Posts by Potemkine!

Publishers signed up to Apple's premium News may be less than 'appy to discover the iGiant snatching readers

"Everything within Apple, nothing outside Apple, nothing against Apple"

Do you remember the time when Apple was advertising as being the anti-Big Brother?

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

Next step: anti-drones drones

A swarm of drones made to destroy drones.

Brit bank Barclays probed amid claims bosses used high-tech to spy on staff, measure productivity

Bloody wage slaves

How do they dare to revolt against their masters? We pay them, they belong to us!

Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious

who can break them down by race, age, and occupation to map out virus hotspots

By race, you mean cats, dogs and humans? Because for humanity there's only one race, the human race. We are one species.

Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo

Go away Kid

We are the bully with billions of $, we can break your business as we wish if you dare to move a finger.

We'll destroy you. Because we can. We love that. It's in our genes.

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

Utter BS

The best way to fight fever is now to break the thermometer.

Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops

No Evil

Just trust us. It's for your own good. Go back to sleep, and avoid to think by yourself.

British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu

Does this snafu also apply to...

... the Queen's Own McKamikaze Highlanders? Because one has to hurry up to correct the mistake.

China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

the party has the support of the people

That is the ones not in Laogai. See also HK.

This is a vile attack against Krusty the Trump. As if he wasn't elected by a majority of voters! Oh, wait...

Capital One fined $80m for shoddy public cloud security. Yeah, same bank in that 106m customer-record hack

Weird PR BS

“The OCC took these actions based on the bank's failure to establish effective risk assessment processes prior to migrating significant information technology operations to the public cloud environment and the bank's failure to correct the deficiencies in a timely manner,”

We appreciate our regulators’ recognition of our positive customer notification and remediation efforts, and remain committed to working closely with them to ensure that we meet the highest standards of protection for our customers.”

I always see PR people as ugly gnomes busy to flatter their devil masters all day long. One has to have soul ablated before working in PR.

When it comes to hacking societies, Russia remains the master at sowing discord and disinformation online

Jamal Khashoggi killings

Was there any consequence of Saudi Arabia to kill and cut in pieces a US resident? Nope, none.

Trying to manipulate opinion was useless. Giving big checks to the ones in power is much more effective.

dezinformatsiya was a program implemented by Stalin in 1923

In Russian tactic and strategy, there's always a part called Maskirovka. It's a long, long tradition.

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories

I thought for half a quarter of second that Krusty Trump was pushing for an US version of the RGPD

Think carefully about cyber insurance, says NCSC. But don't worry about buying off ransomware crooks

Come on. It a certainty insurers will try to squeeze out of their obligations if they can, as they always do.

Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle

" charges ultimately being dropped when common sense prevailed, both DeMercurio and Wynn now have a felony arrest record that shows up during background checks"

So when somebody is declared innocent, there are still records he/she was arrested? It's shocking to me. If charges are dropped, everything should be erased, period. Especially when keeping this fallacious record has consequences for his/her future life.

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

Re: Why the problem?

Sadly it is not enough, because of subdomains registered and used by third parties. It's a way for them to elude detection and blocking. It leads to security vulnerabilities

This article (in French here and approximatively translated in english by google here) shows how an online bank website implements such things, leading to advertising companies being able to access your bank accounts.

USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan

Protectionism 2.0

I'm not sure it's a good news for US companies. Expect China to develop all the hardware to get rid of US pieces, CPU included. First the US companies will lost the chinese market, then the chinese HW will compete against US one worldwide with aggressive prices. Looking at the smartphone market is a good example of what could happen in any other IT related market.

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

an American exec is actually going to serve time

Only because he screwed another company.

University of Cambridge to decommission its homegrown email service Hermes in favour of Microsoft Exchange Online

Re: Been there, lost that battle

+1

For having deployed both solutions in two different companies, Exchange Online is a PITA compared to Google Suite, and the user experience is far below.

Re: MS' deep pockets

Will the world pandemic give us the chance to reset to a better and fairer world, not run by corporations and greed.

ROTFL! I get a couple of bridges to sell you if you're interested

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

Re: Really?

Want society to be resistant to it? People need to catch it.

