Posts by Hstubbe

Kaspersky repeats offer: America can see my source code

Indeed, i don't trust usa based anti-virus either.

And how would they verify that what kaspersky installs on their machines corresponds directly to the source code? How are they going to check that nothing has been modified, added or removed from the source code in between it being shown and it being compiled into a binary?

I think it makes a lot of sense not too buy antivirus from a company that is from a country that has an active policy to destabilize your own country.

Java 9 release back on track, community votes 'yes'

Is Java still a thing?

If you haven't already obliterated your Jaff-infected comp, there is an antidote available

free lunch

A free malware removal app from Russia? Sounds legit...

Pop-up Android adware uses social engineering to resist deletion

Ah, zscaler. They actually think mitm-ing all traffic and downgrading to tls 1.1 is helping me become more secure. Clueless company who probably released this scary story to sell more of their intrusive crap. Nothing to see here folks, this is just marketing.

Russian data scientist unable to claim £12,000 prize in Brit competition

I would be upset if he *did* get the money. Sponsoring terrorists, never a good idea.

The Linux cloud swap that spells trouble for Microsoft and VMware

So, I've been using containers for about 2 decades. Except we called it jails, and they ran on FreeBSD. All the penguin fanboys laughed and said virtualisation was so much better. Look at them now, pretending they invented something new. Maybe they'll get zfs right sometime soon too, i mean its been about a decade that it has been rock solid on FreeBSD.

(Of course, the real innovators have been Sun with Solaris back in the day, we're still digesting all that and integrating it in more inferior os'es)

EU ministers approve anti-hate speech video rules

"In theory, this will create new opportunities for European filmmakers in non-English languages. In reality, it will likely mean Netflix being legally obliged to carry millions of hours of pretentious nonsense."

So more Scandinavian and British detectives, and less of that pretentious and boring nonsense from the US? I like it already!

Distro watch for Ubuntu lovers: What's ahead in Linux land

Re: FreeBSD wireless device support

Ah, time for my pet peeve: linux still has no support for the wifi driver in my (by now) 3 year old laptop.. if you want hardware support, windows still is your best bet :(

German court set to rule on legality of IP address harvesting

Wasting tax money, the pirate party has apparently become one more established political party.

All that free music on YouTube is good for you, Google tells music biz

Re: not convinced

Why can't you take a jog or roadtrip with youtube? I don't get it. Do that all the time. I guess if you live in some backwater country you don't have 100% data coverage, but in the developed part of the world this is not an issue at all.

'Tech troll' sues EFF to silence 'Stupid Patent of the Month' blog. Now the EFF sues back

Of course, free speech in the us ends when you say bad things about us companies. DMCA ring a bell? Oh, and also don't be negative about the president, the gov will come after you! Oh, and don't even think about exposing the crimes the us secret services commit.

Yeah, the us is such a haven of free speech....

Canonical sharpens post-Unity axe for 80-plus Ubuntu spinners

Re: Reboot

You must be confused with ms windows..

Bloke is paid to scour hashtags for threats, spots civil rights boss's tweets, gets fired, sues

only in America..

Fools.

Linus Torvalds lashes devs who 'screw all the rules and processes' and send him 'crap'

And still master bully Torvalds and his sado-madochistic slaves are unable to release a version of their hobbyist kernel that mskes.the wifi in my 5 year old laptop work

Amateurs.

Euro Patent Office prez 'a disgrace to France'

typical french behaviour

I would say Battistelli is a typical frenchman: arrogant, does not listen to critique, believes he is superior to the rest of the world. France in a nutshell.

The french are a lost cause. After the terrorist attacks on Paris what did they do? Right, go to bed with that other terrorist group: Russia!

Windows updates? Just trust us, says Microsoft executive

Re: El Reg sat down with....? Wow!

Funny, the challenges you describe are exactly what just works for me on linux but on winfows trying to play an mp3 gives me a windows media player complaining about an unsupported codec, reading word documents gives me 10000 security warning popups and when i want to edit i get another 10000. What does work most of the time is locking the screen, however unlocking takes 30 to 60 seconds so i normally don't even bother to lock. Now add to that that windows just refuses to come back from hibernation i will take linux (or even macos) over windows anytime.

Breaking 350 million: What's next for Windows 10?

Re: Pacman & cancer

I've been trying to get hibernate to work with windows for weeks now. Ms is giving *no* support at all, nlames the hw vendor. Hw vendor blames ms. All support i can find is crummy internet pages (with and without microsoft in the url), where 'community support' means people repeat the same out-of-context crap just yo score points. And in linux, it just works.

So yeah, i love the windows experience and the first-grade support you get when using ms windows!

