Posts by steviebuk

World's largest CCTV maker leaves at least 9 million cameras open to public viewing

Re: It's not CCTV

I think this is like arguing Tannoy is a speaker system in supermarkets etc, when it's in fact a brand name, like Hoover. Unfortunately over the years CCTV has just become this. Any camera that can watch your property, whether it's closed circuit or not is classed or seen as CCTV.

Most people want to remote view CCTV in these times so most CCTV ends up, in some way connected to the Internet.

Whats worse is when you have a so called "CCTV company" come in and install kit. Never bothered to put on SSL on any of the websites for the CCTV cameras, give them internet findable IP addresses, give the logins piss poor easy to guess or brute force passwords for the PVR boxes and set them up near lights so the light ends up blowing the picture out at night. That's whats also worrying, is the racket/cowboy/girl CCTV installers.

The problem is...

...lots of Chinese stuff is cheap. So Clever Dog cameras where mentioned to me recently and I reluctantly got some to watch the cats due to the price & ability to save locally to SD card (yes I know I loose the footage if someone comes in an nicks them). The software is shockingly shit, the motion detection is useless and the cameras are unreliable for connecting to them. I fear what they are doing while on my internal network. I might sit with wireshark one evening and see if I can see if they are doing anything they shouldn't be.

Read the T&C of the company who runs Clever Dog and they essentially say "Our stuff should be secure. If it's not and someone breaks into your cameras or our servers, then it's not our fault. And we aren't liable"

Trouble is the big name cameras are expensive, mostly require cloud subscriptions (which is not what I want) and don't really do what I want. It's annoying as some years back in the XP days I had a Logitech web cam that you could remotely move. Then had some free CCTV software (up to about 3 cameras then you had to pay) that had the ability to detect motion, you could sit and watch what it was seeing as motion as colours on the screen. It was really accurate but alas, the camera is no longer supported and it's so long ago I can't remember what that quality software was.

Microsoft deletes deleterious file deletion bug from Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Re: An untested fix to an untested feature

And when SatNav joined and wiped out half the employee base.

Microsoft yanks the document-destroying Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Re: If this was an Apple product

I disagree. I still have Windows 7 on my ThinkPad but there are some nice little features of Windows 10 that make it enjoyable to use. Shame those features aren't in Windows 7. Still sticking with that on my Thinkpad for now.

One madness with Windows 10 I don't understand is alot of the privacy and the Bluetooth default. Discovered it at work today or what issue it can cause. Sets itself to allow any Bluetooth device to connect even if not specifically paired. What issue did that cause today? The Bluetooth moused used by the person in front of the user I had a call out for was fucking interfering with their laptop causing the call of "my mouse is moving on its own".

What are Microsoft doing?

And on slightly unrelated moan with Office 365 and the shitty exchange spam filter. Tell it to block all yahoo.jp addresses yet it still lets them through ):o(

On the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, we give you 7 times he served humanity and acted as an example to others

Re: Do his material contributions...?

And ended up being overpriced. The "away" trips found on YouTube are really interesting though. Especially when Joanna Hoffman calls out Steve on his "Relation Distortion" bullshit.

The funny thing with Steve Jobs is he appeared to just get lucky with most stuff. Most of the stuff he was involved with failed when you look into the history of it.

Still funny...

..even after the weekend :)

One thing I will say, I'm glad I didn't have to work for him as I'd truly have hated him, however, because I didn't and because I grew up in the very late 70s and 80s, these people have been part of my history. Seeing them on the news over the years etc, they became so recognisable. Jobs, Wozniak, Bill, Steve Ballmer etc. So although he was a true 2868 (look it up on a phone with letters to work out what that spells, starts with a c), I have a very weird "Its not the same without the old crew in place" feel.

Its hard to explain what I mean as I really disliked the man but maybe it's a nostalgia thing. I didn't know I wanted to do computing till I got into college. Now I do it as a job its my hobby too and I love looking at the past history. The early computing and he was a part of it, despite being an arsehole, I see Apple when I see him. I hated Apple back then, I still hate it now, but it doesn't feel the same Apple without his bullshit. Like Microsoft isn't the same without Bill Gates there.

One thing I thought he did right, assuming I read it correctly in his book, was when he came back to Apple. Getting rid of all the differently numbered systems. Like Apple Mac 1.23b, Apple Mac 1.30 (making up the names as can't remember them) and just sticking with 3-4 main areas.

Rambled on now. Probably not made any sense. Almost deleted this post like I did the other day. Sometimes I do ramble shit.

Very...

...funny and accurate. Although I disliked the tit I read his book. His wife said she wanted it to be accurate, walts and all so it does mention alot of his arsehole moves.

You wanna be an alpha... tester of The Register's redesign? Step this way

So...

