* Posts by Jimbob 3

15 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2009

Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it

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Re: If Bill Gates has the technology to implant chips to control people's behavior

Universe As Code = UAC

Conspiracy confirmed!!

College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system

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RAID5 testing

I remember a long time ago an install engineer who came to site to build our call centre server and get it all configured. Five days work, all going very well until day five when it was fault and resiliency testing on the server. Three disks in RAID5 and I was in the background whilst he pulled a disk out to test setup.....Then he grabbed the second disk and before he heard my scream he had pulled it out. Start again on the server build and setup buddy!

Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clink

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In Azure it is called ASR (Azure Site Recovery) which copies workloads from on-premise to cloud or from one cloud region (say Northern Europe) to a completely different region (say Western Europe) giving continuous protection allowing replication frequency as low as a few minutes.

Windows plagued by 17-year-old privilege escalation bug

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Thumb Down

So says Google

"according to this writeup penned by Tavis Ormandy of Google"

Ahhh I see now. Google saying Microsoft has poor security.

Nothing wrong with that because they are right on some levels, just slants the viewpoint of the article that is all.

DARPA balloon-hunt compo: Stand by for skulduggery

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Black Helicopters

Helicopters

Get up high by hiring some helicopters. Although you would need quite a few and it would probably cost more than $40K in fuel and hire :(

Three critical fixes in store for MS November Patch Tuesday

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WTF?

Patching Specialist?

What on Earth is a 'Patching Specialist'? Someone who clicks on the yellow shield or someone who actually reads the release web postings?

115,000 nabbed for in-car calling

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Badgers

Brain won't let me.

I don't know, I just *can't* use a mobile phone, handsfree or not, while I'm driving. I find it impossible, my brain just wants to concentrate on all the dangers of driving.

Trojan plunders $480k from online bank account

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Boffin

Virtual Machine all the way

For the ultra security concious:

Set up a Virtual XP Machine (Virtual PC/VMWare Server) for the sole purpose of online banking. Don't use it for anything else whatsoever and you WILL be malware and trojan free.

Although, if you know how to do the above you probably know how to browse safely already. Hmmm

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Flame

*POSTING?!?!?*

Rely on cheques? HaHaHaHaHaHaAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! I am still waiting for a cheque I posted to a bank to arrive. I posted it on the 25th September. 20 days so far and no sign of it getting there. That is a joke.

Shall we regress back to the caves with thinking like that?

Proles told to get online to save economy

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Welcome

Natural selection..

In 50 years time there will be very few people about who have never used the internet compared to now. Lets just wait until then, let natural selection take its course, and ditch the non-job Digital Inclusion Cszar (are we in Russia pre 1919?).

Hotmail phish exposes most common passwords

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Alert

Like shooting phish in a barrel

So not only did these people have pants passwords they also entered said password into a form not linked in any way to Hotmail?

Some kind of worldwide general public 'IT and Security' training is needed methinks. Yeah I know, that is impossible.

Demon splurges details of 3,600 customers in billing email

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Flame

And I thought Public Sector only got it wrong..

Yeah you see, Private companies *can* get it as wrong as the Public Sector.

Twitter transformed into botnet command channel

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Joke

Update

Jeez, they could have called the username something other than 'update' in leet speak. Maybe it would have been harder to find? Duuurrrr

Google Oompa-Loompas dream of virus-free OS

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Flame

PR nonsense

What a load of PR nonsense. I'm a Google fan - but this smells of massive arrogance.

Swine flu malware poses as pig plague update

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Go

Don't just open anything...

Just don't open attachments that you weren't expecting. File type of 'Application' would also give the game away. As would it being called a .doc.exe (ohh DOS days!).

I wish I knew an easy way of educating non-techs about this threat.