Posts by steviebuk

It's official: Deploying Facebook's 'Like' button on your website makes you a joint data slurper

Re: No f in button?

It does relate in that it's not the thumbs up button. It's just a link to their Facebook page so is fine.

Low Barr: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General

Lets start with guns

We can put backdoors in those. Don't ban them, even I know that won't work in America now, too many off them so will end up with just bad people having them. But if you put a backdoor on them, then only the good people will be able to fire them.

;o)

Coming soon...

...on rooted Android phones:

Terrorist2Terrorist

TerroristChat

"These are our chat apps to use from now on. They have end 2 end encryption with no backdoors. When the US government tries to tell us we are required by law to put in a backdoor. We will tell them to fuck off"

This is what will happen. This is what the two fucking idiots in power are incapable of understanding.

I'm already fuming

Just reading the title. What a 100% bellend that man is. You can't be anymore of a bellend.

I also have a feeling he's a shill for the orange one.

As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

IoT

So IoT attacks up 55, that will increase the more IoT shit is out there with said companies not bothering to put any security on them. And will this give the Orange one and his idiot shills more excused to "ban encryption". If that's the cause then lets ban the cloud or even the Internet considering malware is becoming RaaS, that's SaaS fault.

Phuck off, phishers! JPMorgan Chase crafts AI to sniff out malware menacing staff networks

Someone got suckered into the bullshit

A company tried to sell us bullshit deep learning AI to protect not only our incoming and outgoing mail but also for internal AV. I listened and watched their videos and as always hated the bullshit marketing bollocks and sales pitch bullshit! Said no. They still sent their fucking server for us to "trial". Told them to pick it up. They said they'd send an engineer to set it up for us. Sorry, did do you not understand the words "Fucking not interested".

We were told it relies on patterns and has to sit there for a while as it learns. Fucking useless then isn't it. How do you define a pattern from someone sending out maybe one document a month. "Ooo, look they've now sent two this month, that's breaking their pattern, I'll quarantine it."

I get angry as I can't' stand marketing and sales pitch bullshit.

We're looking at another solution instead. Powerful, can be customised, can see a lot of under the hood stuff and best of all, there has been no sales pitch bullshit. It is real engineers who use it, selling it and being honest along with it.

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

Another perfect example of why I have no sympathy for an arse of an industry

The late and great Bob Monkhouse was taken to court in 1979 for his movie collection.

"Aside from comedy, Monkhouse was also a film buff (he appeared in a dozen films himself) and had a private collection of movies, which on one occasion led him into trouble. In 1978, he was arrested for conspiracy to defraud film companies by illegally importing films for his collection"

He was, thankfully, acquitted of all charges but the cunts never gave him his collection back.

Later, after he died, it turned out if it hadn't been for Bob Monkhouse taping loads and loads of shows off the TV, a lot of series would of been lost due to the big corporations being the greedy cunts they are and not choosing to store them (BBC were notorious for taping over old shows).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykNV4n32KGk

Nice example there

A guy asking at work about a tablet that has a HDMI lead so they can use that to downloaded Amazon Prime movies through their app and then watch them via the tablet, connected to a HDMI lead on the TV (I assume they don't have a smart TV). And to use the tablet on a plane ride, oh and is cheap.

Looking for those requirements is difficult. Most tablets now don't have HDMI. Some don't allow USB to HDMI and even when do you then can't charge at same time. Amazon Prime offline viewing via a laptop was mentioned but it was pointed out that this isn't allowed by Prime apparently, you can only stream on a laptop.

Block after block after block.

I said that is why people end up pirating. As you can simply download the movie you want, for the plane ride at least, stick it on your mobile and using VLC watch it. Like I did with my DVD rips of Columbo from my purchased Columbo DVD collection. Assuming said TV had USB ports you could also stick said videos on a USB stick to watch on the TV.

The industry needs to stop fucking around and make it easier. Granted, it is somewhat now with NOWTV, NetFlix and Amazon but only if Streaming. And if you live somewhere like the Isle of Wight with their lack of fast fibre and no Virgin media at all, then you're fucked. Even more so if somewhere out in the sticks. But then you can buy DVDs and Blu-rays for that. But even Blu-Rays are an arse to get playing on a PC/Laptop. I played one movie once from a Blu-ray and tried to drag the player to the other monitor. It went apeshit and moaned about the monitor not complying with it's DRM bollocks. What a load of shit.

