* Posts by Necrohamster

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Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin

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Re: Use Android

You can set up vpn connections manually in iOS - you don't need an app!

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My feeling on this is that Apple shouldn't provide any services or support to users in Russia.

Apple products (like many other Western brands) are getting into Russia as black market imports from the surrounding ****-stans. So I understand how preventing iPhones, MacBooks etc from being sold to Russians could be a difficult task.

However, given that sanctions are in place, Apple shouldn't allow their app store to be accessed from Russia/updates to be downloaded from Russia/iCloud accounts to be created from inside Russia.

If Russians want to install apps, let them jailbreak their iPhones and sideload apps.

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Re: I want to know...

Perhaps because they'd get sued into bankruptcy if the iPhone users got cut off.

What court would the Russians sue Apple in?

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Re: Doing Business

Interesting question.

Merriam-Webster says:

The past tense of hang in almost all situations is hung. You hung a picture on the wall yesterday, or you hung out at the mall last week. Only use hanged when referring to someone being sentenced to death via hanging.

Based on this, I believe that a person nailed to a wall (as you would with a painting) is indeed hung.

But wait, there's more...

It's not that simple, however: most usage guides reserve hanged for people subjected to death, which means if an inanimate object is suspended from a gallows, the correct term is hung.

I need to stop hanging out in the Reg comments section

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I want to know...

...why Apple's still operating in Russia?

I thought we sanctioned that kleptocracy for starting a war?

Spawn of Satan icon for obvious reason

Europol says mobile roaming tech is making its job too hard

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Note to Europol...

Bad guys aren't plotting crimes over SMS

OK, maybe some stupid bad guys are. But everyone else is using Signal/Telegram/Wickr/Tox/etc etc.

Oh yeah now I remember why the UK gov have been wanting to ban end-to-end encryption for years

Tesla sued for 'systemic' racism at its Fremont, California plant

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Well, senior executives are more likely to be psychopaths than the general population. It's probably not an exclusively American thing although Henry Ford was a notorious antisemite and Thomas J. Watson of IBM was a Nazi enabler/accomplice. To be honest we could be here all day listing CEOs who've done a lot of shady shit

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Re: Fourteen black, Hispanic and Latino plaintiffs

US Americans are as a whole a simple folk that deals primarily in simplifications of reality to get along.

Jim said it best in Blazing Saddles:

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers.

These are people of the land.

The common clay of the new West.

You know... morons.

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Re: Fourteen black, Hispanic and Latino plaintiffs

"I'd list the suit under 'chancers' and I think its an excellent argument for why we don't like to make stuff in California"

The chancer in this story is Elmo. He makes stuff in California because he gets corporate welfare payments.

Tesla has received more than $3.2 billion worth of direct and indirect California subsidies and market mechanisms since 2009, according to an estimate from Newsom's office. <- That $3.2 billion figure's from 2022 by the way.

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Re: Fourteen black, Hispanic and Latino plaintiffs

I know Brazilians who speak Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and English. The language you speak doesn't define your identity any more than the country you're currently living in (or were born in).

The terms Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx are all American constructions anyway. Go to Honduras or Chile and ask someone to pick a name from that list to describe themselves.

The real question is why are Americans so obsessed with putting labels on people?

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Re: In California ?

Why would you presume that? Maybe they moved from surrounding states for economic opportunity?

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Re: In California ?

Wow it's inconceivable that some racists could exist in a population of 39 million people

Tell us you've never been to California without telling us you've never been to California lol

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Well well well, the company led by a white South African has a systemic racism problem. Who would've thought?

It's said that a company takes on the character of its leader

Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man

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Umm it's working ok for me. Did you forget to pay your internet bill?

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WTF?

"A precedent has been set – that certain types of journalism won't be tolerated."

It's debatable whether Assange can be called a journalist.

Journalists have a code of ethics.

Journalists don't pay "bounties" for leaks.

Journalists don't pay "bounties" to get the competition fired.

Journalists don't help Russian military intelligence to interfere with democratic elections

He's a lot of things - a fraud, a narcissist, a useful idiot, an accused rapist, a threat to national security. But a journalist? Nah.

I think a lot of people have a mental image of Assange that's stuck in the past, when he was a darling of the left, but in 2024 he's celebrated by people like Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Nigel Farage, and living proof of the Horseshoe Theory as noted by Bayard Taylor: "Voilà, comme les extrêmes se rencontrent!"

Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

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"Where Julian get the 1/2m for a corporate jet flight ?"

The Australian government apparently. But he's grifting on social media already...

https://www.ft.com/content/465b6f96-65db-4295-9aee-ef9c1339a992

“This is finally over,” Stella Assange, the wife of the WikiLeaks founder, told the BBC.

Assange’s chartered jet landed in Bangkok on Tuesday and was due to continue on to Saipan. Ms Assange launched an “emergency appeal” on social media for $520,000 that she said Assange was “obligated to pay back to the Australian government” for the flight.

