Posts by IGotOut

Twitter says hack of key staff led to celebrity, politician, biz account hijack mega-spree

Re: I'm not on twitter

No probs here is all me savins

£0.00

Can u duble it for me?

Re: Just imagine ..

I don't think he has the attention span to start one. Even if he did start one, when it starts going wrong, he'll deny it ever happened and it was someone else's fault, even though it was just him joking.

Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale

One Word.

Huawei.

They have the money, the need and would right royally f**k over the USA.

When you see PWA, Microsoft and Google want you to think Programs With Attitude: Web app release tool tweaked

Re: Am I the only one

No, given which data whores are behind this, you are not being paraniod.

World largest advertising agency wants you to use a method where tracking is easier. Every single thing you do can be tracked by them

No thanks.

Android 11 will let users stop device-makers from killing background apps, says Google

Add to the fact many banking apps won't install on rooted phones.

Re: Could be handy:

Why not just install a proper podcast client?

Plenty out there.

Re: iOS

Winphone did it properly. Others just pretend to.

All in all it's just another bork on the wall: For pity's sake, begs signage, climb onto the pub's roof and boot me up

Failed local storage.

All the Digital Signage I've used uses a local OS to download the media to run, so that network issues do not affect it.

This looks like a simple case of a failed drive.

Sueball locked, loaded and pointed at LinkedIn over iOS privacy naughtiness

Re: Interesting

You do know how Social Mmedia works?

You can lock it down as much as you want on YOUR phone, but if most of the other morons say yes to defaults, they (social media co) have your associates details.

Tony Blair tells Russian infosec conference that cross-border infosec policies need more gov intervention

Simple Qiestion Tony.

How much did you earn for the "informative" speech this time? More or less money than someone off Love Island?

It's just I personally give anything he says about the same amount of credibility.

Microsoft to pull support for PHP: Version 8? Exterminate, more like...

Re: So, chalk up another one for Borkzilla's product graveyard

What the fuck are you on about it. I take it you know it's not a MS product.

Re: No surprise here

Yeah, I mean fancy Windows not being able to run it for 15 odd years, and potentially many more.

Hint: You could run it on Win98

Smile? Not bloody likely: Day 6 of wobbly services and still no hint to UK online bank's customers about what's actually wrong

Re: "for we like sheep ..."

"There really is no point. Shirley you have better things to do with your time?"

That's why people use online banking, so we don't have to drive 10 miles to a branch, stand in a queue for 30 minutes (outside in the rain these days) because you can only go at lunchtime or for the 15 minutes they seem to open on a Saturday (if your lucky), just to check if that payment actually went through.

Yeah good use of time.

So Darned Kind of you, Facebook: SDK bug sends popular iOS apps crashing earthwards

Re: Not sure this is entirely correct.

Just came to update. I looks like even if you don't use it to log in, it could still take the app down.

Not sure this is entirely correct.

I think its related to Apple themselves.

I don't use Facebook to login to apps and still had the same issue, I login using Apple Game Centre.

Redownloading the app after I removed took almost 20 minutes.

Rip and replace is such a long Huawei to go, UK telcos plead, citing 'blackouts' and 'billion pound' costs: Are Vodafone and BT playing 'Project Fear'?

It will backfire.

Once China is much more tech self sufficient...and that will only take few years, they just go. No Earth Exports to US companies and thise supplying them.

Then all of a sudden, Chinese gear becomes pretty much all you can buy.

China is playing the long game, they have far deeper pockets and bigger long term goals than the US.

Email seems lost in the post? You might be a Tsohost customer

Tjanks for the tip.

I started out with 5quidhost who got boight out by TSOhost.

Even at 3am on a Thursday morning you'd get a response in a few minutes, no it's a few days.

Re: SFU

" but I have 20 domains hosted at OVH, and I've never had any problems with them. "

No, it's everyone else on the internet that has problems with those assholes. I have a complete drop all from their IP's.

Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview

Wow..

"to censor which search engines people can use to access public information on the internet. The First Amendment forbids this."

Those guys were way ahead of their time if it says a company can scrape images, compiles them then flog them.

Pretty sure copyright law explicity forbids this. I.e. selling photos you don't have the rights to.

Google Cloud cancels planned Chinese venture

Don't think for one minute...

...it's to do with morales. They may later say it is, but it isn't.

Commons cause: IBM, Oracle, CNCF protest over Google's handling of Istio governance

Oracle complaining?

WTF!

Road trip on Mars: Thrill as Curiosity rover races up to 0.06 miles per hour. Marvel as it takes a mile-long detour

Re: Flat Mars-ers

You people are so gullible. It's the same reason the Moon has a dark side.

The side we can see, and the other side, just like looking at a coin....and coins, they are flat. FACT!

FYI: You do all know that America's tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?

But of course....

...none of these will have sanctions but on them due to their "alleged" military links.

Heir-to-Concorde demo model to debut in October

Re: Can it reduce the time spent at airports

But this is for the rich, normal rules do not spply.

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

Translation

We want to make meetings out of the office as dull and pointless as meetings in the office

Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down

Re: released a cookbook, etc

£6 a pint?

Got to love the London mark up.

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

He's not an imigrant

He's white.

If you are anything else, you are an immigrant, even if your family have lived there for multiple generations.

