NSA code backported, crims cuffed, leaky AWS S3 buckets, and more

Crime and unniceness: Totally mainstream

But why are Shutterstock images so bad?

"... we at El Reg never provide positive coverage in exchange for freebies."

Heck, you'll even post negative coverages for free!

Of course a pint or six does help the conversational ebb and flow...

Russians had actually got into voting rolls computers before the 2016 election

Two points.

First, somewhere between most and nearly all* voter registration information maintained by US states is publicly available to political parties, candidates, and others for a copying fee. The most important question is whether the hackers gained power to change any of the information, which could have disrupted voting activity to some degree by either allowing illegal voting or preventing legal voting. Either would be bad, but apparently no such alteration occurred.

Second, there is little, if anything here that was not reported a year or more ago. My recollection at the time was that a number of states discounted, pushed back, or ignored DHS notifications given them before the election. Indeed, the NBC News article linked here refers back to an NBC News report in September, 2016. DHS pushed back before Obama left office and declared election management to be critical infrastructure - and some states continued to resist US government intervention aimed at preventing foreign government intervention. It is not clear why this is news again now ecept that some of the states may well have done little and there is another electon less than a year off.

* Election operations are a state government function. What is collected, maintained, and publicly available about voters varies by state.

Meh

Hilariously so many people are defending Microsoft Windows 10 going no it's not spying on everything you do... Just wait till they roll it out across all branches of Government where it's used exclusively.

Then try a search for Destroy Windows 10 Spying, That's where all those Open Source Guru's and Programmers hang out to share code. Then once you've downloaded DWS Lite.exe and clicked it, you tell me what its doing and disabling? Scotch mist is it?

So sick and tired of reading Biased articles defending a company that has even been found to be lying again and again about it's own engineers back-dooring and weakening it's own product and yes I draw that tid bit of information from FACT not Fiction. I've had the pleasure of reading the Nunes Memo and the Fusion GPS dossier both of which are available online for free. In the Memo released to congress it highlights that it was Seth Rich who hacked the DNC with a USB stick, OMG not RUSSIA!

Then he was assassinated by the CIA and an MS13 criminal hit team and Russia was Blamed very publicly on Purpose to sway public opinion in favor of the American security services.

Anyone with half a brain can instantly tell it's all garbage, in order to hack the DNC you would have to identify the internal intranet IP address from the billions in the online world, something that regretfully any programmer will inform you is physically impossible.

Whats next, more mass killings and mass shootings to sway public opinion that your Law Enforcement professionals need more power and are not the corrupt criminals we all know them to be?

The Open Hilarity

People kicking off about apples Open Boot Firmware being Openly distributed - Apple takes the majority of its product source code from Open Source - 95% of it's code base comes from Open Source so no reason for Alarm there.

Microsoft where the Outfit that Punched OpenSSL full of holes for and on behalf of the FBI when they served the maintainers with a DND - "do not disclose" Microsoft is the outfit openly putting spyware in your machine - proclaiming it doesn't do that!

Redhat implanting System-D in every Linux distribution with half the Open Source programmers around the world refusing to touch it!

Android - is just an extension of Microsoft inside Open Source in the most invasive and abusive way imaginable.

ANSI-C is the "American National Standards Institute" of C written by Brian Kernigan and Dennis Ritchie, are these guys openly accusing Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan of being Kremlin Spies because they kicked back when they tried to backdoor the C library and plant a bug in the ASN.1 Compiler telling the Spooks to go do one?

The Intel CEO - caught with implanting a backdoor in his own chips with vCore and vPro then selling off all his stock options because he wanted to buy a faster Boat?

You couldn't make half this stuff up, but reading about it is surreal....

The real criminal here is Microsoft, not apple, not google, but Microsoft, they're sitting there going "oh that CEIP - Customer Experience Improvement Program, yeah that's a bit invasive we're getting rid of it next Developers update!" trying to placate everybody - They're not doing it out of the kindness of there heart I can assure you.. They're doing it because in March the EU Law comes into effect forbidding them from doing it in the first place. Looking forwards to reading all about that when it comes into effect and looking forwards to watching more of these guys go to Jail where they bloody well belong.

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Oh... you meant cheque. :)