Posts by steviebuk

Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster

So...

...if calling a Hipster and Hipster is slander then is calling me a cock also slander (I may or may not be a cock).

Hipsters are tits. Is that slander?

Ah, this military GPS system looks shoddy but expensive. Shall we try to break it?

What was the point?

Military equipment and medical equipment is expensive due to the extensive tests they all have to go through. The whole story ended up being pointless as they never said what was in it. Even if it was a generic mobile, the cost is due to the extensive testing they've had to shell out for. So it covers the R&D and testing.

UK banking was struck by one IT fail every day for most of 2018

Re: it is time!

Just don't let anyone know or you'll end up in the dock like Ken Dodd :) although there is nothing illegal about hiding your money in the wardrobe or in your mattress.

After last year's sexism shambles, 2019's RSA infosec bash has upped its inclusivity game

Re: This is why

Or where you go to get arrested.

If at first you don't succeed, you may be trying to install that Slow Ring Windows 10 build

Re: Does anyone bother with Windows anymore ?

And why does our Enterprise build still insist on the shitting Xbox app when we're a fucking company so don't need gaming related bollocks.

Who needs malware? IBM says most hackers just PowerShell through boxes now, leaving little in the way of footprints

Not much protection

"It is possible to wrap protections around PowerShell to stop it being abused, such as requiring scripts to be digitally signed."

People pay for digital signatures or steal them. Been going on for years. I have the Sysinternals Video Library on my YouTube channel that Mark Russinovich and David Solomon were kind enough to allow me to upload. Those are old now, over 10 years old and it's even mentioned in there that "digital signatures" are purchased by malware authors so mean very little.

Watchdog asks UK.gov to reissue freedom of information guidance after councils are told to STFU about Brexit plans

Re: Why worry?

Rees-Mogg is definitely evil all for leaving the EU but has his investments firms in Ireland. That happens to be in the EU.

He's a dick.

Just do IoT? We'd walk a mile in someone else's Nike smart sneakers, but they seem to be 'bricked'

Don't wear those..

..while going through the airport

Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone

Re: i believe it was a mistake..

Seems a bit odd that view considering Google themselves state the mic was never activated until now as they obviously want to use it.

OK, Google? Probably not! EU settles on wording for copyright reform legislation

Re: Wow, just wow.....

Jesus, typing on the phone is crap, bring back physical keyboards. The amount of mistakes I make, it's annoying and sometimes embarrassing, as the last post.

And rushing to get a post in while you're supposed to be working probably also doesn't help.

Oh well.

Re: Wow, just wow.....

Or they're an MEP who hasn't got a clue who the fucking Internet works.

I don't believe they were saying they were pulling out of Europe, I believe they meant they'd pull YouTube from Europe.

But they clearly wouldn't do that as it would kill their advertising stream.

Dratted hipster UX designers stole my corporate app

Do what Microsoft used to do...

...and that is sit someone in front of a computer and get them to talk about what they are doing and what they are thinking when they click menus and buttons. Let them br honest. Then it will help you design a better UI.

Crash, bang, wallop: What a power-down. But what hit the kill switch?

Re: It took me years...

It would be fun on the last day at a place you hate or hate and retiring.

Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs

Re: The Usual Response...

Unless you use Microsoft 365 that appears to totally fall over if you put a space at the beginning of a password. On perm AD works fine with that, but once it gets to Microsoft 365, it freaks out won't let the user login to e-mail. All because of a pissing space at the beginning of the password.

One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once

Knobs part 2

Jesus fucking christ. I understand where they are coming from but it just pisses me off when they make these laws but don't understand how the pissing Internet works.

This is a rant.

So people will just use VPNs. Or people will be malicious and craft sites or e-mails with links in to such material. That's it, you've viewed it once, prison for you as the site or video auto plays with no option to stop it because, again, they've crafted it like those annoying pops up that stop you closing them.

The law just isn't fucking workable, unless of course, the person is already on a watch list.

It's now 2019, and your Windows DHCP server can be pwned by a packet, IE and Edge by a webpage, and so on

Re: Job security

There is no secure future anymore. With more and more companies wanting to replace us with AI.

