Posts by monty75

Lock them up and throw away the (don)key

Male. As described by A A Milne : " The Old Grey Donkey, Eeyore, stood by himself in a thistly corner of the forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things."

Three useless UK.gov 'catapults' put in Last Chance Saloon

“With the Catapult network’s overall lack of a clearly articulated set of objectives, or a framework for measuring impact"

In other words, it was set up on a political whim for no reason other than to be seen to be "doing something". Again.

Uber, quit shoveling money into the fire for one second and explain that hack – US senators

Re: If they are fined

Maybe the regulator will apply surge pricing

Sci-Hub domains inactive following court order

Streisand Effect

I, for one, have only heard of Sci Hub because of news stories about the takedown attempts.

Samba needs two patches, unless you're happy for SMB servers to dance for evildoers

There's a bucketload of IoT devices out there with Samba sharing open to the world and nigh on zero chance of getting patched. Could get messy.

Connected and self-driving cars are being sent to Coventry

I am genuinely interested to see how they deal with the ring road and it's ridiculous join/leave at the same point junctions.

UK Home Sec thinks a Minority Report-style AI will prevent people posting bad things

She's a Ruddy idiot

UK's NHS to pilot 'Airbnb'-style care service in homeowners' spare rooms

Re: I have a cunning business plan.

Oh, and a patient transport service Uberlance.

Re: I have a cunning business plan.

I’m going to offer an on-demand maternity service and call it Deliveroo

Fog lifts as standards bodies agree on fog compute interoperability

Fog computing? Kill me now.

Your boss asks you to run the 'cloud project': Ever-changing wish lists, packs of 'ideas'... and 1 deadline

Re: "you need a good project manager"

I worked with a PM who stuck to his guns and a couple of months into the project he was sacked for being obstructionist. He got replaced by an affable chap who was very good at sitting in meetings spouting bollocks and the project went into a tailspin.

Re: plus ça change ...

"his son could knock up the solution in a week"

If I had a pound for every time I heard that one I wouldn't have to be in a job where I hear that one.

Top tip, hacker newbs: Don't use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and job ads

How do you do, fellow kids?

I think I've found a photo of him : https://i.imgur.com/VAeA885.jpg

'Independent' gov law reviewer wants users preemptively identified before they're 'allowed' to use encryption

Amber Rudd on TV

"We need experts who know how to use the right kind of sockets so we can hook the terrorists up to the mains"

Police deny Notting Hill Carnival face recog tech led to wrongful arrest

"Camilla"

Somewhat ironic that the spokesdroid commenting on surveillance didn't want to be identified.

US government: We can jail you indefinitely for not decrypting your data

According to the previous Reg article the cops decrypted the main drive in his computer and were able to access his web history. Presumably they crawled all the links therein and hashed whatever files were downloaded. That would only prove whatever files were available at those URLs now so they need to be able to prove they match what's stored on his drives.

Cybersecurity world faces 'chronic shortage' of qualified staff

Replace the word "infosec" with "IT" and you have a pretty accurate description of the whole industry.

Google bins white supremacist site after it tries to host-hop away from GoDaddy

With a bit of luck Cloudflare will kick them off their network too

WannaCry-slayer Marcus Hutchins 'built Kronos banking trojan' – FBI

No idea about US law but here in the UK you could be prosecuted under section 3A of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 if you know or suspect that the exploit is to be used in the commission of an offence http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/3A

Apple, Google pull options trading apps after Australian regulator shows scams

90% of nothing by the sound of it.

Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law

I wonder how pleased she'll be at having all the data on her laptop and mobile scanned by TSA agents on arrival. After all, she's got nothing to hide and therefore nothing to fear.

(Yes, yes, I know she'll have diplomatic immunity but the irony was worth pointing out)

Greek police arrest chap accused of laundering $4bn of Bitcoin

I don't make the rules. I was just answering the question as to what makes them think they have jurisdiction. You're welcome to be as gay as you like, wherever you like as far as I'm concerned.

According to this (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/984661/download) BTC-e had servers in the US and at least one of the charges is under regulations which "apply to foreign-based money transmitting business doing substantial business in the US"

Now here's a novel idea: Digitising Victorian-era stamp duty machines

Re: Wrong answer to a problem that doesn't exist?

"This doesn't require spending a shed load of money on a new system that will be redundant in 10-20 years."

That's probably what they said in the 1890s too

WannaCry prompts promise of extra cash towards NHS security

I look forward to receiving a pizza menu with this summarised on it.

Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer

Re: ATOS

Shortly before it dies

America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights

Obviously they're worried about terrierists

Australian govt promises to push Five Eyes nations to break encryption

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Ad 'urgently' seeks company to build national e-ID system

Re: Might it be the proposed EU citizens registration for the UK?

"Why make it more costly and slow than it needs to be?"

You've obviously never worked in public sector IT.

Looks like it's this one for Jamaica http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gJdZofJWqigJ:biddetail.com/global-tenders/biometric-tenders+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=ubuntu

Cue the jokes:

"My wife enrolled for a national biometric ID card"

"Jamaica?"

"No, she wanted one"

Gov digitisation plans happening too slowly, say IfG policy wonks. Hear that, GDS?

"It reached that conclusion after conducting 30 interviews with senior digital and policy officials across Whitehall and the public sector"

They could have saved themselves the effort and just checked this link https://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=gds

BA's 'global IT system failure' was due to 'power surge'

Re: Back-up, folks?

No, but I don't suppose he's running an international airline either.

Telecoms fail in UK takes down passport scanners in Australia

TITSUP

Bit disappointed not to have a Reg "Total Inability To Scan Usual Passports" sub-head

Re: Timezones?

They probably pissed the support budget away on "agile consultants"

UK.gov plans to overhaul £6bn in big IT deals 'watered down'

Public sector IT

"needs to be well planned and executed"

I think I've found the problem

TensorFlow: I want to like you, but you're tricksy

Re: Did I understand the example?

You weren't the only one to have that understanding.

London app dev wants to 'reinvent the bus'

Mind the app

Why not put the buses underground in a specially built network of tunnels? You could chain several buses together so that you only need one driver. Can I have my billion pounds of seed funding now?

Ministry of Justice scraps 'conviction by computer' law

What a shame. It could have used by MPs to pay fines for their election spending "oversights"

Apple’s premium TV plans – the hobby doomed to stay that way

Especially when they remove a TV series when you're half way through watching it.

Re: Apple TV poor in the UK

Just get a Now TV box. You can pick them up for around £15 in supermarkets when they have them on offer. You don't need to pay a subscription to use BBC iPlayer and YouTube on it.

That sound you hear is Splunk leaking data

Splunk? Isn't that the game we used to play as kids with marbles and straws in a plastic tube?

Blimey, did you know? It's World Backup Day. But... surely every day is world backup day?

Beat me to it. A pre-Trump, pre-Brexit backup would be great.

Angular framework's grand ambition: Not breaking anything

"Fluin explained that around 2009 developers began rendering more and more application code on the client-side"

That's a very precise number of developers.

Re: We're having just this debate internally

It's OK. It's not like Google have a track record of creating things only to kill them off a few years later.

ICO fines Flybe, Honda for breaking data rules. They were, um, trying to comply with GDPR

At least it might arrive. Unlike my Flybe flight

Seeing as how I received one of those Flybe emails where do I sign up for my compensation?

DNA-bothering eggheads brew beer you were literally born to like

For 25 grand you could just buy a hell of a lot of beers and see which one you like the taste of.

Barrister fined after idiot husband slings unencrypted client data onto the internet

Re: Online backup?

And Cryptomator works with any cloud storage provider.