Posts by Medixstiff 394 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jul 2013
"he argued, but there should be "safeguards" to prevent abuse"
We tried that and Edward Snowden proved it doesn't work.
As there's been no apologies by anyone from any US government agency - not like they would anyway - there's no reason for anyone to trust the FBI or any other organisation to just let this special version of IOS be used just for this one device or the NSA to get a copy and reverse engineer it all, so as far as I am concerned, they can all get stuffed.
Yet you have planes like the Harrier still going strong and the A-10 too.
Is it me or have these techie/scientist types dropped in what they can actually deliver, from the ones in the 50's and 60's that gave us space flight etc?
Especially considering the lack of technology they had back then compared to what we have now.
I cannot get over how many new phones still come out with KitKat, FFS it's 2016 manufacturers, I'm sick of looking at new phones for staff and having 11GB or less free on a brand new 16GB phone because of useless crap you lot install that cannot be removed unless the phone is rooted.
I at least am happy a decent judge was running the DBC case, for what those greedy wastes of space wanted, it was good to slap a $600,000 bond on them, I'm sure that more than anything else made them realise they had to do the right thing legally or risk losing a decent chunk of change.
When mum's practice moved to a new building, we requested quotes to take some of the specialist machines from Windows XP to 7.
These are essential for the treatment and care of babies BTW, we were quoted $30,000 per machine for 6 machines.
That's absolutely disgusting in my book, $5,000 I could understand but still would think is a bit much.
That's nothing but pure greed, I hope a few of their machines become affected and it affects their image, bunch of w*nkers.
I certainly remembered seeing Empire Strikes back, we had two classrooms split by one of those retractable doors, all I remember was the teacher rolling out the TV on one of those stands and 70 odd kids glued to this screen until the end credits, then fighting over who would be which character at lunch time in the play ground.
Those were great days, no political correctness or the other BS that ruins everything now plus we respected adults and teachers and if you really screwed up, out came the cane.
"there are certain benefits to using vendors, they can sack people that don't perform."
Well someone needs to grow a pair of balls by the sounds of it, this government is a lifelong career BS needs to stop now, none of these lazy so and so's have anything to really fear, bring government in line with the real world and if they are anything like in Aus. fire the excess dead wood high level employees up top that are only there because no-one knows where else to put them.
I have, on OCZ Vertex 2, currently sitting on my desk as a paperweight, luckily it's the OS drive and I use a HDD for my data storage, because I couldn't find anyone near me that could look at SSD's, at least all the HDD's I've seen fail slowly failed and I could get data off them before they finally died.
"Has there EVER been a targeted local species eradication project which did not have unintended, unforeseen and horrific consequences?"
Well I'm still waiting for someone to tractor beam some space junk on Parliament House in Canberra, if it takes out the whole state https://40.media.tumblr.com/7e251365f501c79bfbdcefade37fc41c/tumblr_nj9253HQDR1sbwbino1_500.jpg
I've stuck with Seagate since the 90's, it's funny some people have complained to me about having Seagate failures when I've had no problems, yet in my brother's case, he's replaced 6 WD drives out of the 5 in his NAS - yep one warranty one died too - and I've had problems with WD drives before, so I stick to Seagate.
My Thecus N5500 has 5x Seagate 2TB greens that are still going strong since 2011, my work PC has a 500GB SSD plus a 3TB Seagate storage drive and the same at home.
Except as the story stated. sensitive documents were found in the CIA Directors personal AOL account.
"The hacker appears to be the same person who broke into CIA director John Brennan's AOL account in October. Sensitive documents were revealed by the miscreant, which led to another investigation."
I doubt very much AOL, Verizon etc. have a note against a person's private email account saying "Be careful of phone calls about this account, as he's the CIA/NSA/FBI director so be more vigilant about proving their identity".
It should be made law that if a director of an Intelligence agency is found to have sent themselves sensitive documents to unsecured email accounts. they are sacked immediately and brought up on criminal charges, they should be setting an example.
Toothless tiger laws are equally responsible.
Make it that C level executives and Board members are financially responsible in the event of a hack or utility outage and see how quickly things change.
It's no point just fining a company, all they will do is pay the fine and continue doing nothing, fine the people at the top, they get paid the big bucks, they should take the responsibility.
"When was the last time you heard a ransomware encrypting files on a smartphone?"
Yeah but how many people still do their banking on their PC's exclusively as opposed to their smartphone?
People like bashing Windows but their market share more than anything else paints the target on them.
I still chuckle at all the poor dingle berry's that go on about changing over to Linux, like it's the next big thing, it's been the next big desktop replacement since the 90's and it's market share is still less than 2%
https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
Yeah but as Snowden proved, there's lots of secret stuff that contravenes their own amendments, so stuff them.