As always, the IT Crowd is thought of when I think of anti-piracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

And we were watching Gavin and Stacey on Netflix the other day, I'd never bothered with it when originally on. It's OK. But got to season 3 and there was a lack there of. I was told there was one. Googled it, appears Netflix only had licence for 1 and 2. What a load of shit.

I took a look at it the other day and now what! Oh season 3 has suddenly appeared despite not being available for years even though its an old show now. But now what, season 1 has disappeared.

It shit like that which is why people pirate.

And then you have sites like this

https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/releases-netflix-july-593076

Classing old movies and TV series as Big Releases is just annoying.

I like that most of the Star Trek series are on there but I already bought all the Blu-Ray versions of TNG. I wonder how long all the episodes stay up. You can be half way through a season only to find out their license is running out so it will be pulled.

The industry is in a bit of a mess and instead of fixing it, want to blame pirates. Just like they tried to claim the tape would kill the music industry and the home movie tape would kill the movie industry.

Re: Dilution of quality too..

I Am Mother is good.

And with some DVDs that I have, being forced to watch the copyright notices even though I've paid for the fucking thing. Whereas someone who pirates it, doesn't have to watch said noticed.

Not that I condone piracy but they also don't help themselves with the likes of Netflix UK having a lot less content than the America version. Amazon Prime showing adverts now before the video, looking for old movies yet despite being over 20 years old still not available as part of the Prime deal, then finding the DVD is now hard to come by also (can't remember what that movie was now). NOWTV starting to force an advert before the show or movie, why? We pay for your fucking service to avoid fucking adverts!

Then you have the bollocks that is and soon to be was Ultraviolet. What a load of shit that was. i tried once to use it and had to sign up to about 3 other fucking services before getting the movie. I fucking gave up. Now appears they are shutting down the service on 31 July this year. So assume that means you'll no longer have access to them once shut down? You also couldn't move the movies to another device so pretty much shit.

They need to understand, even if its wrong, pirates sometimes give a better service. And not every download can be classed as a lost sale. A lot of people download just because its free and would never purchase said media if there wasn't an illegal free option.

UK cops blasted over 'disproportionate' slurp of years of data from crime victims' phones

Well that's not..

...gonna get leaked is it. When they are incapable of putting 2FA on their Twitter account then won't be long before they allow all that data to be exposed

How does UK.gov fsck up IT projects? Let us count the ways

Cheap but not secure

I had to report to NHS Mail a few months back as one of their mailboxes had been compromised and someone was sending phishing e-mails from it.

BT boss warns 16-min walk from current HQ to new London base 'just the tip of the iceberg'

When you say...

"Between now and moving into the new building we'll be working with architects, designers and – most importantly – our colleagues, to make sure it's the home the business wants and needs."

Don't you mean.

"most importantly - we'll ignore our colleagues opinions. We'll only listen to the over paid architects and designers".

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

From what I hear...

...a lot of places had managers like that back in the 70s and 80s when they could get away with jt. The amount of money our local council pissed away back then is shocking. A stairs full of flowers for the mayor making day and the newly elected councillors day.

Cloud makes it rain for Microsoft: IT giant turns green with Azure, cash poured all over investors

Well maybe

Just maybe you can take some of that money and hire proper QA testers instead of relying on all your customers.

Glad going well for Mark Russinovich though. I like him and his Sysinternal tools. I know others have worked on them but if it wasn't for him and Bryan they may never have existed. Enjoy his fiction books as well.

Although he did slightly annoy me a few years but in an interview about Azure and the Cloud where he said some engineers don't like the Cloud as they know it will put them out of work. Well yes and no stopped watching after that comment, as came across a bit smug.

Other than that he seems like a nice and honest guy. Pointed out to MS how UAC was flawed (although still exists) his presentations of Case of the Unexplained have always been good (I think he might of now given them up :( he's not done one this year and said he's so busy with Azure now he's hired someone to take on the Sysinternals development). He's helped a few times when I've emailed him and was kind enough, him a David Solomon, to allow me to upload the old Sysinternals training video library from back in 2006 to YouTube so they'll always be preserved.

Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh

Or Vehicle not realising the H is silent. It's not Ve-HERE-cle as they say (although not all Americans say it wrong)

Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

Odd

The zip file on Windows 10 & Windows 7 is showing as invalid and empty. Something happened to this already?

Re: At least it uses processes

I believe Chrome runs as a broker service and then all the tabs run under that. So if you look in Process Explorer each tab is an instance of Chrome each with it's own PID.

Hell hath no fury like a radar engineer scorned

Very nice

Bully cocks or just simple cocks need to be shown a lesson, especially arrogant cocks.

It's happening, tech contractors: UK.gov is pushing IR35 off-payroll rules to private sector in Finance Bill

BUT!

They also don't get the same fucking rights. No paid leave or holiday you cocks.

"It is intended to ensure that two people working side by side in a similar role for the same employer pay the same employment taxes."

And I also, could be wrong, they don't get the company paying into a pension for them either.

Farewell to function keys and swappable SSDs in the new two-port MacBook Pro

Re: Function keys are useless, good riddance

They were going that way under Jobs as well.

Marriott's got 99 million problems and the ICO's one: Starwood hack mega-fine looms over

Pullman London St Pancras

They need to check that hotel next. Jan or Feb 2018 its security was shockingly shit. They weren't even isolating the WIFI network. They attempted to fix some of the issues while I was there when I reported it. But how long it had been insecure is anyone's guess. And unless they've sorted it since I suspect they probably have other issues.

Oh good. This'll go well. Amazon's Alexa will offer NHS advice

You question..

...Matt Hancock about this on Twitter and he just ignores it. I bet he wouldn't if it was someone big on Twitter.

Trump: Huawei ban will be lifted!
US Commerce Dept.: Yeah, about that…

Can't they just..

...speak to China. Take some of their own company money to setup a legit business in China, registered only in China. So a company the orange one can't dictate too. Then they sell their electronic part to the Chinese company, who then sells those part to Huawei. All the orange one could do when found out is put the new Chinese company on a ban list.

Serious Fraud Office fines Serco £22.9m over electronic tagging scandal

Re: Why are they still in place?

Unfortunately it probably will be seen as a cost saving to keep them and they'll justify it because all the people "apparently" involved no longer work there.

White House mulls just banning strong end-to-end crypto. Plus: More bad stuff in infosec land

Another payout...

...another infection. It will continue the more you keep paying out. Yes it's costly to restore but surely paying out means they know it's profitable to will try again. And will more than likely target you again.

"Knowing you possibly can't afford to have a knowledgeable IT team, means you'll probably still have a hole somewhere. And because we know you pay out, we'll carrying on picking away at you until we find something."

A Register reader turns the computer room into a socialist paradise

I like this one

Having a keen interest in virus' back in the 90s in college, they always fascinated me.

The first virus I managed to get on floppy was the Form virus. Used to mess around in a hex editor looking for the messages that it never displayed. Can't remember what they said now. Always infected the boot sector.

Found it

"The FORM-Virus sends greetings to everyone who's reading this text. FORM doesn't destroy data! Don't panic! Fuckings go to Corinne."

Could an AI android live forever? What, like your other IT devices?

If they were made by Apple

They'd break just outside of the warranty. The Genius Bar would say it would work out cheaper buying a new one that fix the old one. And you wouldn't be allowed to fix it yourself or take it to an independent repair shop.

This is why we won't have AI robots in my life time.

NHS Wales flings £39m at Microsoft for Office 365 and Windows 10

Re: They should of gone

It's a London fing, innit.

They should of gone

Infrastructure Free.

:) I jest. But better move than shit GSuite. Tell Microsoft you're thinking of moving to them and they throw in the migration for free. Shame the place I worked at ignored that, and ignored that 365 was cheaper than GSuite. Now they are stuck with GShite and still require some Office licenses for certain departments. What a fuck up that has been.

You're not Boeing to believe this, but... Another deadly 737 Max control bug found

Clearly, it fucking isn't

"The safety of our airplanes is Boeing’s highest priority,"

Jesus.

McAfee sues ship-jumping sales staff over trade secret theft allegations

Bit ironic?

