Grow' world hunger plan: More peasants

Two birds, one stone....

OK, why don't we ship our long-term unemployed AKA slackers off to Africa? We can pay the African goverment the same money we'd pay the slackers in aid which can be used to buy the infrastrcuture required for development, and the slackers can then re-learn the work ethic by having to subsistance farm for a while. Nothing will encourage a bit of elbow grease like the fact you'll starve if you don't! Any excess food produced can be given to the local government to seel to raise even more funds for infrastrcuture projects. After three years, we let the slackers come back on the condition they find gainfaul employment within six months, otherwise it's back off to Africa again. They might then be more inclined to take the lower-paid jobs instaed of leaching. The Africans get plenty of aid money, we should get less unemployed. If it's too successful and we start seeing a shortfall of unemployed we could always expand the scheme to include other slackers like journalists, arts teachers.....

/Sorry, was that a bit too right-wing even after the article?

WW2 naval dazzle-camo 'could beat Taliban RPGs'

Where's the usual Lewis rant?

Isn't he supposed to have told us (again) that what we really need is more Septic-made choppers so none of our troops even have to poottle about in APCs? Or that the RN can do it all by firing (a small number of) cruise-missiles from a sub?

Please stop...

"....An RPG-29 penetrated the frontal armour of a British Challenger 2 in Iraq...." Not quite. The round ricocheted off the road in front of the tank and hit the thinner armour under the nose. Even then, the armour was thick enough to soak up so much of the round's power that the damage to the tank was a coin-size hole and the driver lost three toes. The tank was not "destroyed" or "disabled". After an investigation, all Challengers in the theatre were fitted with additonal counter-measures under the nose which ensured the "success" could not happen a second time. Other attacks with RPG-29s and even the latest Iranian anti-tank weapons failed to penetrate the Challengers. In combat against Shia militia in Al-Amara, Iraq, one Challemger2 is reputed to have taken 27 hits from RPGs and missiles in one engagement without any impact on its fighting ability. The only weapon the crews really worried about was the larger IEDs being fired under the vehicle against the thinner floor armour.

The Abrams pictured looked to be the victim of an IED, not an RPG, and was probably destroyed by Allied air forces to stop the vehicle's systems falling into terrorist hands. AFAIK, the US claims the only Abrams ever lost to an AT weapon were a couple of "friendly-fire" victims hit by much bigger Hellfire missiles. So far, the upgraded Abrams does not seem to have a problem with RPG-29 hits.

Maybe that's because the tandem warhead on the RPG-29 "Vampir" is designed to defeat the external reactive armour added to many MBTs in the '80s, and is largely ineffective against more modern Chobham-type laminate armour. The RPG-29 got a lot of publicity after it was claimed that they had stopped many Israeli tanks in the Lebananon in 2006 (the Merkavas used reactive armour), but an Israelli investigation showed only five Merkavas had been total losses in the Lebanon. Four of those were due to large IEDs, the fifth (a Mk3 without the latest armour) had been stopped by a Kornet E anti-tank missile. All the other occaissions where Merkavas were penetrated by Hezbollah AT weapons were put down to the latest Russian-made Kornet and Metis AT missiles, and possibly the older AT-5. Since the Lebanon battles the Israellis revised tactics and upgraded just about all their Merkava units to the better Mk4, with the result that not one Merkava was lost in the Gaza operations in 2008, despite Hamas having plenty of RPG-29s. The Israelis have since added their Trophy missile defence system to the Merkava Mk4, which should stop even the Kornet getting a hit.

Maybe the MoD should take note that the Israellis have experimented with urban and disruptuve camo on armoured vehicels and decided it had little value, going back to standard olive-khaki schemes.

RE: Hey Matt,

Surely not feeding the trolls amounts to neglect or animal cruelty?

RE: Blowing smoke @ Bryant

As I recall, the argument for the dust-blowers was that it could produce a continuous dustcloud without the need to first spot a threat, whereas smoke grenade launchers only work the once for a short time, and then only after the threat has been spotted and the launchers triggered. If a tank had already used its smoke it was unable to hide until the launchers (all external) had been reloaded - not likely in a firefight. I think you'll also find that the smoke grenades used to produce the "instant" smokescreen on modern armoured vehicles also include particles to generate IR "fog", so your own thermal and IR kit is also blinded by them. Whether the dustcloud experiment story is true or military urban folklore is debateable, but I've heard it several times from different sources so I suggest there must be an element of truth in it.