I say shine as much light on the murky goings on of certain US agencies as possible, they've been quite comfortable living in the shadows for decades getting away with morally questionable stuff, make them answer for it. They love to say "innocent until proven guilty" but I say "you prove a valid reason why you should be able to get away with this, that the common person will agree with" otherwise stick it where the sun doesn't shine princess.
Why haven't any governments had a go at M$, such as the relevant Consumer Affairs department, over their forcing Windows 10 on people, who bought a perfectly valid Windows license with their PC's and don't want to upgrade?
After all the EU absolutely caned them over bundling IE in Windows originally, where are they now standing up for their citizens rights to run whatever they want to run without M$ bullying them into upgrading to Win 10?
Our company like many other's have door and alarm security PC's, managed by third parties and I bet quite a few of them are going to be caught up in this stupidity.
This reeks of pure desperation, their "200 million" figure is a joke, considering it's been proven this includes X-Boxes and phones. Show us the actual PC install number M$ or are you too afraid it's going to show Win 10 is a shambles just like Win 8 was?
What I want to know is, once the free period is over and you need to pay for Win 10 as part of new PC purchases etc. will they release a version without the data slurping, so like Windows 7 through 8.1, we have control over our OS we bought with our PC using our money?
"Authorities are years behind the crims and falling further everyday - unfortunately. The digital world is like the Wild West of yesteryear and the financial losses are skyrocketing"
I suspect because they are too busy trying to get their own populations under their thumb, they don't really care anymore, it's all about what power they wield, just look at Snowden's extensive list of documents showing numerous agencies spying on their own populations. In reality the only thing that would ever stop them is a solar flare taking out all technology and unless whole countries populations rise up, nothing will change.
Bloody hell we sure do have a lot of knowledgeable nuclear bomb making specialists on here.
Even work colleagues and geeky friends i know seem to know everything about blowing shit up and stuff, just yesterday we were talking about brake fluid and chlorine. I sure hope the various security services realise not to tick off the geeks, maybe that's why they want to have encryption backdoors, they know what you lot know and are capable of.
"I think I'm one of a dying breed that likes the boring, functional ThinkPad design. "
Nope we love them at work, although we might transition across to the Surface depending on how the new "Modular ThinkPad X1" stacks up against it.
The only sticking point with the Surface is no inbuilt LTE, which with our mobile sales guys means a dongle out the side.
My brother can attest to the toughness of ThinkPad's, he came off his bike one wet day due to the combination of first rains for the season mixing with oil build up on the road causing him to come off the bike trying to dodge an idiot driver pulling out in front of him. The thing he remembers most clearly is his ThinkPad coming out of the pannier and sliding past him on it's lid. After picking his bike and laptop back up, there's was only a slight scratch on the lid and it worked perfectly.
Being low on the food chain has it's advantages, less meetings for one. Or EMC SAN's just turned up this week so the bright sparks are working out how to transition everything across from our current kit.
I will be the only Ops team member not worrying about it at all but there will be some puckered butts and crossed fingers over the next few weekends I can guarantee.
Plus there's the VMWare SRM stuff I guess, so might as well do our BCP test at the same time and tick that off.
IE11 is a pretty solid browser. Apart from the compulsory Flash support, at least (which can be disabled, if you try hard enough). I'd prefer it to Chrome.
I'd like M$ to go the way of Google and do their own Flash updating in IE, it would mean one less application to manage updates for in SCCM & M$ although not perfect, would probably do a better job of it that Adobe.
"It bothers me that so much of the Internet's basic infrastructure is hosted in a single country that hasn't really shown that its should be trusted with such things. Every country hosting a root DNS server would then add a bit of accountability to world governments."
Excepting a few countries like China, who have shown to be fiddling around with re-routing, such as with their nice little BGP hijack of a few years ago.
"So, basically go back to where you were and put the SD slot and removable battery on the S7"
I would be happy without the extra Samsung bloatware they install too or their annoying Samsung Apps, which seems to notify me every second day.
I have an S3 which is due for replacement but I won't go a Samsung this time, all I want is external storage and vanilla Android.Marshmallow.
I'm sick of Samsung promising future OS upgrades that never eventuate, they've done this with the S3 and my tablet, hence why I want vanilla Android.
If they are so worried about power stations etc. being hacked, why the hell aren't they enforcing a 6 monthly or yearly audit on them?
On top of that, make it law that CEO's and other upper managers are heavily fined if an incident does occur. Hit the people in the hip pocket that deserve it, not the poor sods that keep getting their budget's cut or told security isn't important.
