Posts by Will Godfrey

It's alive! Hands on with Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser

Monoculture?

Just waiting for the worldwide meltdown now.

Brit rocket boffins Reaction Engines notch up first supersonic precooler test

All I have to say

is that it's nice to hear there is still some real engineering going on.

Microsoft buffs its rings, emits Code and goes global with Kaizala

All Change Please

With so many rapid (and sometimes quite dramatic) changes how are people supposed to keep up? In fact, how do their own guys ensure the code is...

Oh, wait.

Overzealous n00b takes out point-of-sale terminals across the UK on a Saturday afternoon

Re: The mainframe tech was a prick in this case.

Indeed, and that was the person who should have been sacked.

And if the 'tech' was not one and the same, he should have been severely reprimanded and maybe ordered to get some interpersonal relationships training... at his expense.

Hello, tech support? Yes, I've run out of desk... Yes, DESK... space

Re: *BEER* shouldn't be 'cold cold'

I don't I put it on a slice of bread and butter first.

Two Arkansas dipsticks nicked after allegedly taking turns to shoot each other while wearing bulletproof vests

Re: This article is an excellent use

Should we take that as a shot across the bows?

There's no hope

Numpties like this are out-breeding the rest of us.

(it takes no intelligence to do so)

Here's to you: UK.gov praises Reg-reading techies for keeping on top of cybersecurity

Excuse my cynicism but..

What's the catch?

I find it hard to believe any branch of government likes smart techies.

Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen

Bad idea

Unless you want to get rid of an employee - who'll prolly end up incarcerated for the rest of his/her life.

Bah: Ninja'd

And here's Intel's Epyc response: Up-to 56-core, 4GHz 14nm second-gen Xeon SP chips, Agilex FPGAs, persistent mem

Does anyone have a motherboard for this?

I would imagine it would have to by made of ceramic to withstand the heat.

The curious case of a WordPress plugin, a rival site spammed with traffic, a war of words, and legal threats

Re: Trojan Horse

OKOKOK I get the point.

Blame it on me skim reading while trying to sort out 'stuff'.

... Oh, and I failed at that too :(

Trojan Horse

The really disturbing take-away from this is (yet another example of) just how far browser based crap can secretly dig into your systems these days. At what point does the entire system collapse? Do we now have to get dedicated sacrificial computers just for Internet use?

UK taxman plans to, er, Crown Hosting boss. Who'll take £115k to be its champion in HMRC?

The true meaning of 'Network Manager'

This of gov. speak for the ability to 'network' with similar highly paid old Etonians while passing any true responsibility down to disposable underlings, or better still, an associates outsource company.

Ignore the noise about a scary hidden backdoor in Intel processors: It's a fascinating debug port

Funny that

Almost every commentard here had exactly the same thought as me.

Investigate in the comfort of your own home without risk of exposure. Craft your malware carefully, then let rip.

Are you sure you've got a floppy disk stuck in the drive? Or is it 100 lodged in the chassis?

Re: One, OK, hundred, I have my doubts

I find it entirely believable... having worked as a TV repairman. Especially when I took the back off a faulty set, only to be faced with a cascade of shillings.

Easy-to-hack combat systems, years-old flaws and a massive bill – yup, that's America's F-35

Re: A sporting chance

It runs on the XINU principle - do everything and all of it badly.

TP-Link 'smart' router proves to be anything but smart – just like its maker: Zero-day vuln dropped after silence

I'd have some sympathy if at least made an effort

But silence? fingers in ears and lalala. They deserve to sink without trace,

What bugs me the most? World+dog just accepts crap software resilience

True, but you try telling people that!

UK.gov flushed away £15k defending pupil nationality data slurp – then canned scheme

Government at it's finest

Not!

There are pictures all over the internet of a big dark spot on Uranu... Oh no, wait, it's Neptune

It's not as much wind as in a long building by the Thames

Re: Units

Wow! That's nearly 5 chains/sec

Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky

Hmmm

I wonder if anyone has been trying to blackball Kaspersky in recent times.

Children of Wales to be prepped for the vibrant world of work with free Office 365 ProPlus

As if there was any remaining doubt

A leopard doesn't change its spots.

Microsfot doesn't change its behaviour.

P.S. Funny that. I keep making the same typo.

Chap joins elite support team, solves what no one else can. Is he invited back? Is he f**k

Unfortunately predicable

Don't show up the 'experts' is in the same class as don't tell the manglement they are wrong.

Not a recipe for a long and happy employment.

Brit Police Federation cops to ransomware attack on HQ systems

Example?

What does it say to the general public when the police representatives have sufficiently lax security to fall for such an attack?

Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clink

Idiot

I guess the only job he'll be able to get once he's out is greeter at B&Q

Ransomware drops the Lillehammer on Norsk Hydro: Aluminium giant forced into manual mode after systems scrambled

I'm not so sure they'll actually learn. Many don't

We don't want to be Latch key-less kids: NYC tenants sue landlords for bunging IoT 'smart' lock on their front door

I'd like to say I was surprised

Really I would, but I'm not. The obvious failure possibilities are almost endless.

