Re: Yet IPv6 networks were built to rely on and assume both BGP and DNS work perfectly.
From what we know, all of Apples’ traffic is end-to-end encrypted. Everything.
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Apple network traffic takes mysterious detour through Russia
Motorola-powered Mac from 1989 used to write smartphone apps
Friday 29th July 2022 00:19 GMT
A/UX was excellent — it should have been developed and brought out into the light, for sure.
I’m going to have to contradict you on Classic MacOS, though, alas: it was *not* a mess — far from it. At the time it was arguably the best, most stable and friendliest of the mainstream OS’s available (for hundreds of reasons), used by creatives worldwide.
Clonezilla 3: Copy and clone disk images to your heart's content
MPs charged with analysing Online Safety Bill say end-to-end encryption should be called out as 'specific risk factor'
Friday 31st December 2021 00:00 GMT
Re: end-to-end encryption
MI5, GCHQ and plenty of other government departments and teams cannot bear the thought of true public freedom of speech or, worse, genuine freedom of information protected by end-to-end encryption (which technology daily preserves their own crooked secrets and behaviours).
God forbid the day comes when government communications are exposed to the public in the same way they’re once again demanding the public surrender their every shred of privacy to them.
The Independent Human Rights Act Review is not a “quid pro quo” document, is is not an exchange in any way — it’s a one-way theft: “You give us yours and we keep ours”. Not a trade but a mugging.
The hypocrisy is right there in plain sight. Raab and the other numbskulls barely have the IQ to pretend to hide it. Besides, they know the British press and media won’t tell the public they’re being robbed of their rights, most of them won’t understand anyway.
The motivators in and out of Westminster, the connivers lurking behind this so-called “Review” of the Human Rights Act are the very people who are confounded by it every day in their ‘work’ and by the courts — chief amongst them, habitual lawbreaker and Home Secretary, Priti Patel — without doubt the most crooked evil and mendacious of todays government Ministers.
This is no “final review” of the Human Rights Act — nor are these mere “tweaks”. This is another political subterfuge — where, once politicians have got away with a little twiddling at the edge of the previously unassailable Human Rights Act without too much fuss being made, the next move is to get inside and, one swing of the blade at a time, gut every single part of it which they don’t like or lands them in court and losing most days of the week.
Before anyone knows, the Human Rights Act will be a dead, empty cadaver skin — where once existed public serving, protective restraints on government.
It would appear the motto of the entire Johnson government can been distilled to one underlying, telltale, putrid axiom:
“One rule for me — and another for thee”.
Thursday 30th December 2021 23:34 GMT
Re: It's OK, freedom of speech is a quintessentially British right
Written by Moscow-B (msobkow), who has no interest in freedom of speech — nor whether Assange released documents owned by the public is in their best interest or not.
Moscow-B’s paid job is to search for keywords and sew division and misinformation. That’s it. Hatred and division in the West.
Pathetic, isn’t it? But that’s it, right here.
FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what
Saturday 13th November 2021 01:27 GMT
Multiple web browsers on iOS
That’s completely incorrect that “There’s only one browser on iOS”. To say that is absurd. I’ve been using Firefox on iOS for years and years now and there are plenty of others available in the AppStore.
They work perfectly.
AND you can choose which of them you’d prefer as the default browser too.
Very few people ever need an alternative to the AppStore — if you do, you can always Jailbreak your iOS device.
I suspect you’re not at all familiar with Apples’ mobile devices.
GitHub merges 'useless garbage' says Linus Torvalds as new NTFS support added to Linux kernel 5.15
IKEA China and ASUS team on gaming products, resist urge to call them FRÄG
Monday 1st February 2021 13:17 GMT
FRÄG • Fräg
In combat games, when you kill your enemies or they explode, you “frag” them: “Frag that ugly bastard!”.
Past tense: They got “fragged”, “We fragged the last of them”, etc.
It’s an aberration of military fragmentation grenades (the effects of which are terminal): “He was fucking fragged (fragmented) — bad style!” (aka: eviscerated — preferably with plenty of flying blood).
Because IKEA is Swedish, the humour is in the sly, subtle Scandinavian-style spelling of fräg (FRÄG).