RE: The British Army tried this in Berlin in the 80's

Thanks, I'd seen a similar pic but thought it was a one-off experiment, I didn't know it had been as widespread. Interesting theory on how to hide a Chieftain tank, I wonder if it worked from the air as a defence against Hinds?

RE: Take a Page From History...

The Taleban gunners are likley to be far too far away to be able to identify the pages as those from the Koran. A large slice of the Taleban are also illiterate, so they wouldn't be able to tell what the pages were even if they did get close enough. You could announce that you are pasting bits of the Koran all over your vehicles, but that would upset the locals, leading to less support from them and probably the usual Muslim riots Worldwide.

If we can fly Reaper drones over Afghanistan from the other side of the World, I don't see why we can't make drone APCs to scout out routes and act as sacrificial lambs to IEDs. RPGs I see as much less of a problem - spaced and reactive armour has been around for years and will stop most of the hollow-charge weapons the Taleban are likely to have, so why bother with silly paint schemes?

RE: Man, you know a lot about these ships

Sorry, I was spelling from memory.

Not just range and bearing.

The idea was also to alter the silhouette, making the ship itself harder to identify. Probably the most successful case of this was the Bismark, which had dark areas painted to her bow and stern as well as over her superstructure. This made her look shorter from a distance. When the Bismark was breaking out into the Atlantic, she was steaming with the smaller heavy-cruiser Prinz Eugen ahead of her, when the unfortunate HMS Hood chased her down. Hood's crew opened fire on the Prinz first, being tricked into thinking the Prinz was the Bismark, no doubt partly due to Bismark's camo.

I'm not sure there is much value to camo in the Afghan conflict - the vehicles are largely stuck on known tracks/roads, and will usually be accompanied by a large dust cloud when moving at any speed. Probably a far better idea to fit stronger spaced armour, or just use drone vehicles to head up a column and take the brunt of an ambush.

Another "clever" idea....

May be a myth, but I've heard several versions of an equally "clever" idea story from the Sixties. Some boffin decided that dust clouds made APCs much harder to hit with RPGs, so he talked the US Army into trying M113s with big leaf-blowers on the front. The idea was the blowers would blow a cloud of dust in front of and to the sides of the APC, and stop any Johnny Foreigner types getting an accurate bead on the vehicle. The story goes that it wasn't until presented to the more practical Brits/Australians/Israellis that it was pointed out the dust also made it impossible for the driver to see where he was going too!

Windows 8: Microsoft’s high-stakes .NET tablet gamble

Interoperability two-step?

I suspect that this is a refined version of the old M$ "embrace, extend and extinguish" startegy. M$ is going to keep all the Silverlight and .NET goodies for later, after it has spun a good tale of interoperability with their competition. Previously, M$ has fought from the position of "our way is better", and then been forced to add in support for competitiors' products if only to avoid the attention of monopolies bodies and whilst fighting off law suits. Remember the M$ JVM fun? Sun made a mess of Java, M$ made the technically better job, but M$ took a brow-beating for their "aggressive startegy". This got M$ plenty of grief and split buyers into either pro-M$ or anti-M$ camps. I suspect that this time M$ will do an Oracle - play nice, get on the inside track, but produce their own and better product by ripping off the competition. The result allows M$ to say "try our way, it's better, but you can also use everyone else's toys if you want." The strategy allows M$ to have their own cake (apps which will only run on M$ tablet and phone products) but also eat everyone else's cake (all the general Java apps), but sidestep the monopolies worries. Oh, and I bet the M$ "our way" will have Flash!

Resellers and customers frustrated by botched Oracle deliveries

RE: Oracle...

"....a 6-8 week lead time....." What, they making the things from raw materials!?!?! That would imply they're not even holding a stock of components at the factory but ordering them from the manufacturers as required. Cheaper for Oracle, not so good for the customers. With them not seeming to hold a stock of components, I wonder if any of their suppliers has been hit by events in Japan?

Oracle or distie issue?

