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Posts by Black Rat
160 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2013
Accused Brit hacker Lauri Love will NOT be extradited to America
Heart Internet outage... three days and counting
How to hack Wi-Fi for fun and imprisonment with crypto-mining inject
Re: can a bit of javascript really mine anything worth having ?
Yes & No ;)
If done correctly this attack becomes a little more persistent continuing to run after you have left the area of the rogue access point. Plus the attacker could grab some if not all of your login credentials (Gmail, Amazon, PayPal, XHamster etc) and if really lucky an active session token for your banking.
UK.gov admits porn age checks could harm small ISPs and encourage risky online behaviour
Tired of despairing of Trump and Brexit? Why not despair about YouTube stars instead?
YouTuber cements head inside microwave oven
Disk drive fired 'Frisbees of death' across data centre after storage admin crossed his wires
Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password
Vanity, thy name is: M1SCO company car reg plates for sale
Uncle Sam to strap body sensors to hackers in nuke lab security study
How can airlines stop hackers pwning planes over the air? And don't say 'regular patches'
Clear August 21 in your diary: It's a total solar eclipse for the smart

Space Above & Beyond Trivia Teaser
Is this the eclipse during James Dark Moon was born [Season 1, Episode 20 "Stardust"] ?
KLIZZIE DAH-NES-TSA AH-JAH BE-LA-SANA THAN-ZIE BE-TKAH KLIZZIE A-KHA BE DIBEH BE-TKAH GLOE-IH AH-JAH BE-TKAH YAH-DI-ZINI BE-TKAH KLESH DZEH DZEH BE-TKAH DIBEH D-AH BE-LA-SANA GAH KLESH
The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY
Hienz beans, Cumberland sausage really?
IMHO the classic full English breakfast should only be made from ingredients sourced at the local cash & carry and served in the ambiance of a run down 1960's café. Smedley's baked beans stewing in the pot for a week, Ketchup that could strip paint and sausages of such questionable content a tourist from Ankh Morpork would feel at home.
Jodie Who-ttaker? The Doctor is in
Roland McGrath steps down as glibc
maintainer after 30 years
May the excessive force be with you: Chap cuffed after Star Trek v Star Wars row turns bloody
European MPs push for right to repair rules

Re: Lead free solder
<Sigh> I do miss that first joint of the day, that heavy sweet aroma with a hint of singed fingers. The gentle hiss of the sponge and distinctive rattle of a Weller soldering iron being thrown the last inch back into the spring holder.
Must ...resist.... urge.....don't need to mooch through the junk bins at Hardings Electronics in Cheltenham. Sod it! I'm getting my coat
Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight
Blunder down under: self-driving Aussie cars still being thwarted by kangaroos
South Korean hosting co. pays $1m ransom to end eight-day outage
Apple appears to relax ban on apps fetching, running extra code – remains aloof as always
Microsoft founder Paul Allen reveals world's biggest-ever plane
Three home security systems found to be vulnerable – if hackers were hiding in bushes
Meanwhile a long way back in the bush
During the happy days when most routers used WEP encryption my personal best for an urban WiFi hack was about 100 meters using a relatively small homemade Yagi antenna and a stock wireless dongle. Though the bandwidth sucked it was no worse than dial-up, plenty enough to get online or pwn the owners box.
Robot lands a 737 by hand, on a dare from DARPA
Japanese researchers spin up toilet paper gyroscopes for science
America's mystery X-37B space drone lands after two years in orbit
Shock horror: US military sticks jump leads on human brains to teach them a lesson
NATO secures adoption of submerged drone data comms standard
Ewe, get a womb! Docs grow baby lambs in shrink-wrap plastic bags
Can you make a warzone delivery drone? UK.gov wants to give you cash
Alert: Using a web ad blocker may identify you – to advertisers
Re: Happy Tracking
Never hurts to check your browser fingerprint with a visit to https://panopticlick.eff.org/
as many machines running Adblock & NoScript can still be uniquely identified. Even with 3rd party plugins, Cookies, Javascript & Flash disabled it's fascinating how much data can be gleaned.
Trump sets sights on net neutrality
BOFH: The Boss, the floppy and the work 'experience'

Count Your Blessings
Back the early nineties landed a 'computer' job for Dowty Fuel systems and spent the first week in the machine shop repairing punch tape readers. Vending machine tea flavoured with cutting oil and a hint of cyanide vapour from the plating shop across the car park, fond memories...
mines the one with the big hammer in the pocket
Now UK bans carry-on lappies, phones, slabs on flights from six nations amid bomb fears
Vultures Wiith Lasers!
Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans
Repentant priest from Cuntis sorry he dressed as Hugh Hefner
Vice News YouTube video commenter set for retrial over 'menacing' posts
LUNAR-CY! SpaceX announces a Moon trip-for-two it'll inevitably miss the deadline on
Brit cops can keep millions of mugshots of innocent folks on file
I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court
UPS & drones: Delivery company launches UAV from truck
US Homeland Security is so secure even its own staff can't log in
Jun-OH-NO! NASA's Jupiter probe in busted helium-valve drama
Huge if true: iPhone 8 will feature 3D selfies, rodent defibrillator
HPE blames solid state drive failure for outages at Australian Tax Office
Dead cockroaches make excellent magnets – now what are we supposed to do with this info?
All of Blighty's attack submarines are out of action – report
Trump cybersecurity order morphs into 2,200-plus-word extravaganza

Cyberattack on the nation's electricity grid...
Seriously Mr Trump? go read Paul Parfomak's 2014 report "Physical Security of the U.S. Power Grid: High-Voltage Transformer Substations", digital shenanigans are the least of your worries it seems.
Since 2003 at least six transformers are known to have been destroyed by rounds from a common relatively small calibre hunting rifle, the FBI can tell you how many other incidents have not been made public for security reasons.