Posts by mmd93ee

Edtech will save our schools from cuts and spare our teachers from burnout, booms UK.gov

That’ll be the RM Nimbus, now has a fansite! https://www.thenimbus.co.uk/range-of-nimbus-computers.

Go on, feast your eyes on... HMRC's backend: 4,000 IT staff, its hookup with AWS and more

Re: I'd like to say that none of our server images are older than seven days,

It saves having to manage each servers patch level explicitly, if I can be assured that the last time I ran ‘apt-get’ was no longer than 7 days ago then I can be fairly confident I am running current levels of OS software... dependency libraries in the software require more digging into the release process but as a statement it points to having a reasonable level of confidence in having up to date operating systems.

Mumsnet data leak: Moaning parents could see other users' privates after cloud migration

Breached password search

‘..it would be far more useful to be able to simply enter a password and be told if ten or ten thousand others have had the same idea..’

You can search the password database here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords