Posts by bombastic bob

Welcome to the Wipe House: President Trump shreds climate change, privacy, LGBT policies on WhiteHouse.gov

Re: I'd offer the world an apology for the garbage that is "American First"

"That inauguration speech in full:"

nice parody. it would play well on South Park

Windows 10 networking bug derails Microsoft's own IPv6 rollout

Re: It is not the backward, it is the forward bit which is the issue

"What Microsoft is doing is the right thing (for once) - trying to manage it correctly via DHCP."

I'm already doing that. I have the routing advertisements going around, AND isc-dhcp running for both IPv4 _AND_ IPv6. When I ran Windows 10 on it [back in the 'insider' days, as a sanity test] it _seemed_ to work, but I didn't test it very long. Windows 7 seems to work ok, and I had IPv6 working on an XP box, even. [I needed to know what ports it listens on so I could firewall them with the FreeBSD gateway/router].

So I think I'm qualified to criticize Micro-shaft when they're trying to do exactly what _I_ did a few years ago. And it's _NOT_ "rocket surgery".

(actually the info over on he.net was helpful, as well as other documentation available online)

So,when I fire up the installer for a debian Linux box, the installer correctly discovers the IPv6 routing information and starts downloading packages via IPv6. When I connect a 'droid device to my network, it routes properly via IPv6. And of course everything else that's configured.

As for Active Directory - that's a Micro-shaft problem, not mine. If it's not inherently broken, it should work just fine as well. Maybe they should try using a Samba server running on Linux or FreeBSD ???

Re: "but Android doesn't support that"

"Linux probably already supports the protocols"

as a matter of fact, it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_operating_systems

(some of the info appears to be out of date, however)

For FreeBSD, I added isc-dhcp from the ports collection, and configured 2 instances, one for IPv4, the other for IPv6. it works pretty well. (I did this several years ago, working well since)

Re: Sigh

I blame windows for slowing down the implementation of IPv6.

Mostly, it would be due to ISPs not wanting to deal with the fact that there will be NO NAT DEVICE between the windows computer and the intarwebs.

This means that the plethora of well-known listening ports will be EXPOSED TO THE INTARWEBS again. Just like a dialup connection USED to be (and in some cases, probably still is).

So guess who gets to deal with the tech support issues caused by viruses, zero-day exploits, and so forth? That's right the ISP!

As a result, they don't want to deal with it. having to set up a tunnel through a free service (like he.net) is like an "intelligence test" of sorts. For average 'plug it in and it works' users, it's a security disaster waiting to happen.

And I blame WINDOWS for that. Their machines should NEVER expose ports like that. They should listen on localhost, NOT the entire address space! And MIcro-shaft's firewall is a *JOKE* at best. In any case, with the latest SMB exploit waiting to happen, I'm sure that Micro-shaft will have PLENTY of headaches and patches when they FINALLY get around to making IPv6 support good enough for ISPs to support it, too.

Re: Not that awful

"BTW, who likes NAT? I can only think of one real advantage it has."

let me guess - the automatic firewalling of "all of those open ports" on the typical windows machine?

that's the only REAL advantage that I can think of. That and sharing the same connection with a single 'connected' device, but that part was a given...

"you have a big tech company like Microsoft and they cannot get IPv6 implemented without endless problems"

THEIR problem is the tenacity of a "it must be WINDOWS" solution. that, and general incompetence.

It's not "rocket surgery". heh.

Re: It is not the backward, it is the forward bit which is the issue

er, trying to digest what you're saying here.

strangely, IPv6 works pretty well on my LAN and via a tunnel through he.net [it's one of the free IPv6 tunnel services, yeah]. I've got DNS returning AAAA records and everything. the only trouble I've had is with an old wifi router that seems to want to be the IPv6 gateway for the LAN, even though there's already a gateway for IPv6 [so I plugged the WAN port into the LAN, assigned it to a different IPv4 and IPv6 address, problem 'solved'].

