Posts by steviebuk

Das reboot: That's the only thing to do when the screenshot, er, freezes

Re: Funny that

In IE we discovered you could edit the register and change the title that would display at the top of IE, for customisation. So remote regediting we'd change it to the likes of "Dave is a knob" and see how long they'd take to spot it.

Re: Funny that

Windows 3.1.1 and in the study room of college in early 90s. Appears the computers aren't locked down and I had a bit of free software off a cover disc (I'm still looking for it to this day with no joy :( ). It was a screensaver or it might of been a standalone app that was like a screensaver that had tiny spiders on it. When it would kick off, it had taken a screenshot of your desktop and the tiny spiders would start to eat all the screen. All you had to do was move the mouse and it would stop and your work would look normal again.

Being the immature dick I was back then I thought it would be funny to stick this on all the study room PCs (I think there were 6) and set a timer for it to go off. Sat next to a lady one day and she panicked as it kicked off as she was doing her course work and hadn't saved.

Funny at first as caught a few before who moved the mouse and it stopped. But she was getting more panicked and backed away from the mouse. Under my breath I was shouting, just move the fucking mouse. I can't remember what happened. I couldn't own up as would off gotten kicked off the course. But, with hindsight I could of said I'd seen the issue before just move the mouse. But having just come from school, it wasn't the dun thing to be helpful or talk to other people.

Re: Funny that

I was about a year in to my new roll over 10 years back. Learnt how to remote to my home PC via SSL tunnel created via Putty (another engineer showed me. He said as the traffic will just look like https traffic cause of the port we were using, 3rd line shouldn't notice). They didn't appear to. But, the engineer next to me that day, from another department noticed me on my home machine. He was nice, kept quiet.

Then I made the rookie mistake. Left the PC for a few mins, unlocked. Came back, all still fine.

Got home and took a few days till I noticed some icons on my home desktop that said something onlines of "wanker" "knob" etc I realised who'd been next to me, mentioned it to him. He laughed and said "That's why you don't leave your machine unlocked when you walk away from your PC"

:)

Re: Funny that

Worst is we did the same on a so called "Senior engineer" and it took him ages to work out what the issue was. Pretty much confirming what we already knew, he didn't deserve the title or pay of a senior engineer as he knew jack shit.

Feel guilty? No. He was an arsehole and would make you feel shitty when you first join. Monitor what you'd be doing when it wasn't part of his job, comment if you used a browser other than IE (back when they still thought IE was secure despite Firefox clearly showing it wasn't) and then eventually would go silent when he'd realise you knew more than him. For fear you'd expose he knew less than he should.

BoJo buckles: UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use 'to zero by 2023' after pressure from Tory MPs, Uncle Sam

Its OK...

...to carry on using Apple though, that are also made in Chinese factories. And lots of other China made kit. That radio you have in your office PM, is it made in China?

Surely if they are all this paranoid its not far fetched to believe the Chinese government could stick bugs in any electronic kit made in factories in their country.

Wanna force granny to take down that family photo from the internet? No problem. Europe's GDPR to the rescue

Re: GDPR is a joke....

Thats what happens when you use "free" services. All these people that moan about Facebook privacy, for example, will never pay for a paid subscription version where NONE of the data is sold, because everyone "likes free stuff"

HPE's Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan

Another company...

...uses covid to can loads if staff.

Berlin's renowned nightclub scene is showing signs of life. Just one problem: No dancing

YouTube is the issue

Others have been doing this for ages, JaBig being one of them, yet YouTube have started flagging their sets for music copyright violations which ruins it all.

NASA's Human Spaceflight boss hits eject a week before SpaceX crew launch

On the negative throught

Maybe, but then you'd think he'd expose it if people were in-danger, he fears something is going to go wrong. Because of an issue that has been known about for ages but higher ups are ignoring. Maybe. Probably totally wrong but isn't that how the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded. Over O-Rings that were known to be poor but they were forced to go ahead anyway.

Azure-hosted AI for finding code defects emitted – but does it work?

Re: But did it check itself?

Also reminds me of this recent video from Robert Miles

Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl

Re: And this is why I don't do cloud based access.

What setup is that may I ask? I've been searching over and over for non cloud based, non subscription based CCTV but struggle to find anything.

PowerShell inventor Jeffrey Snover gets new gig driving ‘modern workforce transformation’

I can't exactly remember

But appreciate PowerShell but not his constant banging on about automation and cloud in a bid to be able to get rid of engineers. Saw it in a video but can't remember what one.

