* Posts by IGotOut

3094 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2019

Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner

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Re: Gartner says something clueful?

To be fair, it does say people should be allowed to fail, in which they are experts.

FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement

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Hold On One Second

Ignore the main story one second.

"Multiple billing aggregators and payment processes - including Visa - raised questions about excess chargebacks and fraudulent behavior over the years as well, we're told. "

The payment processing companies KNEW the scammers was committing fraud, but yet still happily took money from victims and only gave it back when disputed.

I think we know whom the really crooks are.

Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data

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Re: Cybermalveillance and rançongiciel (à double extorsion) suck!

"...larger, federated, bureau, of investigation, that would tackle these issues with a more comprehensive perspective and resources"

Like an International police force. Maybe shorten the name to something like InterPol?

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This clearly breaks GDPR

It clearly states you should only hold data has long as strictly necessary. I cannot think of a single reason why you'd need information going back 20 years.

Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams

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Your partly right about caller ID but it can very, very easily enforced.

All numbers have to have an underlying bearer number. Some telcos INSIST that your "spoofed" number lies on top of your carrier number block.

E.g. 0800 123 123 must be presented on the companies bearer number e..g 01234 000 - 999.

This is no different on VoIP using asserted ID and source IP.

It would be trivial for telecoms companies to say drop all presentation numbers not on a valid bearer for financial services.

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings

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Re: If Xiaomi want to be taken seriously

Good point about copying. I wish more companies made hideous monstrosities such as the Tesla Cybertruck and Ford F650 SuperTruck.

Now you can compare your Chromium browser with that other Chromium browser using Speedometer 3.0

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The good news is that that's being sorted. Websites will be only allowed to display what is effectively Opt-In or Opt-Out. No going through scumbag media outlets that you have to visit 50 different pages to opt out.

Microsoft calls AI privacy complaint 'doomsday hyperbole'

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They did. See other articles.

Airbnb warns hosts who use indoor security cameras they may face eviction

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Re: "where guests can reasonably expect privacy expectations"

Everywhere?

So in the hotel, you think there are no cameras in the entrance, the reception, the car park, the park?

Ok sure.

Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit

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If blatant uplifting of material is OK...

then I'm sure the like of MS, Google and Nvidia have absolutely no issue with running it against all their internal emails and code, after all it's only "learning" from it.

Apple may have made itself a target before the EU's Digital Markets Act comes into force

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Re: I hope so

No. They moved the iPad to USB because they knew it was coming from the EU. It's not like it was announced a week before it became law.

UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings

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Government IT project to money!

Tell that to Birmingham.

Stuck paying for your apartment's crummy internet? FCC boss Rosenworcel wants to help

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Meh..

If a certain Orange person gets it, the FCC will be stuffed with his cronies, so it will be declared to much government oversight, like Communist China, and the landlords should be allowed to screw people for profit as much as they want.

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

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Ever tried uses Google stuff with their binary blob? It's not a pleasant experience.

Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog

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Don't give money charities you cry...

...well I was a trustee of a small local internet cafe by day and drop in youth club at night.

The only people paid were the full day staff and part time youth workers.

Local anti social behaviour dropped 95% in the first year.

We helped get dozens of people get back into work.

We helped teach many elderly use computers.

We turned a known trouble makers life around so much, he became a professional photographer and a qualified youth worker.

Helped lonely people join social groups.

The list goes on.

Where was this, some inner city shit hole?

No, in an affluent, middle class conservative village.

And before you say "Government should do this", just look at all the services Birmingham are now cutting, the very same things charities support.

You want better services? Then pay for them, but people would rather have a £2 a week tax break.

Microsoft: Copyright law didn't stop the VCR and shouldn't stop the LLM

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Would anyone like to point out ..

...the other issue with VCRs (and audio cassettes for that matter).

When you bought blank media, there was a levy to help (in theory) go to a fund to compensate for piracy.

So how about MS etc, pay into a fund every time a query is run that uses stolen material?

Yeah thought not

US accuses Army vet cyber-Casanova of sharing Russia-Ukraine war secrets

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Re: Just for curious...