Surely Avnet and Arrow are holding stock in their warehouses and shipping it out, so they must be in control of the eventual delivery? Or are Oracle using a pull-demand model, with everything being built only on order and then shipped direct to the customer? The latter would lay the blame at Oracle's door (or rather their shipping company), but I seem to recall both IBM and hp using K+N as well for deliveries to us without any issues. I'm not surprised Oracle had fun borging the Sun back office, all system mergers/migrations are fun, but that was over a year ago, surely it should be working by now? Anyone got a quote from K+N?

Server biz bouncing back to boom times

RE: @Jesper Frimann

OK, just so all us trolls can agree on something without upsetting the others, let's look for a neutral "victim" to beat up on.

So, notice how the Apple server figure is a big fat zero again?

/Shhh, fanbois don't count as real trolls 'cos real trolls don't wear turtlenecks!

New Sony hack exposes more consumer passwords

RE: The wrong approach.

What, there's an "approach" in the hacking? Face it, you're never going to get Sony to put OtherOS back on a PS3, so what do you hope to gain? Childish kicks? You want to embarass Sony, but where is the benefit to the hackers? The reality is the hacking is itself nothing more than a nuisance exercise more likely to land some people with criminal records and bring more discredit to the Linux community. Sony will not die, the PSN will carry on. You don't want to buy another Sony device then that's fine, but for you to try and force others not to buy Sony products is just forcing your views on them. Most PS3 users couldn't give a stuff about OtherOS, they justy see a bunch of spoilt skiddies on a web-based vandalism spree. You talk about Sony's image, but the Joe Public perception of Anonymous and associated groups are that they all need to get out of their Moms' basements, get jobs and leave the PSN the fudge alone.

RE: "Brag on IRC, 4chan and wherever I can"

If I was into net crime, I wouldn't be as stupid as to advertise my "victories" on websites and channels known to be frequented by law enforcement agents.

Also, I never download pr0n. Never. <Cough, looks away>

RE: Happiness is a failing Sony

Please stop and think for a moment. You read about the hacks on tech webistes, maybe a brief article on the Beeb, and that's it. Most Sony customers won't even read about it because they don't go to tech webbies and go straight to the Sports section of the BBC website. Then, you have to place yourself in the boots of the average Sony customer, who probably thinks "So what, they got a few email addresses, can't you just get loads of those off Google?" At most, one or two may think twice of signing up for any Sony film promos. It will do SFA to dent sales of other Sony products such as TVs or laptops, and probably very little long-term damage to PlayStation sales either.

What it will do is harden Sony's attitude to Linux and any form of future collaboration, and mean even the most innocent of looks, either at Sony's websites or hardware, will mean a prompt visit by Sony lawyers and probably the local plod. The PS3 owners I know are annoyed with Sony over the loss of their online gaming service. But they're far angrier with the haxors who they see as a minority ruining everyone else's fun just because they can't play with their "hobby OS".

RE: Personal!! pain!! shocker!!

As I understand it, Sony did use advertising with the PS2 as Linux-ready and supplied additional bits (OtherOS, Ethernet adapter, harddrive) so you could use it as a "PC" but retain the ability to boot it up as an ordinary PS2 for gaming. They added a feature to the PS3 after launch to allow the same for the PS3, but then decided it introduced a "security risk" and dropped it from development for the PS3 Slim model. They then released a firmware update (3.21) that killed the dual-boot option and made the PS3s that could already dual-boot into game-only PS3s. Many users that want to keep the dual-boot capability simply didn't install the firmware update. Probably a bit simplified, but that's the sequence of events as I can find it. You could argue that Sony removed a paid-for feature from a product, but you could also argue that the security of the service they offered was paramount. Just imagine the screaming if someone had introduced a virus that attacked PS3s via the Sony network. I'm betting the vast majority of PS3 buyers had zero interest in using Linux on the PS3 and therefore the security of the service given to them outweighed the loss to a few hobbiests.

So, for all those pretending they have some moral right to go trashing Sony's websites, the answer would seem obvious - keep your PS3 at the old firmware prior to 3.21, or buy a PS2 (or just a cheap PC of eBay, it would probably be a better Linux PC than a PS3 anyway), and just STFU. It is ironic that the haxors are moaning about Sony's security when Sony removed the dual-boot because it introduced security issues!

