Posts by Xalran

NASA's inbox goes orbital after email mishap spams entire space industry

Re: Two obvious problems here

Yes and no...

A Mailling list ( since that's what it appears to be ) is just a mail forwarder. It has a list of addresses to foward any emails it receives to....

It's not like a group in Outlook.

If it's configured correctly, it sets the Reply-To: field to the mailling list address, and sends an email ti receives in the form of an individual emails to each list member with one single member a recipient of said individual email.

IWith the Reply-To field set to the mailing list address, if somebody reply to the original mail, everybody in the list will receive the reply.

With a mail client thats not Outlook you'd be able to notice the nested answer and who answers to who and the Reply-To field... which would make it easier to get a grip of what's occuring and avoid replying to the list.

But sadly with the all encompassing Outlook you have a flat view of all the mails with the same title and no (easy) way to see the Reply-To field ( or any other very important header stuff ).

At best, unless you spent days tinkering with the setup you can coax Outlook tino a not even semi decent nested threading, but that won't give you an easy access to all those header information that many old hands find important.

So people ended up thinking it was an Outlook group and just clicked on reply which used the Reply-To field to generate the To. So even if they didn't hit Reply All, their answers were received by all.

Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database

Re: At the minor end

That looks like a lot like our DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure) and DGSI ( Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure)... With obviously the first one dealing with stuff outside of France borders and the other one dealing with stuff inside of France borders.

Re: Clearance?

Here on my side of the Chunnel it takes between one month and 6 month depending on the level... and if you were already on file for having been granted a security clearance in the past. (it's faster then)

And they do scrutinize antisocial media...

Since that's one of the many bullet points that needs to be filled in the clearance request.

At least they dropped the requirement to provide date of birth and birth location of your grandparent and the one removed from there... we just need to provide the parents data.

( I guess they now have an AI that can rebuild the genealogy tree of somebody in a matter of minutes )

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

Re: Trolls like you

It's going to be more difficult than getting Nero and his sycophan court elected in the US...

Le Pen (father) and Le Pen (daughter) have already tried numerous times and failed, as everytime every other political parties call for voting to the other candidate, and so far they never managed to reach the 50% at the second ballot.

Also political party funding in France, is strictly limited, restrained and enforced. ( cue : Sarkozy campaign accounting affair )

An individual ( physical person ) can give no more than 7500€ per year to a political party. (and can't give to more than one)

It's forbidden for companies and any commercial entities to give money to political parties.

And now the fun stuff : there's a hard limit of how much a presidential candidate can spend during the campaign :

16 851 000 euros for each candidates present at the first ballot

22 509 000 euros for each candidates present at the second ballot.

So the Ketamine Addicted Buffoon will not be able to buy the presidency for anybody with his billions.

Re: Brain drain

They got their panties itwisted or a bee (or maybe a WASP) in their bonnet... About nothing.

The whole thing you mention is a non event in France, since it wasn't inclusivity-oriented or anything... It' was about "Festivité" ( doing the fest... having a good time )

Re: Brain drain

Again : Aaaaand ?

There's still industry that wants to come here and build factories. Despite what you think is the reality.

And beside TSMC wouldn't be anything if they didn't have ASML products... that are European built and designed.

Germany, thanks to the Grünen ditched it's nuclear power plants. ( but you should know that, since the Grünen are also on Putin's payroll like you )

They put all their money on natural gas ( provided cheap by Russia )... It didn't work well.

Now they are buying Electricity ( produced by nuclear plants ) from France. ( which make it more expensive, since they have to buy it from us first...)

Re: les queer studies?

Sure...

But apparently the 'Murican not epidemic kills :

https://gizmodo.com/the-measles-outbreaks-arent-going-away-soon-cdc-warns-2000575136

Personally I don't care, I got the vaccine as a kid.... decades ago, since it's mandatory for school. ( at that time the smallpox vaccine was also mandatory, so I also don't care about the money pox. )

Re: Brain drain

Aaaand ?

Beside the fact that it's behind a paywall...

a few cents (be it eurocents or $cents) is not impacting.

You need to find a better reason.

and since you're basing attractiveness for research on the Electricity price, why do they prefer France instead of going to Ethiopia, China or Russia ?

