Posts by Velv

Re: Having to switch due to the number of participants.

Bernard Woolley: “That's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I give confidential security briefings. You leak. He has been charged under section 2a of the Official Secrets Act.”

Fair enough if your customers can reclaim the VAT and it’s all part of cash flow.

A substantial number of the companies who engage huge numbers of contractors are banks and financial services organisations who provide VAT Exempt or Zero Rated products, and they cannot reclaim any VAT they are charged. So while VAT and IR35 are not directly linked, the additional NI and Income Tax is offset to a reduced VAT take.

Re: re: personal

Sounds like the defence didn't do a very good job if they didn't discover the building issue prior to the trial. I'd be suing the lawyers for the compensation.

"Apple still has the keyskeys"

the plural "s" is important. There are multiple keys involved in every device.

Apple do indeed retain some keys to allow them to update the device. No delusions, they do Other keys, in particular in Apple's case, are generated at first configuration and stored securely on the device and Apple has no access to them.

Yet more keys are generated when you configure certain Apps, and they are secured behind the device user owned keys.

So where do the Government want to put the responsibility? Because Apple (or any other device manufacturer) are not in control of all places keys are generated.

Re: Really?

But you can still own a machine gun in America.

How much and how long for an assault rifle, a pretty deadly semi-automatic firearm as has been demonstrated in many schools, malls and places of worship pretty much since they were available to the public. And yet you never learn...

Re: The problem is no senior technical people

Absolutely correct. The FCA and PRA are issuing the advice to the Business staff, not the IT staff.

IT staff have been protecting the Business staff by insisting on security and resilience. I'm not saying they always get it right, but the fact most stuff is available 24/7 with the odd outage is a good sign.

Business units now have the ability (and appear to have been given the rope to hang themselves) and can bypass "IT". I wouldn't like to be the new CEO of an organisation following that model, it will be very career limiting when it all goes titsup in 2020.

Re: in musk's mind

Musk apologised, Unsworth accepted the public apology. Then Musk cam back for more and continued his assertions, Unsworth had no option but to pursue though he courts.

Perhaps the value was too high, and a more amicable settlement could have been reached but Musk refused to engage. $10million to Cave Diving Rescue and a public apology might have made it, but no, Musk believes he's above that.

Re: Headline?

"I've said it before, but can we have a "Downvote this Author" option please."

There was previously a rating scale on articles. I think it got removed when Andrew Orlowski climbed the seniority tree as he regularly had low scores.

I always heard it (and it only really works when spoken) as:

"How do you get two whales in a Mini?

"Across the Severn Bridge"

It's like Peter Kay's "I asked the Kebab Shop if they Deliver" and they said "no, just chicken or lamb"

Re: Just out of curiousity....

I've replied to a previous comment that adding a VPN might not be what you need. Protecting household-level browsing might introduce snooping in other places and make your browsing both slower and less secure.

For what its worth I use VyprVPN and haven't had any problems. I use it to place my "Internet" connection in other countries so I can access local content such as news sites (many US news sites block European access). I don't have it turned on for general browsing.

Unless the VPN provider has terminations inside the network of where you're browsing to then the traffic will still flow across the open Internet somewhere, and given the way spooks work, they're more likely to try and capture traffic exiting VPN concentrators than the general traffic from home users modem.

I know there will be some people who disagree with the above, people who think there is benefit in encrypting everything over a VPN as well as https and other secured connections. They are entitled to their opinion, and there are people and countries where a VPN is required.

Re: I'm torn

I really dislike NordVPN's averts and their pitch for why home users need one - you probably don't need a VPN and it what it enhances in security it also detracts.

VPNs secure point to point communication. Great if you're a business and you want to secure your staff traffic from their device into your network (i.e. it terminates inside your control). Nobody can snoop the traffic on an open part of the Internet.

If you're a home user doing your banking, shopping, etc, a) the traffic is already encrypted by the bank (https), and b), tunnelling on a VPN from your device to a VPN exit point in Finland then crossing the open Internet to your bank actually makes the routing worse.

There are valid use cases for home users of VPNs, but it's not what they say on the adverts. Consider carefully before you part with good money for a commercial VPN service. You might have a valid use case, or you might be spending money to reduce your security.

I'd suggest you read the law.

Amber means "Stop, unless it would be unsafe to do so."

So if you get caught on camera having ignored the Amber to stop and gone through the Red there will also be evidence in the picture of why it was unsafe to stop (e.g the tailgating vehicle that would have rear-ended you).

Re: Show this to the Mexican police

"The same thing applies in the UK only it's official"

Not quite, The cash isn't going in the officers pocket in the UK, is it! Or are you aware of a force in the UK where you can pay tickets "on the spot, in cash".

Re: Scanner problem

If the driver was working fine, and an OS upgrade broke it, then someone has been tampering with the published interface in the OS and it is not a driver problem per se.

Re: Could I congratulate Barclays ..

The big question is have the Board of Directors shared their increased risk with the Regulators. Do the FCA and PRA have an opinion on any increased risk to Financial Services industry?

March and April are going to be interesting months for Bank service outages hitting the headlines, and who or what is to blame....

Re: Pay your taxes

As a contractor I put more cash into HMRC every year than the permanent staff picking up the equivalent tasks.

There’s more to tax than NI and Income Tax.

Re: Sure.... why not?

I've previously promoted this concept of the government going first, the only down side is that in order to prove its not secure it's going to need to be broken. If you're attempting to hack the US government you're going away if they catch you. And that might not be prison,,,