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Re: Why now?

Ulbricht's a drug dealer. Nobody gives a toss about him, therefore there's no political benefit to giving him a pardon.

Yeah I know Trump said he'd pardon him if Libertarians voted for him, but pigs will fly etc

Trump booed and jeered at Libertarian National Convention

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Re: Sweden

He was a product of his time, to be fair

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Re: Great

"That's typical of the demonising propaganda bollocks..."

Oh my god dear, you're positively hysterical.

You do realise it's possible to think Assange is a c*nt, and at the same time disapprove of American militarism/expansionism/hegemony (or whatever you want to call it)?

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Re: Not been said yet

So what part of US jurisdiction applies here?

Espionage is one of several areas where the US has extraterritorial jurisdiction. So be troubled no longer..

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Re: Embassy

You seem to think I'm interested in your opinion. I'm not.

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Re: Embassy

"...So... No innocent until proven guilty then?"

Playing hide-and-seek in an embassy to avoid the consequenses of your [alleged] criminal actions, or to run down the clock on the statute of limitations, wouldn't be considered the action of an innocent man.

A rapist who managed to escape conviction is still a rapist. Everything Assange does shows he's a sneaky turd, so I for one have no problem believing he'd sexually assault someone.

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Great

So Australia, can you do the world a favour and shoot him out of a cannon into the sun?

Also, funny how all the Assange fans are posting as AC today...

From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban?

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Re: Not a big surprise

"...at some point the company under his leadership came under serious fire by the Americans for refusing to whitelist their government spyware..."

I don't believe this claim because:

- You're an AC so your claim is worth nothing

- You've got no citations to back up this claim

- Nation-state threat actors don't need help from any AV company to get malware into a network (as Kaspersky Labs know, having been pwned themselves)

Pretending to stand up to the big bad Americans may resonate with the Kremlin's useful idiots (consider yourself included AC), but everyone else would recognise this as cheap theatrics.

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Re: Hard to find anyways

"I'd say he's in control. "

He's in control of nothing.

Russia's a mafia state in case you haven't noticed. If you're a business owner you can play along and make money, or be defenestrated.

"Kaspersky was often publicly found defending the end user even when governments would have liked he did not..."

Such a man of morals. Too bad he didn't have the same courage of his convictions when it came to the invasion of Ukraine

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Re: Hard to find anyways

Yeah I find they're more reliable than Tom's Hardware, considering I'm not buying an AV for my granny

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Re: Hard to find anyways

>It is rare anymore to see it in Anti-virus suite rankings.

Toms hardware, surprisingly included it in their May 2024 product line up. For a few years PC Mag included it, but only to use it as a benchmark for its recommendations ie. these are good products, but Kaspersky is still better, but due to the political situation we can't really recommend and thus include Kaspersky in our public table.

Consumer-grade AV is very different from enterprise AV. If I'm running a 5,000 seat company or a government department I'm not buying based on what Tom's Hardware says about a consumer product.

Kaspersky's non-existent in the enterprise space of the Western world. They dropped off the Gartner ratings in 2021/2022 because enterprise can't (and won't) buy their products, and all the sales on their Amazon store won't make the slightest bit of difference.

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Re: Not a big surprise

If you’ve attracted the attention of a three (or four) letter acronym security service, you should know they won’t need any help from AV companies to run their tools on your network.

But anyway, isn’t Mr Kaspersky a graduate of a KGB technical school?

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Re: Apple fixes two flaws used to attack Kaspersky employees ;)

That article's from a year ago, but the bigger issue is that the attackers were inside Kaspersky's network, undetected, for 3 or 4 years.

What FSB doing?

Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky's top bosses – but not Mr K himself

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Re: Something is missing

"There's some junior-ish official in the relevant government department who's got a bee in their bonnet about Kaspersky, maybe for no other reason that it sounds foreign/Russian."

Ctrl-F for Kaspersky in this document:

https://www.cdse.edu/Portals/124/Documents/casestudies/case-study-nghia-pho.pdf

Not long after that guy was caught, US government departments were ordered to uninstall Kaspersky software.

Kaspersky tried to sue in court, alleging that the ban was “arbitrary and capricious". But of course they knew what had happened, and exactly why they were being banned

How Europe can force Apple to support competition

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I came here to make the same point about the dodgy Chrome extensions, and to say that the Google Play Store is just as bad (if not worse) than the Chrome Web Store:

90+ Malicious Apps Totaling 5.5M Downloads Lurk on Google Play

Choice is great. I choose not to be part of the alternative app store ecosystem.

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Re: isn't against the law

"...they have also imposed penalties when you hit the 'gray area' of a law (not exactly and precisely violating written terms as narrowly read)"

Wow, telling someone they don't understand the law and following it up with that statement?

You either break a law or you don't.

If a law contains an ambiguity or "gray area", the people who drafted the law screwed up. Judges have also been known to misinterpret laws, and this is why we have courts of appeal.