So aside from the ancient wifi router not being set up properly for what _I_ happen to do with it, everything ELSE works quite well, including Windows 7. 10 seemed to work last time I tried it. But seriously, I'm just using off-the-shelf open source things, FreeBSD, Linux, isc-dhcp, and a tunnel via he.net .

This isn't "rocket surgery" (as Ladonna Harvey, a local radio personality, puts it - heh).

Of course, I've got my FreeBSD firewall blocking anything incoming to ports that are "open" because the windows firewall can't be trusted...

SO, Micro-shaft: What's SO HARD???

Chrome dev explains how modern browsers make secure UI just about impossible

Re: "picture-in-picture attacks"

"But now you've got the whole terminal browser that can be duplicated."

how about a fake 2D FLATSO FLUGLY interface that looks like it' running Edge, with a fake dialog box saying "Welcome to Windows 10!". It would be a way of trolling people into throwing their computers out of a window or something...

Re: HTML5 can do WHAT?!

"Seems you don't like full-screen ANYTHING"

I know that _I_ do *NOT* like 'full screen'. Except for movies. And I normally use an EXTERNAL player after downloading videos via "some plugin on Firefox" anyway, so I can download the HD version with my pathetic bandwidth and still view it without skipping.

Re: HTML5 can do WHAT?!

"TML5 can force a browser into full-screen mode?"

sounds like a need for:

a) a plugin like 'noscript' to block all of that by default;

b) user-configurable settings for the same thing (i.e. "never full-screen the browser" just like "never open popup windows")

On last day as president, Obama's CIO shrouds future .gov websites in secret code

Re: Someone forgetting how https actually works?

"I hope browsers are going to start using a different public key for each website."

good idea! or for each DAY, for that matter. that would make a nice add-on for firefox, wouldn't it?

/me ponders...

Facebook bans Russia's RT ahead of Trump's Inauguration Day (then changes its mind)

let's just stop using facebook

what it says in the title.

Microsoft posts death notices for Windows 7 sysadmin certifications

Re: Perspective.

"The guys with certs, I'm usually incredibly disappointed with"

ACK. Certs, like degrees, are proof of POTENTIAL. Demonstrable _EXPERIENCE_ is proof of CAPABILITY!

you'd be better off contributing to public projects (and getting credit for it) than getting "certs" from Micro-shaft.

Trump inauguration DDoS protest is 'illegal', warn securobods

Re: A sad day :(

"I don't think that they'll be seeing a pension."

Meh. Pensions are overrated, ESPECIALLY publically-funded ones. Just work until you die, or set up your OWN fund. Nobody owes anyone else a pension. Pay people NOT to work, and you get what you pay for.

It's a better world when everyone carries his own weight. It's not the job of a gummint (funded by the people) to bail out those who make bad decisions in life.

Where's _MY_ reward money for making GOOD decisions? *crickets*

I'll be looking forward to 4+ years of Trump at the helm. This should be a LOT better. Not ideal, just better.

Re: @ OliP

"You can't have been paying attention for the last eight years. How long did Trump himself rattle on about that birther nonsense?"

not long enough, apparently. Don't forget, it was Mrs. Clinton who first brought that issue up.

"You get another chance to vote in four years time, until then suck it up and stop behaving like a spoilt child."

tell me about it. getting rid of OBAKA (and his RUINOUS policies) has been unnecessarily difficult. Just having an OPPOSING OPINION got you called a RACIST and a {insert plethora of terms}-phobe by a bunch of howler monkeys, online and offline.

And NOW we are HERE. (I'm looking forward to a LOT of "getting better all the time" over the next few years)

AI and robots? Will someone think of the jobs, says HPE CEO Whitman

Re: People don't need jobs...

"Given your usual tone"

WOW - I've got FANS!

Re: Meg in Davos - why?

" I'm subcontracting to part of the company that develops software."

foot in the door, eh? would it jeopardize your status to suggest to them that shipping new PCs with Win-10-nic on them isn't helping their bottom line? And they should ship LINUX machines instead? And that if THEY do it, others will too, and the software development will follow?

just a thought...

Re: People don't need jobs...

"Your shtick has become tedious. Please stop."

you're welcome. *kiss*

"We just need to require that robots receive a salary"

More gummint mandates. yeah, THAT will fix it! *shudder*

</sarcsm>

Re: People don't need jobs...

you forgot the 'joke' tag

people don't need a 'universal basic income'. We'd just be universally MISERABLE.

The basic problem is that, for menial jobs, people are TOO EXPENSIVE. Robots are cheaper.

There used to be rooms full of people adding numbers in banks. They were called "calculators". Not so much any more. Would YOU want THAT job? I wouldn't!

As the minimum wage is LEGISLATIVELY increased, and "benefits" MANDATED, companies discover that it's TOO EXPENSIVE to hire people to do 'certain jobs'. The only alternative, if the job can't be shipped to a place where it's "affordable" again, is to have a ROBOT do the work.

And teenagers can't find work, because it's TOO EXPENSIVE to hire an inexperienced person to do ANYTHING any more, including BURGER FLIPPING.

A job that COSTS MORE than it is worth will NO LONGER EXIST. If it COSTS LESS to build a robot to do something, that's what will happen.

Feelings and political pontification won't change economic REALITY.

Valley techies to protest outside Palantir – Trump adviser's creepy citizen database biz

Re: Me Too!

"Wow it's easy to make shit up isn't it."

And, JUST BECAUSE YOU SAY IT, *THAT* makes it *TRUE*!!!!!

like 'fake news'. and statistics. and lies. oh my!

Re: Next Week

"At least that's the meme we are supposed to swallow, according this Kieren person."

and you got 9 downvotes already! it's a badge of honor, yeah.

howler monkeys, at it again. shout down the opposition until they get tired of being shouted at. call them racists and "everyone-phobes", make outrageous claims, phony 'fake news' statistics, and try to shock people [who can't be shocked any MORE, news flash] into an emotional reaction, blah blah boring boring boring.

I can HARDLY WAIT until Trump takes on the office of President of the United States on Friday.

And anyone who is here LEGALLY isn't getting deported. ONLY the ILLEGAL ones will be deported, starting with the criminals. And don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way back to wherever you CAME FROM!

(that's my story, and I'm "schticking" with it, heh)

Kill it with fire: US-CERT urges admins to firewall off Windows SMB

Samba can disable SMB1 as well

Apparently you can block SMB1 with Samba by adding an entry similar to the following in the '[global]' section:

min protocol = SMB2

- or -

server min protocol = SMB2

- and -

client min protocol = SMB2

source

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html

Apparently, this also prevents any XP, 2k, or Win '9x machines from using your Samba server.

NOW: in all snarkiness, does it _REALLY_ surprise anyone that the "fix" for this is to (effectively) MAKE XP GO AWAY ??? Yeah, WHY am I *NOT* Surprised???

Search for MH370 called off after new theory about resting place is ruled out

I bet the U.S. Navy knows where it is

I'd bet the U.S. Navy knows where it is, but can't say because, classified. The location of submarines is at 'secret' level or higher, and (very likely) some of the sonar capabilities as well. Maybe they'll consider dropping more hints?

Chelsea Manning sentence slashed by Prez Obama: She'll be sprung in the spring

I'd rather be done with the drama surrounding Pvt Manning [who I understand got the sex change done AT THE TAXPAYER'S EXPENSE] anyway, but letting Manning out of prison early isn't necessarily the best way to be done with this...

it doesn't send a very good message. not at all.

Li-ion tamers: Boffins build battery with built-in fire extinguisher

Re: Cars

actually, the first thing _I_ thought of was LiPo batteries in aircraft [which a couple of years ago grounded 777's for a bit, as I recall] and electric cars would be the next in line. So yeah.

