* Posts by diodesign

3496 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2011

Latest iPhone hacked to blab all your secrets

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Re: nigel 15

Yers, very good. But before you reach for your pedantry badge, consider that the latest developer preview - the gold master - is what will effectively ship to fanbois anyway. Huzzah!

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Re: AC trash talk

If you're referring to the deleted comment, it was removed for the anonymous abuse. Let's stick to technical discussions.

One thing we forgot to add is that the S III is set to get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which has had a lot of NFC fixes and is not the 4.0.4 compromised by the team . Anyway, both hacks are significant in terms of security and skill, and a second story is in the works.

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Inside the guts of a fiendish Internet Explorer 0-day attack

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Re: Drumming For Sappeur

Mr Memory Safe: Surely you're not talking about the MMU in the processor?

Who queues for an iPhone 5? Protesters, hipsters and the jobless

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Re: Intl. talk like a pirate day?

Re: Jorba.

It's international talk like a pirate day. Yarr!

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Publishers, Apple bend over for EU eBooks probe

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Re: They'm scurvy price-dogs, arr ??

Avast! Talk like a pirate day tis always the 19th day of the 9th month - today no less.

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How to be a Puppet master: Make Amazon, VMware dance for you

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Re: The plural of box...

It's a play on 'oxen', as in, plural of ox.

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The perfect CRIME? New HTTPS web hijack attack explained

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I'm with Lord Voldemortgage on this one. I don't think the Reg has gone bonkers over it, and it's a pretty neat trick.

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VCs snaffle £200m of UK taxpayer gold ... to bet on high-risk biz

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Re: At least businesses on Richmond Hill can apply for funding

Well, popping the Vulture Central postcode into the site reveals The Reg is eligible for cash. Trebles all round.

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New monkey species with massive blue arse found in Africa

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Re: Where's the blue ass photo?

It is too distressing to show in this family newspaper.

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Apple: Thanks for the iPhone 5s, China, now get to the BACK of the queue

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Re: Eight?

I cannot begin to explain the frustration in seeing a figure, double checking it and FORGETTING to change the copy in the rush to get it live.

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Apple's iCloud goes titsup, email evaporates for unlucky 1%

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Re: Anon

"Does that merit their customers getting a slagging"

Speaking as a complete and utter fanboi, everyone who buys from Apple knows they're paying that little bit extra just because Steve said so. Citation needed? Take a look at the price of RAM on the Apple Store.

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HTC's 4G patent beef could get iPhone 5 BANNED in US

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Re: re "I HATE YOU"

Well that escalated quickly.

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Phone-hack saga: Prison officer cuffed in cop bung probe

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Re: Why the phrase "illegal payments"?

I guess 'bung' wasn't good enough for you. I'll bear it in mind.

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Everything Everywhere swept away by its own 4G hype tsunami

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Re: "the assembled press were told, inferring that we should rejoice"

I am sorry that we can't catch every error while under pressure, but we do try. You are quite right, and the article has been tweaked. Thanks.

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Virus lab blogger collared by blundering copyright cop bot

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Re: Re: encrypted?

The zip files are password protected, so it's highly likely the bot either was told the password, managed to grep the password from the blog or simply compared filenames and/or a hash.

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Mars probably never wet enough for life, nuclear bomb crater indicates

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"FWIW, you Register folks use the word boffin WAY too much."

No such thing as too much boffinry!

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The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

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Re: Re: pensioning off your ipod?

"an Orbital album to hear the whiney, grating tones of David bloody Gray"

Oh come on, Illuminate wasn't /that/ bad an album track. Gray's voice was so distorted and edited in the end you could hardly tell it was him ;-)

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Re: It's not thicker actually as the hands on states.

"how is that you glossed over NFC, dual-core processing, a much better screen resolution with motion mprovements and more choice in customization"

If it means anything, this was mentioned in Andrew's previous piece on the new Lumias, published this evening.

No doubt a full review will cover such stuff.

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Dawn probe slips Vesta's grip, heads for icy dwarf planet

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Re: Steve Hosgood

In fairness, the commenters above were probably looking at an old version of the article - the wording was qualified soon after go-live.

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Re: "Ceres, our solar system's only dwarf planet"

Ah, the key distinction is inner solar system: the others are wildly far out (man). Sorry!

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Android spat loser Oracle ordered to toss Google some change

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Re: Oracles amazing mutating claims caused the $1mil bill

"Oracle did not place great importance on its copyright claims until after its asserted patents started disappearing"

Yes, I've reinstated that quote. It was too hastily lost in the edit.

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UK's non-x86 server sales dive off cliff, vendors take a hit

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Re: Arghh! My eyes!

There are no italics in the article.. this sounds like a browser thing.

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Voyager's 35th birthday gift: One-way INTERSTELLAR ticket

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Re: "Good afternoon, Mr. Amer. Everything is going extremely well"

I admire your pedantry - but in my defence (for I did proofread it) rocketing can generally mean "move or progress very rapidly".

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Firefox, Opera allow crooks to hide an entire phish site in a link

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Re: But, but, but ...

No, the shortened URL redirects to the data URI that the shortener has stored against the hashed short URL.

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Thanks ever so much Java, for that biz-wide rootkit infection

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Re: Re: Why blame Java at all?

Yes, it was added minutes after publishing in what was a slight oversight on my part. I thought I'd added that detail in.

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Re: Why blame Java at all?

The article does say malicious JAR files were involved - certainly other people infected tell of Java activity in their system tray before the rooting occurs.

I double-checked with Trevor on this point - because there is little gained in attacking a technology without basis - and he said the thing was originally detected as malicious jars - which spontaneously ate themselves. Flash was not installed on the PC at the time; Firefox, Chrome and IE were completely up to date. Acrobat wasn't in the browser. Those last two plugins are alternative vectors for delivering the malware, leaving just Java. And the mystery .jars.