I still don't know why people don't refuse to use self service tills. You do the work for Tesco, Sainsbury's etc, but get no discount for doing so and they save money in staff.

Until someone smashes them to bits because of the shitty weight system that is massively flawed

"Please put the item just scanned in your bag". "Please check the bagging area". "Are you using your own bag?"

Amazon are realising but won't stop with their Amazon automated supermarket. Learning that people are fucking lazy and will take something off the shelf, decide they don't want it so will dump it elsewhere. Which then confused the fuck out of their AI. "You took an item off the shelf. Check. You've taken it out of your basket so no longer want it. Check. But you haven't put it back where I expect it to be. What do I do now? Erm, oh, erm, ah, erm, I'm all confused!"

ARSE!

Ever used VFEmail? No? Well, chances are you never will now: Hackers wipe servers, backups in 'catastrophic' attack

Re: Backups?

Ah yes. So I'm not the only one. I still believe backup tapes have their place.

I got interested in backups in the NHS when I saw their solution years ago. Then adopted it at home but not on tape as couldn't afford the setup.

Anyway.

Monday full backup

Tues to Thursday incremental backup

Friday full week 1 backup.

Rinse and repeat for 3 weeks.

Then on the 4th Friday of the month it becomes

Month 1 backup

Rinse and repeat for 3 months so you always have 3 months of offline backups that are stored in a fire proof safe either offsite, or onsite but in another fire zone. Which can end up being either another location in the same building or another location onsite but in a different building.

All on tape.

Worked well.

Not heard owt bad about Huawei, says EU Commish infosec bod

Knob

"There are no compelling reasons that I can see to do business with the Chinese, so long as they have the structure in place to reach in and manipulate or spy on their customers. Those who are charging ahead blindly and embracing the Chinese technology without regard to these concerns may find themselves in a disadvantage in dealing with us."

<satirequote>"But we don't mind loads of our other tech being made in China. Like Apple phones because it's not possible for the Chinese to sneak spy chips into those at all. Or gain access to the firmware to install a rootkit. No, that's not possible. We just must crush Huawei as we can't have competition because it will disadvantage our paid for friends, I mean international and local friends".</endsatirequote>

Big trouble Down Under as Australian MPs told to reset their passwords amid hack attack fears

It would be very...

....very, very funny if they got in via one of the "backdoors" the Assuie government wants left open on encryption :)

If not now, that will happen at some point. I'd bet a £1 on it.

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

I could only stand half of an advert...

...before I stopped watching. It's awful. Advertising agency hipster bullshit again. Although it does remind me of the internal issue of the Macintosh Team against the rest of Apple that Steve Job created back in the day.

Reliable system was so reliable, no one noticed its licence had expired... until it was too late

Odd

"The root cause was that the previous expired key was only for five years – "the software maker was assured that the software would be decommissioned soon"."

But they PAID for a never expiring license so you give them one. You don't make it expire when they've paid for a never expire one.

Google: All your leaked passwords are belong to us – here's a Chrome extension to find them

I use...

...LastPass but beware, it's auto fill has a VERY annoying issue with E-bay. You'll make a listing and fill in the description, only to be told there is script in it, that isn't allowed.

What are you banging on about? There is no script, I'm just trying to sell off my console retro collection. Then I look at the HTML code and sure enough, there's a big chunk of script.

Where did that come from?! LastPissingPass.

It's a known issue apparently and they say if you just whitelist the site, it doesn't auto fill in. But that doesn't work. I've had to turn off auto fill, but even that doesn't stop it injecting code into an e-bay listings description either. Annoying.

Other than that, appear useful.

Website programming? Pffft, so 2011. Python's main squeeze is now data science, apparently

Confused

"The Python programming language is now used more for data science than web development, according to a new survey."

I thought it was always mainly for data science. But then I haven't touched programming since the 90s and that was while learning Pascal :) so what do I know.

