Re: Confidential?
So, if I link a person to a unique identifier, and then attach other personal data to it, its not a privacy concern? I must be stupid.
Posts by Anne-Lise Pasch
265 posts • joined 31 Jul 2008
Who are the last people you'd expect to spill thousands of student records? A computer science dept? What a fantastic guess
We did Nazi see this coming... Internet will welcome Earth's newest nation with, sigh, a brand new .SS TLD
Everyday doings of a metropolitan techie: Stob's software diary
Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently
Western Digital deploys heatsink on remodelled M.2 to tempt gamers
The lighter side of HMRC: We want your money, but we also want to make you laugh
RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit
Pewdiepie fanboi printer, Chromecast haxxx0r retreats, says they're 'afraid of being caught'
Tuesday 8th January 2019 09:06 GMT
'Someone had to play the legal card...'
If I found your door unlocked, walked into your house, put PewDiePie grafitti on the wall, and left muttering, "that'll teach you not to lock your door..." I'd expect there to be legal consequences. And I'd expect someone to give me a right Gibbs on the back side of my head for liking PewDiePie.
The fastest, most secure browser? Microsoft Edge apparently
Privacy, security fears about ID cards? UK.gov's digital bod has one simple solution: 'Get over it'
Remember Misco? Staff win protective award at employment tribunal
Peak tech! Bacon vending machine signals apex of human invention
Why millions of Brits' mobile phones were knackered on Thursday: An expired Ericsson software certificate
OM5G... Qualcomm teases next Snapdragon chip for phones: The 855 with a fingerprint Sonic Screwdriver, er, Sensor
Marriott's Starwood hotels mega-hack: Half a BILLION guests' deets exposed over 4 years
Japanese cyber security minister 'doesn't know what a USB stick is'
I found a security hole in Steam that gave me every game's license keys and all I got was this... oh nice: $20,000
My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day
British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey
Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)
Tuesday 6th November 2018 14:45 GMT
Re: Fed up with these nonstop security issues
> "And, therein lies the problem.... the "miscreants" would probably never know anything about this let alone exploit it if these issues were never made public to begin with."
Snowden told me that the US Govm't were doing it. There was one bunch of miscreants using unpublicised zero-days.
Intel peddles latest Xeon CPUs – E-series and 48-core Cascade Lake AP – to soothe epyc mygrayne
GitHub lost a network link for 43 seconds, went TITSUP for a day
Memo to Microsoft: Windows 10 is broken, and the fixes can't wait
Wednesday 24th October 2018 11:27 GMT
Re: I stopped right here...
Actually, "At Bing, the task of creating programmatic tests was moved onto developers, instead of dedicated testers."
The failure was *moving* programmatic tests and not *collaborating on*.
Suggests the developers had a culture of not testing themselves (In the Bing team - This may or may not be true) and that would certainly help if they started doing some basic unit/integration tests.
Roughly 30 years after its birth at UK's Acorn Computers, RISC OS 5 is going open source
Thought Patch Tuesday was a load? You gotta check out this Oracle mega-advisory, then
GitHub grabs a piece of the Actions: 'A project that will do for software development what we did for the pull request'
Virgin Media? More like Virgin Meltdown: Brit broadband ISP falls over amid power drama
Tuesday 16th October 2018 07:00 GMT
Losing broadband is really annoying...
... I get that. But tweets from people raging that they 'lost 3 clients' etc, also really annoy me. Especially in London. If your business relies on stable internet... ensure you have at least one failover. Even if its a mobile phone dongle. Although why it takes ISPs so long to route around problems is beyond me, especially when this is what routers were literally designed for.
Super Micro China super spy chip super scandal: US Homeland Security, UK spies back Amazon, Apple denials
Tuesday 9th October 2018 06:31 GMT
https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/1k9EQK/forsvarsdepartementet-kjoepte-utstyr-for-533-000-droppes-etter-kina-avsloering
"Norske Nasjonal sikkerhetsmyndighet har imidlertid bekreftet overfor VG at de har vært kjent med «problemstillingen» knyttet til produsenten siden juni i år. "
"However, the Norwegian National Security Authority has confirmed to VG that they have been familiar with the "problem" associated with the manufacturer since June this year."
Oh really?
First it came for your desktop, now Windows 10 1809 is coming for your Things
Monday 8th October 2018 14:03 GMT
Re: Is anyone actually using this?
Much as I enjoy a good MS bashing, the .Net Core is actually pretty good, open source and on point. And I'd much rather neophyte IoT developers use a framework than reroll security defences ad nauseam, because otherwise we end up with, well, the sh** we have now.
UK space comes to an 'understanding' with Australia as Brexit looms
Haven't updated your Adobe PDF software lately? Here's 85 new reasons to do it now
Why did Visual Studio Marketplace go down in the Great Azure TITSUP? Ask Azure DevOps
Thursday 27th September 2018 07:18 GMT
Re: Cloud vs Banksters
"What happens when an organization gets so reliant on Cloud"
The 'cloud' is just another deployment target. If you can't switch deployment targets, you're tooled incorrectly. Locking yourself into services (Azure-specific APIs etc) are more of an issue, but if your code is decoupled and agnostic, switching to another provider isn't immediate and free, but it shouldn't be an exorbitant burden either.
This is 2018. Digital-aware businesses should know their estate and domain much better than the hide-bound days. And most 'big' business has already faced that pain enough times to have adapted. Or died trying.
Facebook sued for exposing content moderators to Facebook
Curiosity's computer silent on science, baffling boffins
Microsoft Azure gains Availability Zones and Immutable Blobs
Wednesday 19th September 2018 12:27 GMT
Re: "can be created and read, but not updated or deleted"
Harold Shipman changed medical records in a murder spree. There's one use case. Anywhere where you can't allow changes to a document, but to *supersede it* (and keep a time-retained copy) has a use case. Financial contracts are one of these. Can't go and change the SLAs after the fact...
Am curious how this works with a GDPR subject-delete request.
Who's hacking into UK unis? Spies, research-nickers... or rival gamers living in res hall?
Euro bureaucrats tie up .eu in red tape to stop Brexit Brits snatching back their web domains
Thunderstruck: Azure Back in Black(out) after High Voltage causes Flick of the Switch
VMware 'pressured' hotel to shut down tech event close to VMworld, IGEL sues resort giant
Detroit sh*t shifter's operating costs waste away with Oracle's cloud
New age discrim row: Accenture, Facebook sued by sales boss for favoring 'new blood'
Hmm, there's something fishy about this graph charting AMD's push into Intel's server turf
Things that make you go hmmm: Do crypto key servers violate GDPR?
Wednesday 1st August 2018 07:04 GMT
Re: An email address is not unique to a person.
But its enrichment data that can be used to identify someone. salesmanager101@anymailprovider.com may not be a direct identifier, nor is ipaddress of smallcompany.com, but if you reverse lookup the ip to small company, then ring and ask to speak to the sales manager, you just personally identified someone from two pieces of enrichment data. And this happens with most pre-GDPR lead management systems.
