Posts by Oh No, Not Again

Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files

Why not consider the obvious, that it's a deliberate ploy?

Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day

What happens to the 7% of AI queries that turned out to be wrong?

How much time will be, or is already being wasted, resolving them?

UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence

Monetary fines are pointless when dealing with local and central government.

Instead, heads should roll, mistakes should be made public, and remedies should be applied promptly, without endless inquiries dragging on for years at great cost.

Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack

Re: Look over there!

Tata Communications?

China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones

Its a Chinese phone, of course they have a backdoor.

Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting

Enough

The F-35Bs are total waste of money as we don't have control over them.

Just sell the bloody things on, hand them back or if it comes to it mothball them.

Software? Under US control.

Arms? No integration.

F-35As why are we paying for them?

Mobile industry charts course to smartphone satellite broadband

'although those living in rural areas may dispute this...'

I live in Kent and in a village equidistant between two towns.

In one I can get 5G, the other I've always struggled to get much of a signal at all, most times just one bar.

If I then go to the village I used to live in all of 7 miles away on the edge of Romney Marsh, signal bars, what are they, no signal at all. If it’s like this in Kent God only knows what it’s like in other rural parts of the country, i.e. most of the UK landmass...

China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC

DeepSeeks Privacy Policy

Check out their Privacy Policy page and walk away.

'Technical Information. We collect certain device and network connection information when you access the Service. This information includes your device model, operating system, keystroke patterns or rhythms, IP address, and system language. We also collect service-related, diagnostic, and performance information, including crash reports and performance logs. We automatically assign you a device ID and user ID. Where you log-in from multiple devices, we use information such as your device ID and user ID to identify your activity across devices to give you a seamless log-in experience and for security purposes.'

https://chat.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20Privacy%20Policy.html

The bonus is that all of your data goes straight to the Chinese Government aka the CCP.

Bank of England puts cloud analytics on todo list after seeing off market collapse

BofE asleep at the wheel yet again

Nothing to do with the BofE being asleep at the wheel again then? If they’d kept an eye on the use of LDI's by pension funds, raised interest rates and ended QE earlier, I doubt that we'd now be in the pickle they've put us in.

Dump these small-biz routers, says Cisco, because we won't patch their flawed VPN

Re: I was all set to be mad

Hammer and chisel?