( according to sites that are not behind paywalls they have an elctricity cheaper than 'Murica )

Re: Wow...

you'll note that the snowflakes wannabe trolls are so thin skinned that they are all "Anonymous Cowards"

Re: Brain drained

I'd say travelo for queer.

But it's still a bit inapropriate.

Now there's always La Cage aux Folles.

but the reference is going to be lost by any less than two working neuron 'Murican troll.

Re: Brain drain

That's the household price...

Not the price paid by an university that needs to power stuff like MRI, Particle accelerators and more...

Re: les queer studies?

it seems that you have missed a small fact called... France. (the article is about France)

France doesn't buy US made Military stuff ( except a few M240 and 4 E-3F and a few E-2C, that were paid for decades ago. ).

France develop and build it's own military equipment.

France also has a low electricity price (compared to the rest of Europe) thanks to the 70%+ nuclear production.

Now France economy could be better, there's a few mammoth that needs to be unfattened in the administration, but it's nothing new.

As for scientific equipment, France as ITER being built just north of Aix/Marseille.

You have the LHC in Geneva (it is also partially under France)

and many more

TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat

TSMC is more concerned by having Taiwan Invaded and it's production facilities there destroyed than the tarrif.

Building factories in the US makes them out of reach from Xi paws and make the survival of TSMC once Taiwan is invaded a certainty.

So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?

Less than that... there's less than 4Km between the Little Diomede Island (USA) and the Large Diomede Island (Russia)...

Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender

rite of passage.

You are not a veteran Unix admin until you have done you're rm-rf * fumble...

Every Unix admin worth his skills has done that mistake (I know I did it, I was lucky, it didn't do too much damage).

In a sence, it's a proof that you're actually doing the job.

Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP

Four Switches in a Circle... What can go wrong ?

That reminds me of some event that occured in my previous life in Telecoms...

My colleagues and me, at that time, wanted routers, and only routers as gateways to the systems we were integrating in the $TELCO networks... It lead to several fight with the pre-sales guy in charge of this product line, as he wanted to put L3 switches as they were cheaper than routers (with a switch card in some case)... we are talking of something like 300€ less overall on a whole thing that's being billed in hundreds thousands Kilo Euros or more....

Since we also were the guys doing the On Call Support, the game was skewed our way : if we said we weren't going to support it, it meant getting a new team, and that meant getting that new team up to speed on all the legacy stuff we were covering. It was a big No Way, so after much fight we always got our routers.

Then came the day where the last Legacy Stuff went the way of the dodo, and a brand new shiny thing was coming to replace even the not that old stuff... the Grumpy team got disbanded ( well technically we saw the writting on the wall and self disbanded each of us finding a nice little corner to tuck in ) and a new team was put on the new stuff... We tried to tell them about the Switch against router thing... but they didn't really have a clue, and the new shiny system offered the option to use L3 switches instead of routers.

And then one day, after they installed 2 new swtiches at a $TELCO, the backbone of said $TELCO went down, for 4 hours... That's the time it took to locate the tw new, unconfigured switches that were creating a loop and breaking everything. After that at $TELCO an order was given to put all the unconnected ports down.

The worst is that they did it again... at another $TELCO (this time it only took an hour to fix it)

now the technicallity of why we wanted routers and not switches :

- we didn't have that many switched ports to connect and a 8 port switch card in a router was more than enough most of the time.

- by default router ports comes unconfigured and are administratively shutdown, while by default switches ports are administratively up and put in a default VLAN.

- It was much easier to get routing going in a router, and all the external flows were routed

- we didn't have to bother with Spanning Trees (because obviously it's a story about spanning trees gone AWOL)

The most interesting bit of the story, if that following generations went full custom hardware, with routers (in card form) integrated in the rack as the front end of the system towards the external world.

BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't

Re: GDPR

There's some use cases where for security reasons, the only way to transfer files from one syterm to the other ( or from one network to another network ) is through an USB stick.

Ok, that stick is not unplugged from A and going straight to B... It goes through some appliance ( well a PC turned appliance ) that's just a store of antivirus softwares which are all run against the key and it's content.

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

Silly option to keep using Chrome and Ublock Origin

Stay on windows 7 (yeah I know)

But Chrome & Edge-Chrome (and to a lesser extend Firefox) have been whining for month that since one computer in my stable was still under Windows 7 they were not updating anymore.

