Posts by Archangel_

Infosec bloke claims: Pornhub owner shafted me after I exposed gaping holes in its cartoon smut platform

Fisherman's Wife and Fisherman's wife 2 - the Re-Tentacling anyone?

US mobe owners will get presidential text message at 2:18 pm Eastern Time

John McAfee has got his knickers in a twist about it:

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1047585232831041536

Man who gave interviews about his crimes asks court to delete Google results

"The man himself wore a neat dark suit, his greying hair swept back from his temples. He had loosened his top button, letting his dark, patterned tie hang slightly limp around his collar..."

Am I reading a Catherine Cookson novel?

Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?

No

For the work environment it's a straight 'no'. None of our work-related apps run on it, we already have heavy investment in Adobe so why would we want every bloody PDF to open in Edge and not the bespoke application available for free already installed on every machine as standard? It breaks most of the sites we use and is simply not compatible with IE-specific applications. Chrome works with nearly all of the sites and plugins we use (we only have one website that won't work with it for one small department) and I'm currently moving most of the business onto it to free us of IE as much as possible, but the deal-breaker for me is the fact that every time Windows does a major update it resets the damned default browser to Edge, and they've even started putting an 'open in Edge' tab right NEXT to the new tab option in IE so staff keep pressing it by mistake and then wondering why nothing works! It is so arrogant, annoying and downright time wasting in support calls for people who need their defaults constantly resetting it absolutely makes me anti-Edge, no matter how bloody good they make it.

Put down your coffee and admire the sheer amount of data Windows 10 Creators Update will slurp from your PC

Just block it

Use the following blacklists to actively block Windows telemetry:

https://www.iblocklist.com/

https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f/web-protection-web-filtering-application-visibility-control/47019/here-s-how-to-block-windows-10-spying

The iblocklist URLs are constantly updated and have a list dedicated solely to Microsoft

Also use O&O Shutup to turn most of the telemetry off

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Facebook, WhatsApp farewell BlackBerry

"WhatsApp users kicked off a petition to try and save their app on their smartphones, but it's yet to pass the 2,000-mark."

The petition or the number of BB users?