"what happens in a car crash" with electric batteries in every exposed area of a car? Hopefully NOT a class D fire, but that happened once already, and I remember reading an El Reg article about it...

Auto emissions 'cheatware' scandal sparks war of words between Italy, Germany

Re: But did they actually break any rules ?

"manufacturers are going to design the cars to pass those tests"

it's happened with computers regarding various performance evaluation tests. no surprises here.

[it also happens in college classes when you give the prof what he wants, to get the grade, regardless of whether or not you believe it - useful for surviving lefty-lib indoctrination without caving in - "for the test" then brain-dump]

"Oh look all the car manufacturers have been caught with their hands in the 'emissions' cookie jar, what a surprise."

When the U.S. EPA calls CO2 a "pollutant", it's hard to take them seriously...

Hopefully the Trump administration will "fix them" and we'll get proper standards, proper enforcement, and proper respect.

Smart guns are a neat idea on paper. They'll never survive reality

Re: The inherent failure...

"Where almost all of the population seem to own automatic weapons you mean? "

No, it's more like all of the CRIMINAL POPULATION seems to own automatic weapons.

If the HONEST CITIZENS had them too, they could at least PROTECT THEMSELVES. The only thing COPS can do is cower, and draw a chalk-line after the MURDER. At least a gun in the hand of an HONEST CITIZEN gives an advantage to self-defense. I know *I* would rather go down fighting than die as a coward in my own piss.

Re: 'Smart guns' - an inherent failure

smart GUN OWNERS are a better idea. well, if you purchase a gun for self-protection, that's pretty SMART!

And arming MORE 'smart gun owners' with concealed carry permits means that someone _BESIDES_ the criminal in the room is likely to be carrying...

THEN fix the laws so that FIRING! A! PISTOL! in the act of defense against a gun-totin' criminal is NOT punishable by ANYTHING, even if you KILL! THAT! PERP! to DEATH!!

All of the laws and loopholes used by the loopy-left to keep people from PROTECTING THEMSELVES leads to a fearful society of WIMPS that are AFRAID to STAND UP to CRIME!

Nadella calls for AI sector to move beyond 'worshipping' a handful of companies

Re: every human computer interaction is AI-powered.

"and what he isn't saying is"

add to that...

"ONLY use OUR tools that ONLY work in Win-10-nic and leverage everything in our favor"

Trump fan Peter Thiel 'considering' CA Terminator role*

Re: How much money spent campaigning???

Mrs. Clinton out-spent Trump by a fairly large percentage, as I understand it. She still lost.

Hopefully "2nd time around" Jerry Brown [cali-fornicate-you's WORST governor, EVAR], who's nickname I derive from the concept of EATING ONE'S OWN VOMIT, won't be able to CORONATE a replacement so easily. That guy ADMITTED to lying his backside off in TV interviews ONLY A FEW YEARS before he ran again, "on a technicality" I might add [he should NEVER have been allowed to run in the FIRST place].

The current overwhelming number of LEFTISTS in state gummint leads me to believe that there is a HUGE collusion going on. I suspect that when the deportations start, and when federal immigration/hiring laws are ACTUALLY ENFORCED, the elections might shift a *little* more to the right - not because of the opinions of LEGAL voters, but by the *ELIMINATION* of the *ILLEGAL* ones.

So maybe where Meg Whitman failed [she was too 'moderate' anyway], a Trump-like Republican is likely to succeed, so long as illegals and dead people no longer vote.

Microsoft Germany says Windows 7 already unfit for business users

"Keeping using and keeping buying are two different things."

YES!

Re: FUD, FUD

FUD, eggs, sausage and FUD, that's not got much FUD in it!

"What's wrong with the GUI?"

