Posts by You aint sin me, roit

No super-kinky web smut please, we're British

I wonder what Keith Vaz will do....

Probably a tough day sitting on the Justice Committee watching some porn.. before another line of coke and f*cking a rent boy.

Hoping he wasn't caught on video, because *that* would be wrong.

As they seem to want to make criminals out of anyone seeing anything that you might not want your servants seeing, they are bound to force people into using Tor, VPNs and proxies. In fact most internet savvy teens are already using them...

Hopefully one brave ISP (!) will refuse to censor sites (they are hardly "qualified" and won't want the burden), and take it to the courts, if only to point out the idiocy in stopping people seeing acts that they can legally do. Most acts with age limits (smoking, drinking, driving... ) are fine to watch if you are too young to actually do them.

USS Zumwalt gets Panama tug job after yet another breakdown

Re: Stop limit needed

What's more, doing this increases the price per ship and that only makes the expense look worse.

There's $10 billion of R&D sunk (!) into this ship. Over 3 ships that adds $3 billion to the cost of each. Given a cost of $1 billion per ship that makes each cost $4 billion. Spread over 30 ships, however, each would cost $1.3 billion.

Quite a lot of that 10 billion R&D won't just be thrown away either.

Reg man 0: Japanese electronic toilet 1

Re: Here I encountered the first of many problems. The labels were entirely in Japanese.

Bluetooth? Arse-wiping is definitely something to be done remotely via my phone, but I want mine connecting to the internet, with full data upload to the cloud so that "analytics" can be done on methane levels, shit density, klingon count and optimized hot water usage.

After all, an IoT crapper is the perfect host for a bot net...

FYI: The FBI is being awfully evasive about its fresh cyber-spy powers

They are trying to be facetious and suggest that if Hilary's big government were in place then they would disapprove of it, but as Trump's small government is in charge it will be OK.

Apparently the rights and wrongs of the FBI have to be viewed through party political lenses.

Deliver-oops! Takeaway pusher's customers burger-ed by hijackers

Re: "checking the address on orders is close to or the same as pre-registered addresses."

Send a conformation email if you change your account details or want something delivered to a different address....

Send an SMS if "unusual" activity is seen on your account...

Actually perform some analysis so that they pick up on "unusual" activity.

Not to mention requiring the CVV.

Tons of things they could do while retaining the convenience of retaining your credit card numbers...

Trial date set for Brit police 'copter coppers over spying-on-doggers claims

I'm not a lawyer but I believe you are incorrect.

There's nothing illegal in exposing oneself - as long as it isn't intended to cause offence. I don't even think the "I didn't see it but I'd have been offended if I had" argument works either. For there to be an offence someone who was watching had to be offended.

And it's not illegal to watch either, as long as the performers know and consent.

In fact, the illegal voyeurism was performed by the coppers: "operates equipment with the intention of enabling another person to observe, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, a third party doing a private act, and he knows that the third party does not consent to his operating equipment with that intention".

It is reasonable to assume that by having sex in a deserted area, at night, in a car, the doggers did not consent to the cops watching them.

And presumably this is indeed the case, otherwise the cops wouldn't be being prosecuted... "four counts of misconduct relating to watching and filming naked people without their consent and observing and recording people performing sexual acts".

More than half of punters reckon they can't get superfast broadband

Re: Why 60Mb?

For my own purposes the 38Mb/s I get is more than enough. What's more it's a relatively steady service, which is probably more important.

Before fibre the best I could get was 2Mb/s - on a good day with a following wind. As it would take more than an hour to download an hour's worth of viewing, live streaming was not possible. 38Mb/s is more than enough to support live streaming, but as with everything else computer related your demands increase to the limit of what's available. Streaming is possible, but can it support the kids streaming onto their phones at the same time as streaming TV, downloading music, playing games online... ?

At the moment the answer is yes (in fact easily), but I can foresee the day when I want to do more and 38Mb/s becomes a bottleneck.

Happy days for second-hand smartphone sales

Re: Market saturation again

That phone museum will come in handy when your drug-dealing* nephew** needs a couple of disposable handsets to go with anonymous pay-as-you-go SIMs.

