* Posts by channel extended

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OpenSSL 'high' severity flaw just a puny DoS risk

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Ages?

When did LibreSSL start? I thought it was a response to the HEARTBLEED attack. If that was ages ago then I need my clock reset.

Microsoft announces Windows 10 and Azure for humanity's implacable IoT foes

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Re: Why mega/gigabytes of code for kilobytes of functionality?

That would be simple, cheap, and easy. Or in other words not profitable!

Redundo-happy IBMers will benefit from High Court pension ruling

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Future of IBM.

When the engineers became in charge, IBM grew and prospered.

When the accountants became in charge, IBM became just another company.

When the marketing dept. became in charge, IBM died.

What stage are they in now?

Bulgaria nixes 'metadata' law, Paraguay delays

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Bulgarian Datacenter

Now all I have to do is setup a proxy in Bulgaria and then turn the torrents loose. This could make Bulgaria a top location for a datacenter.

BACK OFF, spooks: UK legal hacking code should be 'resisted at all costs' says lawyer

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Headmaster

Re: The Picture

Agent 86. Maxwell Smart Excuse me gotta go.

SanDisk launches 200GB microSD card

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Re: SDHC can't read 64GB either

Nobody really wants to slow their computer down that much. Remember these are only class 10, 10Mb/s not 500Mb/s like SSD's.

Hillary Clinton draws flak for using personal email at State Dept

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Privacy

She appearently does understand privacy, since she used a private email account. Could she have a better chance at controling the NSA?

Odd: If you have noting to hide you have nothing to fear.

Bod: If you don't want privacy during sex, then can I watch? Oh, I'll also need to bring my camera.

BP: Oil prices crashed, so must our ICT budget

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Nothing new

Still a bad company making bad descisions.

Errant update borks Samsung 850 Pro SSDs

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Samsung is cooperating...

Perhaps Samsung is trying to cooperate with the NSA and install backdoors into their drives?

Debian on track to prove binaries' origins

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Re: @ channel extended (was:Open Source Code)

I wrote, in 1988 approx., my own c compiler. Yes YACC in z80 asm. Then when I learned of the Gentoo distro I rewrote for x86 and tried to compile. I will say there is a learning curve and probably would not do something like that today (no time). I learned to write 6809,z80,and 6502 asm when the x86 was being born.

My opinion - Intel and IBM screwed us all with the 8080, Motorola had a much better, technically, chip with the 68000.

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Linux

Open Source Code

There is one distro that always compiles from source code.

GENTOO!! Stage one tarball if you've got the nerve.

Face it, if it's that important you do the compiling yourself. Yes it takes more time for an install, but you get what you compile.

Australian ISPs agree to three-strikes-plus-court-order anti-piracy plan

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TPP

The TPP will of course stop all piracy by allowing big media to act like a government. They will then be able to sue/seize all property of accused pirates without trial or any form of hearing. That will teach 'em

Don't touch me up there! Photoshop creator appeals for 'ethical' use

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Joke

Re: Marketing/advertising have no ethic, so asking for ethical use is useless...

@ Benjol

Only if they are allowed to shoot back.

Alca-Lu cooks up 400 Gbps router interconnect

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Soon...

Soon we'll have terabit connections and wonder where all the speed went.

After people upgrade to Windows 12.

Microsoft's patchwork falls apart … AGAIN!

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Patch Fail?

Maybe they hired some Adobe dev's?

'Come on, everyone – block US govt staff ogling web smut at work'

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Devil

Re: Thrust, urge, stiffen, orgy

One of the web filter companies here in the US, OpenDNS, blocks the Beeb. Apparently someone ran across the BBC and was "Shocked! Shocked! I tell you!" Perhaps the Big Black Corporation should change thier web site name?

Watch it: It's watching you as you watch it (Your Samsung TV is)

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Black Helicopters

Extra help.

Comcast is working on that for you. As soon as their network get large enough I can see them selling the service to advertisers. A Concast account number for the gov't to listen to all iOUT data. After all free wi-fi is a good thing isn't it? A Samsung TV could then connect and send data home with no need for user input.Also DRM could be enabled whether you like it or not.