Bit like Mark Russinovich. Have a man crush on him and love his systinternal tools. But there is one interview where I didn't like him and it put me off slightly. As he's now made his millions, deserved. He was in an interview banging on about Azure, saying that lots of engineers are against The Cloud because they know it will put them out of work, but that isn't a reason to dislike it, they need to adapt.

I'd rather not. To late in life to adapt and at an age companies won't hire me over the young ones despite the experience. And thats not the only reason I dislike The Cloud.

Latest NHS IT revolution is failing to learn lessons from the last £10bn car crash

When...

..you have A GP calling up to complain her PC has been taken away that had patient data on it because her new PC arrived while she was away. For me to have to waste time explaining the engineer I sent out already asked your PA if it was OK to remove your PC, as it was already booked in and agreed with you to take it away that day. To finally remind you that NO patient or any data is to be left on the PCs, this has been best practice for a few years and you know this. So why were you ignoring it? And yes, you're machine is now here in the office and will be securely wiped.

She was only complaining cause she was trying to cover up her fuck up of leaving data on the PC*

Doesn't help when you're doing a temp role and sitting in A&E to install a blood printer (small label printer that prints out labels they stick on your wrist). A fucking printer that just needs a static IP address, that is all. Something you've been doing for years in your last place so know what the fuck you are doing only to be told. "No. 3rd line do that. You have to wait in a&e, call 3rd line, give them the mac address and get them to do it" OK, this is fucking stupid. I've been doing this for years in last place I temped, do you not trust my experience on my CV? Then why did you fucking hire me? I know what I'm fucking doing. Is it because I'm temp scum and showing the fact you are so set in your ways at doing shit because "Its how you've done it for years, and I can't expose how pointless it is as you want to keep your job". So instead you keep me waiting in a&e until your knob 3rd line engineer gets out of his fucking meeting. I argue later for permissions to do this myself next time. "No. 3rd line need to do this". I fucking give up. Clearly NHS IT hasn't fucking changed, all the time I was away from it.

When you get given a job with no ticket because its a pet project of the IT directors daughter. Right at the end of a Friday. And wonder why. Its out of scope of why we're hired to be there. But sure, we'll take a look. To find you have no rights to the building you were asked to go to. Find the daughter also has no rights to the building. Eventually gain access to be told by the nurses about the kit you're there to move "Other engineers were here earlier but they just took the keyboard and mouse". To finally realise, the lazy cunts in 2nd line couldn't be bothered to move the rest of the kit themselves so had said "Get the temp guys to do it. Yes we're aware that's not what they're paid to be here for but we want to leave early, its Friday". What a bunch of cunts. And to top it all off, when you get it to the department its going to. The daughter has now fucked off without the job being completed and the person in the department you took it too who was told was your contact, knew fuck all about it.

NHS IT is as incompetent as ever.

*Was back in XP and proper group policy wasn't in place to lock local saves.

Re: Real Time bed booking system hell.

Sounds about right. Not just the carrying it on because they are making money from it. It will also be someone never wanted it to be seen to be a failure while they were still there. So will have kept it going until they can bug out.

Don't get me started.

I think it was a Fujitsu project around the time I was in the NHS, along with NPfit. Speaking to one of the people involved in the Trust about it they said Fujitsu are getting increasingly annoyed. Each month they have to speak to a different manager as the turn over it so high, each time they are requesting more and more being added to the system but don't want to pay Fujitsu for it.

Eventually, Fujitsu got pissed off and pulled out. NHS tried to sue Fujitsu. That's a very basic very of what I saw. Who knows how accurate it was, but sounded legit asking for more and more features but not wanting to pay sounded like that Trust.

Doesn't help the people managing the IT were as bent as fuck. We have a director who I still suspect was taking back handers for contracts, giving jobs for his mates, getting "gifts" from HP to use them as the laptop providers over Dell and never declaring the "gifts". HP magically won the contract. His management team order massive TVs for the office for "Presentations" then one or two of the TVs "disappeared".

Treating contract IT staff like shit, so shit and disorganised (and I'm not suggesting at all it was right) that said contracting staff decided to "make some of those roll out PCs disappear because no one records the roll out of them properly". It was just targets, targets, targets. We must reach our targets. When you treat staff with respect, you tend to get engineers that do work properly. When you treat them like shit, you get rogue thieves. And when you get pulled under the bus for reporting an issue with some netbooks, only to be ignored for 3 months, then have an attempt at a disciplinary 3 months later for them ignoring you, you can't blame that engineer for sitting back and not report the thieves.