* Drug dealer/trrrrst/freedom fighter/conspiracy theorist/bent copper: delete as appropriate.

** Other generic family members are available.

Google declares victory for its Wifi router before it's even shipped

Fourth - though linked to first - why call it "mesh" technology when all you do is connect a laptop to a router?

I don't call my home Wi-Fi a "mesh", but it is considerably more sophisticated than that. But then I don't call my router an "access point", or my PC a "distributed-network client node".

Hacker dishes advanced phishing kit to hook clever staff in 10 mins

Re: Discerning?

The worry is that "non-technical", and certainly non-discerning, staff have access to VPN passwords.

There should be a driving test... "Before we hand you the keys to the Government VPN you are going to have to show that you know what you are doing".

Barnet Council: Outsourcing deal with Capita has 'performance issues'

Re: Ludicrous situation

But then you would disempower the "executives" paid bundles for providing services that they barely understand (and indeed don't feel the inclination to understand). These are middle-managers! The life blood of the civil service. Without them we would be shorn of bureaucracy and left with streamlined, efficient services - and what would middle-aged, middle-class, middle-ability men do then?

Think about what you're saying! Next you'll be suggesting that hospitals are run by doctors. And that MPs have "real-life" experience!

Three to appear in court over TalkTalk hack

Asked if the affected customer data was encrypted or not, she replied: "The awful truth is that I don’t know".

The awful truth is that as a Baroness, a Conservative life peer, the wife of a Conservative minister and a personal friend of Call Me Dave, she doesn't give a toss because she knows she's bombproof.

Pluto has massive underground oceans, say astro-boffins

Re: Plutonian overlords

Warmed by radioactive waters...

I want to call them "Mutant Plutants" (but obviously not to their many tentacled faces).

Here's how the missile-free Royal Navy can sink enemy ships after 2018

Re: Actually, a mosquito

Or just sling a Sting Ray torpedo under a helicopter... like the Navy already does.

The myth that our ships have limited offensive capability is only perpetuated by people who forget that they carry helicopters.

Customer data security is our highest priori- ha ha ha whatever, suckers

Re: Aw poo.

The seventies version of the future was so much cooler than the 2016 view of the past.

We need string vests and purple hair!

The solution to security breaches? Kill the human middleware

Quite. What's more, who monitors the monitoring software?

They say that the problem is that humans make errors and so need to rely on software, but who created that software? And who is responsible for making sure it's still running correctly? There's a worrying degree of arrogance (and complacency) in "You're only human so you make mistakes... you need our software to monitor your system for those inevitable mistakes."

Though you have to remember that these people publishing their opinions are really just saying "You need our product".

Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap

Re: If Only Google Could Get A Handle On Their Own Security Problems

And "those who manufactured hardware and software that is not secure enough to be used online".

So if I use Chrome and Gmail then I'm bombproof?

'Post-truth' beats 'chatbot' to Word of the Year Crown

Re: feeling quite hygge

I think "cosy" is a better translation.

Nothing new, not "invented" by the Danish... just an advertising ploy to sell stuff to hipsters.

Experts to Congress: You must act on IoT security. Congress: Encourage industry to develop best practices, you say?

Re: You see, these IT security experts approached this testimony in the wrong way...

John Hinckley Jr.'s attempted assassination of Reagan did nothing for gun control...

In this new Trump world they should have stressed American jobs for Americans...

"Them Chinese don't know security, we do... make good security a legal requirement and they can't sell into the US market. We can. Even when they catch up and can add security they will become less competitive. In the meantime we establish US brands and sell to those liberal Europeans who will be demanding security regulation!"

Doesn't matter if it's true or not, it plays on their fears and aspirations. Isn't that what Trump taught us?

Bong: Let me talk to Trump

Re: only the odd few million dollars from our wealthy and successful fathers

"Don't worry England, we'll bail you guys out"

Just a few comments above you were boasting about your 21 trillion dollar debt...

Maybe Trump will declare the US bankrupt.

TalkTalk teen hacker pleads guilty as firm reveals £22m profit jump

Re: No problem....

And follow it up with

"if you're open and honest with your customers everything works out alright"

Maybe that only works if you are a Conservative Life Peer, married to the Minister for Constitutional Reform...