I don't have enough time or editing space to respond to this one. Best summary is 2D FLATSO FLUGLY. I don't need windows 1.01's UI on my 2017 computer, thanks, with borders too thin to see (so that re-sizing is difficult), "the METRO" look [blinding white backgrounds and too much wasted white-space - blue light is BAD for your macula!], REMOVED customization options, and so on. TLDR already, you know?

"Here's what the typical Windows 10 business GUI looks like"

Thanks, there are enough pictures of FECES on the intarwebs already. I don't need to view it to know it will STINK ON ICE.

Enjoy your GUI. I don't.

Re: Really .....

"I have been running Windows 7 for years with updates turned off and basic free AV."

I concur, though my updates have always been in 'manual'. And they stopped getting installed when GWX was excreted from the hideous bowels of Micro-shaft. And besides, when it takes an entire DAY to 'scan for updates', something is wrong with the process...

With the use of 'safe surfing', vulnerabilities are MUCH LESS of a problem - even on an un-patched windows machine!

1. don't use Intarweb Exploiter. *EVAR*

2. use 'noscript' in Firefox, if you MUST go online with a windows machine. be aggressive with noscript. don't be fooled by "you cannot view the content".

3. NEVER view e-mail in HTML format. And don't view images 'inline' either.

4. NEVER open a flash video, or a PDF file that was mailed to you, with Adobe's reader.

5. Don't use MS Office to open 'attached document files'.

6. NEVER use MS Outlook for e-mail. *EVAR*

7. NEVER have a public IP address on your windows computer, without some SERIOUSLY AGGRESSIVE EXTERNAL FIREWALLING. This includes IPv6.

8. Do *NOT* trust Microsoft "anything" for security. This includes BOTH their firewall AND their virus scanner.

Do this, and you could continue using WINDOWS XP without any worries. Seriously.

(and use Linux or BSD for all of your web-surfing needs - it's probably using the SAME browser anyway!)

Re: Enough Whining.

"while I use a Linux box at home, and can use it for some work, it is absolutely NOT the way to go for the majority of my work"

How many software devs in this 'room'? Let's *FIX* *THAT*, ok? Developers, developers, developers, developers! We just need Linux versions of "whatever you are using", right? Then, NO MORE EXCUSES!

From the article: Windows 7 "does not meet the requirements of modern technology"

Those 'requirements' would be, what, these?

a) ADWARE

b) SPYWARE

c) 2D FLATSO FLUGLY (it's "modern") <-- snark voice required

d) FORCED UPDATES

and so on

Just give up: 123456 is still the world's most popular password

According to the movie 'Hackers'...

According to the movie 'Hackers' the top 5 passwords are:

love

money

sex

secret

and, of course 'god' - don't forget 'god'! System admins LOVE to use 'god'!

heh

ThePlague: Will her holiness please change her password?

(ok maybe not an EXACT quote but that's what I remembered)

Re: Just get a password manager..

"KeePass will work with a local file, etc, as it's not provided as a "cloud" service."

I like KeePass. It has POSIX versions as well as Windows. You can even share the SAME key file between platforms. I do.

And if you DID store it on the cloud, anyone wanting access would need to crack your master passPHRASE. It could be anything. Anything at all, that you easily remember. A line from your favorite movie, book, or poem. Something only YOU would consider using. And typing 40+ characters can be a little irritating with no visual feedback on the character you typed, but after you've done it enough [and infrequently so] it should become relatively simple. Except for 4" screens, of course...

Flight 666 lands safely in HEL on Friday the 13th

Re: Hmm...

those are all REAL phobias... not like the kinds of labels that are thrown about way too often these days [simply for disagreeing with 'whomever'].

As for the plane, I heard it from a "reliable source" [aka fake news] that the pilot carried a rabbit's foot that had been soaked in holy water for 7 days, with a touch of garlic. And before departure, the entire crew bounced on one foot while chanting "Waa Tanaa Siam!". And they sacrificed a chicken as well, by ordering takeout from the local KFC.