When you have an argument with a PHB because they want you to "No longer cherry pick calls. But pick the low hanging fruit calls and do those first". That is FUCKING CHERRY PICKING. He insisted it wasn't. I insisted it was. He was a dick.

When senior management decide to create a desktop background for XP that is eye bleeding and makes it near impossible to fucking read any text that is on the desktop. To be constructively have this pointed out, only to be told "Its not changing, get on with rolling out the PCs". Until user after user told me how shit it was and I had to go to a director in the Trust to tell them, they aren't listening to me so you'll need to tell them. To it then suddenly changing.

To suggest "Its cheaper if we get in a HDD crushing machine and do it ourselves. Then we know for sure they are all crushed and not just assuming this certificate from this company is legit". Yeah, whatever contractor scum, have you not realised we don't listen to you. To hear, several years after I left, with great joy, that a Trust requested some drives be crushed but IT couldn't so suggests a company. Granted that trust ignored that, gave them to a company that wasn't vetted who then sold them on. Someone picked them up off ebay and found medical records still on them. That trust got the biggest fine anyone's seen. Shortly after they got their own HDD crushing machine :) knobs.

When you decide to randomly move one engineer who's been helping the 2nd line for a few years & was good on a not great pay (I was clueless at the time) to another role and say "Well if you want to stay you have to now do this role. But as you're a contractor, we're gonna pay you less." (I'd have got the same money per hour working in a fucking supermarket.) and really wanting a career in IT so stupidly stayed. You can see why I'm bitter.

Glad I'm out of it. Walking away from the PC before I get more angry.

Doors closed by COVID-19, Brit retro tech museums need your help

Can still surf the net on some in store machines so I leave them on my website :)

Re: The Centre for Computing History

We only had one in primary school. And I can't remember his name now but was a kid in the class who was the whiz. No one, not even the teachers knew how to use it so he'd do it all for them including printing out. The BBCs in high school I think lasted a year or two. Was later 80s so were on there way out. Don't think we had the luxury of a turtle. I do remember them showing us a 12" laser disc. From my bad memory I think computing classes disappeared after the BBCs were gone. I just remember that room then only being for CDT and technical design drawing.

I was too square that when I'd go into WHSmith in the 80s. I'd only ever do

10 PRINT "Hello"

20 GOTO 10

Never occurred to me to put a swear word in place :) (and I swear like a sailor now) probably cause was always with my mum and would of gotten told off.

The Centre for Computing History

Is good. Still not visited but their YouTube channel is really good. Really needs to be saved, sad to see the Just Giving is struggling. I donated a few weeks ago. I like their room full of BBC computers. The way they are laid out reminds me of our computer room in school in the 80s. They even have the same monitors. It was two boys to one BBC back then.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnw4p95EOWghQNP4vOv8VHw/videos

Huge if true... Trump explodes as he learns open source could erode China tech ban

Obviously...

...fake news as not once did he mention the "Super duper missile"

You can't have it both ways: Anti-coronavirus masks may thwart our creepy face-recog cameras, London cops admit

I wonder...

...if you can do what some attempt to do with ANPR cameras. Hoping the database doesn't validate data, they stick the dump the database command on their numberplate just before entering. Hoping, that the camera reads it with no check and the database does just that :)

Don't know if its ever worked.

NHS contact tracing app isn't really anonymous, is riddled with bugs, and is open to abuse. Good thing we're not in the middle of a pandemic, eh?

They'll be rushing it out so the directors, CEO of the body making the app can stick it on their CV and spin how great it was. In the hope they then get head hunted by the likes of Google, Amazon etc.

They'll give no shits about the actual developers and force them to cut corners where needed to meet their agenda.

Unfortunately it appears to be like this in most places. A previous place I contracted at for years after (it would of been cheaper to hire me full time) eventually let me go and didn't give me the perm job I'd been doing for years, despite cries from actually users who said I was good (was surprised with the gift I got on leaving and how many signed my card considering how quiet I am). Claimed I'd answer a question poorly in the interview despite my answer being a real world example of good customer service. When I pointed this out to their bent HR department, they fumbled and said their were other reasons. I asked "if those reasons included having to put me at the top of the band when starting where as the new person you've picked who isn't even in the country yet and will only be allowed to stay for 2 years. They will be at the bottom of the pay?".... "Well yes it was a bit about money". At least you admit to my face. Shame I never released the voice recording of that.