(I have reasons to keep that computer on W7, so don't tell me it's a bad idea, I know, but it's not the most obsolete system in my stable... I have a SUN U45 with Solaris 10...)

Mobile operators brace for bigger, faster headaches with 6G

Re: Backhaul?

It depends on the country.

In France Orange has it's own fiber network ( paid when it was France Telecom ), SFR has it's own fiber network ( the old SNCF fiber network... since then the SNCF built another fiber network ), Bouygues has it's own fiber network ( obviously when you're building roads and more you take the opportunity to lay some fiber along the way ), add to that some Level 3, the French Waterways ( it's easy to dump a fiber at the bottom of a river/canal ), and a few more with local fiber networks...

Now they don't go everywhere, and in some case they piggy back from one operator to the other ( thus you cna have some Bouygues equipments that are connected by an SFR fiber in an area, and in another area they will all use an Orange fiber.

Now if you want better bandwidth, you need to go in higher frequencies and the 3G coverage won't cut it. You need more RATs as the area covered by those higher frequencies is smaller. Thus the need to put antennas in traffic light and lamposts at the extremely high end of the spectrum to have a decent coverage and the relevant fiber connection to backhaul all the traffic out of a specific lampost in the center of say Paris or London.

Re: Backhaul?

That's been the main issue since 4G.

Backhaul is mostly performed by microwave links and copper pairs... Only cities and parts deemed important enough got the fiber upgrade all around with 4G and the operators are not going to waste money on replacing the high latency routers/switches put in at that time by 5G low latency ones... At least they are not going to replace them fast, not bother deploying fiber... they will use all the trick possible ( using horizontal and vertical polarization on the microwave links to double the bandwidth when it's not already the case, going to higher frequency on the microwave links... sadly the copper wires are already at capacity so it's fiber or nothing )

Re: Tera-hurts

Yes, but then we will have an antenna tucked in every traffic light and lampost, along with the one that can be seen in the wild (or not, I know a few well hidden antennas on Paris roofs hiding as chimneys or elevator engine housing)

Despite the fact that I spent nearly 30 years working for $TELCO equipment builder cited in the article, I also think that 5G is quite enough to cover 99.99999% of the current and forseable future use cases. Even in a Private Mobile Network environment.

What 6G could do is enhance security on the edge of the network (the part where different telecom networks talks to each other) and that's about it... And that not even something worthwile of a new mobile generation label.

Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov

Re: You are missing the point.

You'll note that they moved on to Ukraine ressources azfter getting not just a NO, but a HELL NO as answer from both Greenland citizenship and Denmark regarding ther power grab about the ressources there.

They may also finally spent an hour reading the fine prints when it comes to mining in Greenland [ Hint : https://govmin.gl/exploitation/start-mining/how-to-start-mining/ chapter closure plan ] and discovered, like the Chinese did, that it wasn't worth the pain in the bank account for now ( among other things ).

Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil

I have to upvote the boiled beef... Even if I prefer it grilled.

I survived on it (and various tandooris) when I was in Coventry Polytechnc ( just before it became CovU ), more than 3 decades ago, eating in Priory Hall. (and sleeping there too)

If you want something really barbaric, try the Scandinavian gravlax (or gravad lax)... the real one, not the marinated thing that is using the name.

(the real gravad lax is salmon, marinated with herbs and salt and put in a hole in the ground for several month covered by earth... and then served once unearthed)

Bread is bread... in the borm of toast or not.

On my side of the Channel we don't even have name for the toast soldiers... ( and yes we dip some buttered bread in our "Oeuf à la Coque" )

Since we have the baguette available we use slices of baguette.

And slicing the buttered baguette piece to the right size is always something interesting as it's almost impossible to have slices of the (more or less) same size. Now I can see the advantage of a toast in that specific usage.

One of Salt Typhoon's favorite flaws still wide open on 91% of at-risk Exchange Servers

Re: What's the problem?

the problem is that he would be able to misunderstand what a firewall does and ask for firewalls to be deployed to protect California from the current wildfires ( since he's blaming them in a convoluted way to a small fish already it's not far fetched. ) just because they are well fire walls.... they must protect from fires.

Trump 'waved a white flag to Chinese hackers' as Homeland Security axed cyber advisory boards

Re: "Protecting Europeans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act"

Don't worry (at least worry less) Muskie is already in the center of the target...