That it suggests they hadn't/haven't locked down their own network and systems. So they didn't have Google Drive and other cloud storage sources blocked by default? And they didn't have e-mail interrogation software to check what was being sent (which should of then blocked that .xlsx document going out).

Oh dear.

Cases like this also confuse me. "We're hiring you as sales. When/if you leave you can't take any knowledge of sales techniques you've learnt over the years while with us. So essentially you can't make any carrier progress as all you've learnt is void if you go elsewhere. So essentially if/when you leave, you just have to get a job in a totally different field." How is that lawful.

Lets hope the case exposes how shit McAfee actually is.

BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

So...

...would it be possible (as my network is mega basic) for a 'bad actor' to break into a local, small ISP to cause this. Then take the data dump from the small ISP? To make it all look like an internal fuck up instead of a state sponsored attack?

Just curious. I have no doubt this is an internal, American cockup, but would it also be possible to do the above? Be a sort of, slight of hand/misdirection type of hack?

Biz tells ransomware victims it can decrypt their files... by secretly paying off the crooks and banking a fat margin

Bit of an odd one

Because recently you had an article about security consultants suggesting companies do just what the article mentions, paying the ransom. Mainly by Paying an IT consultant to get the key off whoever and restore data.

So this doesn't seem all that nuts:

"We do not recommend dealing with the 'hacker' directly (see advice on our home page). In many cases, paying the ransom may be the only option to get your data recovered and it is best to get an experienced consultant to assist with this process."

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

The browser market

Listening and watching the Bill Gates deposition lately its funny that it has been 20 years and they have yet to make a decent browser that anyone wants to use.

Bloody vultures! Cheeky Spanish paraglider firm pinched El Reg's mascot

Re: Good artists borrow...

When will we be able to edit our posts so I can stop looking like an idiot*.

*Actually it won't stop me looking like an idiot but just a little less embarrased by the inability to proof read.

Re: Good artists borrow...

Google Richard Prince. One of the many reasons "Art" annoys me. I liked it at school but what others saw as shit, lots more would see as AMAZING and said shit would sell for millions but some great art would be ignored. Richard Prince has somewhat proved my point. Making millions by copying others work and making slight alterations. Look at his work on Instagram feeds. So he makes millions from it, the original owners for some of the pieces get no recognition.

We ran a 'not very scientific' experiment back in school in the late 80s, early 90s. We got a piece of our art and a piece of the "Favourite" art teaching in the art department art. Another art teacher who was incapable of controlling any of her classes (even confirmed by the head of art as I think she didn't know what to do with her, cause she couldn't very well sack her), thought the "Favourite" was great. So we took his work and told her it was arse. She said it wasn't very good. We took our art and said it was his, she said it was great.

She proved my point that day. I've been annoyed with the perception of art ever since. I see the amazing pencil drawings done by people on YouTube, that look photo realistic but they get no recognition. Yet art by the like of Jackson Pollock is deemed AMAZING! and worth millions. One of his "drip" paintings sold in 2006 for £140million. What the actual FUCK!

Out of Steam? Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit-only x86 decision is causing migraines

Hmmm...

...getting ready with my sheild for the downvotes. I've always liked Windows but I like the idea of Linux. I like its free and gives people the option if they can't afford a Windows license or decide they just don't want to use Windows. Or if you're a system builder, you can at least give away an OS with no extra cost in the form of Linux. At least there are options. But Linux doesn't make it easy. You see posts from people over the net saying "Why use Windows, move to Linux" or "Linux is my main system, I only go into Windows if I'm desperate for something that doesn't work on Linux" or "Everyone should start moving to Linux what with Windows 10 intrusiveness". But the problem is, not everyone is a tech. People just want stuff to work, and unfortunately Windows 10, for the most part, does just 'work'. But Linux can be an arse to get working for a non technical person and now this. Hmmm.

Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one

I've also learnt...

....to do what Scotty from Star Trek said to do. Say it will take longer than it actually will, makes you look better when you do it in less time. That would of also helped out with the "edit".

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

Re: Child-proof reset operation

Rob Brydon said on a recent interview that he found a ladder and put it at a 45 degree angle against a wall, to use as a taboggan. He'd made the mistake of putting the hooks at the bottom. He slide down it and ripped open his new trousers. He then noticed he'd also ripped open his leg.

