Posts by jamm13dodger

Apple patched one first, but Microsoft’s blasted five exploited flaws this Pa-Tu

You can expect to see some of your users getting locked out with a bitlocker prompt if they have TXT enabled in the BIOS - see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-10-22h2#3555msgdesc for more details.

It's Baaaaaack (or is it?): Microsoft Teams suffers a Tuesday totter

Re: Teams is working for us...

But none of them are chat tools are they?

TalkTalk kept my email account active for 8 years after I left – now it's spamming my mates

Re: While I'm not a fan of Talk Talk.....

not impossible I suppose but most people can find two of these;

Birth certificate

Driving licence

Passport

Utility bill (not from TalkTalk)

Credit or debit card statement

Council tax bill

While I'm not a fan of Talk Talk.....

it didn't take a great deal of searching to find this https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Articles/Access-information-we-hold-on-you/ta-p/2204726

Maybe a request for "Right to Erasure" would do the trick?

Privacy, security fears about ID cards? UK.gov's digital bod has one simple solution: 'Get over it'

Re: Here we go again...

Isn't that essentially what China is doing with their Social Credit system?

Sudden Windows 10 licence downgrades to forced Xcode upgrades: The week at Microsoft

"available to all Windows 10 users this week"

not if you manage the windows 10 store within your organisation.

Bug? Feature? Power users baffled as BitLocker update switch-off continues

I don't know how they do it mark I 2 but I can confirm if you pop a bitlocker encrypted disk into a sata caddy then the data is useless. Even when looking at it from Ubuntu or MacOS.

That's not to say it can't be read but its definitely not a simple job.

People hate hot-desking. Google thinks they’ll love hot-Chromebooking

100,000 machines swaps in one year?

So 30,000 unique users used 100,000 machines in a year - that's some very unreliable hardware. Its not a statistic I would be proud of if I were google.