Re: Why, oh why...

The problem is the NHS is massive and each area and Trust have their own IT. Some Trusts try to use the same IT department but, as my experience, that hasn't lasted long as new governments come in an tear it apart of a Trust that is being forced to use them as in contract, hates them and wants to go their own way. The Trust that had the netbook issue ended up making the mistake of going with Crapita a year or so later.

Re: Why, oh why...

And the ones they end up hiring will be shit engineers in the end that have no interest. They make the hiring convoluted, then hire bad engineers.

Re: Why, oh why...

True. The amount of little Hitlers in IT in the NHS doesn't help "My way or the highway. I shall ignore all advice". Like my advice their encryption way back when at the trust I was at was setup wrong. I kept a laptop back that was unlocked. Whenever my encryption account would lock itself, I'd fire up the reserved laptop, it would ping the unlock code back to the server and unlock me. I was told it was a "feature". I was a contracting scum (the cheap contractors. Not the highly paid contractors) so was ignored.

After I left, a full time engineer I knew was still there. She said "You were right. They realised they'd set the laptops to win over the server."

Cocks.

And then there's the "HP deal" that happened after a trip paid for by HP to silicon valley. Moving away from Dell. Arriving back from America with some shiny new HP tablets (this was over 10 years ago) "HP said we could keep these"....erm you do realise that is a bribe. "No its not. Keep quiet you contracting scum". The director of that IT department was as bent as fuck.

Then you have the rogue netbooks. That I warned them about 3 months earlier "This trust insisted on buying their own kit. We know the engineer working for them used to be in IT. I wanted to make sure they were done properly and securely so I've helped him set them up as he said he'd just do it anyway without my help. Thought you needed to know". Being the cheap contracting scum again I was ignored by the stake holder for that trust. Until someone spotted them 3 months later on the network. "Does anyone know about theses tablets?"....."Yes. I told you about them 3 months ago but no one replied"

And the world ended. They tried to pull me into a disciplinary with no representation but my new manager jumped in to stop them (one of the few nice people there). They were clearly embarrassed that I'd warned them 3 months before but had ignored me. To save face I was the one being thrown under the bus. Why I fucking stayed I don't know (well I guess I do. Needed the money and lacked confidence. Lacked confidence to tell them to fuck off. I warned you 3 months ago and was ignored. So fuck your job up your arse). Annoyed I never did whistleblow. I suspect that director and a few of his "Jobs for the boys" mates would have had prison terms for bribes. As I'm sure there were bribes going on for winning contracts.

I hate that director so much (they've all moved on with the collapse of that IT department but that was more to do with government change) that when I heard recently he had had cancer for a year but lived. My first thought was "Shame he never died of it". When a person makes you think that due to bullying in the work place, then something is clearly wrong.

Went on a rant but, mostly, have had bad experience in NHS IT departments. Don't get me wrong, there are some nice engineers, like the GP engineer that taught me lots or at least pointed me in the right direction to learn. But those were rare.

Coronavirus didn't hurt UK broadband speeds in March. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, on the other hand...

Not a fan of Virgin but ours has been quick since install. Been out of contract a few months and being too lazy to call them I should really do it now. As since lock down, doing speed tests shows the download speeds have dropped. What also really pisses me off is their shitty router. Being forced to use it. If you want to use anything else you have to still use theirs in modem mode. But fuck knows how to get my old Draytek to work with it. It gets an IP address from the Virgin hub but refuses to go out to the Internet.

Then you have the piss poor security of the hub3 routers. No SSL on the signin page. Can't use secure passwords. And people have reported a year or so ago being able to push JSON code to it and it excepts it no questions. No DNS settings on their routers cause they really want you to use their DNS and no one elses.

Then you have their business packages yet the router is just as shit. With no option for remote access to the router. Yet Virgin can remote to it whenever they want.

Fuckers.

But when it works they are quick.

Latest Microsoft 365 'wave of innovation' really just involves adding or renaming a bunch of update channels

Its as fucking annoying as then...

.."We're living off Teams. Its as simple as that" advert.

We all get a budget. We install software. We plan for training. We don't then expect the UI and everything to fucking change, which it has done, a month after the training. That is the issue with all this cloud bollocks.