Physicists create the world's tiniest magnifying glass to see atomic bonds

Re: Fix!

To be fair, "used as a cavity to trap light below to less than a billionth of a metre" didn't make much sense either.

Boffins find Galaxy making killer radiation, rule out Samsung phone as source

Alien weapons!

Gamma ray blast is the weapon's discharge... radio emission is the (very short-lived) SOS.

Former Autonomy CFO indicted in USA for misleading investors

Re: Extradition Won't Happen

I think you'll find that's what Guantanamo Bay is for...

Pythons Idle and Cleese pen anti-selfie screed

Re: I think the GOGs are on here!

It is bemusing that some of the complaints here come from people who think selfies are not acceptable... on the basis of "what's wrong with using a tripod and the camera's timer?".

As for "normal" people wanting to document their lives, even if only for their "friends", is that really any worse than endless publicity shots, autobiographies or even appearances on chat shows?

By the way, what they were objecting to was not people taking photos of themselves, but asking for a selfie with a celebrity. "Nobody asks for autographs anymore" complains Cleese - as if getting a complete stranger's signature is somehow less weird than having a photo taken with them. At least the photo is personal, unlike an autograph you could buy off eBay.

Spain's Prime Minister wants to ban internet memes. No, really

Re: I don't understand.

"My name is Mariano Rajoy. You hurt my feelings. And now you die."

Russian banks floored by withering DDoS attacks

Retaliation for Tesco!

So that's what we pay Bond to do these days... IoT DDoS attacks?

I suppose he doesn't have to leave his bedroom...

What went wrong at Tesco Bank?

Re: Insider job?

Most likely an insider job, but I really hope it's a bunch of OAPs getting together every Friday lunchtime at a cybercafe to plan their latest heist.

Can't be drilling through more concrete at their age!

A cardboard desk? I won’t stand for it (actually I will)

Re: " What happened to to good old rubber ducky?"

I've heard... people are saying... I don't know if it's true... Donald likes to squeeze other parts of the female anatomy. I could be wrong, it's just what people are telling me...

If you're famous they let you do anything you want.

Re: Standing Comments

And while she might not be fussy, I bet she can tell the difference between a box and erection...

I'm not so sure with this "desk".

Trump's torture support could mean the end of GCHQ-NSA relationship

Re: Donald J. Trump

"You called him a name therefore you don't have a coherent argument"

is not a coherent argument.

Fatigue fears over bug bounty programs

Advertisement of the obvious

Quotes from two security testing companies saying that testing is best done by security testing companies...

Robot solves Rubik's Cubes in 637 milliseconds

Re: Unpicking the mess

And all the bits are tagged with colour coded labels, correctly oriented with respect to the robot's cameras.

IoT worm can hack Philips Hue lightbulbs, spread across cities

Re: Eh

Read the paper!

"Since the Philips Hue smart lights are very popular in Europe and especially in affluent areas such as Paris, there is a very good chance that this threshold had in fact been exceeded"

The number of 15,000 comes from an estimated radius of 100m for each ZigBee device and the area of Paris being about 105 square kilometers. Infecting 15,000 will give a critical mass capable of infecting all the lights - though it is possible that infecting just one would be enough.

UK's 'FBI' hit by DDoS barrage

Haven't they just been given oodles of cash to protect us agains this kind of thing?

Why boast about our cyber warfare readiness if a DDoS attack can take down their website? It might be a minor inconvenience for their site to be down for 30 minutes... that kind of outage could be critical for someone else.

Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system

Re: Pursuing a short-term efficiency leads to the long-term risk

At the other end of the heating spectrum, apparently the latest version of iKettle doesn't have auto-switch-off-when-boiled unless the kettle is internet connected.

The Finns should connect some of these kettles to their boiler network - when the network goes down the heating switches off but the kettles boil dry, providing much needed heat!

Is that you, HAL? AI can now see secrets through lipreading – kinda

Re: Lipstick

Assuming "spatiotemporal visual features" means "how your mouth moves when you talk", rather than detecting ripples in the space-time continuum, ventriloquist clowns should be OK.

