Posts by adnim 2081 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Apr 2007
that those who break the law are dishonest and without honour. This is not necessarily so.
Those who are dishonest and without honour may indeed turn to illegal activity to finance a lifestyle. Although many dishonest and dishonourable people prefer the legal activities of politics and/or corporate leadership.
The Japanese take honour and respect seriously. Too seriously? Perhaps. But our arrogant western asses could learn a thing or two
An Android App does not need Google infrastructure to be secure to use. Just as the using of an App downloaded from Google does not guarantee security.
I see no reason why third party certificates from recognised and trusted? software development houses cannot be installed on Android. We trust certs from many organisations every day.
Yes, Google wish to maintain a monopoly on Android Apps. I know
Prior to the rise of the Internet, we used to call this lies. Or when published a spoof newspaper, a joke.
If published/broadcast on April 1st an April fools joke.
If it's fake, believable and intended to deceive or misguide I call it deception.
If it's fake, believable and intended to slur or defame a person then it's probably libel.
Why not treat it a such?
I don't use any cloud services personally, I look after an Ubuntu instance on AWS and some S3 buckets for CD for a client. It was set up by someone else.
All my eggs are in one basket on a server in my garage (next to some old rags and cans of petrol). Backups are cool, I have heard of them. I think I have some somewhere.
My point is that once one starts to rely on a third party, more and more of ones business systems tend to become dependant on that third party. Eventually the cost of transition may become prohibitive.
MS know this as do Google and Amazon.
Now if MS, Google and Facebook can work together to find a nice file format to download all ones social media outpourings in order to import into another social media service. Why can't the big cloud/SaaS providers do the same?
I might then consider their usefulness for storing, deploying and serving information that I don't mind finding its way into the public domain.
As a kid I got stuck in a clothes spin drier, I was on the verge of panic before I escaped.
I don't like being trapped.... Cloud SaaS all stink of entrapment.
"MCDA modelling showed that heroin, crack cocaine, and metamfetamine were the most harmful drugs to individuals (part scores 34, 37, and 32, respectively), whereas alcohol, heroin, and crack cocaine were the most harmful to others (46, 21, and 17, respectively). Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug (overall harm score 72), with heroin (55) and crack cocaine (54) in second and third places."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61462-6/abstract
Exactly.
And whilst I am no crypto expert it should not be difficult to enforce expiry and deletion for publicly available keys across all key servers. Yes keys can be revoked, are they deleted from all key servers? (seriously I dunno) I could revoke one to find out or google, I will after I post.
Once an expiry date is reached one chooses to renew or revoke/delete public key.
Just a thought.. Always up for an education though :-)
And wallet friendly to me means increasing the number of plastic legal tender tokens it contains.
On a serious note, I have a phone it does all I need almost, it is rooted it is mine. But...If it just ran Linux and had a real keyboard that slid from behind.
I need to ssh to a secure environment in an emergency. I use my laptop because I trust the install. Even though my phone is rooted and runs Cyanogen, my Android-fu is such that I don't trust it.
on Netware worked quite well. Support was pretty good too. They updated the software remotely via a dedicated modem/tel number. They would warn us of impending updates, should we wish to back up.
Backups were daily anyway, but they didn't just change the system without warning. Nothing ever broke after updates, so I guess they tested things. It wasn't perfect though. not every entry was validated properly, users could break things.
Only had to call a few times in 5 years and support was good, Once the help desk got to know me they never bothered with the script I was just told "a dev will mail you soon".
btw Micross was modular. As well as payroll it handled stock control, BOM's and lots of other shit.
But I digress I was just overwhelmed with nostalgia at the headline. What is the topic? Sage? What does that do again? Ah OK... Carry on ;-)
Get off ya fuckin' high horse.
Let webmasters decide if the content is worthy/requiring of SSL.
HTTP is only insecure when sensitive information is being exchanged.
Perhaps everything including the obvious should be encrypted?
I hope no MITM replaces my kitty pics for pussy pics when my website is browsed.
Joking aside and in all sincerity: Adapt to the Internet Google, don't try to control it....
Pretty please?
Add it to the list.
Wait for proven technology before giving contracts to your buddies, sycophants and contributors to the party's kitty.
Apparently, Angry of Tunbridge Wells once wrote somewhere, it could have been across the pages of Public Eye, the span of a motorway bridge or perhaps some cards were simply left in a telephone box.
Whatever the case, he wrote... "FFS... Ya should be working for us not yourselves. We pay your wages you contriving, conniving shits". Citation needed.
My approach... contextual and unobtrusive ads (out of the way, right column? Not in the main flow of the copy) text only ads with a link. Served from the root domain with url that identifies the partner/affiliate to the advertiser.