Not cool, man: Dixons spanked over discount on luxury 'smart' fridge with wildly fluctuating price

Re: DFS

And Oak Furtnitureland ):o(

Crypto exchange in court: It owes $190m to netizens after founder 'dies without telling anyone vault passwords'

I'm surprised..

...no one at the company ever thought to "whistleblow" in respect to "Excuse me. I'm your new finance director. Can I ask why only the CEO is allowed access to finances?. I also hear he is off to Indian. Surely he's a single point of failure and someone else needs access. Or at least keep them in a safe that only keep people have access to?" and potentially being told "That's the way he wants to run his company, just stop asking questions" should of raised massive flags to internal people.

Very odd and very much looks like a scam. And also will give more excuse for governments to not support crypto-currency without legislation.

Maybe...

....they find him secretly living next door to his wife some years later coughJohnDarwincough.

On a side note regarding John Darwin. You're supposed to be dead, so why fucking risk having photos of yourself taken while on a secret holiday. Idiots.

I won't bother hunting and reporting more Sony zero-days, because all I'd get is a lousy t-shirt

And this....

..is why the Sony Pictures Hack happened. Cause they simply don't give a fuck.

Cocks.

I got offered free magnets from a very small online store, years ago that wasn't using HTTPS on their store page & I wanted to order from them due to being the only ones that sold the tiny powerful magnets to stick in models :)

Free magnets. Great.

Anyway. Others I've reported I've just been ignored but then seen them fix said issue a few days later. Another company replied back quite defensive who, it was clear, had been running unsecure for years from the previous owners. And local gov and other small companies use this site! They've fixed some of the reported issues but not the rest and then stopped replying to my e-mails. And the biggest one that was ignored was Twitter. I reported to them years ago, once signed in, if you went to reset your password, their code would sometimes push you to a http page instead of https. I reported it, was totally ignored so I disclosed the issue on YouTube. A tech and security journo picked the story up and they listened to him (I'd never heard of the guy, I just happened to come across his blog post one day) and he put in a mention that I'd reported it and been ignored.

I don't really bother much now.

European Commission orders mass recall of creepy, leaky child-tracking smartwatch

Re: "Test Conclusion of the Bundesnetzagentur is sufficient"

Or ignored security checks when brown envelopes where slide, quietly over the table.

Re: internet connected sex toys

That's funny as we get those phishing emails at work. 365 is doing a shit job as seeing what they are so they are ending up in peoples inboxes.

Re: Cloudpets

Which unfortunately will never happen.

Cloudpets

Amazon don't appear to give a shit about resellers selling Cloudpets as they are still available via Amazon resellers. They won't give a shit until it appears in the news that is, then suddenly they'll give a shit or at least pretend to.

Whatever you've got to say about Google, it can't hear you over the sound of it banking $85m a day in pure profit

Are they

Going to pay the UK their tax now then?

LibreOffice patches malicious code-execution bug, Apache OpenOffice – wait for it, wait for it – doesn't

Re: Tried Libre about 3 weeks ago....

You don't want Google Docs. It's fucking awful. The only decent thing in the GSuite, which you can get for free as well, is Google Keep. Very useful.

BT's outgoing CEO: He's officially gone, but he'll score £1m in pay, pension until Oct

Oh to be a CEO

And to be a shit one yet still get paid loads :(

I'm a good tech, no way an expert but a good a loyal one but I've always gotten peanuts. Maybe cause I can't stand bullshit speak and can't lie or kiss arse. If I could, I could be a consultant.

What's that, Skippy? You want a taste of Windows 10 19H2? Oops, too late

No more testing

Real world testing is all well and good but Sat Nav firing all the QAs and leaving it to the public will always be a mistake.

Despite still sticking with Windows 7 at home I like bits of Windows 10 that 7 misses out on. The ability to natively mount iso files instead of having to get a 3rd party tool. But search in Windows 10 is simply shit. A good test is install sysinternals tools onto the machine. Put the folder in the path area so you can run it wherever and so search should fucking pick it up. I do this on users machine. It never pissing does until I manually go to the directory and run Procmon or Procexp from there at least once (the main ones I install). Its really pissing annoying.