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Re: I for one look forward to an apple free europe

"Apple literally just announced that *all* the flagship features of the new iPhone are not being rolled out in the EU due to regulatory issue of DMA."

Reading is hard eh? What the headline actually says is:

"Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says"

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Re: I for one look forward to an apple free europe

The EU's got a bigger population than the US, so I'd say this prediction won't come to pass

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Re: Apple's browser rule

"I would say that MacOS is dying. Sales of Macs are dwindling because of the loss of x86 interoperability and the increased battery life and performance of the M-processors can't make up for it."

lol

#copium as the kids would say.

Mac hardware sales have made up 8-10% of Apple revenue for the last decade. But I'm sure the board of Apple cry themselves to sleep every night on a big pile of money, knowing that you think they failed :D

Satellite phone service could soon become the norm

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Just in time...

...for cellcos to realise that nobody makes phone calls anymore.

Anyway I don't think I'd trust my comms to some capricious man-child satellite-slinger like Elmo. No sir.

Asda IT staff shuffled off to TCS amid messy tech divorce from Walmart

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Re: When

Apparently, dependence on external entities and loss of in-house knowledge is a small price to pay on the journey to reduce CapEx and provide added value to shareholders.

/s obviously...

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Re: TAX the companies that outsourcing abroad

Rishi Sunak's father-in-law founded Infosys (second largest Indian IT company after TCS), and his wife is a current shareholder.

For some reason, I don't see HMRC going after Indian outsourcing companies

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Re: Run away!

Typical, outsource to the cheapest (always offshore) lose skills but all that matters is there is a contract in place.

That they people who eventually end up delivering (ha ha) that service ore usually beyond useless is irrelevant.

In the job I do I often end up having to interact with third party techies provided by the outsourcing giants. The level of skills and competence is just mind-blowing.

I deal with TCS on a daily basis and believe me when I say that you'll hear the phrase "Please do the needful" a LOT.

Total

Clusterfuck

Support

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Tata for now

""They have a thousand stores to migrate and they're going to be doing that with an infrastructure team who have their eyes on the door. They'll be very professional, but they're not going above and beyond and doing on-call they don't have to do,"

I don't know about anybody else, but my priority in the coming months would be to secure a new gig rather than being very professional.

Lansweeper finds a lot of CentOS Linux out there

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Re: But…

We learn by asking questions. That's not ignorance.

Ignorance is when someone thinks they're better than the people reading their articles.

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Re: But…

If someone writes " Genuine question here" and you respond with "I can't tell if this is trolling or ignorance or both.", I'd question your reading comprehension skills.

Or maybe you just like throwing out snarky replies? Either way, not a great look for the article's author.

Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes

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Re: Another headache in the making

"Maybe the better option would be remotely bricking the hardware. In that case, you'd better be sure of your target, because collateral damage will be a ginormous hot potato."

You don't own the hardware, Elmo does.

So I'd say your remedy would be limited to sending in your hardware for repair/replacement if it was bricked, mistakenly or otherwise.

Europol op shutters 12 scam call centers and cuffs 21 suspected fraudsters

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Re: Why is this so prevalent

They hack into an insecure phone system, use it for a few days and move on.

Caller ID seems to be spoofed in most cases with a number that's in a similar range to the target's. I guess the reasoning is someone's more likely to answer a call from a semi-familiar number?

Telcos seem to be powerless to stop it. How difficult can it be at a network level to block a call that originates in say Germany to a UK number, where the originating caller ID appears to be a UK mobile number and the originating device isn't a mobile device. Pretty difficult? Looks like some additional logic would be needed

I'm sure greater minds than mine could figure out a way if they thought about it for a while

TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg

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Re: A sideshow in the overall economic war

"the West has active military experience in conflict zones for the past decade at least..."

Experience? Yes. Victories? No. Umm they lost in Afghanistan and left with their tail between their legs. Iraq was no better.

"Once a conflict and win over China has been attained..."

lol you've got quite the imagination.

Every time the US finds itself in a war, the American population finds it doesn't have any stomach for it once the body bags start returning.

While remote fighting with drones is possible against Houthi militias or regional Taliban commanders, any US-China war wouldn't go that way

EU duties might not be enough to hold off flood of Chinese EVs

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Re: The Disgusting thing

There are two different ID4's made by two different companies (SAIC and FAW) for the Chinese market. Which one are you referring to?

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Re: the problem

Shhh! It's only evil when China does it! /s

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Re: tinfoil

"...What tinfoil hat is needed?..."

Tinfoil hat is needed because - IF YOU READ THEIR COMMENT - they acknowledge that other manufacturers collect data too, but China appears to be a specific mental stumbling block for them due to paranoia or whatever:

"We know that all the EV companies are using you as a data mine once you purchase the vehicle, and all that data (plus, possibly, more, if they can help it) going to China?..."

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