I dunno why I feel I need to say this... contextual... pertaining to page content. Why track someone around the Internet to advertise them what they may have already bought? Why not place contextual ads? If someone visits a page on the web regardless of what it is about, they are interested in the content of that page. So place ads relevant to content.
Yes, there is the potential for click fraud. But that happens now. My concern is with privacy, data collection and tracking of the user, not with an advertisers budget. And I am not particularly sorry if those that track "anonymous" ids around to present ads are offended by this. Just down vote me and we can perhaps get a count of El Reg readers who have a career in marketing and advertising and believe the current "track it" strategy works ;-)
Update:
I am in garden watching sunset.... I wrote the above on this machine in Firefox on Mint 18.
After booting into Win 10: the static IP connection to a hidden AP didn't work. I had to connect to the visible AP and get DHCP from my 'unsafe' subnet. And why does El Reg take 5+ times longer to open in Firefox on Win 10 than it does under Mint? If I was consumer people would it matter, would I notice?
Time to reboot ;-)
The April June update worked fine for me, it took about an hour to update after download.
Everything seems to work as I would expect so far, even Chrome which I use with LAN access for the development tools. No SMB1 use and wtf is media center content? Am I a poor web dev for trying to be as cross platform as possible and never using smb1 or not knowing how to integrate media center content with chrome?
The update did reset some of my privacy settings and deleted my firewall program (Private Firewall 7) due to "not compatible" or some such twaddle. I kind of expected this, yet I was surprised to find that my start menu was not altered.
I had to uninstall private firewall properly (the update didn't... it left most of the files and just deleted and disabled the loading of the NDIS driver) before I could install the very same version again despite the incompatibility".
I can only presume Microsoft does not like user installed tools that interfere with their data collection activities.
I have so little respect for Microsoft that I would have had a good time bitching about how bad the update was and how it fsckd up my machine. But alas, other than just deleting code it did not like and giving applications access to things I had previously blocked (camera, microphone, contacts etc. etc the update was flawless.
I am not sure if I am being sarcastic. Usually there are so many work continuity breaking issues that a few less major issues are acceptable. I have obviously been conditioned by Microsoft into accepting a few niggles with a sigh of relief.
YMMV
I reboot into Win 10 now and see if anything has changed
"Criminals who think that they are safe on the Darknet are wrong,”
Although this is a nice blanket statement to discourage potential law breakers. Has Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had any experience (other than the obvious opportunities of office) of being a criminal and using the Internet to commit crime?
Fools, the greedy, the impatient, the ignorant and the less cautious criminals tend to think they are safe on the darknet and drop breadcrumbs.
Those with the real smarts (I prolly die before I put myself in that group) aren't even noticed.
Just as a software application has it's exploitable bugs removed and is made secure, more features are added, which are buggy and exploitable. And by the time these newly introduced flaws are fixed, new features are added...
Humans can be manipulated into breaking secure software or passing on login credentials to strangers just has they always have been.
Ergo, I am not surprised Internet security has not improved.
I never usually think code when I hear that term. I think hardware. I guess old code is old tech.
A successful sql injection attack is dependent on code though not hardware, even if it is old code. <--- read shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Having said that, I myself have written code I would now be embarrassed to use.
I was going to say perhaps a schema has changed and the joins don't reference the right columns any more.
Then I thought, Nah I don't have a clue. A professional team could not make that kind of mistake.
Then I thought have they employed a professional team?
I don't know what my colleagues think of my work practices when I spend most of my time looking out of the window. I call it planning.
Most people are wooed when they hear what they want to hear.
It's a shame she is not wooded by privacy advocates and security analysts that say "backdooring crypto breaks it". And other presented evidence from various qualified persons that does not fit in with her agenda.
Perhaps she likes Unicorns, maybe I can sell her one?
I manually adjusted mine several years ago, the heating comes on and off to a pre-set temperature at just the time I want.
I really must get some connectivity to it though...
Pressing a button on it to increase or decrease the temperature is so inconvenient. I have to get off my ass and physically touch the control panel.
I am sure it would it be easier to go find my phone, unlock it, launch an app, select the right screen and change the settings, then touch the apply button</sarcasm>
I have had so many of these kind of calls I just say fuck off and hang up now. I got bored with baiting them and sick of being called when concentrating.
I have had fun with them in the past, 40 minutes is my record for keeping them talking. I have also screen recorded them installing malware on a VM and reported it to the police. The abuse I have received when I have told them I am an IT professional that is taking the piss... Funny.
I have also had a long conversation with a "supervisor". I asked if they were proud to be scamming innocent people. The response was unexpected honesty. He said he knows that it's not right but he has a family to feed. Choices for work in his part of India were limited apparently.
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