What then happens is they try to make the training department redundant by offering cloud based training. Like GSuite did with their own setup. Never occurred to Google to offer training so someone created it, that you could buy from the app store that would run in, for example, GMail, and interactively guide you through. Google shortly after realised they should of offered that long ago and bought the company running it. And that training kills the training department. Unless you have hipsters running the show that decide to hire in an external company to train you on it as well, instead of using perfectly fine in house staff. And then you discover that training company is actually the people that sold you GSuite and its not training but more a sales pitch. For something you've already purchased.

Sorry...went on a mini rant at the end.

Don't trust deep-learning algos to touch up medical scans: Boffins warn 'highly unstable' tech leads to bad diagnoses

I like

Robert Miles recent video. Where AI has been given tasks and the agents exploit loop holes etc :)

https://youtu.be/nKJlF-olKmg

"A robotic arm trained using hindsight experience replay to slide a block to a target position on a table achieves the goal by moving the table itself."

One agent asked to generate short computers programs with input and an output. The system learned it could fine where the target output was stored and edits it. Deletes what was in the file so it was empty and then just produces its code with no output. The evaluation engine then checks, sees the original target file has no output, sees that the agent produced no output. The two match so its says "Good job".

And the list of tasks and what the agents did :)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

So the AI could work out. "I can get a reward by just killing all my patients. If there is nothing to diagnose then I can't get it wrong". Similar to one AI on that list that would kill itself at the end of every level, so that it could then never fail the next level.

"Agent kills itself at the end of level 1 to avoid losing in level 2"

Breaking virus lockdown rules, suing officials, threatening staff, raging on Twitter. Just Elon Musk things

Is it me or

Is he becoming a cunt more and more each day. He, sadly, won the pedo case which he really should of lost and now this.

Users of Will.i.am's Wink IoT hub ask 'Where is the love?' as they're asked to pay for a new subscription service

Re: Why would anyone use it?

But its one site I don't block as we all want the Reg to continue forever so I let them show me ads.

DBA locked in police-guarded COVID-19-quarantine hotel for the last week shares his story with The Register

Re: Sounds sensible

Not brighter for me as it's closer than Heathrow :)

Re: Sounds sensible

Yep. Yet at Gatwick we have reports, back when lock down started, or a plane from China landing and being allowed through with no checks. And the same person that mentioned this, a baggage handler, who was worried for his health went to the office and grabbed a mask and started to wear it. He was then pulled into the office and given a warning and told to remove the mask.

So, we know the management at Gatwick are dicks and don't give a shit about the health of their own staff. Anyone dies from it there, those managers need to be charged with corporate manslaughter.

Go on, hit Reply All. We dare you. We double dare you. Because Office 365 will defeat your server-slamming ways

Re: That sucks!

You have a point but he was acting in a manor which requires the term cunt. He did fuck all most days, got paid well for it, didn't mind using the work phone for personal calls. But yes, guess management should really be blamed for hiring him.

He was still a cunt.

Re: That sucks!

This was some years back but I also remember listening in to some consultants that were in, being paid good money, getting to make up their own job title and one such knob being on the phone "Yes. I'm only doing half days so then I can go and play golf".

Cunt.

Re: That sucks!

True. That is the one of the main issues of the NHS middle management and too many of them. Managed to get a phishing email at work from an NHS.net account. Checked the logs and it wasn't spoofed. Bit worrying knowing an NHS.net account was compromised.

That awful Butterfly has finally fluttered off: Apple touts 13-inch MacBook Pro with proper keyboard, Escape key

Re: specs vs. prices

I'm still using a 8 year old Lenovo i7 with 32GB RAM. Only cost just over 1k at the time if I remember right. Now swapped out the HDD with a 1TB SSD that only cost either 80 or just over 100 in a sale. Only thing on it is the battery is pretty much dead. Lasts about 20mins on battery. But thats not an issue as I don't move it about. And it plays Rimworld perfectly. Can upgrade the RAM myself, no soldered on bullshit. Taken the keyboard out myself and given the insides a clean. Apple don't want even their own owners doing that with their objection to right to repair.

They all last if you take care of them and keep the OS fresh.

Re: Apple have lost it

My partner has one, I despise Apple kit. Was playing with it wanting to put VMs on it. Then discovered they'd sold her the one with a tidy amount of hard drive space (purchased before me). Its no longer 2015 and I looked to see how much a 1TB drive would be for it. HOW MUCH! But its from 2015!

Fucking Apple bullshit prices!