Depends on your skin colour and who you know.

EU takes a bite out of Apple with $2B in-app purchase fine

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Oh no...

The EU looks into anti-competitve behaviour that's affects EU citizens. How dare they

Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats

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Re: Skinhead culture

That would be the history written by the Romans?

We were also uncivilised barbarians according to them. Heck, we were so backwards, we even had women in positions of power.

Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday

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Stupid advice from an "expert."

"Martin argues that a ban will only work if governments collaborate on establishing a framework of support for organizations that are attacked and don't have the resources available to recover."

Absolutely no fucking way.

Do you think

A) They will make 100% sure that they are protected as much as possible, with good strong security teams, and a good solid plan for recovery ir

B) they will go "Who cares, the tax payer will bail us out. Investing in all that IT stuff cuts into my stock holding payouts"

As for using the troubles in Northern Island as an example, thats just a piss poor example. If you'd like to explain how a company or person was to take reasonable measures against either Republican or Loyalist terrorists killing you or blowing up your property, other than trying to keep your head nice and low, feel free to explain.

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters

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The paradox of choice.

"Users can also be confused by the sheer choice available, with AWS offering 600 different EC2 instances"

If there are say 2 to choose from and it's wrong, it's their fault for lack of choice.

If their are 600 to choose from and it's wrong, then it's YOUR fault

Lordstown Motors to pay $25M in SEC settlement over misleading investor claims

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Suing Foxconn

...because they didn't invest in their fraudulent company?

Errrrmmm.

Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses

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Simple Question..

What can this do that a regular pc can't do?

<Silence>

Yeah thought so.

Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications

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Re: That would be easy to eliminate

Phone companies don't retain messages? Not sure where you heard that.

https://reyabogado.com/us/how-far-back-can-cell-phone-companies-pull-your-text-messages/

Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech

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The regulators are partly to blame...

...they were all to ignorant to notice what everyone else spotted. Allowing Google to buy DoubleClick was the most short sighted merger approval in recent times.

FAA gives Boeing 90 days to fix serious safety shortcomings found in report

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Safety culture from the top down...

...so that'll be some crappy posters on the wall, a monthly meeting where real workers will be ignored and if they are "lucky" a team building exercise.

Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data

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Cuba?

Seriously?

Are they still suffering from cold war syndrome?

Ah yeah, can't have a country that doesn't think money is everything undermining corporate greed.

OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT

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In summary....

...we were caught stealing other people's stuff but they ignored the Do Not Trespass signs on the lawn, so it doesn't count.

Google to reboot Gemini image gen in a few weeks after that anti-White race row

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But it's AI

If it's Artificial Intelligence, surely it could work out what's wrong and fix it.

Oh silly me its just an algorithm with a marketing gimmick.

It is a bird, a plane or a Chinese spy balloon? None of the above

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Errr you do know that Trident are manufactured in the US and also used by the US Navy?

BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies

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You can do what an ex of mine did...

...she was going to a very boring convention, so she got completely off her face.

Apparently sales and marketing bods can't cope with a loved up woman dancing half naked on a table at the coffee stand in the middle of a large convention centre.

Yes she got fired, but she didn't care, she landed a dream job a few months later.

Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death

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Re: Statistics at work ...

Prompt:

Derogatory article illegal immigrants, ideally followed by story on same page about terrorism or rapist.

Derogatory article about Europe

Derogatory article about trans people.

Derogatory article about Meghan and Article. Any drivel will do.

Article about potholes and labour councils

Badly researched article on latest medical breakthrough

Derogatory article about millennials

Article about latest food fad

Rinse and repeat Daily Mail

If we plug this in without telling anyone, nobody will know we caused the outage

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Re: Ugh I hated SCSI cables

Ahhh the bent pin nightmare. I had a custom long nose plier that I'd ground the end into a flat nose, specifically so that I could get in and straighten them back up.

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Re: Let's Check the Server Room Access Log

Access logs in the 90s?

You mean the mechanical code lock on the door....if it was even that secure?

China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes

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Re: I thought we learned...

