Re: re-orientated itself
Now you've done it ArrZar - you've got me imagining a spinning oriental potentate.
NURSE!
>>... It's the one that buttons up at the back, thanks.
Posts by PNGuinn
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NASA's TESS mission in distress, Mars Express restart is a success
Intel's security light bulb moment: Chips to recruit GPUs to scan memory for software nasties
Tuesday 17th April 2018 23:39 GMT 
Remind me ...
"FYI Intel is gonna let Windows Defender and other antivirus tools use integrated Intel GPUs to scan physical memory for #malware. "
"FYI Intel is gonna let Windows Defender and other malware use integrated Intel GPUs to scan
physical memory for Anything They Can Bloody Well Snaffle. "
There, FIFY, Chipzilla.
Remind me, someone: How many Intel engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Pentagon sticks to its guns: Yep, we're going with a single cloud services provider
Torvalds schedules Linux kernel 5.0, then maybe delays 'meaningless' release
New Galaxy un-smartphone can’t go online because Samsung's thought of the children
Monday 16th April 2018 12:04 GMT 
Small technical question ...
Would this device be a special with cut down silicon or would it be a full fat base model crippled in software?
If so, how easy would it be to root the device and re enable all the naughty features?
No, they're kids - they'd never stoop so low, even if one of their number did find out ...
Sysadmin’s worst client was … his mother! Until his sister called for help
Data exfiltrators send info over PCs' power supply cables
Thursday 12th April 2018 14:57 GMT 
Let's look at ths slightly differently....
Lots of interesting comments here. I can see that in *some* circumstances it might be possible to access the supply to a single or small number of computer supply feeds via an unsecured supply cable. Not necessarily the switchboard. Cable ducting above ceiling / below floor anyone?
But let's think around this one for a bit. Assume that you've done some research on your target, you know the topography. In other words, you've likely got someone on the inside. The place has considered security, and they've got all sorts of protections in place, and they think they're secure.
By definition, that probably means they are not. You've independently "audited" their "security". Something like this might just work. The real problem here, it seems to me, is getting the data OUT into the real world unnoticed. Ok, if your tap is in a relatively unsecured area, that might be easy.
What you really need to know is what they are currently protecting themselves against, design your tap around it, and either, depending on the amount of data you want, and when the data are available, pull your agent out and tap or tap and then get your agent to remove the tap. Then pull the agent or not as desired. Or live dangerously and leave the tap for later.
Thought. Have they got power line networking anywhere. Ah, WiFi - Must have. Because. or somesuch good reason. Or "intelligent" controls ... ah, green .... Would the systems in place notice a little more naughty RF on the powerlines? How easy would it be to add something into a psu case or on to a mobo or into the birdsnest behind the epoxied usb ports on the front panel ... in a computer, possibly before delivery or at repair?
Remember, the biggest security risk is human, and it doesn't need to be situated locally between keyboard and chair.
Thursday 12th April 2018 14:12 GMT
@ AC
"Not again... Well, if they think that's good I've managed to get the led under my mouse to transmit data. I'm still trying to work out the details on how to receive the data but at least I'm half way there."
Balls - that's what you need to prevent those pesky leds talking to strangers.
OTOH, small efficient motor inside a wireless balled mouse, and could be told to drive your data right out of your office. D'oh.
Q patent for intelligent mouse with gps in 3 2 1...
British government to ink deal for yet another immigration database
Thursday 12th April 2018 12:00 GMT
"But he said much of the design of the system would be dependent on what policy for EU residents the government decided upon after Brexit - for example whether or not they will need visas."
So, b****ks once again. Any last minute changes demanded by Tusktusk and Barnyard, and hastily capitulated to by Darlingbudzofmay and her team of ******** (insert your own appropriate description here - I don't have the skills in Finnish Linus has) and the next splurge of taxextortees dosh gets flushed down the crapper.
*** We need a Hang, Draw and Quarter 'em icon, AND a Stick Their Heads on Pikes on London Bridge Icon .... <splutter> .... ***
Google's not-Linux OS documentation cracks box open at last
Great Western Railway warns of great Western password reuse: Brits told to reset logins
Wednesday 11th April 2018 17:01 GMT
Re: We need a court action @tp pc
"The train due at platform 7 will be 15 minutes late to enable online booking customers to wade through our new high security captcha logon system in order to book a ticket. Passengers are reminded that Great Western takes your security, safety and comfort very seriously."
Modern life is rubbish – so why not take a trip down memory lane with Windows File Manager?
Birds can feel Earth's magnetic fields? Yeah, that might fly. Bioboffins find vital sense proteins
Wanna work for El Reg? Developers needed for headline-writing AI bots
Sunday 1st April 2018 16:52 GMT
Re: Substitute News ...
So ...
We have a series of random bots to write the headlines.
We have a series of random bots to write the stories.
We have a series of random bots to write the comments.
So, no change then, until Apple and Ms decide to talk to the bots.
It'll never catch on .... Oh, wait ....
Cambridge Analytica seeks data protection assistant
DeepMind boffins brain-damage AI to find out what makes it tick
Five things you need to know about Microsoft's looming Windows 10 Spring Creators Update
BOFH: Give me a lever long enough and a fool, I mean a fulcrum and ....
What a hang up: US big box biz Best Buy kicks Huawei to the curb
We sent a vulture to find the relaunched Atari box – and all he got was this lousy baseball cap
Cambridge Analytica CEO suspended – and that's not even the worst news for them today
2 + 2 = 4, er, 4.1, no, 4.3... Nvidia's Titan V GPUs spit out 'wrong answers' in scientific simulations
No, Sierra Leone did not just run the world's first 'blockchain election'
What's going great for Oracle? Cloud. What's not great? Just about everything else
Breaking up is hard to do: Airbus, new bae Google and clinging on to Microsoft's 'solutions'
Monday 19th March 2018 20:36 GMT
Re: "Microsoft however is not supposed to be an advertiser"
"But it looks Nadella is able only to try to copy someone else's successful business, be it Google slurping, Amazon cloud, or Apple app store."
So - come back Monkey Boy, all is forgiven?
At least he was a barrel of laughs in comparison.
UK tech whale Micro Focus: Share price halves as CEO quits, sales slide
Linux Foundation backs new ‘ACRN’ hypervisor for embedded and IoT
Monday 19th March 2018 11:07 GMT
Re: Intel? Embedded? @Voland
We can hope.
I would require from the *arstewards:
a. Full workshop manual, dead tree copy, with all vehicles. Also on the net. (You need a paper copy in the workshop!) In the native language of where you got the car.
b. Updates available an no cost from any dealer on production of proof of ownership, paper copy, also on the net.
c. Likewise full illustrated partslists, with partnumbers and updates. Electronics down to component level.
d. For the life of the vehicle, legally defined as 20 years minimum. Info to remain available on the net for a further 20 years.
e. All documentation to be GPL, Creative Commons or similar.
f. ALL SOURCE CODE FOR ALL SOFTWARE AND ALL UPDATES - GPL OR SIMILAR.
g. Should the bunch of shysters be taken over or go broke, all above to be preserved online for posterity.
That little lot should go some way to concentrate tiny minds to get the engineering right in the first place and to discourage releasing pre alpha grade designs and deliberate fiddles.
You may think you can discern a slight mistrust here - shame on you.
I marvel that it's easier to get far more complete repair info for a 40 year or older car - and spares - than most of the modern stuff.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
