Posts by Tomato Krill

Sur-Pies! Google shocks world with sudden Android 9 Pixel push

Re: Set the brightness to how you like it, depending on your setting

Android Messages, no?

Cracking the passwords of some WPA2 Wi-Fi networks just got easier

Re: works against WPA and WPA2-

Pfft.

Any fule kno that's extra work to setuo, I have mine Open but use MAC address allow list because that's like super duper secure and that...

Google Pay heads for the desktop... and, we fear, an inevitable flop

Re: It is a lot more complicated, and isn't about * Pay type services

Spot on.

What I like most is the current halfway house which I see a lot over there - Chip and.. have a nice day!

No PIN, no signature..

TSB's middleware nightmare: Execs grilled on Total Sh*tshow at Bank

Re: What went wrong?

Could be the first example of someone getting fired for buying IBM?

Re: It's TSB. This time around...

Effect

Oh dear... Netizens think 'private' browsing really means totally private

Except because of 3 you will still find 3rd party buttplug ads in every site for months on your browser and everyone else on your LAN

Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse

Re: Unstable operation coming soon...

No, as long as they're *plausible* they will be accepted and validated by the automatic processes that verify data.

They need to be valid data; they need not be *your* valid data.

Mozilla's opt-out Firefox DNS privacy test sparks, er, privacy outcry

I can only speak for myself, but no.

That was fast... unlike old iPhones: Apple sued for slowing down mobes

Re: Or, shocking thought...

"and that means that Corners Will Be Cut."

Well Samsung know better than to copy that again at least..

Ubuntu 17.10 pulled: Linux OS knackers laptop BIOSes, Intel kernel driver fingered

Re: Accidental Aardvark

Except, obviously, that as the article mention this issue can disable USB which somewhat precludes booting off it to run a flashing tool, whatever the OS it would use

Firefox 57's been quietly delaying tracking scripts

Re: Oh, that's why

"You must have visited the Dail Mail, that site must have be written by a complete moron"

Well, yes

Checkmate: DeepMind's AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing, er, board

Re: DeepMind is clueless about how to achieve AGI

Well they bought Boston Dynamics first so don't get a bunch of credit for that...

Some 'security people are f*cking morons' says Linus Torvalds

Re: Google's Pixel security team

Aaaand breathe

OnePlus 5 x T + five short months = Some p*ssed off fanboys

Re: I'd hesitate to renew

Same issue here on my 3 - constantly having to manually select network when in the US to get data at all

Pawnbroker pwnd: Cash Converters says hacker slurped customer data

Re: Limited value?

Yes, we know, it's all public knowledge now :-)

BlackBerry Motion: The Phone That Won't Die

Re: That's a good way to kill a Lithium rechargeable battery

So to clarify, you must only ever artificially restrict yourself to using less than 50% of the capacity of a battery, to stop the battery capacity reducing?

Ubuntu 17.10: We're coming GNOME! Plenty that's Artful in Aardvark, with a few Wayland wails

Re: Gun, meet foot.

Mebbe you wanna think about spending less time surfing dodgy pron sites?

NBD: Adobe just dumped its private PGP key on the internet

Re: Wrong

No special characters in that, you must mean Password1?

Make sure your Skype is up to date because FYI there's a nasty hole in it

Re: Skype Drive bys...

You keep that stable door nailed shut!

Virgin Media resolves flaw in config backup for Super Hub routers

I (obviously) thought this but one barrel-scraping thought:

If you keep your (encrypted) backup on a share which doesn't require admin privileges, it'd be possible to replace it and either wait for a restore to be necessary or (needing physical access here) reset the router, prompting the owner to restore with you poisoned config backup?

Police anti-ransomware warning is hotlinked to 'ransomware.pdf'

I didn't see any mention of the OS they were using?

Or is this an extension of the Mac's Dont get Trojans thing?

Don't click that Google Docs link! Gmail hijack mail spreads like wildfire

Re: Never got one. Could I see headers, pleas?

I think you are missing the obvious - there are presumably (by Google's figures) approximately a million examples at [e-mail], Shirley?

Today's bonkers bug report: Microsoft Edge can't print numbers

Re: And all the students that get stuck with Windows S!

Well, tetanus would be worse, for one, or your car being stolen - there seventeen examples right there