Re: I continue to be surprised
You're right, and for those reasons, EV certificates are dead. https://www.troyhunt.com/extended-validation-certificates-are-really-really-dead/
Posts by Jamie Jones
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This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height
NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects
Monday 10th August 2020 13:04 GMT 
Re: Goodnews
When I was in school, we did Shakespeare in English classes and drama classes, independently, but roughly at the same time.
Whilst the English classes were stuffy, our drama teacher always highlighted and explained all the rude jokes, and double entendres, which made the class much more interesting.
Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs
Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo
Monday 10th August 2020 13:20 GMT
Re: Here's a test
Even worse, they're not even in the computer market. They sell... fruit.
If anything, apple should lose their name for misappropriation of a term outside their field...
Or, if they think an apple looks too similar to a pear, they shouldn't have used what they obviously see as a generic icon in the first place.
Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn't beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music
Wednesday 5th August 2020 23:47 GMT
Re: I've just uploaded my music collection to...
All available here... https://archive.org/search.php?query=goon+show&and[]=subject%3A%22The+Goon+Show%22
Amazon gets green-light to blow $10bn on 3,000+ internet satellites. All so Americans can shop more on Amazon
'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad
Friday 31st July 2020 09:10 GMT
Re: Every time
At a previous job, way back in the large 90's, I was informally running the sites web proxy. Chatting casually to one unit manager one day, I told him that porn is being looked up all the time.
I had to log requests, but I didn't view or act on them - that's up to corporate, and if they flagged an access from my proxy, I'd have to pass them whatever relevant logs I had.
Fortunately, in the years I was doing this, this NEVER happened. But invariably I'd be debugging/tracing, and I'd see the contents of the log.
He was curious to what was logged, so I offered to show him.
Back in my office, I had only run a tail on the log file for a minute when some dodgy porn site popped up.
"See?", I said. There's porn all the time..
"Who's PC is that?"
"Hang on..." (looks up address) "Errm, it's yours!"
This was one case where someone could not be accused of lying when he protested his innocence!
It turned out that as he was away on his lunch break, one of his staff used his faster PC for his staff break!
Fortunately, he was a chilled sort of guy, and nothing was ever made official, but the staff member concerned got an embarrassing talking to!
Face masks hamper the spread of coronavirus. Know what else they hamper? Facial-recognition systems (except China's)
Tuesday 28th July 2020 16:53 GMT 
American (and now English) "patriots"
Whenever a trumptard has commented about masks being against his constitutional rights (presumably like speeding, drink/dtiving, murder etc.) I've explained that the whole "anti-mask" movement is actually a conspiracy started by the deep-state, because their America-wide network of hiddrn cameras can't track people wearing masks, and that Trump is only going along with it as he's being blackmailed.
TAKE BACK YOUR RIGHTS - WEAR A MASK!
See you after the commercial breakdown: Cert expiry error message more entertaining than the usual advert tripe
Monday 20th July 2020 07:14 GMT
Re: the number of people dying in their bed
Also, it's important to name your children! It greatly increases their chance of dying horribly if you don't!
You may that most people have names, but the number of times it's reported that "A man, who has not been named, was found shot yesterday", or "A couple, who have not been named, died in a car crash yesterday."
KEEP YOUR CHILDREN SAFE - GIVE THEM NAMES!
SoftBank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong-Arm some more money out of your customers?
UK government marks 'at least' £115m for new Brexit systems against backdrop of chequered IT project history in customs and border control
Tuesday 14th July 2020 14:56 GMT
At least it's not Farage: https://youtu.be/txY6JmP9ULg
But we still have to watch out for Mogg :-( https://youtu.be/-j_CxQFziFU and Johnson https://youtu.be/Z1vtJcXamSc
Tuesday 14th July 2020 14:47 GMT
Re: Preparation
Len, the government didn't want the brexitters to know the truth until as late as possible.
If they'd been honest from the start, they'd have never got it passed... How many of those in Ashford would have voted Tory last year if they knew the lorry park was coming?
They needed the hard-of-thinking to be in the dark for as long as possible, and now finally some of them are getting a clue, the government are now gaslighting by telling us that they told us all along that due to brexit, people would lose jobs, and the NHS would face cuts:
Video here: https://www.indy100.com/article/andrea-leadsom-no-deal-brexit-job-losses-tory-leadership-video-8950416
Silly us, that £350 million on the side of the bus must have been the government telling us of the cuts.