Kaminsky: The internet is germ-ridden and it's time to sterilize it

one step ahead..

"Hopefully he won't end up like Ignaz Semmelweis, who ... ended up a crazed alcoholic."

Kaminsky is one step ahead of Semmelweis. If you've ever seen one of his talks you'll know he already *is* a crazed alcoholic :)

Cyberpunks might not be crooks but they're really very rude

lost the war...

Hackers/cyberpunks have come to realize how irrelevant they are in the real world. Instead of just letting go, they are now looking for enemies everywhere. Just look at the rat's nest the once reputable german hacker club ccc has become as of late, slinging propaganda about their former allies to cement their own believe in their self-rightous holiness. Supporting psychopaths (hi jake) that crush all opposition in a way that makes Hitler look like a kitten.

Just go and die, self-claimed saviours but hopelessly ineffective hacker losers. The world really doesn't need your whining and infighting.

It's time for a discussion about malvertising

yet another startup

So the answer to untrustworthy us based data-guzzling ad companies is more us-based money-collecting data-guzzling start-ups with shady business models? No thanks, i'll just keep using the safety of my ad-blocker.

Yahoo! She said yes. Verizon confirms $4.8bn acquisition

yawho?

yawho?

Ad blockers responsible for rise in upfront TV ad sales, claims report

ads? who does ads these day

Yay for subscription services. Netflix doesn't show me ads, just the occasional recommendation of one of their shows (which 1 out of 2 i actually turn out to enjoy watching). Live sports (darts is all i follow anyway), there's cheap streams for that. The only place i sometimes am confronted with ads is probably in the car. But with mobile bandwidth being virtually unlimited these days i can just stream music and podcasts from my server at home. Problem solved.

Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric – it won't hit one billion devices by mid-2018

Re: 1 Billion?

Actually, i was just thinking about what to do when it is time to replace my current laptop. Probably by that time all the new gear comes with win10 preinstalled. Now, i quickly downsize windows space on a new machine anyway yo dual boot into linux, my main workhorse os. But its convenient to have a ms os in case its needed for some of the electronics industries crapware. I guess i'll be looking at getting a mac for my next machine, with some pirated version of win7 in a vm.

Facebook offers end-to-end encrypted chat – if you find the right setting

signal

So now everyone is using the same protocol from some US firm, which boffins assure you it is safe because the designer is such a great bloke. Sounds like a plan! We can trust the us and its organisations, right? It's not as if they've backdoored their secure protocols and standards before, right?

Blighty's EU science funding will remain unchanged until new PM triggers Article 50

Leave already will you

Dammit Britain, stop leeching and invoke your damn article 50 already, will ya. Getting sick and tired of your bickering and boring internal politics.

Russia, China fight UN effort to extend human rights onto the internet

Re: Theresa May

Britain is already leading in surveillance and oppression, at least in the European continent. They fit better with the US, Russia and China than with the rest of Europe, and have done so for at least a decade.

Let's Encrypt in trademark drama

Re: Law vs. Ethics

You are aware that the chinese, russia and us government are on that trusted list as well, right? And the likes of symantec who openly use their trusted ca to man-in-the-middle.. If you still trust the default ca lists in browsers, you must be very very naive indeed (maybe i missed the sarcasm in your comment?).

One ad-free day: Three UK to block adverts across network in June

Re: This is a shakedown dressed up as something noble

I already pay to have ad-free content, have been for years. Stop riding that particular dead horse. No, you can not make money by infecting my machines with your crappy ad networks, go find some idiot who doesn't care about his/her nude pics and banking details ending up in the wrong hands.

Dropbox gets all up in your kernel with Project Infinite. Cue uproar

users don't care

And again it is the poor sods that are going to suffer. Sure, a bunch of nerds, geeks and commentards cry out in dismay and declare a boycot, but the average user will just click 'ok' when the pop-up dialog promises them faster dropbox when they upgrade and have their machine owned by yet another yankee data guzzler. I pity those who don't have a clue!

Hacker finds flaw in teleconference tool used by US Army, NASA and CERN

Re: On top of this...

In fact, normal voip traffic, when encrypted, can easily be tapped as well without the need to decrypt the conversation: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/foniks-oak11.pdf

Look at the icon, i was lamenting the syntax errors in the sentence. I know how you search for vulnerable crap in the net using google :)

"There are a lot of publicly accessible Vidyo endpoints that a probably vulnerable that you can you can identify using Google."

You what?

Goracle latest: Page testifies, jury goes home

Java? Java? What's that again?

Right, and so we can add another item to the long list of reasons not to use java. If oracle wins this, what does that mean for all the floss java clones out there? End-of-story?