El Reg talks to PornHub sister biz AgeID – and an indie pornographer – about age verification

So we all know...

....this is going to be pointless anyway as everyone will start using VPNs. The question is, the AgeID is for UK only right? So will the sites redirect if you come from a different country? I would of thought so otherwise it will kill their business. Again, VPN will make it pointless.

The other question would be sites that just link to videos that are hosting on other sites not run by them. Will they be required to use AgeID? If so, will Google search also be forced to use AgeID when someone does a search for naughty pictures and sees all the thumbnails? If Google can claim "We don't need AgeID as we don't host the material" then all the other sites that just link will be able to do the same.

Terribly Sorry Bank reports 165% drop in profits to a pre-tax loss of £105.4m

The only good thing...

...were their adverts when owned by Lloyds. Now they have nothing apart from this massive stain that they'll never remove and we'll all remember. Their ex CEO killed them.

UK spy overseer: Snooper's Charter cockups are still getting innocents arrested

Re: Wrong IP? Pah - Try Plusnet!

If the code was crappy you could just inspect the password field with the stars. Use Chrome. Where it tells you the field is a password just tell it the field is text. Then, again if poorly coded, it will reveal the password.

Re: Is that all?

There was a guy on jury duty that I was on that said "Yeah he's guilty now lets go home. I want to leave early". He should really have been kicked out. Ignore the fact we did find the guy guilty but on the evidence that we took time to check & ignored the dick, choosing to decide someones future because you "want to get home early" is a cunt move.

Is that all?

"Herts paid £60,000 in compensation once Lang identified who was responsible.". Considering he was totally innocent and considering mud sticks, especially amongst idiots, he should of gotten a lot more. I know one such idiot who stated when I mentioned about a court case in the news where the person was found innocent "They aren't. There just wasn't enough evidence to prove their guilt. No smoke without fire, why was the case taken to court?"

According to her anyone that goes to court but is found innocent is actually still guilty, there just wasn't enough evidence to be found guilty.

Fucking idiot.

Global server motel, with a supermarket in the parking lot, banks $10bn profit from $233bn sales (Yes, it's Amazon)

With all those profits...

...maybe he can pay the packers their fare due.

Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data

There was...

....United States v. Microsoft Corp. There now needs to be United States v. Facebook case. And, just as was an option but never happened at the end of the Microsoft one, they should now break Facebook up.

Forget snowmageddon, it's dropageddon in Azure SQL world: Microsoft accidentally deletes customer DBs

But...

...the cloud is never wrong

I helped catch Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht: Undercover agent tells all

Nice read

Don't hold your breath. Unless Trump has a hand in the illegal money making act he won't give a shit and will let you rot. You need to hope someone else gets in that see the sentence a tad harsh considering there are probably murders in the same prison doing less time. As Kevin Mitnick said about his time in the clink. Some of the murders and rapist couldn't understand how Kevin had was in their longer than they were going to be.

"while begging people to sign his clemency petition to US president Donald Trump."

Re: Just starting to read and..

The sentence is over the top but he's far, far, far from a hero.

Just starting to read and..

..got to this bit "Ulbricht was also linked to six drug overdose deaths where the narcotics had been ordered from his website."

Not nice but if thats the case, surely Mark Zuckerberg is responsible for that girls suicide that was on the news the other day where it is alledge she got material from one of his sites. And sites & shops that sell booze and fags (cigarettes for our American cousins) are responsible for all the alcohol and tobacco deaths. None of those are doing life in prison.

Fine, we'll do it the Huawei, says Uncle Sam: CFO charged with fraud, faces extradition to US over Iran trade claims

I'd be very worried...

...if I was an American in China right now. You'll likely disappear into a cell until the Huawei CFO is released. Get a new President and she'll probably get pardoned. Funny how so upset by Huawei they are for potential security on their devices yet still continue to allow Apple to build all their kit in China.

Post-Brexit plan for .EU tweaked: No dot-EU web domains for Europeans in UK, no appeals, etc

How petty

Can they get? And they wonder why people don't like them.