Very, very, very....

...funny (should that be 5 very's). So funny because it's annoyed you so much you wrote "fucking" in the article, so we can all picture how annoyed you must of been typing it up, which is good because this is FUCKING madness. This is why I hate IoT stuff.

But I'd like you to make a correction. There is a way you can tell what firmware you're on...."Which is designed for C by GE bulbs with this package". What! The fucking packaging that you'll have fucking thrown away as there is no fucking reason to fucking keep it anymore. Or the house you've moved into has the bulbs already fucking installed.

Jesus fucking Christ!

Now you can have a twist of 2019 in your 2012: Microsoft goes back to the future with Edge on Windows 7/8

Its funny...

...because I've been watching the United States v. Microsoft Corp. vids recently of Bill Gates deposition. And then reading all the old articles as the case was happening, on the Reg.

And in all these years, Microsoft have still never made a successful Internet Browser.

We knew it was coming: Bureaucratic cockup triggers '6-month' delay of age verification block on porno in the UK

What a prized.....

...cock

"Age verification for online pornography needs to happen and I believe it is the clear will of the House and those we represent that it should, and in the clear interests of our children that it must."

Not up to you to save "The children" parents can do that themselves. Besides, this will save no one. Magazines still exist. VPN still exists. The same very penis will probably say "Next, we will be looking to ban VPNs".

Tools. What a waste of pissing money. This is what annoys me most. Someone has clearly lobbied this and they've obviously ignored all technical sense on why this is pointless and waste of money. Yet because some clueless cunts have said "Think of the children. If you don't push this through, me and all my friends will campaign to vote you out". And that's all the PMs care about. They don't care that it's a waste of time and money, they just want to keep their PM job.

Cock.

Blighty's online pr0n gatekeepers are begging for a regulatory beating, says digital rights org

Will we see an update today from the reg?

This has been delayed indefinitely due to legal reasons from the EU :)

And watch out with NordVPN. From testing, it looks like the double VPN option leaks the first connection it goes through. Normal VPN is fine and doesn't leak DNS. But if you use double VPN option, it appears to leak the first connection it makes but not the 2nd connection.

The latest FCC plan to boost US broadband? Prevent competition in apartment blocks

The sooner..

...Pai goes the better. Someone needs to find a genuine scandal on the knob. Although with Trump in charge of everything another knob will no doubt be appointed.

Parliament IT bods' fail sees server's naked OS exposed to world+dog

Re: it's probably

We can't all afford to be outside of IR35 and work for ourselves. Some of us hate travelling and want steady work, doesn't mean we're shit. I've seen plenty of "outside of IR35" contractors who are also shit. You get shit on both sides.

All appears gone. I get nothing :(

Brit hosting provider tsoHost takes needleful of 'unauthorized code' to the servers, suffers week of outages

All the small players end up being bought out.

Is the sad truth. These sounds like they are Happy Shopper hosting. I suspect being bought up by GoDaddy and the others slowly killed them off. With staff being forced into working how the new owners want. It annoys me as some small hosts are really good with good customer service. That is what you're buying, so why then force them to work how the parent company does, the parent company that lots of people hate.

I used to be with ariotek hosting but, alas they had a massive outage with two of their servers. Bare metal backups didn't work so eventually, with a heavy heart, Colin had to sell the business to Krystal who offered to help. I believe he went to work with them at the end of it. Everyone was shocked but Krystal have turned out to be really good. I had an issue with my site not working the other day and couldn't work out if it was their firewall or not. Raised a low priority ticket asking if it was the firewall. It wasn't. It was a plugin for Wordpress that had failed. They disabled them all so the site worked again and I was able to get in and find the one causing it. Something they didn't have to do, so they are all good. But I fear, they'll get bought out at some point. The owner is young and I wouldn't blame him for selling. If someone offered me several million for a business I'd started, I'd take it so I'd never have to worry about money again. Bit like Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. Got bought out by Microsoft. I think part of the contract was they both had to carry on working for 3 years I think it was, then were free to continue or leave. Bryce decided to retire and enjoy his new wealth. Mark carried on and now runs Azure.

I had more of a point but started to ramble and forgot what the point was. Still posting this anyway :)