...is it live now then? Was going to request we get an edit button for the comments. I'm always hitting submit too quickly and then realising after how much a tit I sound because I didn't spell check. Sometimes I also comment from my mobile and it's an arse to type on that.

Convenient switch hides an inconvenient truth

Surely this shows...

...why you should get the electrician in to check the circuit and not do it yourself as a bodge fix.

The only way is up, baby: IBM UK sales down, profit down, headcount down

Do a contract for TSB...

...allow everyone to see their systems still go down. Everyone then thinks "IBM must be shit then? Not the same as they were in the 80s". Word spreads and no one buys your service.

To many fucking times. There are a lot of cocks in management.

Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio

Edge is also...

...the best way to get infected. Not the most secure as they keep claiming. I uploaded a YouTube vid of a link I knew was bad of a fake Office 365 login page. Chrome and Firefox actively blocked on Windows 10. Both IE and Edge allowed access to the site and allowed you to fill in your credentials.

Shocking.

Will they ever go back to the new way of releasing Windows 10 updates? It clearly isn't working and is creating more issues than fixing it seems. And will we ever get back the option to ignore updates or will we continue to be forced to update. Microsoft aren't what they used to be.

Screwed SAP salesman scores $660,000 jury award

So a company that..

....made roughly 3 billion Euros (can't find a symbol on the keyboard) last year still won't cough up.

Arseholes.

Brit outfit IT Lab snaps up Office 365 and SharePoint pro Content and Code

Can't....

...really blame a person who starts up a company agreeing to sell it for a few million if it means you never have to work again. We all love Martin Lewis and even he did it. But he's one of the rare ones who's nice and seemed to sort out his staff after the sale with some nice bonus'.

But when it happens to the company you're in, you do then fear if you're for the chop especially if there are duplicate roles. At that point you hate it when this happens. But again, you can't really blame a founder for selling out so they never have to worry about money again, as I think we'd all do it.

Rookie almost wipes customer's entire inventory – unbeknownst to sysadmin

My story, again...

....being the security minded person that I am but also no expert I was working at a place with Follow Me printing. On Ricoh devices. Looking through the server one day spotted the option "Purge print jobs on logout" Ooo, that would be a good idea to switch on. Purge them from the MFD, good security and all.

So I set it and forgot about it. Then calls started to appear in our main 2nd line queue. "My print job has only half come out then disappeared". "I sent my print job a few times but it only partly prints". Oh shit. I realised what had happened, grabbed all the calls and quickly closed them, then fixed the issue (turned the option to purge back off).

I hadn't put in a change request, although don't think they were enforced at the time. It turned out people would go to the MFD, swipe their card, start printing then swipe to logout before the print job had finished. Or their job was so long that the MFD would timeout their session and automatically log them off. And of course, their print jobs would then be purged.

Oops.

No one noticed the calls come in so I kept quiet & quickly closed them. Made up some excuse for the users :) although all those extra closed calls helped my stats for the week.

New Zealand border cops warn travelers that without handing over electronic passwords 'You shall not pass!'

Is that Amber Rudd?

"A Customs spokesperson told Radio New Zealand “We're not going into 'the cloud'. We'll examine your phone while it's on flight mode”."

What are you talking about? My Samsung uploads the photos on my phone to the "cloud" but they also stay on the phone. So unless someone configures it to only use cloud storage, you'd still have access to all my cat photos, even in flight mode you fucking idiot. Understand the tech you're investigating.

Haven't updated your Adobe PDF software lately? Here's 85 new reasons to do it now

This is annoying and interesting

Annoying as I've just learnt a bit more about Group Policy so played with trying to deploy Adobe DC (that was a mistake. Although ended up finding a good guide). Got it working so annoying that now need to apply a patch. But interesting as can now see what an update does to the deployment.

Too true. So many of these companies get rid of the good & well paid people so they can replace them with cheap interns.

UK ruling party's conference app editable by world+dog, blabs members' digits

Doubt it. You can argue that you thought it was a "feature" or "it appeared to be a massive security hole but I wasn't sure so I tried to edit their profile & sure enough I was able to. Yes I took an image of the change as evidence it was an issue. I then reported it and stopped using it. Why did I make a change, take an image and post it on Twitter? Because too many companies deny these bugs exist so I needed proof. Just look at the TV licencing issue recently? That secuirty hole was pointed out to them with evidence yet they publically denied it was an issue.

A web where the user has complete control of their data? Sounds Solid, Tim Berners-Lee

Just...

...bring back GeoCities. That's where my own content once was. With all the bad "Under Construction" and animated gifs. Tried to code it in HotDog but my 386sx back then was so shit it couldn't even cope with HotDog.

Ah the 90s and having no money. (The 90s was good, having no money wasn't).

Facebook: Up to 90 million addicts' accounts slurped by hackers, no thanks to crappy code

I don't...