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_6709

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-addresses-additional-investigatory-measures-x-ongoing-proceedings-under-digital-services

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/17/eu-asks-x-for-internal-documents-about-algorithms-as-it-steps-up-investigation

With the the first investigation he was already facing an eventual ban for X in EU... and with the extended one the eventuality became a possbility

Technical issue briefly grounds American Airlines flights across US

Re: Driving home for Christmas

"most modern cars are just a computer on wheels."

And one day it's going to bite us... hard.

I see the day when one of the country backed cybercriminal gang will find it's way into the OTA networks used by the various vehicle manufacturer and brick cars/trucks/buses all around.

I could give details (on how it could happens)... But that would be givng away important network architecture structures that could be used for bad purpose.

Obviously they all uses Mobile Telecom Core Infrastructure as a Service...

Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers?

I-Mode vibes

It has all the vibes of 3G early days I-Mode...

- websites that have a special *mobile phone compatible mode* - check

- low res browser - check

- most of it dealt with by *stuff in the network* (it wasn't called *cloud* at that time) - check

T-Mobile US CSO: Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career'

Re: Is it just me ....

Not really.

the CALEA access point is just a Lawful Interception Platform that tells the various network functions [AMF, UPF, UDM, CSCF, PCF, SMSF, ... ] that some LEO service is interested by a specfic user (usually Identified by the IMSI but also eventually by the IMEI) and to send the relevant information to the LEO service. The information are sent through IPSEC VPNs and encrypted flows straight from the network functions (where they are unencrypted internally, which is where the *wiretapping* occurs.)

Re: Is it just me ....

If you're on a 5G Network it's encrypted all the way to the SEPP in your home network... Including what comes out of the phone.

If you're on a 4G Network it's partially encrypted up to Internet.

If you're on a 2G/3G Network voice is encrypted from the phone to the MSC. Data is encrypted from the phone to the Base Station.

If you can force your phone in 5G only mode.

Re: Is it just me ....

The SEPP (in 5G, it has another name in 4G, and doesn't exist in 2G/3G) is the weak point of a modern mobile network as it handles both the control plane and the user plane transmission towards other networks (mobiles or not). Managing to hack the user plane wouldn't do much (you still get datas out of individual customers), the real motherlode is being able to break into the control plane ( that's where some important databases are ) and from there jump into the billing systems ( more important data there ).

What worries me the most is the fact that apparently whomever did the original massve breach managed to enter the Lawful Interception systems all over the place.

From my point of view it means that it managed to hack it's way in some federal system that's connected to all the MNO and from there to hit individual $TELCO.

That's worrying.

$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it's made of Lego

Re: Hidden Caveat....

go to the main page : https://asmlstore.com/

instead of going straght to the Lego EUV set.

It's smack in the middle, in bold, at the bottom.

Hidden Caveat....

Shown at the bottom of the main page :

*This site is intended for ASML employees and requires an ASML email address for purchasing.*

SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset

Re: The other meaning of redundant

Keep the British-isms, that's what makes El Reg different...

Have a pint on behalf of this Frog living on the other end of the Channel Tunnel. ===>

CrowdStrike still doesn't know how much its Falcon flame-out will cost

Re: "customers can't find a better security product"

1) I agree, but in many case WhateveraaS has several level of *Service* and Beancounters can cut back cost by going from one level to the lower one.

For example, take the well known Offce365... You can have the whole shebang with gadgets like Engage, Viva, Insight, and more... and you can have several reduced versions up to the point where you only have the basic : Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNotes, Teams & Sharepoint...

2) I also agree, but as I mentionned, you may have to pay taxes every years on hardware you own. That's how it works in France, you pay some taxes on what we call immobilized hardware, t gets reduced over the years and except for extremely expensive HW after 5 years you don't pay anymore, that's something you don't have to pay with WhateveraaS.

I also agree that on prem can be cheaper in the long run in many cases, but Beancounters don't see it that way, they work from quarter to quarter because that's what is important for the stock value of the company.