A docket, tweet and selfie can reveal your identity, boffins find

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Trollface

Cash is still King!!!!!

Teen whiz exposes WhatsApp profile pic privacy blunder bug

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Black Helicopters

Promises promises...

It seems more and more companys are touting the privacy/secret aspects of thier software. Only to bungle it in the coding. This smacks of a rush to market attitude.

The only way to be completely private is don't talk to ANYone!

FCC will vote to cut off 41 million broadband users this Thursday*

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Happy

Re: people don't need

I never claimed that he did. That line is a common miss conception, but it was an accurate attitude by MS in the early days.

BTW: I used a 300 baud modem and read BBS info as it downloaded, no need for buffering!

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people don't need

Remember when people will never need more than 640K?

Let's be clear, everyone: DON'T BLOCK Wi-Fi, DUH – FCC official ruling

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Powerful penalties!!!

Sure, make sending deauth packets punishable by a one million dollar fine and twenty to thirty years in jail. Then a federal local prosecutor will find some schmuck like Aaron Swartz to go after.

Remember, when you encourge a law, the government WILL use it against you.

NSA gunning for Google, wants cop-spotting dropped from Waze app

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Unhappy

Local Police Community...

Appaerently they want to keep the "local police community" secret so they can continue doing "secret police community" thingys.

That won't end well.

YouTube: Nobody needs to get hurt Zoe, just sign the Ts&Cs

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One question?

You Tube? What's that?

Microsoft Outlook PENETRATED by Chinese 'man-in-the-middle'

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Encryption is a crime.

According to James Comey and David Cameron encryption enables the criminal element/terrorist/paedophiles/drug dealers to escape to view of the police. Charlie Hebdo showed that the survelliance of a free people doesn't work at stopping violence. So the more like China the US and UK become the more the government will like it.

Perhaps Cameron and Comey are secret communist? They act like it.

IT cock-up – not jihadi DDoS – fingered for French web media blackout

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Devil

Free French speech.

Sure, the French have free speech. Until you say something they don't like.

Malware coders adopt DevOps to target smut sites

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Paris Hilton

Please cite examples. Other than the bash problem, and PHP mess I would be interested in learning more.

Had a data breach? Well, SPEAK UP, big biz – Obama

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Re: Works both ways? No?

So it will still be OK to sell the data to American companys?

Boybanders ONE DIRECTION launch DoS attack on open-source bods

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140,000?

Does this mean that the band only has 140,000 fans? Or does it mean that only 140,000 can get permission form their children to go?

Facebook? More like FOGEYBOOK: Zuck's hangout is a cyber-retirement home

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Black Helicopters

Facebook, What's that?

Not now, and never have done facebook. Either I'm to old, to young, or to smart to have been captured by marketers. My friends and I prefer to keep in touch by exchanging encrypted emails, fake torrents, and use short wave radio. This helps keep our ranking on the NSA watch list, and makes them keep thier own records rather than simply allowing facebook to spy on us.

PS: I use the heavy duty tinfoil ;)

GoGo in-flight WiFi creates man-in-the-middle diddle

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Wendco

Wendy's, the fast food chain, also does this. So a national corporation being sneaky is a suprise? To be fair the Wendy cert can be kept as temporary and then deleted once you get redirected past the login page. Of course only those people who have no clue and don't want one WILL be upset at this news.

Ugly Microsoft code NUKED Bing and Yahoo! – report

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Happy

Friday after New Years.

More likely the bosses were all off on a four day weekend, since New Years day was thursday. While they were gone the cleaning guy did the upgrade and pushed the big red button that said "ARE YOU SURE". When the SO got back from lunch, he paniced and began rebooting all of the IIS machines. This led to the systems thrashing up and down. This continued until a grey beard notice the his email wasn't working a put a Knoppix disk in and undid the upgrade.

He did this with one hand. The other hand held his coffee.

Norks blame U.S. for TITSUP internet, unleash racist rant against Obama

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Headmaster

Mikey Strikes back!!

It's either a bored twelve year old Mikey running a DDOS from his tablet, or the Lizard Squad using the Nork's machines as a bot net. Face it. That cat3 cable to China needs to be replaced.

