Posts by diodesign

Why the 'Dancing Baby' copyright case is just hi-tech victim shaming

Re: Always appreciative of a contrarian view

"a term I specifically associate with the treatment of rape victims"

Well, that's your headache. We don't.

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Cryptome founder revokes PGP keys after weird 'compromise'

Re: Amos1

Well, yeah. Revoking one revokes the other. So it's the public-private key pairs he's pulled.

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Shedload of security bugs squashed in iOS 9 – what the hell went wrong with iOS 8?

Re: Apple employees are super human?

"Apple has to live up to higher standards?"

Apple – like Facebook, Google and Amazon - hire the best. So, yeah.

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AirDrop hole deposits stealth malware on all pre-iOS 9 Apple devices

Re: So wait a minute...

The reason the article doesn't mention jailbroken devices is because ... it's irrelevant. The device doesn't have to be jailbroken to be vulnerable.

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Compromised Cisco routers spotted bimbling about in the wild

Re: Sandgroper

"Malicious ROMMONs are installed on machines are intercepted in transit and the ROMMONs replaced."

Sorta hit the nail on the head, huh?

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In brief: Android security updates, FireEye hushes infosec bod, Feds blab UK school IT vuln

Re: 2nd round of android updates

Google told me this is the first of the regular monthly updates after the Stagefright update.

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Are you in the 1%? The 1% of sysadmins who need specialized flash?

Re: El Storage Guy

"The points made are not truly accurate. And, quite blatantly wrong, btw. Please fix."

It's Enrico's opinion. You're welcome to disagree with it.

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Re: Thank You Captain Obvious

Delightful.

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Don't want to upgrade to Windows 10? You'll download it WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

Re: Something Missing

Buddy, you're all wrong. We asked Microsoft if people who *hadn't* reserved the update get the Windows 10 files, and Microsoft said even those people will get the installation data.

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That's a Tor order: Library gets cop visit for running exit relay in US

Re: The Feds have long been supporters of Tor

A long time ago, tedious anon coward.

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If at first you don't succeed, you're probably Google: Android Pay arrives

Not yet. This is US-only.

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Re: Availability in the UK?

Not yet. This is US-only (for now).

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Apple downgrades iPhone 6S with wimpy 1715mAh battery

Re: "You're welcome for the tip, I guess."

Thought about it in the office and added it before I saw your comment.

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Re: Yeah, I noticed The Register is in Apple Hate Mode

Yeah so sorry we're not kissing the ass of a huge multibillion dollar corporation. Funny how everyone likes our snark until we pick on their favorite business.

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Re: Hey Reg, can you try to be insightful instead?

Yeah. It's mentioned in the story.

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Apple iPhone 6S: Same phone, another day, but TOTALLY DIFFERENT

Always assume sarcasm.

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No, Siri – I said PAWN stars! New Apple TV gets voice, touch control

Re: Have you used an Apple TV?

All right, grumpster. There's a new remote from Apple. It has a little touchscreen on it and a mic so you can shout at Siri. That's Apple's innovation.

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Witness Apple's iPhone-iPad extravapalooza here in our no-hate zone

Re: Mage

Your friends must find you hilarious.

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Re: I take it El Reg isn't there in person then?

No. We weren't. Apple makes a point of inviting every journo and blogger in San Francisco except us. After the public show, they thrust hacks at the gear they've announced so they can do hands-on reviews, take photos, and talk to exec with PR handlers breathing down necks. And they wouldn't want us within 500ft of that.

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It's still 2015, and your Windows PC can still be pwned by a webpage

"if I should be amazed that someone managed to find such a bug"

That's the power of fuzzers. The tools are getting really good. Probably worth a story, TBH.

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Microsoft backports data slurp to Windows 7 and 8 via patches

Re: settings-win.data.microsoft.com.

I've added a few extra details on this.

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Company in shambles, marriages ruined. My work here is done, says Ashley Madison CEO

Re: Re: A big rat flings itself from the s(t)inking ship

"Why can't our Reg manage something like that?"

Because it was Friday afternoon, my brain was fried, and I'd have to hunt for an image we could clear copyright on. I've added a pic of darling Noel to the story.

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Google makes it official: Chrome will freeze Flash ads on sight from Sept 1

Re: Dissappointed...