*for a smaller business it makes sense to pay for a small share of all those because running them yourself would be a bit expensive; but for a large business it's a different situation*

But it's the large business that are the most fond of WhateveraaS. Would you be surprised if I tell you that all the car companies in Europe and the US are usng TIaaS ( Telecom Infrastructure as a Service [parse that as Cloudy Mobile Network provided by $TELCO equipment builders]) for all the over the air suff in modern cars.

as for GDPR : if the beancounters are so fond of cloud but you need to know the daa location, there's always the prvate cloud... It defeats the whole thing as you build your own hardware to host a WhateveraaS on prem... But it may make some beancounters happy : they have a WhateveraaS, even if the mnthly cost is an internal cost.

Re: "customers can't find a better security product"

"Buying into the cloud Kool-Aid is part of that. Sales know this and constantly refer to any thing that is not in The Cloud or SaaS as "Legacy". Managers then take fright and rip out perfectly viable solutions on prem and against all the advice of techies."

One of the main reason is how beancounters perceive things...

For them CAPEX ( Capital Expenditure ) is seen as something bad as it depreciates over time and needs to be replaced every so often... That's the on prem solutions on hardware you own, and you get to pay yearly taxes over it.

For them OPEX ( Operational Expenditure ) is the perfection, as it's just a recuring cost... and there's just the VAT ( if it can't be redeemed ).

So beancounters ( we all know they are the ones that pull the strings of the corporate manglement ) loves cloudy stuff and WhateveraaS because they don't get stuck with some hardware that lose value in the CAPEX column of their excel sheet, but instead have a monthly or yearly line for a service in the OPEX column. Also in dire tme, it's easer to cull a WhateveraaS by not renewing the contract than getting rd of some hardware... There's the hassle of recycling and all the paperwork related to properly gettng rid of the hardware to take into account.

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf

We all learned the same way...

The power of the rm -rf command.

You're not a real unix/linux sysadmin until you have issued it in the wrong place and had to feel how powerful that command is.

UK government plays power broker with small modular reactor suitors

Re: Hmm

The main issues of Hinkley Point, like the Finnish reactor and Flamanville in France are :

- that they are the first examples of a new model of PWR reactor : the EPR.

- that they are being bul after a looooong period withut any new reactor being built : 30ish plus years.

So people working on them have to relearn how to build nuclear power plants while learning to build a new type of reactor.

Re: Hmm

Yes.

Geothermal only works when there's a massive temperature gradient available not to deep, along with underground water...

That's why it's built near volcanoes and hot hydrothermal source ( Iceland, some Caraïbes Islands, a few places in France, Japan, ... )

Re: Energy Security

There's been no blackout so far, despite the fact that two years ago about half of the nuke plants were offline for maintenance during summer and we had to cut a few more due to the water in the rivers being too hot, or too low.

Now most of our plants are online and contingency planning has been put in place to avoid the situation again.

There's also an interesting twist that comes with all our nukes... We tend to sell our production surplus :

( Electricity import/export by day )

https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/les-echanges-commerciaux-aux-frontieres

Re: Energy Security

There's also a single, nationwide, price for electricity in France for people with a 'regulated price' contract with Enedis

Now the historical EDF has been split in 3 parts : EDF [produces elecrtricty], RTE [transport electricity nationwde] and Enedis [sells electricity]

Each company is independant, and Enedis is not the only choice to buy electricity from ( There's Engie, ENI, Total, ... ), the only difference in using another company beside Enedis is that the price is tied to the whole EU Electricty Market, which is strangely tied to the gas price.

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

Re: Why does anyone need a "smart" air-fryer?

^^This^^

99% of the *connected stuff* we are being spammed with ( well 100% in the kitchen ) actually would work perfectly fine in an offline version.

The worst are the so called smart TV that REQUIRE an internet access for being able to watch what comes from the Antenna.

French govt finance panel mulls nationalizing Atos

Re: So the US will be sanctioning them then?

Don't worry about France loosing the Aussie subs contract, the penalties paid by Oz for breaking the contract were above the several hundred million Euros...

And yes the Shortfin Barracuda was a conventional version of the French Barracudar Nuclear sub

( And Anyway Even if Australia had wanted the Nuclear version, France wouldn't have sold it. As it's been French Doctrine not to sell any nuclear technology for some time now... We lost enough money with Eurodif ( Iran ) and Osirak ( Iraq )...40 to 50ish years ago.

Caveat inside

The caveat is that it needs to be approved in the parliament.