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AMD snubs hackers' tiny package, will fix raided blog

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Re: department of redundancy department

I fear for your blood pressure.

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Re: Eh?

Point taken.

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Chemical biz 'Nitro' hackers use Java to coat PCs in poison ivy

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Re: "Bobby-trapped" web page?

No, as in typo'd by me :(

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Sharp's slim screen factory 'flogged to death' by Apple

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Re: Re: "Cupertino idiot-tax giant"

"It's probably just rose tinted glasses, but the Reg seems to be getting worse for this"

I'm not sure I can imagine a Reg that isn't rude about a large corporation. If you want to understand where the Apple teasing comes from, bear in mind that a number of Reg hacks are Apple users and we've suffered and enjoyed Cupertino kit over the years.

Plus, have you seen how much Apple charges for RAM? How is that not a tax?

"The other day they were going on about a Samsung Cameraphone that wasn't even a phone"

Which one was that? Did you mean the Samsung SH100 camera-with-Wi-Fi? There's no mention of it being a phone :-)

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A load of Tosh: External hard drives the new 'personal clouds'

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Re: "The box only holds 3TB - USB sticks will hold more and you can carry them in your pocket. "

Yes, oops. I did intend to fully qualify the USB stick quip by referring to what we'll be carrying in our pockets in the future. Brain fart in the morning. Apologies for the stupid oversight.

Chris W (not Chris Mellor).

UK: 'We're legally bound to arrest Mr Assange'

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Voting system

It's not entirely surprising given that the number of votes is a tiny fraction of the number of visits to the article.

Also, it was posted late on a Thursday evening UK time, but daytime US time.

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Robot rover Curiosity sets out on first long Mars trip

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Re: Nuclear raygun tank on the prowl

Hi, you must be new around here.

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AMD to double up cores with Jaguars

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Re: Re: pronouncing "Jaguar"

It's alleged that the original reason Steve Jobs personally banned all contact between Apple and The Reg is because, way back in the day, we poked fun at his pronunciation of "Jagwire".

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Official: Google's brazen domination of Earth nearly complete

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Re: Deeper Meaning.

Well, it is August. And, er, it's odd that there are more google.tlds than nic.tlds.

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Superworm Crisis eats Macs, VMware and - shock - Windows

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Re: Worm? Virus?

There's no trickery involved if transfered by an infected drive, AIUI.

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Re: late?

Yeah, it's the four-way whammy of VMware, Mac OS X, Windows and Windows Mobile (what's that?) that's new.

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Boffins zapped '2,000 bugs' from Curiosity's 2 MILLION lines of code

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Re: WTF?

Actually, embarrassingly, it was the Mars Climate Orbiter that had cocked-up measurements. The Beagle 2 crash-bang-wallop was another story.

The article has been amended. Apologies! it's damn annoying when this happens.

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Re: Beagle2...

Yes, you're right - that unfortunate misunderstanding has been corrected.

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Councils launch eight spying ops on Brits A DAY using RIPA

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Re: Re: Hang on a sec

It is indeed to do with checking people are paying their licence fees. We're looking into it.

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Netflix puts end to fumbling, penetrates Scandinavia

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What would you prefer? Fenno-Scandinavia?

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Beck's open-source challenge to freetards: play it yourself!

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Re: Anon

"Beck doesn't explicitly say that the sheet music release is a response to piracy ... However his UK publisher is happy if you were to draw that inference."

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Tech hacks should admit taking corporate coin, but don't start a witch hunt

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Re: I can't be the only one...

Ah, all time Reg gold. It's still chuckled at in the office from time to time.

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Re: Foss patents

"you are much more friendly when your big advertisers have an epic fail"

I think Microsoft et al would struggle to agree.

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Nokia hails hacks for New York Lumia WinPho gig

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Re: DrXym

Point of order, point of order! Jesus phone is in the bottom drawer at the moment, Chocolate Factory is heading that way. Open sourcers aren't freetards, those are other people entirely.

Some things are here to stay though, like! the! yahoo! headlines! I'm! afraid! In fact I think I saw some rumour the other day that yahoo might ditch the !

I was distraught.

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Undead galaxy cluster spews 700 zombie baby stars A YEAR

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Re: You guys employing the old NotW writers now?

Someone once branded me a News of the World journo and I took it as a compliment.

In all seriousness, we've always used boffin and we always will. It's a term of endearment. You have to be seriously clever to be a boffin, though, with some kind of doctorate in a real science.

Otherwise you're just an egghead.

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Windows 8: Microsoft's tablet-desktop still painful to swallow

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Re: Small article correction...

"Windows 8 is now available to developers and IT administrators"

Nice try amigo, but I note that Tim didn't say Win 8 was in the hands of all developers and IT admins ;-)

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Unite workers at Capita ITS vote for strike action

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Re: Re: so 25% of 65% of members voted for a strike

I'll put my hands up and apologise: that was my fault. I totally cocked up the figures during the editing process, I completely misunderstood what the author meant.

The article has been amended.

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Android spanks Apple iOS in sales as fanbois hold out for iPhone 5

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Re: Please compare like with like.

Yeah, we had spotted that - which is why the story is about Android v iOS than Samsung v Apple.

Although Samsung was up 29pc on 2011, Apple was up 47pc, even though Apple dipped from Q1 to Q2 this year - that's the backing behind Gartner's view that people are holding out for the iPhone 5.

However that doesn't change the fact that Android grew and iOS stayed static.

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Saudi royals seek ban on .virgin, .sex, .catholic, .wtf and 159 MORE

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Re: .reg, .vulture, .lohan

It costs $185,000 a pop to request those. In total, that's 100,000 pints of Soho-priced beer!

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