I've CDs from the 80s that are perfectly fine.

Rivian decimates staff to put a brake on spending

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Re: So if they go bust...

Guess you missed the part about the Amazon deal falling through?

Biden asks Coast Guard to create an infosec port in a stormy sea of cyber threats

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Re: Yeh right

Whichever is the next president of the USA, the world is fucked.

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

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Re: Wouldn't suprise me

That's why grown up countries have "constructive dismissal" on the books

Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026

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Re: Serif PagePlus...

Mac - good but they upgraded and expected users to buy again (with very small discount for "upgrading"

You know there was almost 10 years of free incremental upgrades between the two versions right?

Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards

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The Tories....

...gave just shot their load over the idea of this.... unfortunately the Labour Party were helping them finish

OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope

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Knock Knock.

Google "Who's there"

"The EU....we'd like a word about this 3 year retention. Think we're going to add this to the list of illegal activities you are doing. See you in court (again)."

Virgin Media to stand up rival network operator to BT Openreach

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Re: More BS from Vermin

"More BS from Vermin

around here, the Vermin network is still using the original cable that was laid in the 1980's by NTL."

My parents were on the old Telewest cabling, yet their entire support team were utterly moronic.

They kept getting drops EXACTLY every 5 minutes. From the get go I said it was a synch issue (could see it in the logs) and it was an upstream fault. I worked in telecom and network for 20 years and had seen this issue plenty of times.

4 engineers to the house, 2 teams in the street, 20 "support" calls, and always it was the same...reboot ..must be a router issue.

Here is the kicker. EVERY SINGLE PERSON we dealt with was too stupid, or badly informed to spot that there were (that I became aware of) about 6 other house with IDENTICAL issues. Guess what, every single one were old Telewest customers.

No idea if they ever fixed it, as all of the affected people left after being with them for 20+ years.

Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union

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Re: Did anyone ....

"dictated by the corrupt and unnecessary bureaucracy of the EU."

Yeah screw the consumer with their compulsory 2 year warranties, right to repair, breaking up abusive monopolies and on and on...

AI won't take our jobs and it might even save the middle class

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Re: Take A Deep Breath................

The industrial revolution effectively threw a huge amount of the population onto the scrap heap.

It took around a century before the uplift was felt by the majority of people.

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

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Totally agree.

Had a dispute with Orange broadband (pre EE).

Part of the package should of included free international calls to Orange customers in Europe, however after multiple attempts to get it working by them (typical brain dead support) I got an arrogant rep telling me basically tough

So I cancelled the contract in. They promptly tried to claim the remainder of the contract. I told them nope.

Got a threatening letter from legal team, so counter claimed in small claims for breach of contract

As soon as that hit the legal team, 100% refund,plus costs plus £200 "goodwill".

I guess having to send a very expensive rep from London to the midlands for a case they had no chance of winning wasn't worth their time.

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

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Re: Hate to Defend Tesla

Literally staining the stainless steel?

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"but stronger and more impact resistant"

Which is why it won't be allowed in the EU. You need metal to deform on impact if you want even the slightest chance of it passing safety regs.

Crooks hook hundreds of exec accounts after phishing in Azure C-suite pond

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Of course they would target C-Suite

Because those Princesses demand that they have full admin rights, have unrestricted internet access and are allowed to install any software they want, because "Well don't you know who I am"

Combined with the "P4ssw0rd1" syndrome, because anything else is to difficult to remember when the PA isn't about and there you go.

Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost

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Wrong, wrong, wrong!

"Some level of disruption was expected throughout such a fundamental transition to a new system,

No.

If you have done your fucking job correctly, their should be no noticeable disruption.

If we can transfer a contact centre, over a year with all it's add ons, handling a 1.5 MILLION calls a month, running 24/7/365 and not drop a single fucking call, then you have no excuse.

What it takes, is a huge amount of prep work, a mountain of installation planning set up and this is the hard bit, testing, testing and more testing. And after testing, checking, checking and even more checking.

These days it seems to be...looks ok. Lets go live and any issues we can sort them as and when we can be bothered.