Better than nothing.

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Security for those who know they can't win the security war

Re: TrueCrypt

"I wouldn't trust any data to TrueCrypt at this point"

An independent audit of the latest source code showed it was clean (see Register passim). That's probably why it closed - the team didn't want to back door it.

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French woman gets €800 a month for electromagnetic-field 'disability'

Re: Re: Poor choice of words?

Fixed. Can you please please please email us when you spot something wrong with a story? We rarely have time to read all the comments, and I hate seeing errors lingering on the site for 10 hours.

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Coho Data containering in the dock – now with added Google, Splunk

Re: ZMasterFlash

Full-disclosure: ZMasterFlash is a Coho Data employee posting from a cohodata.com email address.

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Would YOU make 400 people homeless for an extra $16m? Decision time in Silicon Valley

Re: Or...

Sadly, 40G won't last very long in SV. Even if you take $125k per household, that covers just under three years renting a median one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco. I suppose you could find another trailer park for chunk of cash.

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CAUGHT: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops – by hiding it in the BIOS

Re: BobW

The full list is linked in the story – and no, Thinkpads aren't affected,

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Re: x 7

"Strange then that the removal tool you linked to is for Win8.1 and Win10"

Ah yeah, if it's Windows 7+ installed then yadda-yadda. I've tweaked the article.

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Re: It's in China

"Lenovo's commie headquarters is in Beijing"

Whoops – ok, fixed.

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Huge explosion kills 44+ in China, blasts nearby supercomputer offline

Re: Mark 85

Hmm. I think Xinhua has changed its wording. Either way, I've tweaked the article to match the news agency. May have been a translation error.

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Doubts cast on Islamic State's so-called leak of US .mil, .gov passwords

Re: President Password

"That's exactly the kind of password I'd expect."

We are quite cynical. Even so, if you can get away with "david9" on a .mil or .gov account then we're all completely, oh what's the technical term? AH yes, completely fucked.

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Put it away: Dwarf's 'supermassive' marvel is actually smallest thing boffins have ever seen

Re: moiety

"50,000 times the mass. What's the diameter?"

The boffins don't say (their paper is here).

However, what we can do is calculate the Schwarzschild radius of the phenomenon, which is 147km.

That means if you take enough material that's 50,000 times the mass of our Sun (9.942175 x 10^34 kg in total) and compress it right down to an object with a radius of 147km, the escape velocity from its surface is the speed of light.

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'WOMAN FOUND ON MARS' – now obvious men are from Venus

Re: mediabeing's boffinry breakthrough

"We're seeing the ghost of a lady Martian waiting for a long gone mass conveyance."

Get the President on the phone - stat.

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Another day, another stunning security flaw in Android – this time hitting 55% of mobes

Re: Get a grip

> This sort of reporting ranks alongside such tosh as 'advanced persistent threat' and 'sophisticated cyber-attack'

Bear in mind, I hate those words and usually kill them on sight.

> I read El Reg for their technical accuracy not their ludicrous hyperbole

Why not both? Seriously though, the story has the technical accuracy, and the headline is a headline - have you not noticed that we go a little OTT? ;-) You wanna know the truth? I picked "stunning" because it fitted the space better on the page.

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It's incredibly easy to bump someone off online, and here's how to do it – infosec bod

Re: Clarifications requested

> > In order to register someone as dead a form detailing the cause of mortality needs to be filled out by a doctor within 24 hours of that person's final breath.

> This definitely isn't true in the UK - it can take much longer than that to get an autopsy - but it's not clear from context whether it's talking about Australia or the US.

I've tweaked the sentence. I think the gist was supposed to be that a report of the death must be filed within 24 hours of its discovery (not the cause) at least in the U.S.

Don't forget - if you spot something odd in a story, email [e-mail] so it can be looked at immediately.

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Another death in Apple's 'Mordor' – its Foxconn Chinese assembly plant

Re: "employees aren't statistics"

"Errr, yes they are"

Heartless. Reevaluate your life.

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Moronic Time cover sets back virtual reality another 12 months

Re: Please no more stories like this...

"If I really want to read stories based on a series of semi-moronic unfunny tweets linked together with the merest hint of snarky journalism than I can spend all day reading the Evening Standard, The Daily Mail and Metro. I would rather not."

