Posts by monty75

How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'

Re: A billion quid extra on postits...

Agile means you do a bit and then your pointy haired boss changes the spec.

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

Re: What Apple should have done

That sounds like you want Cryptomator https://cryptomator.org/

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

Re: I agree

Further pedantry: radiographer is a graduate job. It’s a lot more than just being a point and click photographer

Public Wi-Fi operator investigating cyberattack at UK's busiest train stations

They're also useful for breaking wifi connection flows in hard-to-diagnose ways ;)

Per Wikipedia, the shared key (the wifi password, as normal people would say) authenticates what a client is allowed to connect and then "a Pairwise Transient Key (PTK) is generated for secure data exchange" during the initial handshake and then "the established PTK is used for encrypting unicast traffic, and the Group Temporal Key (GTK) is used for broadcast traffic". So, one key per client for most traffic except for broadcast traffic which, by its nature, should be visible to all clients on the broadcast segment.

DNS spoofing won't help anyone intercept TLS-protected traffic. They'd need a valid certificate for the site too or the user's browser/app would just refuse to connect.

Codd almighty! Has it been half a century of SQL already?

50 years and I'm still having debates with people about whether to pronounce it S-Q-L or Sequel.

'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity

It's a comparison on the same lines as "which is your favourite strain of plague?"

IBM sued again for alleged discrimination – this time against White males

Is this “The Left” in the room with us now?

Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic

And then, internet usage must have shot up again judging by the number of eclipse photos and videos I saw on social media.

Cybercriminals are stealing iOS users' face scans to break into mobile banking accounts

Face ID?

I'm curious about the capitalisation of Face ID in the headline which strongly suggests Apple's trademarked biometric system is being compromised. I don't see any reference to Face ID elsewhere in the description of what the trojan does. Isn't it actually that banks have used a crappy, roll-your-own face recognition system that is easily bypassed?

Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot

Re: The ghost of Douglas Adams

He’s not a ghost. He’s just spending a couple of decades dead for tax purposes.

NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil

Re: Everything is going to be AI

Would you like to buy a bridge? It’s got AI and everything.

AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers

You have to be impressed by the human ingenuity that can take any new trend and turn it into a low-effort grift.

Infosec experts divided over 23andMe's 'victim-blaming' stance on data breach

Re: But, you know

There's been a worse one since then

Trio of major holes in ownCloud expose admin passwords, allow unauthenticated file mods

In case anyone else was wondering if these all affect the Nextcloud fork of OwnCloud : https://help.nextcloud.com/t/do-the-recent-owncloud-cve-also-affect-nextcloud/175203

UK's cookie crumble: Data watchdog serves up tougher recipe for consent banners

That’s the point. By claiming legitimate interest they make them opt-out which is the opposite of what they’re supposed to be.

UK won't rush to regulate AI, says first-ever minister for digital brainboxes

Re: Congratulations, Viscount

> chatting with actual billionaire

He can do that any time his missus has her folks round

AMD says its FPGA is ready to emulate your biggest chips

I bought a cheap FPGA (Tang Nano 9k) to play around with learning Verilog. I enjoyed it but there didn’t seem to be enough money in it to really sink much time into.

Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week

Re: if it ain't broke, don't "fix" it

HMRC have always been crap. Nothing to do with WFH.

Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams

Re: "The new Outlook behavior is being deployed slowly so the company can gather feedback."

“The frog is being heated slowly so we can gather feedback”

Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor

Kids playgrounds got there first. All the swings have had wooden chips installed under them for years.

Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

Has there ever been an ERP deployment in a medium to large organisation that finished on time, within budget and delivered benefits over whatever it replaced?

That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models

Stop moaning. You’re getting a high speed train that’ll get you to London half an hour quicker (assuming you don’t mind walking to Birmingham first and redefine London as “somewhere just about on the Tube network” and you don’t need to get there in the next decade or two)

By “spent” I presume you mean “transferred into the pockets of friendly consultancy companies”

Thieves smash hole in wall to nab $500K in Apple iKit

Re: Where were the plastic police?

If the yanks build their retail stores anything like they build their houses, you probably could have kicked a hole through the wall in a minute or so.

Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite

More worryingly, everything on your PC wanted to listen for random connections from the internet. Microsoft jumping on trends in a hurry doesn't usually end well.

Twitter rewards remaining loyal staff by decimating them

Depends : African or European birds?

Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death

Re: Idiots

It’s been available to download for a raspberry pi for years. They’ve already produced one reasonably well received hardware device hence this one being the Mark II. I don’t think it’s fair to call them idiots, especially when they’ve already done what you claim they should do.

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

Re: Waffle

You missed:

Lessons will be learned

* time passes *

Same shit happens again

IAT - It's Always TLAs

Crypto exchanges freeze accounts tied to North Korea’s notorious Lazarus Group

Re: What's the catch

The catch is that criminals will think twice before signing cryptocurrency over to Binance

And so will everybody else.

To protect its cloud, Microsoft bans crypto mining from its online services

Microsoft: "Use our cloud and get infinitely scalable compute."

Also Microsoft: "No, not like that!"

Apple preps for 'third-party iOS app stores' in Europe

It means Brexit, as the previous poster explained

Raspberry Pi hires former spy gadget-maker who baked devices into surveillance ops

I used to build websites for a fitness company. I am not, in any sense of the word, fit.

Pretty sure all the police forces use standard office PCs, some of which will be used for surveillance-related tasks. Equally a lot of companies employ ex-police. Neither of these seem like reasons to boycott a company.

The social media posts are a bit weird for a corporate account but that’s all they are. I really don’t get the fuss.

NFT vending machine appears in London

Oh so high tech

It's a machine that sells pieces of paper. That's the future right there.

NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time

Nobody should follow Jacob Rees-Mogg’s example unless they’re dressing for an 18th century cosplay event.

Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud

All the recent phishing emails I’ve received have come from a gmail address and point to content hosted on Google Drive. Most of them somehow manage to bypass Gmail’s spam filtering.

Obscure Asian fintech AMTD Digital becomes the new GameStop

Typo

Someone just fat-fingered an order for AMD stock

British intelligence recycles old argument for thwarting strong encryption: Think of the children!

They don't even have to decipher anything. Just ask for your password and when you refuse, lock you up under Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). S.49

Re: Surveillance

And we're installing them ourselves at our own expense

Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America

Re: Yes, I am ashamed of my country

It’s not any legislature’s business what an adult does to their own body.

UK police to spend tens of millions on legacy comms network kit

They could put them in special blue boxes that also double as space and time travelling vehicles.

Apple to replace future iPhone Lightning port with USB-C next year, this guy claims

Re: Still doesn't change anything ....

Oh, look. Now you’ve made Tim Cook cry.

> Kuo's predictions should be taken with a pinch of salt

He seems to be sticking enough fingers in the air that he’ll be able to say one of them was right, thus proving he’s a trend-forecasting super seer

60 countries sign declaration to keep future internet open

Mad Nad

Mad Nad Dorries, minister for lack of culture, was also part of this shindig. You know, the same Mad Nad who wants to downstream a tennis pitch and segregate off “our” nice internet from the rest of the world’s nasty internet.

$10b National Security Agency contract re-awarded to AWS

Re: codenamed "Wild and Stormy"

It’s named after the previous President’s two favourite hookers

UK Prime Minister, Catalan groups 'targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware'

Re: Who said it was illegal?

Nobody expects the Spanish authorities!