Posts by coddachubb

FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic

Re: Heaviside brought back memories

I used laplace transforms in a run of the mill mechanics questions in one of my physics exams at uni. Never seen so much red pen, they were seriously pissed of at me using low brow engineering math.

HSBC banks on quantum to lock down comms network

Re: Penny wise pund foolish?

The investment here is about public relations, not security.

Once the implementation is ironed out at least HSBC may know if someone is tapping their optical link, but that is about all I am afraid.

UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears

冰山一角

"The government said TikTok required users to give permission for the app to access data stored on the device, which is then collected and stored by the company. Allowing such permissions gives the company access to a range of data, including contacts, user content, and geolocation data. Dowden said this justified the ban."

Seems sensible as can easily imagine all sorts of ways that this information could be mined to identify and target high value assets for both cyber and real world shenanigans.

Now what about all the other apps and data aggregators that have this information, what controls are in place for those?

Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests'

Clemency and transparency

Maybe all the data sets used for these sorts of purposes should be exhumed into the cloud so that a more divine entity can make appropriate interventions?

HPE, Qualcomm team for virtualized 5G network kit

Are there any known cute ways for authorized (sic) developers to introduce vulnerabilities in plain sight within the code repositories?

If so, is anyone looking for them?

Should we expect to keep communication private in the digital age?

Privacy is fundamentally technology agnostic - you can have some fun replacing the word 'digital' with 'stone' in the title of this article.

The populous had maximum privacy in the latter parts of the industrial revolution when moving away from villages (nosy neighbours) into larger towns (agnostic neighbours).

This all blew up when the desire for iDevices and 24/7 social networking became the norm.

The stinger these days is that people who do attempt to curate a whole, or partly, privacy-enabling persona stand out like a sore thumb to those with the right tools to surveil or entrap them.

Car radios crashed by station broadcasting images with no file extension

More folks need to tune into KISS

Judge in UK rules Amazon Ring doorbell audio recordings breach data protection laws

Re: Surely they have to go shopping?

Does that apply to dashcams as well?

Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns

Everything Apple do regards security is about protecting their business model, not wider society.

Caveat empor.

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

Mmm, how to minimise such dependencies when they want it all, yesterday.

Back to the good old days, a pukka Linux distro and more use of native command line toolz?

The truth is that IT is now so complex, no-one really knows what they have any more.

Starlink's latent China crisis could spark a whole new world of warcraft

I wonder if it could be possible to have an evil twin for Leo called Cleo flying just below her sibling and doing lots of fun stuff?