Luckily there is C# these days, with Microsoft actually moving to get as many devs on board as possible, instead of alienating them by saying 'hey that API is ours, and you have to pay if you adhere to it!'. And it's a much nicer language too!

I know microsoft does not have the best track record either, and their current friendliness may turn into the same Oracle-like hostility within milliseconds of course.. But still..

Dark net LinkedIn sale looks like the real deal

Re: Still Confused

Actually, linkedin has proven to be very useful on numerous occasions over the past years for me. Just shaking that tree of 'people I know with certain skills' has turned up useful and surprising collaborations on both volunteer and professional projects.

I hate all those USA privacy slurping social thingies as much as the next el reg reader. Linkedin is the only one I actually participate in, because despite my aversion to it it has proven time and again to be very helpful :( I managed to replace all the very very cool google cloudy stuff with self-hosted stuff, never got on facebook and "deleted" my twitter account. Yet linkedin is one bad habit I can't kick..

UK needs comp sci grads, so why isn't it hiring them?

uk recruiters

Ah, this explains why i get so many uk recruiters trying to lure me to London lately. Good thing that will probably stop soon with the brexit..

Work begins on Russian rival to Android

Re: I'm surprised there aren't more of these.

That only works once of course. After that the company will have lost all credibility all over the world and everyone will be scrambling to move away from that.

TLS proxies: Insecure by design, say boffins

Re: Man in the middle for your security....

I actually only use the corporate network for work related things. Weird as i am, i care about protecting silly stuff like business intelligence. But with zscaler, the it guys are actively sabotaging proper protection of sensitive data. They are not keeping the lights on and all that, they are just being lazy.

Man in the middle for your security....

I wonder how zscaler holds up. It is a central proxy (i even believe it runs in the cloud) that hijacks tls connections, replaces the cert with its own certificate and then uses tls 1.0 to the browser. Ugh, why do corporate idiots like this so much?

Lenovo's European prez quits over 'serious strategic disagreements'

Re: Err...

Quite so. Lenovo has really disqualified themselves with their factory-default malware. Add to that the complete failure in usable laptop design of anything made by them in the last decade. Heck, no wonder Dell is everywhere, they make decent workhorses instead of experimental crap that doesn't work.

Investigatory Powers Bill: As supported by world's most controlling men

byebye UK

The UK has always been pur 'horror story' when it comes to mass surveillance. Almost as bad as the USA and other oppressive regimes such as China and Russia. I say, about time the UK gets ejected from the EU.

Clixta: A copyright-friendly way to share your family photos

I feel sorry for the digitally ignorant...

...because at least if I want to share something i'll do it on my own server with my own T&C. Not an option for the average user, who will happily flee to 'the cloud' and the sharks waiting to assimilate them and their data.

Greenpeace leaks TTIP texts, reveals strained negotiations

Re: now I want to leave the EU

At least we would have some sort of influence on our government if not part of the eu. The local governments of eu states basically have no autonomy and just act on what Brussels tells them. And there no-one (except the eu parliament, which basically has only token power over any decision made) will losten to mere citizens. Not when companies fill the commisionaries' pockets.

Btw, to any Dutch readers who have been living under a rock (just as i usually do), apparently we're moving towards a referendum to voice a big NO to this corruption: https://ttip-referendum.nl/

now I want to leave the EU

If those corporate lackeys.. ehm i mean.. European commissioners push this crap through, it's time to join the anti-eu campaigners here in The Netherlands. The USA is gone totally nuts now, bloody colonialists.

If the Internet of Things will be SOOO BIG why did Broadcom just quit the market?

Re: IoT will creep in

Us hackers have been IoT-ing for years, connecting anything remotely possible to the internet. That was fun. Now that big multinationals and governments are doing it, not so much...

US data suggests Windows 10 adoption in business is slowing

spyware

Maybe bussinesses are just not interested in giving microsoft and the US government such wide-open backdoors in their systems?

Japan's Hitomi space 'scope bricked, declared lost after software bug

"...so rocket thrusters were bought online to stabilize the telescope."

That's cheap rocket thrusters from ebay for you....

Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods

I'll leave it..

Re: Ads are bad, mmkay

Using an ad network to spread malware is millions more effective than having to crack into hundreds of thousands individual webservers. Basically, ad networks provide a damn effective way to get the most co puters infected by expending the least amount of effort.

A perfect marriage: YOU and Ubuntu 16.04

Re: I'd love to upgrade

As long as i can deinstall all the unity and gnome bloatware and replace it with xmonad, i don't care how much crack the devs are smoking. Yay for choice!