Evil, evil bastards, the lot of them.
After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors
Tech firms, come to Blighty! Everything is brill! Brexit schmexit, Galileo schmalileo
Internet Society, remember your embarrassing .org flub? The actual internet society would like to talk about it
Thursday 25th June 2020 08:12 GMT
Sod ISOC and PIR
.org should have been (and still should be) taken away and handed over to a new custodian.
Since when did they "own" .org anyway?
Let them do whatever sham internal investigations they want - it will be something to do to fill up the extra free time they'll have!
On a similar vein, the UK government should reassign *.uk to someone else to - a non-profit that can "encourage" responsible use of the domains, rather than adding dubious domains that confuse the DNS structure, just to make money.
"Uk" belongs to the UK not nominet.. Boris? When you finish doing nothing about Cummings, and sod all effective about coronavirus (England, prepare yourself for second wave / lockdown #2 in 4 weeks time, all because of early rule relaxing designed to shift attention away from Cummings eye-drive test), take back this public asset and reassign it. If it helps, Cummings told me to tell you. Oh yeah, and where is the Russia dossier?
Former UK Labour deputy leader wants to know how the NHS's contact-tracing app will ensure user privacy
Internet blackout of Myanmar States that are home to ethnic minorities enters second year
Bloke rolls up to KFC drive-thru riding horse-drawn cart only to be told: Neigh
Google isn't even trying to not be creepy: 'Continuous Match Mode' in Assistant will listen to everything until it's disabled
Customers of Brit ISP Virgin Media have downloaded an extra 325GB since March, though we can't think why
Someone got so fed up with GE fridge DRM – yes, fridge DRM – they made a whole website on how to bypass it
Sunday 14th June 2020 21:28 GMT
Re: Please correct me if I am wrong but...
My appliances resent that designation!
My fridge/freezers keep everything cold to the correct temperature, automatically switching on and off when required. They don't need software patches, and the fridge even puts a light on when you open the door!
Dumb, they are not!
An Internet of Trouble lies ahead as root certificates begin to expire en masse, warns security researcher
Thursday 11th June 2020 13:36 GMT
Re: hopefully a response from the industry to start fixing stuff
Thanks for that link - I've bookmarked it, and every time someone I know expresses interest in some "IoT" cloud product, I'll send it to them.
There is no way that all use of this device should depend on some third party server.. I'm guessing the device connects to their server and you connect to the same server, to avoid NAT/firewall restrictions, but that shouldn't have anything to do with local use - local recording / local control over wifi from the app.
Even the outgoing bit should be configurable in cases like this, so a third party, or somone who knows what they are doing could keep it working. I find it hard to believe that they can justify the hard coding of this, and the intentional bricking of a device.
Belkin have been added to my shit list.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: UK man gets 3 years for torching 4G phone mast over 5G fears
Thursday 11th June 2020 02:15 GMT
Re: Gullibility is no excuse.
30/40 plus???? Old?????
Funnily enough, I disagree (and not just because I am "30/40 plus" myself!)
I'm generalising completely for the rest of ths post, but here goes:
Those in their 40's grew up as this technology did. Many people here remember low level coding, and the importance of efficiency.. It was often a success to save one byte!
We grappled with its potentials and restrictions, and generally understand how it works. Even the non-techies at this age have some idea, because they lived through the evolution:
1) No mobile -> Mobile with games and texting -> mobile with internet -> smartphones.
2) Visit library -> use school computer -> get own computer -> get information on cd rom -> dialup services -> dial up internet -> broadband -> wifi
In comparison, to many under 30 -- even the "techies", it's all a black box. Sure, they know how to operate the things, but have absolutely no clue about the technology or principles behind the tech. It's just there. Like air.
And that's even before mentioning the under 30's tendancy to be so embroiled by the tech, they know more about some Z-list celebrity than anything that's actually important.
Stick a 25 year old and a 45 year old in an old garage, and see which one is the best "MacGyver" (google it!)
Readers of a certain age will remember GPRS: Old insecure tech from turn of millennium still haunts 5G networks
Thursday 11th June 2020 01:42 GMT
Re: Ironically
"Just keep in mind that you already have no expectation of metadata privacy either, unless you are doing old-school dead-drops and hiding messages in Anonymous Coward Reg comments."
I think that is a bit far-fetched....
Sane posters to El Reg just need tin-foil-hats to hide revealing their activities!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