If they arc up about it not being fair, a few well placed stories in the tabloids about fat cats risking the security of the nations power grid should sort them out quick smart.
"may choose to stop making films altogether."
Good, most is just the same recycled garbage anyway.
That's why Disney bought the Star Wars and Marvel franchises, existing story lines and characters, hell I remember when Pirates of the Caribbean came out, some Hollywood type was saying it's all about building franchises and milking them these days.
No wonder I only see a few movies per year, there's not much decent stuff coming out of studios anymore. Movies like Transformers will never an academy award but then I only see those types of movies for the turn off your brain, sit back and have fun factor anyway.
"We need to challenge our best minds"
Hillary you and your idiot friends just don't get it, creating a backdoor is the dumbest idea EVER, if there's a backdoor for government to use, you can bet someone outside of government will find a way through it.
How about you do something constructive and kick a few asses, especially over at DHS considering the audit report on their security and patching.
I only ask because the last three weeks we have been getting emails with dodgy URL's in them, the first week there more than 100 in the week, now it's down to about 10 last week, we even got them from our regular suppliers.
Once we investigated and spoke to a few people outside the organisation, we found their staff had become infected after being targeted with emails from Yahoo accounts, which then started sending out copies of the email to everyone in their address books.
Two staff with Yahoo email accounts then advised us that they had to reset their passwords after not being able to get into their accounts at home.
When we checked our logs, their accounts had sent malware emails to staff in our organisation that our devices had blocked.
So I can only expect that Yahoo have suffered a large hack but I just haven't seen anything about it yet.
"Since using a computer is an essential part of any business, why are businesses not including even some basic computer skills and security training when they hire people?"
We use http://www.securingthehuman.org/ all staff have to go through the 50 odd video's followed by the accompanying questions what really gets them, is that if they get one wroing, the answers change so answer A will now be C, which really makes them look at the question and answers properly. they must do this within the first month of starting.
Then one month every year - we just did ours in October - all staff including the CEO and IT staff, do the training again, as they do update their videos and answers.
We have found just by doing this, we are getting way less people clicking on stuff willy nilly, we've had 3 USB keys dropped near our premises in the last year, two had malware, all three were passed directly to ICT and even better staff are now putting anyone calling up and asking questions of a social engineering nature - what OS do we use and all that type of thing - directly through to IT. So it has definitely made a difference to ourselves.
We always actively check connectivity to stream the cup a few days before it happens, because as most people in IT know, IT staff are always proactive and the Managers who make the decision never think of things until the last minute.
Of course if something cannot be done because numpty Manager didn't give IT enough notice to set something up, it's always IT's fault for not have a friggin' crystal ball.
If I ever win $20 million in lotto, I'm buying a cattle prod and I'm sorting a few managers out before I leave the company.
If I buy a certain advertised speed internet connection from an ISP/telco, within reason I expect to receive that speed. If they specifically throttle my connection to say Netflix, then they lied to me about receiving X speed internet service, plain and simple and I should be justified to take them to court over it because they haven't given me the service I paid for.
I paid for my license of Windows 7 and want to STICK to my Windows 7, how about you STICK your Windows 10 where the sun doesn't shine, if you say it's free for the first 12 MONTHS, then let me install it when I WANT TO INSTALL the bloody thing.
Now f*ck off and leave my PC alone.
"I refuse to use such aberration."
Well it sounds like someone didn't know how to set up SharePoint in your organisation nor has it been managed well.
This is the fourth organisation I've worked at with SharePoint and once setup it just works for us. We are a government owned financial; services company, so you can guess how much red tape documentation, procedures etc. we have to keep.
My mother lives in Halls head, Western Australia, there's two dates for that September 2015 for FTTP services and Q2 2016 for FTTN services. Considering checking her address on the NBN site says "The rollout of the nbn™ network has not started yet in this location." I'm guessing she will be stuck on FTTN.
The people I rent from were told three months ago that NBN would be in my area - West Perth - in Jan-Feb 2016, however the roll out plan shows Q4 2016. As I was under the impression NBN deals directly with body corporates, someone at NBN Co. either hasn't got a clue or is telling porkies to the body corporate.
Most ads these days are just annoying SPAM, if we got rid of SPAM, annoying ads, dodgy Java scripts and Flash, the internet would be a much more enjoyable and safer place security wise.
However like the movie studios and distributors, most advertisers are still using antiquated thinking instead, of thinking outside the box a little and actually putting some effort into ads, that actually give good factual information about the product or service they are trying to sell and don't do stupid annoying things like pop up over the entire screen or redirect you automatically to another site, because that's a sure fire way to make more people decide to install an ad blocker.
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