* Posts by Anonymous C0ward

643 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jan 2012

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Hacker takes down CEO wire transfer scammers, sends their Win 10 creds to the cops

Anonymous C0ward

Any internal-internal mail that fails SPF, originates in a NIC area you don't do business in, or has a from/reply-to domain with a close misspelling, should get dropped at the inbound MX and the originating server reported to several blacklists.

OpenBSD 6.0 lands

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Linux on VAX

Some people have tried:

http://vax-linux.org

Ireland taxman: Apple got NO favours from us, at all, at all

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Re: @MonkeyCee

Well then they should be paying all that tax in America.

Having offended everyone else in the world, Linus Torvalds calls own lawyers a 'nasty festering disease'

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Linus ftw

All these crybabies need to call a fscking waaaaahmbulance.

Das ist empörend: Microsoft slams umlaut for email depth charge

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Re: Please!

But Mozart was Austrian.

UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge

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Re: The end result

Hope it's not the same judge, because that one ought to be on trial in The Hague.

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Re: Double negatives

He just needs to tell them he's developed watersports and scat fetishes.

Latest Androids have 'god mode' hack hole, thanks to Qualcomm

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M9 with latest SlimRoms

I have 2 vulns.

Your 'intimate personal massager' – cough – is spying on you

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Re: Anonymous sex

I must say, that sounds pretty hot.

Anonymous C0ward

Re: Let your fingers do the walking

The shocker?

Eurocrats to pore over Apache, KeePass code

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Re: Well...

It's easier than nginx.

For $800 you can buy internet engineers' answer to US government spying

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Black Helicopters

And if I'm paranoid enough, or my data is sensitive enough

to need one of these, how do I know the spooks haven't intercepted it and tampered with it?

How to scam $750,000 out of Microsoft Office: Two-factor auth calls to premium-rate numbers

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Thumb Up

Haha

That's genius.

OpenSSH has user enumeration bug

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Re: public / private key authentication

Mine is set up to use either private key, or password + Google Authenticator.

Starbucks bans XXX Wi-Fi

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Happy

Re: Pathetic

I'm old enough to remember how to spell hyphen...

Gaming apps, mugging and bad case of bruised Pokéballs

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Re: New Balls Please

Did she like to be Machoked?

Wannabe Prime Minister Andrea Leadsom thinks all websites should be rated – just like movies

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Re: 404

420 Enhance Your Calm error. Because they're clearly on a different planet.

Sociology student gets a First for dissertation on Kardashians

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Re: Durham? Really?

Wonder which college?

FTC wants a date with Ashley Madison's fembots

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Re: FTC was investigating the bots

If that's what floats your boat, I'm sure there's a website for that sort of thing somewhere.

Isis crisis: Facebook makes Bristol lass an unperson

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Fix the Scunthorpe problem

and people will just say "so-and-so is a complete Scunthorpe" instead.

Late night smartphone use makes women go blind

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Childcatcher

Tell you what

Late night smartphone use is making me blind too. And it's nothing to do with which side I lie on.

Kiwis prep 'permissive' space laws to help Rocket Lab get off the ground

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Devil

Re: Mahia?

Or even some not so nice ones?

London Mayor election day bug forced staff to query vote DB by hand

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"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

-- Joseph Stalin

UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits

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Re: Where I lived as a kid

In the South Park "City Wok" sense.

Should we teach our kids how to program humanity out of existence?

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Re: Barista spelling

Alice? Who the f**k is Alice?

British Airways slaps 'at risk' sticker on nearly half its app delivery dept

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Re: I've used the BA boarding pass app

Or you could print it out. But then I'm old school.

Bloke flogs $40 B&W printer on Craigslist, gets $12,000 legal bill

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Facepalm

'Murica.

(letters)

Motion Picture Ass. of America to guard online henhouse

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Does anyone own .bay?

That could get interesting.

MongoDB on breaches: Software is secure, but some users are idiots

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Re: Firewalls. They aren't just for fun.

If they were firewalled the Internet wouldn't know there was a MongoDB there at all.

Must listen: We've found the real Bastard Operator From Hell

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Nah, make it Gloomy Sunday

and wait for them all to kill themselves.

All-Python malware nasty bites Windows victims in Poland

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Bitcoin mining on CPU

Enjoy your 2p. You might get it in time for the heat death of the universe.

Taylor Swift snaps up EVEN MORE pr0n domain names

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All her songs are about exes. She ought to wonder where the common factor lies in those relationships.

UK authorities probe 'drone hitting plane at Heathrow'

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Put the lasers on the drones, for bonus evil!

Idiot millennials are saving credit card PINs on their mobile phones

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Re: What I do is

Also I'm not a millennial, I'm Generation Y dammit.

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What I do is

change all my payment card PINs to the same, and keep that one in my head

keep my passwords in LastPass, yes it's on my phone but encrypted and the app is protected by a different PIN

phone itself, and SIM, locked with another PIN, plus full device encryption with a password

2FA where possible

UK web host 123-Reg goes TITSUP, customer servers evaporate

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Out of 4 cheap VPS hosts I've used

not one has been without billing issues. Sometimes even in my favour! At least I configure them securely enough that one hosting company's admins had trouble getting in to test things when I reported the clock being wrong enough to cause problems (the host box's fault, and seriously who doesn't use NTP).

Furious customers tear into 123-reg after firm's mass deletion woes

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Re: Takes courage

In my Linux tinkering I see a lot of tests like that stick a letter x in front of the variable, so the comparison is never looking at a blank.

Zombie SCO rises from the grave again

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Re: NOT the Santa Cruz Organisation (SCO)

The same Caldera who used to have their own Linux distro? So haven't they already shot themselves in the foot with a bazooka?

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Facepalm

'Ello, Polly!

Polly!

Polly Parrot, wake up!

Monster crowdfunding total raised for Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+

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Flame

It's not a real Spectrum until you see

R Tape loading error, 0:1

Calm down, dear: Woman claims sexism in tech journalism

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Trollface

Re: You are all phallocrats

s/igger/oll/

Apple Macs, iPhones, iPads, Watches, TVs can be hijacked by evil Wi-Fi, PDFs – update now

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Re: Keeping safe and up to date.

Meh, I'm already half way there. I'm using the beta.

Web ads are reading my keystrokes and I can’t even spel propperlie

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Childcatcher

Re: "Is there a filter for 'I is an innocent old codger wot is trying to grow some cabbages?"

> Bring back amusing shaped produce is what I say!

A turnip shaped like a thingie?

2015 was the Year of the Linux Phone ... Nah, we're messing with you

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Re: All of this talk of Z80 programming...

Real programmers coded for the 1802. No hardware stack or call/return instructions! And it went into space!

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Linux

Slackware? Gentoo?

Mozilla will emit 'first version' of Servo-based Rust browser in June

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Trollface

Yo dawg

I heard you like browsers.

Computer says: Stop using MacWrite II, human!

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Heh

Little bit before my time, but I understand one can passively sniff passwords over Econet too.

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Re: TROPPUS TI

"Dildo" in Newfoundland, and of course "Fucking" in Austria, are my favourites.

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Facepalm

Re: TROPPUS TI

> Belgium!

Somebody always has to take it too far. Reported.

Cops hacked the Police National Computer to unlawfully retain suspects' biometric data

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When you're writing backend services

Don't trust anything the front-end tells you.

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