Posts by BobDowling

Cloud is a six-horse race, and three of those have been lapped

When my outfit started getting Gartner reports I asked where the "declaration of interest" was: where in the report did they declare which of the reviewed companies had a relationship with Gartner? There was always an embarrassed hush at that point, and a careful analysis of the tops of shoes.

CLOUD Act hits Senate to lube up US access to data stored abroad

Downing Street spokesman...

...to investigate their citizens suspected of terrorism and serious crimes like murder, human trafficking, and the sexual abuse of children...

But I'll bet there is no restriction to just those crimes, nor any restriction on who will be able to make the requests.

Shopper f-bombed PC shop staff, so they mocked her with too-polite tech tutorial

Re: PC world

- and if it breaks: it needed replacing any way.

Mag publisher Future stored your FileSilo passwords in plaintext. Then hackers hit

Kite mark time?

Perhaps every site that offers accounts should carry a standard marking that would identify how their passwords were stored:

Big, bright red flashing turd: Passwords stored in plain text.

Big, red, non-flashing turd: Passwords stored by reversible encryption.

Amber padlock: Passwords stored hashed, no salting.

Green padlock: Passwords stored hashed with salting.

UK.gov still drowning in legacy tech because no one's boarding Blighty's £700m data centre Ark

Re: Legacy stuff isn't the problem.

And this is the real cost of "legacy". Legacy systems become sealed black boxes. Legacy increases the size of the minimum element of replacement, upgrade, spec-change or tuning. And because that list includes replacement and upgrade there is a viscious cycle at work.

Judge hits police with massive bill over false Operation Ore charges

Massive bill?

The massive bill goes to the lawyers. Mr Clifford gets £20K for a shattered life.

The Police's own forensic expert said that there was no evidence worth pursuing. If that was not brought to the notice of the defence then the police should be facing criminal charges for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The police will not change a single thing because of this.