This flight, of course, was simultaneously 'blessed' by a recital of that famous poem, "I am Sofa King" "We Todd Ed"

Windows 10 Anniversary Update crushed exploits without need of patches

Re: Why?

"You have to wonder why after 30+ years it is still has vulnerabilities that need patching."

explained in Arthur C. Clarke's "superiroity" I'd think...

Also, you have to have "new, shiny" and "the next generation doing it THEIR way, this time!:"

Couple that with market-hype, 'feel' instead of 'think', and "trying to take over the world", and you end up with the CLUSTER-BLANK known as Win-10-nic!

Re: Why is font rendering in the kernel in the first place?

"And, from what I read about Linux, more than ever seems to be going into that kernel too."

no, just systemd and wayland. I'm sticking with FreeBSD.

As for M-shaft "getting it right this time" - a stopped clock is right TWICE a DAY, right?

Happy birthday: Jimbo Wales' sweet 16 Wikipedia fails

read it with a grain of salt and brain engaged

well, considering ANYBODY can say/claim basically ANYTHING on Wikipedia, it's both useful and untrustworthy at the same time.

I think articles on technical stuff (like internet protocols, higher mathematics, electronics engineering) or non-controversial things (like TV episode summaries and info on your favorite anime) are pretty good on Wikipedia, and a great source of information.

That being said, don't look for ANY accuracy where agendas might be held by one or more people. And if you post ANYTHING that goes against the left, you'll see LOTS of revenge edits within hours. yeah, I think some people LIVE for that. So no talking about supply side economics, or natural cycles in climate data, or the inherent failures of 'The New Deal' or socialized "anything" without MASSIVE edits removing as much of your content as possible, while simultaneously attempting to make you look like a fool for posting something NOT in agreement with THEM.

These 'editors' [who apparently don't do anything else] seem to have WAY too much time, and WAY too much power. I wonder if someone is PAYING them to do that...

Anyway, useful for SOME things, not so much for others.

FCC's Wheeler gives passionate defense of net neutrality rules

Re: "going forward"... over a cliff!

"Locally we have COX with 70-100Mbs service at $80/month) or AT&T with 1.2Mbs service for $60/month - I guess that's "choice" to you?"

I think you'll find that there are other (DSL, 4G, etc.) alternatives already, each with their own disadvantages as well as advantages. I don't have nearly that kind of bandwidth, but if I wanted to get cable for business (rather than DSL) it would cost considerably more. What they do NOT do (on my existing connection) is filter things, so I can run a servers on it, etc. and of course I pay extra for the fixed IP address that goes with it.

The point is, you have choices. And you could STILL create your OWN ISP if you wanted. If I had unlimited cash, I could have a mega-bandwidth fiber line run to my house, for example.

In any case, MY point is MOSTLY about getting gummint out of the way. If they want to regulate ANYTHING, they could do what they did for long distance providers for phone service, i.e. require that the cable companies 'sell bandwidth' to competitors to prevent service monopolies. THAT would be an improvement, for sure! [this is, to some extent, what has already been done for DSL, but I don't know of any specific instance where non-Cox providers can provide cable service over Cox's cables, either TV or internet or IP-phone or any OTHER service for that matter, as one example]

But THAT is NOT what they (the FCC) actually DID in THIS case, now is it? I have never been happy with the FCC's attempt at 'net neutrality', and it's really too much to pick over the details on it. But, I'll be VERY happy to see it GONE, and replaced with something better, starting with a level playing field for PROVIDERS to sell service to you, and not the actual CONTENT.

"going forward"... over a cliff!

As far as I'm concerned, the FCC has _NO_ business regulating ANYTHING on the internet that's related to content. That includes how ISPs process packets. As long as there's choice from who your ISP is and how much filtering or prioritizing goes on, it shouldn't become a problem. If it does, _THEN_ regulators can step in and do something about it. But _NOT_ before.