Norks: FBI's Sony Pictures' hacking allegations are 'groundless slander'

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Pint

It's a false trail.

Maybe this is a giant Sony marketing ploy for the movie. After all, the level of intelligence required to put a rootkit on CD's could be a corporate policy. No publicity is bad publicity, right, right...?

Fedora 21: Linux fans will LOVE it - after the install woes

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Lost me at 7.

Red Hat lost me at version 7. It had such a convoluted install I had to redo it three times to make sure I had what I wanted. So why waste time on 21. I might have tried it, but it uses systemd. Those who like systemd should do a forensic exam of a failed system, do this using a linux that does not support systemd. Remember ALL systems will fail at some point. So go ahead do a recover on systemd.

I await the tale.

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

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WTF?

Taken over?

The site now looks like it was taken over by the guy's in turtlenecks. Visual is NOT better. Next you'll be trying to shove video at visitors claiming that's more modern and hip. We don't do hip. I come to this site for news, not crap like this. Due to age, my vision is not what it used to be so I view this site magnified. Try that and see just how bad you made it. The question is will I stop coming due to the new layout, I don't know.

Guy's what happened to K.I.S.S.

NORKS: We didn't hack Sony. Whoever did was RIGHTEOUS, though

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Sony New Hire?

Perhaps the people that Sony subcontracted for thier new root kit simply misunderstood the purpose. They rootkited Sony instead of every one else.

Gee Golly So Sorry.

Sony Pictures MEGAHACK: Securobods pull out probes, analyse badness

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Data Mining?

Finally a good use for 'big data'.

Silver-tongued phish bait lures execs, hooks M&A deals

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Unhappy

Another Visual Basic Fail!

If MS would only turn off all of the auto run features, half or more of the virus and worms would just die.

If the COMMISH says block that email account, BLOCK IT!

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Finally a use for POP3.

Now company's will be going to the POP3 protocol for security.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) store's data on a server somewhere, commonly used for web based email. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3)stores data to the local machine.

Would an encrypted POP3 account be known as POPE mail?

Bank of England: What's all this then, CHAPS? Review to get a grip on IT cockup

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Legacy Software?

Maybe the only guy who understood the system was laid off?

US taxmen won't say WHY they're probing Microsoft. So Redmond is suing the IRS

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I don't like Microsoft, BUT...

The federal government is not suposed to go on fishing expiditions. This does sound like one though. The contract, any complaint, or court order should be a public record. So the question now becomes what is the govt. hiding rather than what tax did MS evade?

Euro digi chief 'H-dot' #twitterfail: 'My favourite app is the weather app'

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Trollface

New App.

Some one should introduce him to the Toilet App. It will let him know when he's full.

Microsoft adds video offering to Office 365. Oh NOES, you'll need Adobe Flash

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Windows

Security?

As MS and Adobe are both crap at security, how long will it be before simply watching one of these videos gets you infected?

Microsoft's Azure goes TITSUP PLANET-WIDE AGAIN in cloud FAIL

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Re: something wrong at a fundamental level with Azure.

Bob?

Cray heaves out even mightier, Lustre-ous Sonexion 2000

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Trollface

I wonder?

Why don't they say how many copys of Server2012 it can run? Maybe if it could run Win 8.1 more people would buy one?

EVERYTHING needs crypto says Internet Architecture Board

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Pint

Re: Encryption is not the whole answer

AGREED!! ASN.1, if you want to have nightmares. Read some of the rfc's.

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New Label for IAB

So when does IAB get labeled as a terrorist orgi?

VXers Shellshocking embedded BusyBox boxen

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Re: Bash + Busybox

Open a terminal, type "help", no quotes. Then <enter>. You will get a lot of text, but at the top there will be the information you need.

BOFH: An UNHOLY MATCH forged amid the sweet smell of bullsh*t

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Upgrade

I worked for a large, multi state, bank here in the US. One audit recomedation was that we upgrade the OS2 running on our IBM 3890's to XP, 3890's run Pentium II, 233 MZ, 512 mb, 2GB hard drives. The real hold up was legacy software that REQUIRED ie6. All connected with Server 2003. Pray tell which upgrades first?

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