It's August. It's silly season. It's some idiot jumping like a moron on the front cover of a mag. Let us have our fun. Just once. Let us out of the cage, master.

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Vision? Execution? Sadly, omission and confusion rule Gartner's virty quadrant

Re: anonymous

"Do you Nutanix have there own Hypervisor?"

Yes. See Register passim.

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IT security staff have a job for life – possibly a grim, frustrating life

Re: Re: Must be late

The point it was trying to make is that the software and hardware industries have clamped down over the years on curious-minded people reverse-engineering proprietary products and exchanging information on what they've found.

Obviously 'open' things like the RPi are there to be tinkered with. And if you crack open your no-name ethernet-to-USB printer server you bought for 10 bucks from eBay, and reverse-engineer the firmware, no one is going to know.

But, as the person who leaked the Impero encryption key found, vendors will throw lawyers at you if you go public with proprietary information. It's a tricky subject that can't be summed up in one sentence, so I've killed the line from the article.

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Duncan Campbell: GCHQ and me and a roomful of Reg readers

Re: Flash! AAAAHHRRGrrrrggggggggggggrrrrrrr....... It's inexcusable!

See the link in the comments or at the end of the article for a HTML5 vid link.

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Re: also on The Register's own youtube channel

Thanks, Matt. I've added a link to the story.

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Why does it take 8 hours for my posts to be approved?

Re: Re: @ diodesign (was: Comparison)

> > You keep bitchin' on and on about moderation, which is noise"

> Only after (an) immoderate moderator(s) started rejecting my posts.

Thanks for posting comments and adding to the discussion. If something is rejected, just let it go.

> > and you post corrections when you should email corrections@thereg so we can fix them ASAP."

> It's never malicious. Are you sure skins aren't thin?

It's not about that. It's the fact that we don't have time to read every comment, and we do want every story to be accurate. So if you hide corrections in the comments, we may not see it, most readers won't see it, and it's a losing situation. If the correction is spotted, and the story fixed, the comment loses its context and becomes confusing.

It is so much more efficient to email us if you spot something bad. It's like posting a serious bug report in the app store reviews section on a popular app.

> > Many of your posts are allowed through.

> True enough. If you're ever in the SF office, drop me a line. I'll buy you a beer.

Ta. I am always in the SF office.

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Re: Re: @ diodesign (was: Comparison)

"Care to comment in public on why many of my posts (over the last year or so that I've been on "the naughty step") have been rejected"

Fine. You keep bitchin' on and on about moderation, which is noise, and you post corrections when you should email corrections@thereg so we can fix them ASAP. Many of your posts are allowed through.

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Re: @ diodesign (was: Re: Comparison)

"why do ElReg's moderators have such a thin skin?"

Surprise! We don't.

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Re: Comparison

"I think it's worth ponting out that the forums of El Reg are much more civilised, intelligent and readable than most other forums I've seen. I don't know whether it's the vigilance of the moderators or the moderation of the commentards, but the result is good."

Thanks. When a conversation/discussion is flowing, we leave well alone, go for the light touch or only get involved if someone reports a comment.

By weeding out people who are just here to yell abuse at writers and daub e-graffiti on stories, and rejecting early signs of idiocy, we're clearing a space for a witty and knowledgable bunch of vocal readers.

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No, Microsoft: Your one-billion Windows 10 goal is just sad ... really sad

Re: Re: Goodness.

"the bitching about Windows 10 out of the writers here is getting very old"

Consider it an antidote to the acres of arse-licking in the "tech" "press" over Windows 10.

If you want 100% praise for all things Microsoft, CNN is that way --------->

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Re: Goodness.

"Sort yourselves out. You're a mess"

It's an opinion piece - it's the opinion of the writer. We have dozens of writers - some staff, some freelance - and we do disagree with each other.

The Reg is a broad church. Would you prefer us all parrot the same thing, or provide a range of opinion and analysis?

Tedious. Post less.

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Edge out rivals? No! Firefox boss BLASTS Microsoft's Windows 10 browser brouhaha

Re: wilburworld

"Apple does the same..."

...is heard so often these days. Doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

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NetApp sees IBM/Cisco VersaStack as 'huge' threat to FlexPod

Re: rkenson

Funniest post all week. A+

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