Posts by steviebuk

Click here to see the New Zealand livestream mass-murder vid! This is the internet Facebook, YouTube, Twitter built!

Re: "regulation on the Internet isn't going to stop nutters like this"

But it won't. If a nutter isn't able to watch said footage it doesn't stop them being a nutter.

Obviously nowhere near as bad, not even in the same league but they banned cigarette adverts on TV in the 60s (didn't stop cigar adverts) and now wide spread tabbaco advertising is in place but it hasn't stopped people smoking.

I'm not saying the live streaming of mass murder should exist, I'm saying banning it from a medium won't stop a nutter being a nutter.

I feel the fact is Facebook is big enough now and has enough cash it can easily tackle this problem. As IT people we understand more than MPs how the Internet works. We are realistic. We know if you ban it from Facebook it will just pop up in other areas. But the point is we also know of realistic ways Facebook could combat this. But MPs chiming in saying they should remove footage 10mins (I can't remember the exact figure) from being reported is stupidly unrealistic. Letting MPs decide on an area of tech they don't understand and won't listen to expects makes issues worse. We have the 18 age ID coming in for porn. A classic example of MPs getting involved and not understanding how the Internet works and how that will fail due to VPNs. And this is the same government that was suggesting encryption should be banned.

Re: Errr, censorship?

Its not an excuse for what the cock did but with the like of Facebook etc, its all about money. Having to actually pay decent wage to real people to watch said videos cuts into profit. Because share holders want more money they convince the powers that be to save money where you can. They see this monitoring area as a saving so do a half arsed job knowing they are so big now, they won't be shutdown and can get away with just saying sorry.

Never understood the point of live streaming anyway. And I'd rather they implement a 30 min or hour delay on the streams than allow government to start regulating the Internet.

"which has been re-shared by miscreants" which includes a few newspapers who aired a short clip of said footage. Knowing fall well people would click on their article with the video footage than an article without it. Then they gain from the ads on said page. The people clicking those article links are the same people that slow down when there is an accident. These newspapers are as bad as Facebook.

However regulation on the Internet isn't going to stop nutters like this. Its foolish to think it will.

Capita: B is for Brexit, C is for cutting costs. Stock exchange: Yay! You guys are awesome

And there it goes

Interserve gone into admin like Carillion but it won't stop the government giving contracts to Crapita.

Re: It needs to stop

You have a slightly correct point stuff being bought back in house maybe equally as shit however it can equally be good and cheaper. They quote low to get a contract then stiff you year on year with higher prices.

"The director just needs a laptop replaced at short notice" crapita IT "We can do that but as you want us to break SLA they'll be a charge for that". We as inside IT "That's fine. Although its against SLA we can get it done quick, obviously no extra charge" and so on.

I've seen an NHS trust moan about internal IT despite us being fucking good and they got value for money. They outsourced after I left to Crapita. That trust has regretted it ever since.

It needs to stop

All the outsourcing. With Interserve about to go into admin, thats another big government outsourcing company to go bust. When will the government learn. Crapita will be next.

All good, leave it with you...? Chap is roped into tech support role for clueless customer

Hmmm

I'd have turned round and said sorry no. I'm here to drop the drive off, you need to get your own IT to do the install. If they say they no longer have an IT as they were all let go then I'd leave even quicker.

We'll help you get your next fix... maybe, we'll think about it, says FTC: 'Right to repair' mulled

This needs to pass

Apple have been fucking people over for to long. Just look at the recent news footage in the US. Where they took a broken Mac to the Genius bar who claimed it would cost over $1000 to repair. Took it to Louis who has a store in New York and a YouTube channel, but isn't an authorised repair shop. He said the perm fix would be over $100. Clearly showing how much Apple are ripping off their customers.

Not only that. But these stores are order screens from the same factory as Apple. But Apple are telling customs to seize them on import. Arseholes.

This is much like how Steve Jobs tried to make Jailbreaking illegal. Luckily he lost in court. What a dick.

Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby

Re: Yawn?

WILD! WILD!. Dawn keyboard!!!!

I also have one of the M&S self service machine being out of action. And one of a display board at Eurostar being logged in as a user. I assume the digital marque program had crashed.

Re: Yawn?

And it is interesting. Not being sarcastic. I find it oddly fascinating seeing these machines in the while crashing or at the login :)

Being an IT Engineer might have something to do with it. I have a pic somewhere of the local cash machine that had crashed :) some years ago.

'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

Because that's how the Borg became. And we don't want an invasion of the Borg :)

Sure, we've got a problem but we don't really want to spend any money on the tech guy you're sending to fix it

Re: Travelling to client sites

Yes but a simple search shows jet lag is just your body clock being out. Sleeping helps, no medication does, no fancy "cure" does.

Not poking fun at anyone. Just has always annoyed me people coming up with all different fancy "cures". But then I am a grumpy fuck so lots of things annoy me.

I never knew what it was when growing up. Thought it was this mystical thing only the rich got (as we couldn't afford to fly anywhere). I know it's only a movie but kinda makes my point is the Thomas Crown Affair, the 1999 one. When Rene Russo's character makes out she is super cool and has this magical cure for "jet lag" by drinking some weird shit.

Then I had very mild case of it, and realise it was just tiredness due to the body clock being out. Went to sleep for hours and was fine for rest of trip. But yeah, I guess it's worse flying to the other side of world unless you can get some sleep on the plane.

Melatonin is also a potential pseudoscience. There are no decent clinical trials that show it helps for Jet Lag or sleep disorders. Much like Remedy Rescue, was recommended to me years ago for my anxiety. I tried it, it was bollocks. It has no effect unless you "believe" it has an effect. As I don't believe in bullshit, it had no effect on me. It has a tiny amount of alcohol in it, that is the only possible reason it could help with anxiety.

Anyway. I'm ready for the down votes, but I like this forum as we seem free to speak our minds without to much of a kicking.

Re: Travelling to client sites

Cure for jet lag.....go to sleep. Simple. Never understood the fuss. Experienced it once when went to America. Had a long sleep and thats it. Was fine for rest of trip.

Dear Britain's mast-fearing Nimbys: Do you want your phone to work or not?

Go to Inverness and you'll find the Three signal pretty shit.

You'll also find it ironic to know EEs signal at Royal Sussex in Brighton is super shit to non existent. Other providers have slightly better signal but despite EE being give the contract, their network doesn't even work 99% of the time at the hospital.

While this CEO may be stiff, his customers are rather stuffed: Quadriga wallets finally cracked open – nothing inside

It's possible, if he's faked his death and from reading the report it sounds quite plausible he has, he'll have emptied them before his death so as not to flag that they were emptied after his death.

Could this almost be the perfect heist. Stealing cryptocurrency that will be harder to trace than real money and which he can then attempt to "clean" through trades with other people wanting to "clean" theirs?

This will be interesting to watch.

Uber won't face criminal charges after its robo-car killed woman crossing street

Jesus!

""At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that emergency braking was needed to mitigate a collision," the NTSB says in its report summary. "According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior."

The safety driver is supposed to handle emergency braking, but the car's systems weren't set up to alert the driver of the need for intervention, according to the NTSB."

And they aren't being hit with a massive fine for that MASSIVE flaw!!!! How the fuck have they gotten away with that!?!?!

Did Uber say "Don't blame us, blame the safety human person. Even though if the system had alerted them to hit the breaks, 1.3 seconds before impact was never going to be enough for them to react, blame them anyway."

Were brown envelopes involved?

SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

It..

...amazes me how people find this vulnerabilities. This seems so convoluted.

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.