Posts by YetAnotherLocksmith

British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack

Re: Buy my Detectohack box

Don't worry, microsoft are taking screenshots of the display every few seconds then ocring it for their own ends, so... Yeah.

Re: Protection & patching

M&S got rid of their IT department about 6 years ago, so I'm going to guess that it is they who are "patching like fury".

Re: Did anyone see the story about Co-Op ?

Pointless having the camera on. One thing I've noticed is that the men often love to have the camera on, and the women won't unless they're presenting.

Watch for it, you'll notice it too now.

Anyway, it takes a few minutes to set up a virtual camera and then you can have backgrounds, animations, or even entirely cloned people on your camera. Turning it on makes no difference now, that ship sailed about 6 months ago.

Re: M&S Store shopping - no stock at the best of times

No idea why you got a downvote for your salient observation!

I've got 5 pairs of identical trousers. They are not identical. They weren't even identical when bought new. The differences are wild, actually.

The worst is that I found, finally, the perfect boot for my feet. I bought another pair. Very different! Made in an entirely different country, too! And they don't really fit well.

And don't get me started about locks and door hardware being changed to have holes or parts that are slightly different! Inside the lock, fine. But the interfaces should be the same, not "nearly" and half a hole diameter out!

Re: M&S Store shopping - no stock at the best of times

There's problems at the top end too. Womens shoes rarely go to an 8, despite most women* in the UK having size 6.5 feet. A 7 is as big as they go in many ranges. You don't need a deep understanding of normal distributions to see that's leaving millions of women without shoes that fit. I guess loads of them wear mens trainers and crocks, but there's got to be a lot of people who would go to your shop *specifically* if only you had their shoe size!

And men? Well, there's people on this very thread mentioning size 13+ feet.

*google says average is 6 to 6.5.

Re: M&S Store shopping - no stock at the best of times

Guys. Seriously. Just find a seamstress* nearby. You're talking about £30 to get your trousers altered.

*not the Pterry kind!

Re: We can't continue to regard these simply as "IT Problems"

Yes, but why did it burst into flames? They generally don't.

Re: We can't continue to regard these simply as "IT Problems"

I'm not sure if you mentioned locks as an analogy or not, but I can assure you that every lock on the market plays up their security, and 99% of them have fatal flaws. Some are really subtle and nearly impossible to fix, but the vast majority are broken beyond belief, and worse, many have flaws that should've been designed out *literally hundreds of years ago* rolling off the line to this day, to save 0.02p per lock.

Look for your lock on YouTube, there's probably a bypass video, and almost certainly a picking video. If you can't find a picking video, let me know, and I'll do one for you.

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Re: How hard can it be to RFI/EMI and Radiation-Harden your electronics?

So now it's a gravity weapon, right?

Re: Countermeasures?

10p a shot works great for drone swarms. Missiles cost more than the drones do! Even bullets are more than £1 a pop these days, and you would send hundreds at each drone.

This thing is like running a microwave oven.

Re: Countermeasures?

Quite honestly, wrapping it in tin foil would stop the RF largely. The motors themselves won't care, it's the control electronics that do.

Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

Re: The Manufacturing of Consent or Presentation of Dissent Worthy of Rebellion? Hmmm?

How would you even tell the difference?

Re: Let the offenders pay

It's paid for by taxes, so the likes of Google, Microsoft and tesla are already paying for i... Oh, yeah, I see the problem.

I bet it's made more than $27m extra for the Three Letter Brigade to get that ~5 hours of advance notice they get from direct access to the submissions! Just to block attacks before anyone else can see them, let alone the enhancements to offensive capabilities!

You're American. I'd bet £10 on that.

Why are you so weirdly dead set against anything nice for people who aren't billionaires? Like passing a law to stop people picking apples in the park, or cutting the trees down, rather than just saying "Cool, someone who wants apples enough can go to the park and pick some"?

Yet trunp fans vote for anything that will keep them poor and thick, because they don't understand that they, as well as the poor they hate, are also poor.

Good good, go find an actual reputable news source, and read it. Go read the court transcripts. Anything! Just pull your head out the arse of your glorious leader and take a look 3 what he's actually doing.

Article 1 only applies to full citizens, does it? Interesting take. And you've clearly not read anything about the man, a US citizen, who has been vanished into what is likely a Honduran prison/death camp along with a few hundred others for the crime of... Well, there's no crime, there wasn't even a hearing! And he's probably already dead.

Really? I can only hope those wishing these things on others get to experience them firsthand, themselves. And yes, this means you. I hope you get to experience the stripping of your rights, rather than some innocent who didn't push for them to be gone.

Well, he's definitely not saving democracy, so put that out of your head for a start. Try reading the news - yesterday he stated that he wants to be able to deport anyone at all to a Honduran hell hole death camp with no due process. Just snatch them and that's them gone forever, out of reach of the courts.

That means you. *You* are personally at risk. "But I'm a citizen" doesn't matter - without a process to find out that you are, you're gone, head shaved, on a plane in shackles and cuffs and standard white keks, never to be seen again.

How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?

Re: I'll never forget this one

Very handy! Now you know you fixed it without even having to talk to the users!

