Posts by Thrud61 22 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2013
Must be 25 years ago I was IT manager at a large US company and at that time we were supplying ISDN lines to "home workers". When we had a problem I tried to contact BT and ended up with an auto attendant, it wanted to know if it was business or residential, then various options about bills and installations, went through more options than I've ever had in an AA before or since, the final option was to complain about ISDN, selected the option and I got the number unobtainable tone. I tried again to make sure I hadn't made a mistake, exactly the same.
So I would be grateful if you could dial BT customer support periodically and choose random options in the AA until it gets to a real person and then play them some hold music that repeats every 4 bars and then hang up.
I'm glad someone pointed this out, as I would have trusted the Rev. Dr. Sean Connery the third, had the form for my bank details been on an official Nigerian government site, though I'm not sure how I would know it was a real one.
If AV companies are measured against the VirusTotal samples that they miss its not surprising that they blindly create signatures for everything that is submitted, if they don't add it they will be flagged as less effective than those that do and by the time that they have explained and the scoring has been fixed the damage to their reputation will be done.
"A Chinese general goes berserk and has a system of tunnels dug all the way from China to USA, under the Pacific Ocean! Wherever there is an important military base, he places atomic bombs. US Navy soldiers go underground to repel the invaders. "
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061387/
I really wish everyone would update to more secure systems, twice in recent months I have had to revert a security measure made to the product, in the first instance allow weaker ciphers because of all of the old systems that only support LOW and MEDIUM level ciphers and in the second we had to re-enable support for SSLv23 because in both cases our customers complained that none of their customers could now send them email. It is bad enough that these systems are restricting the levels of security that others can employ but it also reflected badly on us when customers raised concerns that our product didn't support this or that standard email system, and some subsequently ran Pen tests and pointed out the vulnerabilities that they had re-enabled on our product to support their customers.
Its all a huge pain in the ass.
I have to admit linkedin is a pain, I waste stupid amounts of time trying to find out who the person making me an invite is or if I should know them, without actually looking at their profile directly so they don't see me looking and think I may be interested in them. I want a generic f. off button on all social media.
PIN and Bio-metric data are irrelevant, the passports were reported stolen 1 and 2 years ago, a simple look-up of the passport number should have prevented the use of the passports, passports now usually have a machine readable printed code and an rfid, these should be easily checked, before we worry about associating a particular person to a particular passport, surely just ensuring the passport is valid and not stolen is the first thing to get right, then worry about who has it.
After all if its not a valid passport it doesn't matter how much the person looks like the original owner.
"and only start logging complaints after individuals have engaged with organisations"
How are they going to know who the repeat offenders are if they don't log the complaints as they are made.
Joe Public : "Why are company X giving my personal details to everyone"
ICO : "Speak to company X"
company X : "Sorry we wont give YOUR details to anyone else"
Joe Public : "thanks"
Dave Public : "Why are company X giving my personal details to everyone"
ICO : "Speak to company X" Public : "thanks"
company X : "Sorry we wont give YOUR details to anyone else"
Dave Public : "thanks"
Fred Public : ....
No complaints logged ?
If this gets any sort or approval then this is surely going to open the door for all sorts of legal action, I'm guessing that WINE, MONO, MAME and all sorts of other emulators would be on the hit list from some of the bigger companies should they decide they care enough. This would have a fair chance of affecting various large open source projects as well.
I can't think of any good reason not qualify the automatic pilots for deck landings, if that is what the software is supposed to do then every time there is a change in the software I think I'd want it validated as still being a competent pilot, before I would let it slap into the back of my ship filled with fuel and possibly other explosives.
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