* Posts by ecofeco

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As if working at Helldesk weren't bad enough, IT helpers now targeted by cybercrims

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Re: So many things wrong here

Yep. I've seen it as well.

Hence my rant. And my drinking problem.

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So many things wrong here

I... Christ, WTF?

Help-desk should NEVER have user account control. That's why there are Levels. In many places not even Level 3 has that kind of access. User account should be an entirely separate team under the purview of security or system admin. With attendant MFA.

I have not worked anywhere for years where help-desk has that kind of authority.

I can see this mistake being made at very, very small organizations, but medium to large businesses? Are they effing kidding?

Next, user control changes require a ticket. Which again, is assigned to security or system admin. Who should know why the account is having problems. And ANY elevation of access (if requested) cannot be granted without a manager's sign off.

Good god, WTF are those organizations doing?!

But back to the topic: help-desk should never have user access control and a ticket should ALWAYS be generated for the issue. And some kind of MFA, even verbal, should be de facto.

AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers

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Re: Capitalism is back, with a vengeance.

I remember my days of homeless and hunger. It is indeed a great teacher. But I don't think I learned the lesson the masters wanted me to learn.

Not even close.

US to probe Change Healthcare's data protection standards as lawsuits mount

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Investigate protection standards?

Pretty obvious there were none.

US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan

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And nothing of value

... was lost.

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Re: Clone

I find most amateur videos tedious, boring and ultimately useless in every way.

It's all home movies, on steroids.

Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months

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Standford?

THAT Standford?

https://facts.stanford.edu/research/innovation/

My how the mighty have fallen. God help us all.

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

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Re: Total confusion

It really seems as if Microsoft is a set of disparate groups of people, some with designers, some without, whose job it is to just keep writing code, adding features and changing stuff.

Because it is. At every level.

I know some old MS programmers. The stories they tell of the dept rivalry and silos will give you nightmares. But it explains everything wrong with MS.

Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole'

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Re: the only way...

Well we see at least 3 downvotes STILL don't get it.

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Microsoft says...

The rest of us respond, LOL wut?!

Font security 'still a Helvetica of a problem' says Australian graphics outfit Canva

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Re: Am I alone in not trusting web fonts

CSS is what happened.

To be fair, CSS was in response to MS breaking webpage design as much as possible. (Remember Frontpage?) CSS acted as a way to get some control back.

Then tables fell out of favor and CSS rose as the defacto page formatting.

To this day, I still see no reason to use CSS except in VERY limited circumstances.

And that's just ONE of hundreds of things I hate about modern websites.

Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery

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And the joke becomes reality

See title.

Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

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Big Brother

Never taunt the Feds

FAA: "Give us all you records"

Boeing: "Maybe, maybe not."

DOJ: "LOL wut?"

US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment

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Everything old is new again

https://archive.navalsubleague.org/2012/a-century-of-american-submarine-propeller-design

The design was held in great secrecy by the Navy, but Toshiba sold propeller milling machinery with accompanying computer programming to Kongsberg Ltd. of Norway which in turn sold it to the Soviets. That government used the computer data to rapidly begin a program to imitate research of the US Navy.

Microsoft confirms Russian spies stole source code, accessed internal systems

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Re: Cozy Bear the solarwinds crew

The cyberwar has been ongoing for years now.

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No evidence?

Still 'no evidence' of any compromised customer-facing systems, we're told

Bwahahaha!! And they expect us to believe that?!

US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism

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Re: Where is the money?

The data is sold.

It's the modern version of the mailing list. The money is in selling the contact information to other companies and ad agencies.

This has been a thing long before any of us were born. And just as sleazing.

And yes, corps have more than enough money to keep this ethereal market afloat and very, very profitable to all involved. Except you and I, of course.

Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI

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This has to be a joke

The is a very bad decision.

The first thing I thought of was just who do they have dirt on.

Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little

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Re: Linux Mint

Been running Mint for a family member for two years.

Their only issue has been 50 YouTube tabs open at once. On a low spec 8 year old PC.

Reboot. Sorted. Explained issue. Advised them to pay attention to tabs.

