Posts by bobblestiltskin

Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

Re: Honey pot

https://encrochat.us/ looks interesting.

I do not know if it is connected to the Dutch company.

Remember when we warned in February Apple will crack down on long-life HTTPS certs? It's happening: Chrome, Firefox ready to join in, too

The Fall?

Now all eyes are on Microsoft, which is expected to make a decision on the issue by the Fall.

I have not heard that one - and The Fall are one of my favourite bands.

R.I.P M.E.S

Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps

Re: Rosetta

The A64 instruction set is used when executing in the AArch64 Execution state. It is a fixed-length 32-bit instruction set. The ‘64’ in the name refers to the use of this instruction by the AArch64 Execution state. It does not refer to the size of the instructions in memory.

from https://developer.arm.com/architectures/learn-the-architecture/armv8-a-instruction-set-architecture/instruction-sets-in-the-armv8-a

House of Lords push internet legend on greater openness and transparency from Google. Nope, says Vint Cerf

Surveillance Capitalism

I would recommend reading 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' by Shoshana Zuboff (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook) for more insight.

Our amazing industry-leading AI was too dumb to detect the New Zealand massacre live vid, Facebook shrugs

The ONLY way to make companies change their ways is to hold their feet to the fire and hold C-level management individually accountable for their actions.

Sometimes I think that Burgess had it right in 'A Clockwork Orange'. I think that these executives should be made to watch the live streams of the self-harm for a day a week to see the effects of their largesse of their products upon society?

Sorry, Linux. We know you want to be popular, but cyber-crooks are all about Microsoft for now

Re: Really?

Unfortunately I had to use it - more than 20 years ago, and only for a few months.

It was horrible.

I still have nightmares about it. What a wile of pank!

Symantec execs cooked the books to protect their fat bonuses, investor lawsuit alleges

Re: Lawyer money grab

It seems that audit went on for months and did not come up with a smoking gun.

All hail Xenu!

Re: Lawyer money grab

Symantec had a big audit.

That Scientology stuff doesn't come cheap!

Up in arms! Arm kills off its anti-RISC-V smear site after own staff revolt

Re: It bears repeating: Building a CPU that runs C fast considered harmful.

Divide address A by B, sending results to A.

Divide??? You mean subtract many times surely!

Google to add extra Gmail security … by building a walled garden

Re: Sayonora

I opened a protonmail account for the self-same reasons. There is an android client too ...

Here we go again... UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors

Surely the government can propose a bill to ban prime numbers?

Forbid any number (especially large ones) from being divisible only by themselves and 1. And if they persist in being undivisible, just jail them and miss them out when counting.

Thinking more, it is just the odd numbers which cause problems, so just ban all odd numbers?

That would put a stop to this strong encryption malarkey.

As our antipodean cousins are wont to say, "What could possible go wrong"?

Brit teen accused of running malware factory and helpdesk for crims

Re: @Doctor Syntax

My head always explodes with the contradictions of the phrase 'military intelligence'.

How the Facebook money funnel is shaping British elections

If you are a human being, you can not afford to not vote Labour.

UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election

Re: thoughts on future regulation of encryption

Even if they can't decode it, if they can just detect it in a world where unsanctioned encryption and/or steganography is outlawed

It would be possible to hide the data - all data is just a stream of ones and zeros. The interpretation of said data stream is done by the application.

Do you really think that we have the resources to scan all data streams in real time?

If steganography were outlawed, I do not imagine for a second that bad actors would actually obey this law.

Re: Clueless govt...

communications that may be of interest and easily crack them

gpg and steganography would not make this at all easy - how long does it take to crack a gpg-encrypted message with a very long keylength?

Why Microsoft's Windows game plan makes us WannaCry

Re: It is the apps tied to ActiveX that cause the problems

I'm not keen on a mass scrapage of XP-controlled devices just because IT departments don't know how to manage them.

I wonder if it would be possible to :

1. Attach an external drive and image the hard drive to the external.

2. Install linux and VirtualBox on the hard drive.

3. Create a VM and copy the data from the external drive to the VM

4. Set the machine to run VirtualBox fullscreen at boot.

Result would be a machine that looks the same to the user, but which has a linux interface to the external world - much more easily secured than unsupported Windows, and the users will not need re-training?

Lib Dems pledge to end 'Orwellian' snooping powers in manifesto

Re: shame

"Labour truly do want to take the country to the 1970's so anyone crying brexit was about being backward couldnt possibly vote for the magic money tree nutters."

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/03/13/the-conservatives-have-been-the-biggest-borrowers-over-the-last-70-years/

The "magic money tree nutters" are the Tories?

UK's new Snoopers' Charter just passed an encryption backdoor law by the backdoor

Re: Provided by?

What is this Windows thing of which you write?

Jeremy Hunt: Telcos must block teens from sexting each other

Re: Jeremy Hunt

Waddock Hunt?

From Zero to hero: Why mini 'puter Oberon should grab Pi's crown

https://sites.google.com/site/libby8dev/fignition - a £20 solder-yourself computer that runs Forth - if you want something even more retro

Go for a spin on Record Store Day: Lifting the lid on vinyl, CD and tape

Re: You know back in the olden days...

Sorry if I am blowing my own trumpet - but there is also http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-Gramofile/ which perhaps makes it easier to process a lot of files.