Sorry, Linux. We know you want to be popular, but cyber-crooks are all about Microsoft for now

Oi! Keep quiet

We definitely don't want to attract the crims' attention to Linux. Even if you're certain the cage is secure, you don't go poking the lions with sharp sticks.

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

Thanks for the reminder

I've been meaning to visit for years but never quite got around to it.

College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system

Can I join?

rsync was my nemesis with --delete set

Blighty's most trusted brand? Yeah, you wish, judge tells Post Office in Horizon IT system ruling

'twas ever thus

They've always been arrogant shits - even before the split up with BT. It's deeply encoded in their DNA and I don't expect significant changes for a very long time - if ever.

Facebook blames 'server config change' for 14-hour outage. Someone run that through the universal liar translator

Simples

https://xkcd.com/908/

What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters?

Re: Funny, I didn't notice a thing

I like 'farnarkle'. Sounds really arcane Have one of these as well as an upvote

Everyone turning against good ol' 'merca

Trump & Co. will probably blame the Germans this time cos they didn't roll over and do as they were told.

Don't be too shocked, but it looks as though these politicians have actually got their act together on IoT security

Optimistic

I'll be impressed if it actually gets through unscathed, but I'm not holding my breath. Seen too many good ideas derailed by vested interests

Never thought we'd ever utter these words, but... can anyone recommend a spin doctor for NASA?

Someone is 'avin a larf

I'll console myself with a few of these ->

First it was the rubber duck, then its dad, now we get an oversized OXO cube. I'm just expecting to hear they've found Ringworld.

Thought you were done patching this week? Not if you're using an Intel-powered PC or server

Re: Who cracked their secure enclave?

Indeed. NSA are probably furious!

Boeing... Boeing... Gone: Canada, America finally ground 737 Max jets as they await anti-death-crash software patches

If proof were needed

They are more concerned with their share prices than two planes worth of people. I've no doubt if it hadn't been for the rest of the world, they would still be prevaricating.

Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby

Re: POS?

I always read it as 'piece of shit'

Microsoft changes DHCP to 'Dammit! Hacked! Compromised! Pwned!' Big bunch of security fixes land for Windows

Ahead of the game?

Clever of them to catch bugs so soon in the new and unproven DHCP

/s

Yelp-for-MAGAs app maker is warned there are holes in its code. Does it A. Just fix the problem, or B. Threaten to call the FBI, too?

Thank you

Nice of 63red to make it absolutely clear they are utter crap.

We can do this the easy way or the Huawei, US tells Germany with threat to snip intel over 5G fears

Wot?

Guys, I was joking when I described this as a possibility.

It seems America's arrogance is only exceeded by its.... (run out of expletives)

Just a reminder: We're still bad at securing industrial controllers

No Hope

The potential problems are well known by now (with actual examples) but the ones holding the purse strings simply aren't interested. Their only mantra is suck out as much money as you can. It's cheaper to say "Lessons will be learned" than to actually do anything.

Put down the cat, coffee, beer pint, martini, whatever you're holding, and make sure you've updated Chrome (unless you enjoy being hacked)

Monoculture?

With world + dog apparently moving to the chrome engine will it be fun times ahead?

That marketing email database that exposed 809 million contact records? Maybe make that two-BILLION-plus?

How about a change?

Can we have a list of the sites that haven't been breached?

Oh, wait. There probably aren't any. We just haven't heard about them yet.

Thought you'd seen everything there is to Ultima Thule? Check this out: IN STEREO!

Looks Familiar

More and more like the rubber duck's dad.

P.S. Always wanted a valid excuse to use that icon :)

Sure, we've got a problem but we don't really want to spend any money on the tech guy you're sending to fix it

The other extreme

One of the engineers where I used to work was booked to go to India to re-commission a printing press that had been bought second-hand and shipped across. The reason it was our guy who was asked, was partly because some of the control system was our design, but mostly because the manufacturer wasn't interested. Anyway, the plan was that 'John' would fly out, then get driven to site on day 1, do the commissioning on day 2 and return on day 3 - all at the new owner's expense.

The first day went exactly to plan and John was ensconced in basic but comfortable accommodation. Next day was a nightmare as the press hadn't been reassembled. Nobody had a clue how it all went together so most of it was still in crates. After frantic international phone calls and hurried conferences it was agreed that John would remain on site to oversee the reassembly. This took over two weeks as he had to fast-track train people in engineering techniques. The upside was that they were keen intelligent guys and soon became his 'gang'. Commissioning itself was then very fast as not only did John know the machine had no obscure modifications, but his workforce also had a pretty good idea what to do.

The good news.

The new owner paid in full with no questions asked.

John was asked to do two other similar installation/commission jobs (and now had a bunch of friends working with him)

The bad news

John won't touch so-called Indian food in England - says it's nothing like the home-cooked food he had over there.

While this CEO may be stiff, his customers are rather stuffed: Quadriga wallets finally cracked open – nothing inside

Remind me

Wasn't this bitcoin stuff supposed to be so secure that it was bomb-proof?

It's beginning to look like it wasn't, if people can get in without the passwords only one person was supposed to have known.

It also seems it's not embezzlement proof.

Oracle to lure boffins with cloud credits, see if enterprise-grade tech can speed up research

Re: Hmm

"Why would anyone want to buy from Oracle?"

FTFY