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Re: Repeat after me:

Isn't that the old mainframe model—everything else is just a dumb terminal.

But with extra nickle and diming steps. A LOT of extra steps. Ca-ching!

Uncle Sam intervenes as Change Healthcare ransomware fiasco creates mayhem

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Re: Ah, the "ecosystem"

I'll have you know the U.S. medcial system is the best money can buy!

O.K. 2nd best!

Would you believe, third best?

But certainly FIRST as the most expensive, bar none! USA #1! WOOT!

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Re: causalities

It couldn't be CH incompetence could it? Naw couldn't be! If there was any incompetence on their part, there would be some kind of proof of that incompetence!

Oh wait...

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Live by the free market...

...die by the free market.

It's almost like rules and regulations protect everyone! Naw, couldn't be! That's just crazy commie talk!

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

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They are afraid of lawsuits and stock devaluation.

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Re: Microsoft wasn't really committed

Ah! I see you are a master corporate speak translator!

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Re: Just another reason

Remind us who is killing the services and offerings already?

Or was that sophisticated sarcasm?

Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

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Re: Was the Office of Responsible AI...

Yes. They arrived on Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B.

I thought eveyone knew this?

FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks

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Re: Curious

They can't spend what they don't have.

Not to mention the big rise in homemade U.S. domestic terrorism. They seem a little busy.

Capita says 2023 cyberattack costs a factor as it reports staggering £100M+ loss

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Re: Magically surviving

An inbred aristocracy has always worked this way.

It never ends well.

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FAIL

Just one quesiton

Was it worth it?

Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM

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LOL and there it is

LLMs just exist to create problems to sell you a solution.

And once again, there is nothing new under the sun.

YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting

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Wow!

I see the gogle bois are here in force today.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

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Re: There are better OSes out there ...

Exactly. And it's even worse than that. Many companies and even users have investment portfolios with MS stock. Ergo...

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Pump and dump hype.

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Re: "Copilot remains a technology to keep an eye on"

There is nothing AI from Brokzilla that can benefit anyone but Borkzilla.

Words to live by and never forget.

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Re: I don't need new features...

Same here. Tired of the all the enshitificaiton now on a rocket sled.

It will not end well. I hope I'm retired by then.

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It's always goddamn marketing why we can't have nice things, isn't it?

How the hell were they ever put in charge of anything?

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Re: Be less intrusive, less pushy, less blocking work,

Windwows 11 makes Windows 10 look like a wallflower. And Windows 10 was bad enough.

I spent several months figuring out how to turn off the intrusive carp.

Windows 10 is the nosy neighbor. Windows 11 is the loud nosy neighbor who throws their trash into your yard and puts spycams in your bathroom.

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Re: We only just got Windows 10 settled....

I forgot, who created those flaws?

Just kidding. You're the one who forgot.

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

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Mistake?

Or deliberate?

Hmmmm...

Tiny Core Linux 15 stuffs modern computing in a nutshell

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Interesting

Very interesting!

Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo

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FAIL

There will never be a demo

I just looked at their design.

It's bollocks. From style to engineering, total bollocks.

GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks

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Re: Sigh

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

I can only wish I were joking.

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I don't get it

Just what will the hackers do when they kill the golden goose and even their owns systems no longer work? How will they launder all that money that only exists in the ether? The ether that they destroyed.

That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow's probably going to try again

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Non techies?

Why the hell are non techies responsible? They didn't make the product. And the Mad Hatter complexity of everything these days means they will NEVER understand how to fix their own digital kits.

Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million

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And there you have it

The real machinations behind the VMWare debacle.

Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else

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Re: The biggest flaw

A LOT of this out there.

We'd love to enforce policy, but we'd get fired.

FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report

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Re: Safety culture from the top down...

I think I have a few dozens of merit badges from those!

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That's mighty generous.

I'd give them 9 minutes. Tops.

Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data

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Re: Stop banning the sale of data.

Exactly. Full stop.

ALL personal data should never be sold. Shouldn't even be collected except for banking (holding my nose on that one) and medical.

The world does not need to know which hand we wipes our arses with.