You promote the Swedish approach. It doesn't work good either to keep people alive or keeping jobs safe.

Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner

"increase in expenditure on sales team"

Buying the latest iPhone for all the sales team was not a so good idea after all ^^

Aviation regulator outlines fixes that will get the 737 MAX flying again

The 737 MAX is doomed

Expect a rebranding soon.

Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets

And the corporate world ...

is ruled by shareholders and accountants who see IT as a burden and a cost that as to be lowered to the max.

Undersized crews, overloaded IT teams, outsourced jobs to the lowest bidder... how could it go bad?

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

Pot, Kettle, and al.

After the Operation Socialist, now there would be an Operation Conservative?

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

What can you do with $193.8bn these days?

Won't anybody think of the billionaires?

'We stopped ransomware' boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by 'stopped' he means 'got insurance to pay off crooks'

Shouldn't Blackbaud have warn the supervisory authority of their european customers?

I mean, in the next 72h following the discover of the breach, not two months later?

If not, I bet this is a blatant GDPR violation, and I hope supervisory authorities through the EU will ask Blackbaud to provide some complementary information!

First rule of Ransomware Club is do not pay the ransom, but it looks like Carlson Wagonlit Travel didn't get the memo

Garmin, CWT and al. are now confirmed valuable targets

I also read somewhere that Garmin only decrypted, but didn't reinstall its infrastructure. The villains could have plant some nasty malware somewhere in Garmin's IT, waiting for being activated. They should have done it if they are smart villains.

Short-term view rarely pays in the long term.

China successfully launches Mars probe that packs an orbiter, lander, rover

Did China also built its space programs from the Nazis?

'First ever' snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. We'll take 10 tickets

What is particularly impressing are the progresses made in exoplanets exploration. No so long ago we weren't even sure there were planets outside our solar system and now we even get pictures of them! Well done, chaps, you are doing a terrific job. I love you. quite.

Capita's bespoke British Army recruiting IT cost military 25k applicants after switch-on

Oligopoly

An oligopoly (ολιγοπώλιο) (Greek: ὀλίγοι πωλητές "few sellers") is a market form wherein a market or industry is dominated by a small group of large sellers (oligopolists). Oligopolies can result from various forms of collusion that reduce market competition which then typically leads to higher prices for consumers.

Small businesses are de facto excluded because they don't have the ears of the political deciders. The big ones do. No, no, it isn't corruption, it's called lobbyism.

If you think it will change some day, I've got several bridges to sell for you.

Oh deer! Scotland needs some tech smarts to help monitor its rampant herbivore populations

Re: Reintroduce Wolves & Bears

Some had the brilliant idea to reintroduce Bears in the Pyrenees, with the support of the usual tree huggers living at least 100 km away. Bears are so cute, aren't they?

Now shepherds and breeders have to face attacks on their herds, over 1,100 sheep were killed directly or indirectly by bears last year in Ariège only - sheep tend to run when a bear comes, even when there's a cliff in front of them.

Yesterday a local mayor published a decree forbidding hikes after an attack of four bears on a herd for several hours. Some day there will be a human casualty, but the tree huggers will say it was the human's fault. Locals have just to deal with the consequences of a decision imposed on them.

Forget about Wipro chairman saying no one would lose their job due to COVID-19: UK staff told they're facing redundancy

When a CEO says that "no jobs would be shed", don't believe him and start to search for a new company.

From previous article: "Net income of $316.5m was a 0.1 per cent improvement on last year's number." and "Execs predicted "stability" for Q2" - Another company not loosing money and even gaining more showing what loyalty towards wage slaves means. If there's a little bit room left in Hell, these execs should be well there.

See you after the commercial breakdown: Cert expiry error message more entertaining than the usual advert tripe

the company has said it "unifies all advertising channels – including TV, programmatic and social – across all formats and devices, providing marketers with streamlined, advanced media planning capabilities powered by in-depth analytics and proprietary audience data."

Something as useful for the Humanity as the Black Death

NASA delays James Webb Space Telescope launch date by at least seven months

IIRC, when the project started in 1997, the launch was scheduled for 2007. 13 years later a new delay occurs... I pity the project manager.

