Posts by Black Rat

Accused Brit hacker Lauri Love will NOT be extradited to America

Man walks down the street in a hat like that, you know he's not afraid of anything ...

Heart Internet outage... three days and counting

KVM host failure

Because you can't blame mum for unplugging the server so she could hoover your room

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

Once upon a time in Cuba - El Paquete Semanal

aka Cuban Netflix. Hand delivered thumb drives full of data, News, Pirated films, educational material, pop music etc

http://paquetedecuba.com/listado-del-paquete-semanal-segunda-semana-enero-actualizado-2018/

Tired of despairing of Trump and Brexit? Why not despair about YouTube stars instead?

Re: Oooowwwww my balls!

Bring back Climbing For Dollars!

YouTuber cements head inside microwave oven

Pulls up a seat at the freakshow next to the ghost of George Carlin ...

So who's on next?

Disk drive fired 'Frisbees of death' across data centre after storage admin crossed his wires

1980's Technology

My god it's full of springs!

Servicing a VCR was like playing with a Hellraiser puzzle box

Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password

2017 Fail Award

I think we have a winner

Vanity, thy name is: M1SCO company car reg plates for sale

Re: Many

D1 OCH seen a few times in Carmarthen

Uncle Sam to strap body sensors to hackers in nuke lab security study

I call dibs on the W-87 warhead...

If you see me running you can keep the green card ;)

How can airlines stop hackers pwning planes over the air? And don't say 'regular patches'

Re: Didn't something like this happen

X-files spin off The Lone Gunmen predicted 9/11 with an attempt to crash a hacked aircraft into New York

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

Yorkshire?

Hope we see the Doctor using Ecky-Thump instead of Venusian aikido ;)

Roland McGrath steps down as glibc maintainer after 30 years

Somebody Please

Buy that man a beer

May the excessive force be with you: Chap cuffed after Star Trek v Star Wars row turns bloody

This is for all time the Ultimate Showdown. (sing along if you've had enough beer lol)

https://youtu.be/4WgT9gy4zQA

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

Smells Like A Skunk Escaped

I wonder how much Lockheed is bringing to the project? It could be this slippery supersonic design has already flying for some time.

Blunder down under: self-driving Aussie cars still being thwarted by kangaroos

Ah I see the problem...

https://youtu.be/7_HAFsPooR4

South Korean hosting co. pays $1m ransom to end eight-day outage

Strange, every web host has a 'force majeure' (it's not our fault / pixies ate the backups) clause in the hosting contract for just this sort of contingency. So one has to wonder where the pressure is coming from to pay up.

Apple appears to relax ban on apps fetching, running extra code – remains aloof as always

Ah Bisto..

So Apple can can say their updated OS is totally secure, pull out our fingernails we still can't unlock the device. Yet any three letter agency with the clout to alter the DNS registry can quietly insert code remotely into any vulnerable app on a suspects phone.

Microsoft founder Paul Allen reveals world's biggest-ever plane

Re: Hang on...

With the exception of Thunderbird Six pretty much everything that flew was nuclear powered.

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

I feel sorry for the 9/11 conspiracy theorists, this will drive them nuts

Japanese researchers spin up toilet paper gyroscopes for science

Science my arse!

Izal know what's going on.

This is about who's stealing the loo roll

America's mystery X-37B space drone lands after two years in orbit

Re: it is unlikely that it carries any weapons... cough... cough...

Salyut-3 space station and its successors had a modified Rikhter R-23 aircraft cannon mounted for 'testing' purposes. At four feet 10 inches long it's a comfortable fit for the American bird.

Shock horror: US military sticks jump leads on human brains to teach them a lesson

Is anybody else having flashbacks of JOE-90?

https://youtu.be/4utQWy9heEI?t=41s

NATO secures adoption of submerged drone data comms standard

The JANUS magazine link suggested by Google was a NSFW shock

Ewe, get a womb! Docs grow baby lambs in shrink-wrap plastic bags

The Kindred

The Kindred. Scaring artificial womb researchers from working at home since 1987

https://youtu.be/yPIKZP5Pdug

Can you make a warzone delivery drone? UK.gov wants to give you cash

The last mile delivery

The current world record for a pumpkin chucking cannon is just over a mile at 5545 feet..

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

Re: President Swoop and Poop

Don't worry soon the British will retake the colonies and sort the mess out.

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

The unprobed limits

In M.R.D. Foot's history of the Special Operations Executive there's a mention about plastic explosive being edible, now bend over and cough while I check for a detonator.

Vultures Wiith Lasers!

Vultures Wiith Lasers!

I saw this and thought of you guys, vultures with lasers in a kids cartoon from the 1980's

https://youtu.be/7mDVMtcAzX0?t=4m42s

Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans

Wait for the ammendments...

Punishments will involve the removal of redundant organs such as an eye, a kidney, a lung, or a testicle.

May his merciful shadow fall upon you.

Repentant priest from Cuntis sorry he dressed as Hugh Hefner

I love El Reg, it brings me all the best wierdness

Vice News YouTube video commenter set for retrial over 'menacing' posts

Joy Alertness Citizens

This slope has been greased for your safety

LUNAR-CY! SpaceX announces a Moon trip-for-two it'll inevitably miss the deadline on

That'll be some holiday photos I won't mind seeing

Mines the flightsuit with the "Salvage-1" mission patch

Brit cops can keep millions of mugshots of innocent folks on file

and what about the other agencies who they shared images & data with?

I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court

Revenge is dish best served remotely, ideally from a self erasing bash script on the bosses laptop.

UPS & drones: Delivery company launches UAV from truck

Any excuse to throw a parcel over the fence

US Homeland Security is so secure even its own staff can't log in

Probably all the Facebook passwords being added.

Jun-OH-NO! NASA's Jupiter probe in busted helium-valve drama

So once the public forget about it we can rendezvous with the anomaly

Huge if true: iPhone 8 will feature 3D selfies, rodent defibrillator

Now listen carefully Bond...

New iPhone X, push the earbuds into the sports nutrition bar thus to make a demolition charge.

HPE blames solid state drive failure for outages at Australian Tax Office

Fake News Alert

Hackers not getting the blame for a government computer failure? pull the other one!

Dead cockroaches make excellent magnets – now what are we supposed to do with this info?

Seems legit

Phase two: cockroach in a railgun

All of Blighty's attack submarines are out of action – report

Enough of this blind man's buff with baseball bats!

Crank up the active sonar to 11 and let's get the supercavitating sub fighters off the drawingboard and into the water. That'll give everybody something to shkval about.

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.

The best of Reg readers' David Hockney-style logo redesigns

I find the lack of comic sans most disturbing