* Posts by tmTM

733 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jan 2011

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Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase

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Re: Eleven year sentence ?

She's got that to look forward to next.

Entered the country on a fake passport, convicted and sentenced. Will be deported once prison time is up.

No, you can't claim UK asylum to escape extensive crimes committed in your home country

Cyber insurers paid out over twice as much for UK ransomware attacks last year

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Minimum standards?

How Minimum are they?

JLR got popped big time, they suffered huge losses, and companies that work them took a huge hit. M&S losses were so big they maxed out their cyber policy.

Do companies need to look at raising this minimum threshold? because clearly some messes are racking up substantial sums to clean up.

FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute

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At least his Bitcoin did exist at one point.

M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump

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Example to others

You can't just hide behind a cyber insurance policy to justify pulling security investment and poor incident response planning.

You will be left out of pocket and out of ideas.

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

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Re: Watches

Easy to move on, generally appreciate in value and (I think) a private sale does not incur tax.

Also relatively easy to move across borders, one or two at a time obviously.

China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests

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Slow poke America?

Perhaps those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones? but it seems like America is trailing quite far behind with high speed rail?

A paltry 257 km/h? and only on some East coast lines.

Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic

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Why?

Why become a corporate shill?

He obviously doesn't need the money, his wife is rich beyond dreams. It's not as if these posts further the public interest, or do any real good.

What's the move here?

£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run

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unreal returns

Well the 404 million she had is now worth 5500 million, not a bad job at all.

Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more

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Only £170 million?

Come on now, with associated costs and hits to productivity, and the fact they've no real idea what their money is doing. They must be pushing 1/4 of a billion pound loss?

Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley

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Re: Quackamólé

Exactly, if you're going to use AI to conduct an interview I'm going to use AI to attend the interview.

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

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Scan or Overclockers.

PCPartPicker is a good place to compare prices of parts

US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs

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We employed dodgy foreign workers who promptly robbed us blind

and other completely avoidable problems

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

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Re: I agree about lazy HR people.

Sometimes one upvote simply isn't enough

Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff

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Stupid enough to travel?

You commit these crimes, you commit yourself to a life inside your borders.

You cannot leave.

Four REvil ransomware crooks walk free, escape gulag fate, after admitting guilt

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They're mostly large recruitment facilities for meat to send to the front line in Ukraine now, so probably no where near as full as they used to be.

Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of election worker data

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Re: "one of the most sensitive and important things to retain"

So why's it being stored on a poorly secured legacy system?

Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent

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Culture change?

With their notoriously harsh work culture they'll need more than just money to attract foreign workers en-mass.

I very much doubt they'll be willing to change to accommodate outsiders.

Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs

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Re: AI knowledge

People in charge rarely think about such things

‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources

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Re: Something doesn't add up

No, no, that's standard startup mentality.

Barely anyone knows your product, you serve few people and your turnover is tiny. Yet you're the next biggest thing and obviously worth billions.

Zuck ghosts metaverse as Meta chases AI goldrush

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Re: Sixty billion is incredible

Where has it gone?? Where?

Apart from releasing another generation of VR headsets, where has all this money gone? It's not like the VR library is stacked with amazing apps, not for the money they've thrown up the wall.

I'm genuinely stumped.

Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands

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re: A £3M bribe couldn't be approved at mid management level, right?

I guess it depends if they've got a cost code setup to cover it with purchasing

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

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Sh*t in, sh*t out

For any kind of accurate prediction you would need detailed and accurate psychological data on each subject, and given the sorry state the mental health services are in, it's safe to say that does not exist.

Retirement funds reportedly raided after unexplained portal probes and data theft

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I wonder how many times customer services are going to have to have that conversation over the next few days.

"Yes your fund has lost 25% over the last week, no it's not been withdrawn. You are poor now"

From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner

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Re: "naive unsuspecting marks to fleece"

The only one getting fleeced here is the idiot who thought paying 200 million for a failed brand and concept was a good idea.

Imagine the gut-wrenching feeling their investors got seeing how poorly their money is being spent.

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Photobucket must be next?

For long forgotten internet services of the early 2000's

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$200 million for a name

A long forgotten name that only resonates with people over 40 in the first place.

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

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Re: Wrong question

Isn't this tech notorious for false positives?

People shouldn't be pulled up by the police because a computer thinks they look like a criminal.

2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies

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Re: curious to see how they arrange it so that WFH boosts "a sense of community"

Tech also attracts alot of people with neurodivergent qualities.