....dislike Facebook itself. It's a system, it's useful for some people (family members keeping in touch with people across the world) and from a programming point of view having done a little years ago and being shit, it amazes me how complex these systems get, but I choose not to use it in the normal sense of use it.

I used to use Friends Reunited before Facebook become so big. I hated how people from school on there were the same knobs they were in school. I also hated how narcissistic it seemed to make people. Have avoided it ever since. I now only use it when a site insists the only way you can login with them or post comments is via a Facebook account so then a dummy one gets created & used.

I understand they should be keeping everyone's data private etc. but the service is free, people choose to use it. I bet loads of the users that currently use it would stop if it suddenly introduced a subscription model. But I guess all users do have a right to moan when Facebook is only worth what it's worth because of all it's users, free or not.

I'm surprised Zuckerberg is still even there. With all that money I'd just get out while you still can before it all comes crashing down like MySpace. And I just couldn't be arsed with the aggro. But then that's probably also why I'd never succeed in business.

AI-powered IT security seems cool – until you clock miscreants wielding it too

Re: William Gibson

All they care about is saving money. If using AI means they can do away with real people and wages then they'll do it. It's why sales teams have gotten away for years selling shit to the gullible in business'. Because the person paying normally falls for their sales pitch and sees it as a "saving". Ignoring the fact pretty much all of them put their prices up after a year or charge stupid amounts of service or change request charges.

Former Apple engineer fights iPhone giant for patent credit and denied cash, says Steve Jobs loved his 'killer ideas'

Re: He shouldn't also forget that Steve said....

I'm going on what I've read and from the film Pirates of Silicon valley which Steve Wozniak said was quite accurate.

I knew about the earlier invention of the mouse.

The Lisa was actually a commercial failure. Looking at the early system that Jobs got hold of, most appeared to be failures. The Apple 2 could of gone that way if Steve Wozniak hadn't convinced Steve Jobs to allow expansion. Reading Steve Wozniak's book he claims Steve Jobs didn't want to allow the computer to be upgradable, but when Wozniak convinced him otherwise, it was what helped keep Apple a float for years because the Apple 2 was where most of their money was coming from.

He shouldn't also forget that Steve said....

...."Good artists copy, great artists steal". A quote I know he didn't invent but the point is, maybe that's what Apple will point him to. "Yeah we are great artists so stole your patent". Funny that quote considering Jobs went mental at Bill Gates for Windows claiming he'd copied Apple's idea to which Bill pointed out they'd both been to see the Xerox OS. And Jobs going mental over Android.

Unfortunately for this guy and the way the American legal system works, I suspect Apple will just continue to drag out the lawsuit until he can't afford to fight it anymore.

Perfect timing for a two-bank TITSUP: Totally Inexcusable They've Stuffed Up Payday

Welcome to...

....the cloud. It's a bit overcast today so you may not be able to login.

I'll get my coat.

Android Phones are 10: For once, Google won fair and square

And...

...I'd probably say the locked down nature of the iPhone. The fact Steve Jobs took it to court to make Jailbreaking illegal but thankfully lost. At least it's easier to flash an Android with a custom ROM than an iDevice.

A story of M, a failed retailer: We'll give you a clue – it rhymes with Charlie Chaplin

Anyone got...

...another way of explaining it a bit more easier for us that aren't accountants? I'm interested in accounts, despite being shit at maths but didn't understand some of this. All I knew was they'd priced themselves out of the market long ago due to everything being way overpriced. But seeing what other purchased did to them was interesting. I know some investors buy up companies that they see as cheap purchases cause they know they can make more money breaking a company up.

Salesforce dogged by protests, leaked emails, and guerrilla blimps on first day of Dreamforce

I always thought...

...William would do anything for money anyway. I could be wrong.

iFixit engineers have an L of a time pulling apart Apple's iPhone XS

Re: Slavish followers

How'd you work that out? Considering I have had a full screen display with no button on my Samsung 8 for a while so did Apple copy Samsung in that regard?

Re: Patented battery design

Would not surprise me if Apple sues and claims they thought of it first despite evidence showing they haven't.

How an over-zealous yank took down the trading floor of a US bank

Re: Unplugging the keyboard = kernel panic ?

If it was a classic cherry keyboard then they probably didn't want the keyboard nicked :) and thought "Lets make the system go down if the keyboard is removed. That will then make everyone notice and we won't have a stolen keyboard on our hands".

I'll get my coat.

National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe

It's on YouTube

But please tell me they recorded the code breaking part. The live feed is going and not giving an option to rewind :(

They are credited in the article.

TV Licensing admits: We directed 25,000 people to send their bank details in the clear

Re: Imprisonment would be fair, I think

That's because they just get given a database of all properties with no licence and then seen the knobs round to harass.