So these lefty-liberal "control freak" types can just GO POUND SAND. *THEY* lost the election, *THEY* need to shut the *BLANK* up and watch their legacies DIE. That includes OBAKA-care, as well as the FAIL from the FCC that pretends to be "net neutrality". To quote Lcdr Warf, when he replied to Q's griping about being human: "TOO! BAD!!!"

Hey lefties: Don't let the door hit you in the ARSE on the way out, k?

now if only we could get MICRO-SHAFT to turn THEIR barge around, before it goes over the falls or hits the rocks [whichever]. same *kinds* of thinking behind Win-10-nic and 'Ape' I bet!

Ex-Autonomy CFO pleads not guilty to charges he inflated the company's value

I've seen it before, overvalue prior to buyout

I've seen it before, overvaluing a company so that the buyer ends up being shafted with a bunch of worthless inventory, but the board members all get their 'golden parachutes'. meanwhile, most (or all) of the staff gets laid off.

One of the trickiest methods is to overvalue excess and obsolete parts, stuff you KNOW you're going to have to sell for pennies on the dollar to a scrap dealer, but it's still in the warehouse. Don't show the buyer that the _necessary_ Rev B changes will not use those parts at ALL, but instead present the "facts" that Rev A's schematic and BOM will consume them all using the forecast information you provided them to show how worth-while your company is, blah blah blah.

If the parts being scrapped happen to be _expensive_, and totally worthless as scrap, you've just grossly overvalued your company! Congratulations, you sir get a 'golden parachute', inflated stock value on purchase, and a nice cash prize for cashed in stock options!

That's kinda how it works. And since you're misrepresenting facts, it's just, plain, fraud when it happens. AND, I bet it happens *ALL* the time!

ISC squishes BIND packet-of-death bugs

Re: BIND + patches = a day ending in 'y'.

"A public service announcement from the Ministry of Redundancy and Reiteration."

And recursion. By the way, I bet turning THAT off will fix it!

Playpen child sex abuse archive admin gets 20 years in the Big House

Re: Punishment fits the crime?

"You seem to be insinuating"

hold your horses, there, snowflake, can't you see it was a joke?

[_I_ thought it was UPROARIOUSLY funny!]

political correctness *SUCKS*, every time it's tried. And so will *THAT* guy (aka 'the perp'), for 20 years in prison, whether he enjoys it or not...

/me goes off and plays that 'Bob and Tom' song, 'Prison Bitch' in his honor

Trump's cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient 'easily hackable website'

The media as a clue-bat

well, isn't it the media's JOB to point out discrepancies? Seems that the list of vulnerabilities is kinda like a CLUE-BAT. It also seems they haven't been paying attention to their web server for a while.

Being FreeBSD, it has some inherent security advantages, even being 6.x. Being old, it would be more difficult to craft a successful crack using buffer overruns or SQL injection. [this doesn't mean someone has not ALREADY done it].

And if the "open SSH port" doesn't allow root logins (default for FreeBSD since 'forever'), and uses proper authentication methods, it shouldn't matter much. [in some Linux distros I've had to MANUALLY shut off root ssh logins so yeah, I always check]

The rest of the problems are fixable by updating the OS and the packages they run.

Shouldn't be too hard to fix. And it's FreeBSD. That gives it a slight advantage security-wise. Linux-specific cracks won't work, and if it wasn't configured by an IDIOT, it should be reasonably secure 'out of the box'. Additionally, if the ssh logins all have 'guest' level access, you'd have to su to a 'wheel' group user before attempting to crack the root password. It's an extra layer, yeah.

And for all we know, all of that is running in a JAIL. Yeah. It'd be fun to find out for certain.

And... do you think MAYBE it might be a HONEYPOT? Just a thought... [or if not, it SHOULD be]

(Just a bit of 'benefit of the doubt' for Giuliani's company - after all, it IS running FreeBSD!)