The old axiom which says: jokes, when spelt out, just aren’t funny — remains true.
UK government puts £750m on the table as it looks to deal directly with cloud providers
Monday 7th December 2020 13:05 GMT 
Not Fit For Purpose
The UK government has a very long, ignominious (even spectacular) history of specifying and procuring shockingly poor departmental/interdepartmental/government-wide I.T. systems which went massively over-budget, came in years late and, ultimately, completely failed to do the job they were originally intended for.
For example(s), few government departments can view linked records with other parts of the *same* department; few government departments or agencies can see what other departments/agencies’ systems hold (or interact with them); the NHS system is barely able to pull up patients’ medical records to check what medications they’re prescribed or whether they’ve been progressed (let alone delivered)(despite digital prescriptions being “introduced” 2+ years ago). Much of the time, hospitals are not linked into dentists, opticians, GP surgeries, et al., and vice versa.
We’ve seen hundreds of ex-government Ministers, formerly responsible for overseeing the procurement and implementation of these failed systems, appear with sickening regularity appear upon retirement (or being voted out), on the Boards of these same failed contracting companies as “Consultants” — at £350,000+ for four days work per annum. Brown envelopes are a thing of the past. Nowadays, British politicians are bribed with future Board positions to approve the company bid today.
This year particularly, UK taxpayers have been witness to numerous hopelessly flawed major contracts going, not to the best bidder of a protracted tendering process, but to direct chums of the Ministers responsible for awarding contracts: some companies even receiving “Most favoured business status”, of the Prime Minister — who himself “bunged” a contract or two, without any tendering process whatsoever, to Serco (an outfit with such a long/disgraceful record of public sector failures and overcharging, that much of their time is spent being prosecuted in courts).
“All perfectly legal”, Ministers claim: “Because we changed the law nine months ago, er, er... because of Covid”.
Against this dire historical background and blatant corruption, politics aside, we can all be absolutely certain that no system specified and endorsed by the British government in Whitehall, will ever do what it’s been purchased for — or required to do.
Essentially, it all boils down to money — and Westminsters’ MP’s, Cabinet Members, Ministers and the PM have proven themselves expert in shamelessly fleecing every penny they can possibly gouge for themselves and their rich chums from the woefully undefended public purse.
This cloud project will be exactly the same, mark my words.
We all love bonking to pay, but if you bonk with a Windows Phone then Microsoft has bad news
Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites
iPhone XR, for when £1,000 is just too much for a smartmobe
Oracle tells court: Boss man Mark Hurd didn't have docs relevant to HPE spat over Solaris
Monday 9th July 2018 07:54 GMT 
HP/Terix vs. Oracle
Oracle stabbed Solaris through the heart — killed the OS dead.
They never cared for Sun Microsystems. They never cared for Solaris.
Why give a hoot about the remaining providers left behind, giving legacy support for their dead product? It's like pretending to care after dumping the murder weapon in the lake.
Oracle are corporate locusts: their greed and recklessness leaves behind a stripped landscape where once there was plenty — with all the misery and suffering that entails — their overpriced products demonstrate Oracles’ will to strip every cent out of everything and this case is just another example of their absolute, rabid gluttony.
Fleeing Facebook app users realise what they agreed to in apps years ago – total slurpage
Monday 26th March 2018 15:25 GMT
Completely encrypted
Q: “How come just about the only way to transfer your contacts from an old iPhone to a new one is via the cloud?”
A: Apples’ cloud is, basically, a back-up of your iPhone and the best way to customise your new iPhone to how you like it. It's completely encrypted too. Even Apple don't have a ‘key’ to read your private stuff.
The Register's guide to protecting your data when visiting the US
Friday 28th April 2017 22:08 GMT
Re: Don't accept it, act on it
Hopefully that's not cramping your salary/promotion prospects?
I'm not sure that the Federal Government are overly concerned with your microscopic weed crime thirty years ago and £10 costs (!).
If correct, and given you're US border hassle averse, I hope your employer never finds out that the EDSA application is only £14 and almost nobody mentions trivial arrests/convictions on it anyway.
Otherwise, they might seek a US-based time backpay in lieu of all the trips you dodged out of using that lame old excuse.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