I don't have a problem with the licence, after all I pay for Netflix but I don't like the way the BBC lie either. When signing up for a licence this year for the first time, before purchase it claimed I required one even if I just had a DVD player hooked up to a monitor. Once purchased the next page said I actually didn't require one if I had a monitor hooked up to a DVD player.

Apple hands €14.3bn in back taxes to reluctant Ireland

Stick it..

...into the NHS. It could do with a bit of change.

Microsoft reveals train of mistakes that killed Azure in the South Central US 'incident'

Re: RE: asynchronous nature of geo-replication could have led to data loss

That's cause Mark Russinovich is in charge.

I'm not a fan of the cloud and yes Mark, it is because I fear for my job, but also because of issues like this.

But he's always been quite honest since moving to Microsoft after they bought Sysinternals. Especially when he does his Sysinternal talks and pokes fun at the Office team. But he's also done a talk before about another time when Azure went down big.

Euro bureaucrats tie up .eu in red tape to stop Brexit Brits snatching back their web domains

Not doing themselves any favours

Considering people dislike the EU due to the way they are behaving over brexit you'd think they'd be trying to make friends and not enemies. I voted remain but with this behaviour I can understand why people voted leave.

Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' database queries to work out what was nicked – audit

Re: Impressive consequences

They prob chose the dark side due to getting screwed by management all the time so had had enough. Not an excuse but I can see why they prob went down that path. When you have the likes of companies like Equifax that no doubt won't pay for the talent and would rather do everything on the cheap. You get what you pay for as the saying goes.

A basement of broken kit, zero budget – now get the team running

Would of told her...

...to fuck off and find some other mug to sort their shit out

GDPR v2 – Gradually Diminishing Psychotic Robots: Brussels kills Terminator apocalypse

Did they watch...

...Tom Selleck in Runaway?

World's oldest URL – fragments 73,000 years old – discovered in cave

Hmmmm...

...a sketch you say? Or could it of just been them rubbing a stone or flint on the wall to make it sharper?

First it was hashtags – now Amber Rudd gives us Brits knowledge on national ID cards

She's...

...a fucking idiot. Sorry to be so blunt... actually, no, I'm not sorry. She is a fucking idiot.

Nvidia promises to shift graphics grunt work to the cloud, for a price

"Sorry....

....we are down for maintenance". Is what you'll be seeing randomly and then over a Christmas when you happen to have a week off to play.

No thanks. I'd rather have local copies than cloud versions.

Also in the UK "unlimited" doesn't mean unlimited. How the fuck they still get away with that I don't know, but most of the time it's fare use. So what happens when everyone on the street is using the same pipe to stream movies AND games all at the same time during a holiday period. And if you reach your "fair use" everything gets cut off including your game streaming. Or you'll get a not obvious warning that "We're now charging you £1 per 1MB over your fair use". Before you know it, your £30 game has cost you £1000 in broadband overcharges.

Activists rattle tin to take UK's pr0n block to court

So the government have....

....so easily forgotten the Ashley Madison hack then?

This is doomed to fail. Just get the pop corn, sit back and enjoy the show (verify your age first)

:)

WHAT! First time using the icons and there's no pop corn one? What's going on!?!?

:)

UK.gov went ahead with under-planned, under-funded IT upgrade? Sounds about right

I predict...

...."Lessons have been learnt".....then a year later same shit will happen again showing clearly no fucking lesson has been learnt.

Revealed: British Airways was in talks with IBM on outsourcing security just before hack

Re: BT was going to outsource security says leaked memo.

A director or exec would use cyber. They love buzz words as they are mostly dicks and will never admit they don't know what they are fucking talking about.

It used to be...

...the worlds fav airline. It hasn't been for ages.

We all know going with IBM probably wouldn't of helped. Doesn't appear to have stopped TSB from going offline again all weekend.

I'm not saying this is the case but telling a load of your security staff "we need to spend more on security but we're gonna outsource you." Knowing full well the outsource company will then prob make them redundant. Doesn't do much for morale.

I wonder if there is the chance the security team then thought "we've been telling you for ages you need to spend more on security as we're under funded but you've never listened. Now you're outsourcing us and no doubt we'll be made redundant so fuck it. We'll just do as little as we can get away with but still be paid."

I wonder.

UK.gov's no-deal plans leave HMRC customs, VAT systems scrambling to keep up

Instead they've...

...been busy pointlessly chasing people over IR35.

Regarding the "Voice is my password". I still want to test that. I did the recording and recorded myself at the same time. I want to ring them back and play back the recording to see if it works but I can't work out at what point it asks you to speak because you never get the option. You just get told about it.

If they play back of the recording works have they never actually watched the fucking film before they stole the idea?

Canny Brits are nuking the phone bundle

Odd....

...that this is a new thing as I've been doing it for years. I think only once in the late 90s did I get a bundle because I couldn't afford the phone unlocked, outright at that time.