Such people don't actually get on well in face-to-face or communal environments, but having the team available to chat online, from their own safe space is more of a feeling of community to them.

As usual, bosses need to look past their own wants and viewpoints.

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

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Silicon Valley Science

You can't fake it till you make it with such public facing Scientific projects, especially if you're going to present data. It either is, or it isn't.

Ask Elizabeth Holmes how it will end up.

Leeds United kick card swipers into Row Z after 5-day cyberattack

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What's worse?

Your credit card details being leaked, or it being made public you support Leeds?

Oh Brother. Printer giant denies dirty toner tricks as users cry foul

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" Brother firmware updates do not block the use of third-party ink in our machines."

Aye but it does force it to print in much lower quality, and I'm sure when questioned directly you'll blame the ink cartridge you lying snake.

California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid

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Plural?

Is more than one Bigfoot referred to as 'Bigfeet' or Bigfoots? What about a group of them?

Important questions!

US minerals company says crooks broke into email and helped themselves to $500K

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Red faces

Tricking a low level admin employee into making this mistake is bad enough, but breaking in and doing it themselves is downright embarrassing.

UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services

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Brexit

Creating problems where there were previously none.

Congratulations

Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit

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Re: internal AI system

They're quite obviously using ChatGPT.

It's not some 'internal tool' it's a lazy and useless idiot throwing prompts at a website and copying the output word for word.

They quite rightly deserve to be properly sanctioned and have their case thrown out.

US news org still struggling to print papers a week after 'cybersecurity event'

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Pants down, botties in the air

Seems like they barely understand what has happened to them.

Uber CEO warns robotaxis can't find a fast route to commercial viability

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Re: Until AVs can run for under $2/hour, they can't compete.

Uber doesn't own it's vehicles, or technically employ the drivers, so it's overheads in those areas is vastly reduced.

Running robotaxis it'll own the vehicle/device, be responsible for insurance, fuel/charge and obviously maintenance. So per hour running costs need to be low to offset the huge rise in costs.

US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme

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Smart contracts

Only as smart as the idiot that created them.

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

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Petition to rename City Hall 'The Big Top'

To more accurately represent the daily clown show performed there.

DeepSeek stirs intrigue and doubt across the tech world

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If 'the market' doesn't take this warning to go and properly asses the actual value of these AI investments then they really deserve to lose big.

Beijing picking up some of the bill for iPhones sold in China

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Sticking plaster

The Chinese government not only caused the property crisis, but then spectacularly failed to deal with the aftermath which has lead to such longer term issues.

Promoting domestic consumption isn't going to help when they've actively avoided dealing with the key issues slowing economic growth.

EU stings Meta for nearly a billion bucks over competition-trampling Facebook Marketplace

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Re: I read the article...

Old people and anyone who likes to argue with robots in the comments section of posts

Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

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So if they licence the software they can resubmit the paper?

Really they should be made to redo all the work that used that piece of software.

If they've used some dodgy cracked version of the software, how can they be sure the data it outputs is completely correct?

Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever

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Accountability?

In a council? Are thy having a laugh? Some stuffed shirt will blurt out: "Lessons will be learned"

Then they'll continue with the same circus of idiots as before

Scumbag puts 'stolen' Nokia source code, SSH and RSA keys, more up for sale

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Re: Contracting out is dangerous

What's the betting they used to employ someone with the same skills as this contractor, but some idiot bean counter thought it prudent to bin them off and re-employ as a contractor as and when they needed.

Cyberattackers stole Microlise staff data following DHL, Serco disruption

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Stock response

We've definitely been had, we've no idea how bad it is.

LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer

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"Please connect your wallet"

Honestly, what sort of moron falls for something so obvious?

Clearly, one with ten less bitcoin to their name. Gutted.

TSMC blows whistle on potential sanctions-busting shenanigans from Huawei

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Re Sanctions don't work and are counter-productive

Seems to me they're working perfectly?

China being forced to develop it's own tech instead of stealing it from everyone else?

Wasn't that what we all wanted?

Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying

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Re: Albert Einstein

and just like AI, you're p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶a̶l̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n. Experiencing a hallucination.

He never said that.

Post Office CTO had 'nagging doubts' about Horizon system despite reliability assurances

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Why always 'someone else'

A recurring theme people use in their defence is that 'someone else' told them the system was fine and that was that.

Who are these 'someone else'?? Why did even the head of IT have 'someone else' telling him everything was hunky dory?

Sooner or later names will have to be named, if it's not the head of IT then who was it?

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