Social media giants move to defy Hong Kong's new national security law

Ban TikTok...

Because if anyone is going to look at your clipboard, we rather it was LinkedIn and Reddit.

Odd how that hasn't made such big heaflines.

Think of a number: A tale of iffy discount codes, supermarket loyalty cards and Hotels.com

Re: selling the discount codes for between £200 and £750

Ever thought they may be selling £1000 worth for £200?

The Moon certainly ain't made of cheese but it may be made of more metal than previously thought, sensor shows

Maybe...

...it belongs to Darth Vader's Victorian relative.

Germany is helping the UK develop its COVID-19 contact-tracing app, says ambassador

Re: The Germans are helping because...

Is that the printed in France Brexit blue?

Yeah then we chucked it all in the bin and lost the computing race.

Re: In the interim, the British government has been forced to adopt human-powered contact tracing

"People who do not have one are most often very old people who are not likely out in the street."

I take it you haven't been out much?

I'd say about 75% of the people shopping in supermarkets, gift shops or just visiting nice areas are pensioners.

Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

So...

So I presume no legally mandated "backdoors" we're mandated for this to happen?

No thought not.

Just good Police work.

Consumer orgs ask world's competition watchdogs: Are you really going to let Google walk off with all Fitbit's data?

Re: I don't trust Google and I don't trust the Government and I don't trust cybercriminals.

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1

ProtonVPN

StartPage.

You're welcome

Details of Beijing's new Hong Kong security law signal end to more than two decades of autonomy

Re: leave the country

A couple of questions.

How do they leave? Bearing in mind you have to get off an island.

And who will take these refugees, likely with no money or possessions? It's not like there is a huge track record of countries happily taking in millions of asylum seekers.

Well that's going to confuse the Daily Mail.

Got Brexit to keep out those bloody foreign folks kit.

Now we're going to allow in 3 million asylum seekers. Although of course, they won't be using that term.

Can't wait to see the editor's head explode.

The internet becomes trademarkable, sort of, with near-unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Booking.com

Re: popcorn.com

You have used my trademark in a derogatory manner.

You owe me $100billion.

Mah wa ha haaaa

Brilliant.

Facebook.com appears not to belong to Facebook if anyone is interested.

https://en.facebookbrand.com/trademarks

MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

"clitoris?"

Aha, that's why they didn't think it was offensive.... Many of these researchers probably don't know what one looks like, so no way of identifying it.

What the hell is wrong with these Universities?

Are they so blinded by their "science", they become utterly detached from common sense.

Next some university will be telling us it can predict pre-crime by the way someone looks...oh wait.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114900-concerns-as-face-recognition-tech-used-to-identify-criminals/

https://www.businessinsider.com/harrisburg-university-lab-facial-recognition-identify-future-criminals-2020-5?r=US&IR=T

Rental electric scooters to clutter UK street scenes after Department of Transport gives year-long trial the thumbs-up

Re: Forget Scooters.

Yeah to hard. Just not even bother.

How about all those in cities?

Or the one's on the main roads?

Or maybe just make them automatically liable for an accident at night. If not wearing a helmet and suffer a head injury, then no insurance pay out.

This isn't an anti-cycling rant (hence my suggestion about making e-bikes legal). But making sure people take responsibility.

Forget Scooters.

Why bother with these death traps. Wouldn't it make more sense to bring e-bike rules in line with most of Europe e.g. speed limits and twist and go operation.

Oh and enforce existing laws such as bloody lights. No lights at night. Take the bloody bike off them and make them walk home.

Also, make helmets compulsory.

Just knock them off. If they complain tell them to raise the matter to the Police, making sure to tell them you had a collision with them whilst illegally riding their Scooter.

Never knowingly under-digitally transformed: Retailer John Lewis outsources tech function to Wipro

Director Speak.

"Today is an important milestone in the evolution of our Technology and Change team, "

Translation:

"We've joined the race to the bottom."

US govt warns foreign hackers 'will likely try to exploit' critical firewall bypass bug in Palo Alto gear – patch now

Patch Now

Johnny Foreigner will be hacking you! Our own God Fearing Patriotic Hackers will be lovely and huggy and won't exploit this bloody great hole.

Everyday Xenophobia is alive and well.

After six months of stonewalling by Apple, app dev goes public with macOS privacy protection bypass

Re: So, are Apple going to sue him because bugs and vulnerabilities are Trade Secrets?

Not sure what this has to do with South Africa and the Boers.

Hey, Boeing. Don't celebrate your first post-grounding 737 Max test flight too hard. You just lost another big contract

Except plenty more.

Airlines have been crippled by Covid19. A simple way to get some cash back it hitting Boing with breach of contracts.

No paying for expensive planes and a refund of a few hundred million

Remember when we warned in February Apple will crack down on long-life HTTPS certs? It's happening: Chrome, Firefox ready to join in, too

Re: Shake down time

If your provider charges for Let's Encrypt, move provider.

I'm with TSO host, formally something else and before that something again and no part of Go Daddy, and they do it for free. It' about 5 clicks to set up.

Oh and then you can always sign up, for free, to Cloudflare, and use their free service.

Re: Will this be a problem for embedded device certs?

The article clearly states internal certs are NOT affected.