* Posts by ecofeco

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T-Mobile US suffers second data theft within months

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Re: I worked for them... twice

I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it: NEVER let the bean counters run your company.

Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel

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Re: Better than a PM

HA! You just reminded me of a company where I worked that lost several servers physical locations. They have several spread out all over the country.

I found them after about 8 hours. The hardest part was eliminated those that were known.

Irony alert: Major airport to be interrupted for two hours to replace UPS

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BUPS fun

Do not get me started on how many places I've been where the BUPS has NEVER checked until I did so.

Of course they ALL needed to be replaced. And of course, there was no budget for it.

Microsoft touts bigger, faster Azure VMs as data deluge grows

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Re: What happened?

We just haven't got to the "find out" part yet of FAFO at the scale that matters.

China labels USA 'Empire of hacking' based on old Wikileaks dumps

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Coat

Well they're not wrong, but...

But it's the wok calling the kettle black.

Two woks don't make a right.

I'll get my coat.

A right Royal pain in the Dallas: City IT systems crippled by ransomware

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Re: Somebody was behind on their patches and updates

Not where I live. :(

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Somebody was behind on their patches and updates

Why am I not surprised?

Having briefly worked in gov IT. I will never make that mistake again. Well, unless I'm starving and facing eviction, of course.

Court gives FTC 30 days to swing again in privacy bout with location data slinger

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Re: Fiction addict

You don't even need to read fiction to know. This has been proven over and over for the last ten years by many, many researchers with impeccable credentials.

The FTC did indeed drop the ball if they did not include that research in their filing.

Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to

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Re: I can see it now

That is indeed the correct answer.

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The new fad is here! The new fad is here!

Quick everyone, the new fad is here! Don't get left behind!

Suggested read for today: https://jacobin.com/2023/05/cory-doctorow-big-tech-internet-monopoly-capitalism-artificial-intelligence-crypto

Capita admits some pension data 'likely' to have been accessed in March breach

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Calling a crime an incident IS the very definition of "downplaying".

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Re: Private Eye named them perfectly!

Word for word, you beat me to it.

Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams

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Re: Eu investigation in 3...2...1...

No hyperbole detected.

Decades, indeed.

American, British monopoly watchdogs probe AI to make sure we don't get screwed

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Meh

We'll get screwed one way or another by the tech douche bros just like we always do.

Qualcomm chips are down as smartphones stay on the shelf, looks to AI for rescue

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Phones stay one the shelf?

How can this be? Can't everyone afford a 500+ quatloos phones?

Why, the very nerve of people!

Uncle Sam probes H-1B abuse surge: What do our vultures make of it?

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Are Amercians getting a raw deal?

When aren't they?

Every day in every way in every thing.

Tesla ran over worker rights, again, US labor judge finds

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Re: There appears to be no other punishment

Truer words were never spoken.

That's EXACTLY what it means.

When comes to personal freedoms, i.e., actual civil rights, Americans have less than most other 1st world nations, and don't even realize it.

Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud

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Barn door, horse, gone

Ah, about 20 years later, NOW, they MIGHT do something?

Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

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Re: Are they also abandoning the Win10 antivirus support?

At one time, I worked for a global corp that was just beginning to upgrade to Win 7... two years after Win 10 had been released.

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Re: Deal

There's a lot of blame to go around and much of it lies with the companies failures at even basic security.

Not saying the mfg wares aren't crap, but any El Reg regular can tell you horror stories about corporate security failure until your ears bleed.

Cloud slowdown hits Amazon as orgs look to rein in cost

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Re: Write efficient database queries first

You just described most modern software.

Crap-tastic, sub-par bloat is everywhere.

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WHOCOULDAKNOWED?

Who could have known? Just us El Reg readers, that's who.

So, how's that cloud thing working for ya?

Future of warfare is AI, retired US Army general warns

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Swarms of aircarft?

More like swarms of hyper-sonic missiles with standoff ranges of 100+miles and incredible internal tracking. And those already exist.