UK mobile network Vodafone channels its inner stroppy teen, begs government to cancel upcoming 5G auction

Re: Who needs 5g?

why do we need 5g?

To watch pr0n in 4K on mobiles ^^

FYI Russia is totally hacking the West's labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies

We condemn these despicable attacks against those doing vital work to combat the coronavirus pandemic

How trying to get data to save its own population is a despicable attack against those doing vital work to combat the coronavirus pandemic??

On the contrary, it seems to me not making these data public is an attack against the sick and suffering ones.

Privacy Shield binned after EU court rules transatlantic data protection arrangements 'inadequate'

Sorry ITIF

The US IT and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), meanwhile, complained the ruling was "irresponsible"

What is irresponsible is the way the US deals with EU citizens' data. The US can't be trusted, especially since a minority of US voters put a sinister clown in the White House.

Trump gloats, telcos weep, and China is furious: How things stand following UK's decision to rip out Huawei

A clear message to european countries

Do whatever possible to develop your own solutions. Don't be dependent either of the US or China or you will pay the price for it.

Re: A sad day

But the West has beaten China in a war - the Opium Wars.

Add also the Boxer Rebellion. China has plenty of reasons not to trust the West.

Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty again after cryptocurrency flop broke laws set up to stop him

His biggest mistake

Being not a close friend to Krusty the Trump. If he did, he would have been pardoned or have seen his sentence commuted.

US restricts visas for folks working at Huawei and other Chinese tech makers – seemingly over China's human-rights abuses

On the principle, sounds good.

However, it sounds also very hypocrite, and not only because of the US getting out of the International Court of Justice because of its war crimes in Afghanistan and is not really a leader on human rights. Is there restriction for people of Saudi Arabia for instance, after Mister Bone Saw ordered the execution and dismemberment of a US resident?

Re: The chinese govt is a two faced bastard (to put it mildly).

To my knowledge no Muslim country has ever spoken out against the treatment of their fellow Muslims.

Indonesia claims it did. China's influence is strong, even stronger and stronger thanks to the 'we alone and fuck you all' attitude of the US. China fills the void.

Report: CIA runs secret cyberwar with little oversight after Trump gave the OK, say US government officials

Didn't it happen before?

With these agencies, I'm always suspicious they don't ask necessarily an agreement before acting, even if they are required to.

Regarding the apparent contradictions between Krusty Trump's says and actions, there no real surprise. That guy is totally nut.

Brit retailer John Lewis to catapult 111 tech bods over to Capgemini weeks after dumping 244 on Wipro

Re: Nothing protects your job, only your rights

this would be extraordinarily detrimental and damaging to job creation. every employer would be scared sick to hire someone

You pretend that protecting workers from redundancy would impact employment. I think this a mantra, not a fact. For instance, see the example of Montana in the US, where there are laws more restrictive on redundancy than in the other states. Unemployment rate in Montana is among the lowest in the US. See the study of Ewing, North and Taylor, The employment effects of a "good cause" discharge standard in Montana

It cannot conceptually exist - every job cannot last forever

When you're a public servant in France, it's for life. You can't be fired except for a very severe fault.

Capgemini is just another meat renter

As are all similar companies. 'How many kg of IT engineer do you want Sir'?

I really hope John Lewis IT will collapse, bringing with it all the dividends the shareholders hope to gain with these disguised layoffs. Dream on...

Burn baby burn, infosec inferno: Just 21% of security pros haven't considered quitting their current job

As long as the house doesn't burn, everything is fine

That's the motto of most companies I know. Very few take cybersecurity seriously before a major disaster happens.

IT is seen as a cost, cybersecurity as a burden and a waste by shareholders and financial directors. As long as this paradigm endures, this situation will also.

Sometimes I wonder if grabing popcorn and watching the collapse instead of fighting windmills wouldn't be better for health. What a bloody thing conscientiousness is.

UK smacks Huawei with banhammer: Buying firm's 5G gear illegal from year's end, mobile networks ordered to rip out all next-gen kit by 2027

The poodle is back

Krusty Trump ordered, Bozo Johnson complied.

Now that the UK is not european anymore, their US masters are in charge.

If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?

That paper discusses Primordal Black Holes

Aren't those hypothetical yet? Was one ever detected?

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