Re: "My mouse is going the wrong way"

I don't understand why you were being blamed for the other company's faults? Nice of you to fix it for free though.

Trump fires NSA boss, deputy

Re: What did they really expect?

In their defence, it lasted long beyond their lifetimes, and became the most powerful nation in the world for a good while.

They just had no idea that social media would come along like this - though perhaps they should have, given how much influence Alexander Hamilton had with just a few hundred letters! Once those "letters" could be posted free from anywhere in the world, arrive in milliseconds, and be generated by a team of enemies, in full colour, 24/7... And presented to millions! Oh, and without any return address to tip off the reader that the letter was actually written by an enemy of the state...

And so, here we are. Drones and memes.

City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth

As an air burst in the desert, sure, it's fine. But that would be very much the best case.

Isn't there a rather large risk that it'll hit the ocean, causing rather a lot of issues for anyone within range of the massive tsunami waves? And killing every fish for a thousand miles from the concussion?

Re: Or ....

Good that someone took the correct lesson from the book!

Next, get elno onto that spaceship B!

Grok 3 wades into the AI wars with 'beta' rollout

Re: Truth

Did we watch the full video? Of the Nazi salutes? Yes, thanks. It was pretty impressively clear that he bit his lip to avoid shouting "Zieg Hiel" at the same time!

But you know trunp admitted elno helped him rig the election in that same set of speeches at that event, right? Did you miss that? Many people did, distracted by something else. Wonder what, eh?

Context, too. The one person who knows for sure that it was a nazi salute *has yet to deny it*

Re: lofty claims

Whoops, you put an accidental k in that distance.

Re: Ass kissing Idiot

Well, he does seem to be against minimum wage, or stopping people starving, so maybe he's cutting the bill for "yes men" too?

Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize

Re: Tricky

Surely you jest? You've heard of lotteries before, right? Sweepstakes? Gambling?

Amazing how all the claims of a rigged election that went on for 4 years suddenly stopped, isn't it?

It was just one of over a dozen issues that tilted the table towards trunp winning.

69 (67? I forget) bomb threats from Russia on one states' Democrat leaning polling places, for instance.

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with metre-long tool left inside engine

Re: Multi-Fail

It was presumably serious, as the employee didn't return to work until after the plane was falsely declared ready!

I mean, how easy would it otherwise have been to ask the person who signed the tool out?

Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

From the previous First Lady, no less!

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

Re: Simplest solution

Upvoted for truth, but still barely relevant - plenty of not open stuff harvests everything. Windows is about to start harvesting everything you think and storing it with insecurity.

NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice

Always uplifting

Even if there's nothing else uplifting or inspiring going on, that these two space probes are still running is enough!

I wonder what the initial budget was, and how far over it's gone? After 50+ years.

Revenge for being fired is best served profitably

Result!

Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration

If they're quick, they might catch them before they've eaten the evidence!

Re: So-poor-markets

Makes life hard for the cremation team!

Re: So-poor-markets

I'm far more likely to rage quit the shop if there's no customer service (which usually means, why are there no tills open? Or only 1 staff to sort 35 self checkouts?) than if there's no single item.

Re: So-poor-markets

Combine that with the 4+ year waits I've heard about for a space, and you might go hungry.

Re: That's not the half of it....

The biggest deflation of UK supermarket prices was the arrival of the German supermarkets!

It's almost funny how the UK ones bang on about price matching the German ones, endlessly, now.

Re: "a minor discrepancy"

Both Lidl and Sainsbury's here have tightened their security recently. The Lidl isn't huge, but doesn't have the double entry/exit doors that they commonly have. Lidl added a security guard a while back. Sainsbury has just added automatic gates, and has had security guards for years.

I can see people stealing the basket occasionally. Probably those using distraction - someone kicks off, they nip out the door with the unpaid basket. Trolleys disperse themselves all the time, and they're way bigger!

UK Ministry of Defence gets into chipmaking game, buys gallium arsenide fab

Re: Sensible

The tories are already drawing up plans to privatise it, I expect.

Re: Sensible

That's why arc furnaces are better! Along with them actually being better.

UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59

Wait, what? The (only) two defendants both died within 48 hours of each other?

Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

Re: The problem with climbing helmets as hard hats

A thin bit of foam probably isn't going to stop anything punching it's way through, though. Like a dropped screwdriver.

Re: Hard hats

I usually wear a hat. Keeps the rain off, and the brim functions as early warning of low things.

Re: Hard hats

That's cause your mind has a sense of how big and where things are, including a mental map of where your head is. So when your head grows an inch or more all around, of course you smack it off things that you would've missed. Like wearing clown shoes.

You mean a makerspace?

Ah. Well, that's "exercise for the reader" territory, isn't it!

Re: Hard Hats and Hi-Viz...

But it was his car, and he didn't want to walk 200m to the new parking.

Re: On-site security

Hence the UrbEx and hacker memes involving getting into almost anywhere by simply putting on a high vis.

If you're using a £3 bit of neon as your security token/access control, you deserve what's going to eventually happen.

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

Did anyone bother to read that guff?

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