Grim Reapers on YT does war gaming that's about as close to real government military wargaming as we're allowed to see and it's... sobering.

South Korea prosecutes Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin

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There is a difference between risk and outright fraud.

Amazon axes Halo gear as job cuts hit cloud segment

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Re: Results are out today

It all goes back to this:

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-01-30/column-how-big-tech-is-using-mass-layoffs-to-bring-workers-to-heel

Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft

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More opporunity for failure

While this looks like a logical move on paper, we all know Microsoft will screw it up.

Brit politicians, Big Tech grumble about India tech laws

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Re: Hell Bent

"Democracy" is going downhill just about everywhere.

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LOL! The leopards are eating faces

What a shocker! Out-source all the work to another country and that country then says, "Thanks sucker"?

WHOCOULDAKNOWED?!

Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat

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So close!

If they would just stop Teams altogether, the world would be a better place.

IBM pauses counting its billions to trim Red Hat staff

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You are NOT even joking.

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When your company is bought, start looking for a new job

NEVER forget, when your company is bought, start looking for a new job immediately.

US citizens charged with pushing pro-Kremlin disinfo, election interference

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Re: US citizens charged with pushing pro-Kremlin disinfo, election interference?

This is not about the 1st Amendment. They can spout all the bollocks they wish, as long they were registered as the foreign, agents they are.

They were not registered.

NHS England considered using Palantir tech to manage strike disruption

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Re: Control is a Drug to Government

Still doesn't beat the financial company named Cerberus.

Yeah, I'd trust money with those guys. /s

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Re: OpenDemocracy article is a little worrying

Well he ought know something about that subject:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/bucking-fda-peter-thiel-funds-patently-unethical-herpes-vaccine-trial/

Never forget, American "conservatives" are ALWAYS projecting. Always.

Deplatforming hate forums doesn't work, British boffins warn

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Exactly. It's better than nothing.

They're argument basically amounts to let's do away with all laws because people still keep committing crimes anyways and punishing them just makes them do more crime.

You do not negotiate with terrorists.

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Re: "may justify action despite the right to free speech"

It's sock puppets all the way down.

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Sorry but it's been proven IN COURT documents that it was false flag by far right provocateurs.

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LOL wut?

Your recto-cranial-inversion needs immediate medical attention.

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Ah yes, because appeasement always work

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas and the bullies are still threatening us!

The ghost of Neville Chamberlain lives on!

Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it's now selling off stolen data

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Re: "There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Capita"

Not when the well connected do it. Much like all crimes.

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Re: So ....

Well played. Well played.

Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of

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Re: UEFI

Goddamn UEFI straight to hell.

And while we're at it, Bitlocker as well.

Now combine the two and appreciate my true anger.

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Re: Firmware used to have a consumer market.

OMG I had honestly forgotten about EPROM machines, both computer and programmer. I've not seen one in decades.

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Re: Firmware ...

What is this Tech Manual you speak of? I thought they went extinct a long time ago?

To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots

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Re: The Big Difference....

...and the golden parachutes.

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Default condition

When admitting to an error isn't seen as a failure, improvement easy to achieve, says pilot-turned-CISO

Yes but never admitting fault is the default human condition, isn't it?

(yes, that's a rhetorical question)

Tencent said to have demoted and fired tech bosses after brief outages

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Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

You're right. It was as little as 2 years ago.

https://apnews.com/article/world-news-tianjin-china-asset-management-2f5d1248477a8e044d9fa7b6899ca406

LOL! my bad! As little as last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/former-official-regulator-sentenced-death-by-china-corruption-2022-06-02/

What was your point?

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Re: There is a lot to dislike about Chinese society

Where doesn't it?

Which sucks, but here we are.

Compatibility mess breaks not one but two Windows password tools

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So business as usual

See title.

It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary

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Re: Never attribute to malice

I used to work in advertising. It's one big scam.