Posts by Oh Bother 32 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Nov 2013
This one is an evolution of the attack mentioned in the previous article.
From said article:
"Also, the attack was conducted with a dedicated speaker – not the sort of thing one can sneak into a room easily – and it hasn't been demonstrated using a mobile phone as a sound source."
$3 worth of simple to hide hardware makes this attack much more feasible.
Seems rather a mess.
Crowdstrike Vs NSS Labs, more here: http://www.csoonline.com/article/3169582/techology-business/crowdstrike-attempts-to-sue-nss-labs-to-prevent-test-release-court-denies-request.html
Which has a link to a nice twitter spiel here : https://twitter.com/da_667/status/831350334912069636 relating to issues with NNS Labs in general
and a further few links relating to Cylance and it's similar issues.
Which could all be sour grapes.
Add into that mix that people are stating that AV is pretty much useless anyway (a google bod and an ex-FBI bod just recently) and you have a nice steaming pile to wade through.
"Presumably they only apply to companies over a certain size?".
Most likely as the report is specific to CII "Critical Information Infrastructure ".
The definition of CII is taken from the Council Directive 2008/114/EC on the identification and designation of European Critical Infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection:‘’ICT systems that are Critical Infrastructures for themselves or that are essential for the operation of Critical Infrastructures (telecommunications, computers/software, Internet, satellites, etc.) “
It would seem that centralising Skype in this manner will allow Microsoft to offer Skype in various jurisdictions like Russia, India, Argentina et. al. with the ability to conform to local laws.
Argentina (or is it Brazil?) has an ongoing fight with Whatsapp over encrypted messages.
Russia has newish laws regarding content locality and, possibly, legal interception.
India has a pretty serious hatred of any encryption that it cannot break.
So the changes place Skype in a perfect position to play in all markets, including these.
"Yes that's a big jump, but we tried our very best to keep users on the original prices & packages, users then told their friends or IT consultants got their new clients signed up and users were complaining why is user X paying less than we now do. So we have aligned our prices to make our service fair for all users."
So you screwed over the early customers who helped you to grow your business by advertising it for free to their families, friends and clients? Just because other complained they were having to pay more?
You really have no clue about building customer loyalty do you?
What happens to road tax when fleets of driverless vehicles abound that you can own, lease, or per per use?
Will we then get per/Km charging for road use instead?
person a - 100Km commute, off peak £5
person b - 20Km shopping, off peak £1
child q - 20Km school run, school £0.50
person p - 5Km unknown, peak £5
Multi-car families extend that rational by having two or more people that need a vehicle at the same time for different purposes with different destinations.
That is not going to change just because there are driverless cars.
Why not?
Driverless cars mean that you can commute to work. Once you're there the car THAT YOU OWN can then head home and pick your kid up and ferry said child to school.
What will happen in time is that companies/schools/whatever will get a little more flexible with their start and finish times to allow this to happen.
You may wish to own your own car, probably a long term lease rather than own outright, and that will still be permitted.
It'll just cost you more than pay per use unless your family usage pattern make the cost worthwhile.
But imagine if a company like Uber is running all this? Yuk.
You have IOPs and transfer rates. They are separate items and you need to compare both of them in order to get the best out of your azure premium storage choices. Cause the DS series VMs have certain limits for IOPs and transfer rates and the premium stroage options have their own limits.
Match them with care.
If you need a new TV today, get a mid range Full HD box.
Cause, if memory serves, an article on El Reg recently mentioned that the 4K standard has not yet been finalised. So why would you even think of buying a 4K tv today, curved or not, if it could be rendered obsolete in less than a year.
Best scene is in Vincent and the Doctor, where the 3 are lying on the ground and Vincent describes what he sees. Then the CGI kicks in and transforms the night sky into one of his paintings. Really quite beautiful.
I'm going to add Turn Left into the mix. I did like Donna, no mawkishness from her :)
Oh, good call on The Doctor's Wife there.
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