RE: let's just review...

I think you're giving the hackers waaaaaay too much credit. I think a more likely timeline for the typical hack would be as follows:

NOON: Wake up when Mom comes in and starts screaming about not having got job yet.

1PM: Surf pr0n.

2PM: Surf alt news channels and hacker forums.

3PM: Bored, look at jobsites to keep Mom quiet.

3:05PM: Chat with fellow losers on 4Chan, bitch about Sony even though don't even own a Sony product.

5PM: Hatch plan to use 1337 skillz to scan all Sony webistes with fellow losers, objective being to "show them".

5.05PM: Having exhausted very limited skillz, download hacking tool (and compromise own PC with buit-in and hidden rootkit), start automated scan of Sony websites.

5.10PM: Get a hit, follow online instructions from the hacking tool, get inside minor Sony website run by a third-party.

6:00PM: Having satisfied childish desire for vandalism, download some of the user database (can't downlaod all becuase harddrive is full of pr0n and also now full off scammer/spammer sh*t from the rootkit that came with the hacking tool).

6:05PM and for rest of the night: Brag on IRC, 4chan and wherever I can about how 1337 we are, pretend it was a major Sony site, but not mentioning the hacking tool, enjoy praise from fellow losers.

Dell rumoured to be looking at Brocade

So....

.... how many Brocade shares does (alledgedly) Mansky need to shift?

<COUGH>boost<COUGH>

Seeing as many other vendors with bigger pockets (IBM and hp, or even Snoreacle) also use lots of Brocade kit, even if Brocade were truly a Dell target it is highly likely that Dell would lose a bidding war (remember 3PAR and Netezza).

Admin: Gmail phishers stalked victims for months

The weakest link in any security setup....

...is always the luser.

Skype reverse-engineered and open sourced

RE: @AC

Yes, but M$ still has the cash and lawyers to bury you so deep in lawsuits that even should you mount a defence, you will be broke long before you get the cases dismissed. And they can afford to send threatening legal letters to any hoster that would float your notSkype service, killing your network. And the PR machine to mount a campaign making out your notSkype is really a security risk, a way to introduce trojans and other nasties to regular Skype users, and only used by paedophiles/terrorists/<insert unwanted-types-of-the-week here>. Meanwhile, they have more than enough coders to add a small tweak to the Skype code which will leave your notSkype users unable to connect to proper Skype.

Never underestimate the ability of lots of cash.

Hackers pwn PBS in revenge for WikiLeaks doco

RE: watch it here:

"......Why would PBS be high on anyone's target list?....." Well, that is the key to understanding the Anonyputzers. It's simply the mentality of the playground bully - pick on the weakest target. Everyone knows PBS is not going to have uber-security becuase PBS is hardly some major corporation rolling in dough. Why risk getting caught trying to hack a target with real defences and real worth when you can beat up on the easy target and then brag about how 1337 you are?

RE: B'WAHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

I'm hoping that was humour, but I suspect otherwise given the poor grasp of reality shown by most Wikileaks supporters.

"....Bradley Manning have the cajones to do what's right....." Sorry, but with every new bit of info it looks more and more like Manning is just an attention seeking loser, upset that he couldn't fit in into the Army, that threw a whobbler after his boyfriend dumped him! So far, his motivations look far from noble and more like those of a child. I'm not surprised the Anonyputzers got upset by a PBS documentary that showed how shallow Manning's and Assnut's claims to the moral high ground really are.

Britain mounted secret 2010 cyberwarfare attack on al-Q

RE: Now I'm curious

Not read it myself, but I'm told by staff in Riyadh that it was pretty openly available out there, often alongside such other "delightful" works as The Protocols of The Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf (the latter is widely read in the Mid East, even in "moderate" countries like Turkey).

It's highly likely that downloading Inspire in itself could be grounds for arrest in the UK under the Terrorism Act catch-all of having information of use to terrorists. A quick Yahoogle of Rizwaan Sabir might be wise.

RIM PlayBook strikes back at Jobsian internet dream

Meh.

If it doesn't connect to my BES and deliver me proper email then it's of no interest to me, just like the iFad. I'll stick with my BB and a netbook.