It's not becausse it's been approved in a comitee that it's been approved by the parliament. ( it's not been approved by the Finace Ministry BTW... Just the Finance Comitee of the National Assembly )

Seing that it has been stuck bickering for weeks on next year budget... And that the dreaded 49.3 is looming at the horizon to ram the budget "as is" through.... there's about zero chances that Fance will nationalize Atos as a whole.

Now, if the price is correct, France has already shown interest in buying the Mission Critical Systems, Advanced Conputing and Cybersecurity Products branches, and will buy them as they are seen as strategic assets.

Boffins explore cell signals as potential GPS alternative

They don't really carry location and timing data.

Now *the Cellular Network* knows which cell a mobile equipment is attached to and knows the cell precise location ( and has always known as you point outt ) ...

With a SRI/SRI-ACK message sequence ( that 2G messages that can loosely be considered as keepalives for those that don't knows ), through the timing latency you can get a relatively precise location ( location gets more precise the smaller the cell is )

That's how the first generation mobile positionning systems worked (used only by emergency services and police at that time) [Obviously I worked on that system... long ago, as the On Call guy]

Modern generation have ways to tickle the mobile equipment GPS chip in such a way that it gives the current GPS location.

But all that is seen from he heart of a mobile network.

What the Boffins at Sandia are triying to do is to deduct things like timing and location ou of an encrypted signal without using any ressources from that network. ( because attaching to the network would mean that your mobile equipment can be tracked and located )

[ It's a technical nitpick : the radio part of a Mobile Network has been encrypted since 2G up to a point, and only in 5G you have everything encrypted, including he niial exchange to attach a mobile equipment to the network ]

Telcos find cloud migrations, security, are a pain in the IaaS

Re: Semantics

Big Telcos have private clouds in their own datacenters... Built on equipment they bought from the usualt $TELCO_EQUIPMENT_VENDOR suspects.

Said private cloud then hosts all the core network servers found in a 5G Network ( AUC, EPG, you name it, there's so many of them nowadays because the cloud extracted one function after the other from the monolithic equipments to put them on COTS server ).

With 10Gb fiber backhaul & low latency (2ns) routers from the RAN to the Core and eventually some edge equipments for the critical slices implemented to complete the datacenter.

OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex

Re: Telecom Protocol wizardry

Worse, a pack of Teenagers learning the ropes of Alpinism.

( since that was the reason I was up there, to teach them how to walk and behave on a glacier )

Telecom Protocol wizardry

For me it was talking a colleague through X.25 tracing and telling himw what was wrong once he got told me what he was seeing in the trace.... from the Glacier d'Argentière Moraine ( with the harness, ice shoes, helmet and more still on ) after comming back from a mountain climb. ( Chamonix valley, French Alps )

He never really understood how I was doing that all from memory ( since I obviously didn't have any protocol description paper at hand, nor a laptop [ at that time they were way too rare and heavy to risk one climbing ] ).

Technically I was in vacation, but it appeared that there's no such things as vacation for wizards.

At least I got a nice pint once back at work out of that ( thus the icon )

Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war

Re: If I were a world leader or in the administration thereof. . .

That's regular in a pager.

The one I carried around for years ( when on call ) used 2 AA batteries. (4 Batteries a year, so the draw is not important)

I don't think the technology changed that much to replace the AA batteries by Li-Ion stuff;.. And if you look at it from the bulding company point of view, it's cheaper to design wth AA ( or AAA ) batteries and put the cost of powering the item on the end customer than to design with Li-Ion and put the cost of powering the item on yourself.

We need to remember that it's 30 years old tech, not an Iphone 16.

Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT

If you've ever been involved in hunting down Shadow ( and Legacy ) Servers in semi to very large organizatons, you'll know hat an unprotected servers on the Internet are more common than everybody think.

While I ddn't find any server direcly connected to Internet, when I was tasked to hunt down and put in rack all the Shadow IT that managed to bloom in a $TELCO EQUIPMENT local branch it took me two weeks to track the hardware, track the person that "owned" said hardware, get it turned off properly and inventoried in order to be put in racks. ( it took me several more weeks to have everything put in said racks and ready for being moved to our new office building ). It's been 20 years ago... and to this day I'm not sure I caught all the Shadow IT at that time.