Because their policy of being against right to repair. And the piece that was done on them on the news in America. Taking a MacBook in with an issue and being told it would cost over 1000 to have it "repaired" would be cheaper to just get a new one. When taken to an independent repair shop, only about 80 would of been charged and turned out it was just a pin bent on the motherboard power connector.

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

Microsoft640k or just 640k.

In reference to Bill Gated memory comment all those years back.

UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for 'research' after crisis ends, MPs told

Re: Lying ?

But that's the problem. We all want it to be anonymous so you won't be able to ID people. Push it via VPN, the VPN is purchased with "cleaned" bitcoin and although the GPS will give away your location (which won't match your VPN saying you're in America), a simple use of a burner phone with false details given or purchased off Fleabay, Gumtree or the like and I don't know how they'd be able to prosecute anyone. Especially if you could just say "I believed I had it".

Re: GDPR

What if you run it through a VPN? The IP will be invalid. I wonder if it will end up like the South Korean anonymised medical data, that people were able to track back to the original owner. And like South Korean had in 2015 with their ID numbers.

Re: No chance

I saw that first article the other day. There will no doubt be something similar in next issue of Private Eye I bet.

Open to abuse

Having seen the screenshots of the IOW trial, you can see you enter the details yourself if you believe you have it.

How long before dicks start poisoning the database with bogus data because

1. They are dicks

2. Not sure about their heath so, not maliciously, say they have symptoms when they don't.

3. Is a hypochondriac and believes they have it when they don't so just fills in the form saying they do.

And lets put bets on how long before that centralised database is breached. Hancock has wanted "digital" in the NHS for years, he's using this as his chance to get what he wants.

And whats the better who ever has developed this or "Helped" develop the app they'll be MPs with shares in the company.

India to build contact-tracing app for feature phones that still use 2G, don't have Bluetooth and can't run apps

This is the problem

My dad for example has a Microsoft phone that is now defunct and only really for calls. There will be no app for that I'm sure. And I think my mum has a featureless phone. Wouldn't surprise me if there are a lot of old people in homes with no mobile, the very people they want to install the app.

We could repair old phones and give them those but because the industry, especially Apple, is so dead against right to repair, that can't happen either.

Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink

So do I. Quite frankly, it's a dick move by HP.

Nine million logs of Brits' road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard

And putting their whole lives on Facebook and job history on linkedin.

I, in the 90s, being the idiot that I am/was and was looking for unique ideas for my website, posted my whole CV on the site. Because I'd seen someone elses "cool" site do it. I still have the files from the late 90s backed up. I cringe now when I see it. What an idiot for putting my CV details online and realising, after reading the rest of my site, that is most likely why I never got any work offers, the not state of the CV. I'm glad, in that respect, I've grown up (I'm still 12 in my head and am not ashamed to still love Lego. But that site, was god awful and embarrassing. I appeared to pretend I was like the characters from Men Behaving Badly yet I was far far from it :) despite liking the show)

Re: Always abused

Although with a subject access request they have to confirm your ID so you have to mail it in.

Always abused

ANPR is always abused. I put in a right to be forgotten request to the management company of the local Waitrose carpark. I was told "You're not getting a ticket so have nothing to worry about. We keep the ANPR data for 6 months to help with crime prevention." To which I pointed out that is illegal and against GDPR. You are only allowed to keep the plates for the time required, not 6 months. My car is not getting a ticket so you no longer need to hold the data. And further more ANPR is NOT to be used for CCTV purposes as you're claiming you are using it for"

They deleted the plate shortly after. I requested it be removed from their backups also. I was ignored.

UK snubs Apple-Google coronavirus app API, insists on British control of data, promises to protect privacy

Later

WHEN there's a breach we'll find out the database was never encrypted or, more likely, the Bluetooth data won't be encrypted and easily intercepted and manipulated.

I never have my Bluetooth on. Only recently got Bluetooth headphones so only put it on when cooking and turn it off when done as it uses up the battery.

Watching from the bunker

"Your privacy is crucial to the NHS, and so while these are unusual times, we are acutely aware of our obligations to you."

Until we decide we need someone else to manage it because its too expensive so we'll outsource it to Crapita who'll eventually leak the whole fucking database to the world. And then we'll hear "Your data security is important to us. Lessons have been learned." The lessons a low down member of the team had been warning us about for months and we constantly told them "Be a yes person and shut up or fuck off".

This was always the issue when I was in the NHS, the management.

Lbry are doing well with their decentralised YouTube alternative, so why don't they do the same with this app?

How long before they piss away millions on it only to scrap it for a decentralised version.