Japanese cops arrest serial 'foot licker'

Re: "When she sat down, however, Nishiyama sprung at her right ankle"

It might not happen in Blighty because we are more concerned with getting mouth verrucas, but not because of the seating arrangements..

"lured a woman in her twenties into the driver's seat of his car to help him check the vehicle's brakes"

She was sat on the right (as in the UK) so her right foot would have been more easily accessible.

FBI's Clinton email comedown confirms it could have killed the story in a canter

Re: Like the alleged 'shooter' at the Trump rally

Apparently, director of the FBI " serves at the pleasure of the President".

Given that Comey broke protocol to announce an investigation with a week to go before the election, I expect he might not be so pleasing to a President Clinton... though clearly a favourite of a President Trump!

Turn off remote admin, SOHOpeless D-Link owners

The nature and frequency of these errors does make you wonder. Occam's razor suggests it's just sheer incompetence, but ..

Hitler's wife's lovely lilac knickers fetch £2,900 at auction

Re: It's Madness I tell you!

£2,900... not to be sniffed at!

FBI drops bombshell, and investigation: Clinton still in the clear

Re: You'll be fired two words into "I'm refusing for your own protection".

However, they have to hear you out if you use your IT lawyer skills...

"For your own protection, and for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, state security, I'm refusing."

If you are an IT professional you'd be more flexible, while covering your arse...

"A secure email server would be preferable. If you insist on an insecure server then I can do it but I'll need confirmation that you specifically requested an insecure system. In writing."

If you are an IT salesman you'd quickly see an opportunity...

"How about a secure email server... costs a bit more, but peace of mind is well worth the extra expense."

DRAMA ON MARS: Curiosity bot fires laser at alien metal object

Re: Excellence in engineering versus planned obsolescence

And auto-pilot!

It's the Tesla Elon Musk wanted to build!

Leaks password, check. Leaks Wi-Fi password, check. Can be spoofed, check. Ding! We have an Internet of S**t winner

Re: "It isn't rocket science. "

I'm not expecting financial standards, but the idea of generating keys on a device takes time and affects the production line (you might not think it's significant, but if you are mass-producing widgets then it is).

Then you have to generate a certificate - this will be worse than useless unless it is done securely, with an adequate certification key. Again that costs money.

In order to safeguard the keys then you might have to consider incorporating a secure element. The costs start to mount...

The whole idea of "Oh, I can lash this up in minutes" is why we are in this mess to start with! The whole system is no more secure than its weakest link.

"It isn't rocket science. "

No, it isn't rocket science.

However it does cost money, it does take time, and it is something that early IoT developers conveniently forgot to implement.

What's more, if you want to do it properly (like Visa and Mastercard insist smartcard manufacturers do) then you need an HSM housed in a secured manufacturing environment. Employees would need to be vetted, and maybe even searched ("airlock" type doors incorporate weighing sensors to tell if you go out heavier than you went in...). There are physical and logical security measures that need to be implemented...

This all costs a lot of money, involves a lot of attention to detail, and isn't quick to set up (let alone retro-fit). It also necessitates an independent certification authority who will come in and assess your security measures.

You might even want to insist on Common Criteria type certification!

The costs spiral upwards... out of proportion for most IoT objects.

And that is why we can't have security - not because it's difficult but because it's expensive.

Swiss, geez: Robo-hooker coffee shop to be erected in Geneva

Re: It's early...

Something about having your coffee creamy and frothy?

Alleged 2010 flash crash trader loses latest appeal against extradition to US

Did they find emails on his PC?

He's in trouble... bigly!

Five-a-day energy drink habit turned chap's eyes yellow, urine dark, caused anorexia

and the blitzkrieg was fuelled by amphetamines...

Highly effective... for a short period of time.

Remember kids, just say no.

Survey finds 75% of security execs believe they are INVINCIBLE

"report by services firm Accenture"

I can see it now... chief of security thinks "How can I rid myself of this persistent Accenture salesperson with their thinly disguised sales pitch?"...

"Oh, we're bomb-proof, completely sorted, no requirement for any additional security services"

Brush-off successful, no sale for Accenture... company marked down by Accenture as being complacent in security.