Posts by Amorous Cowherder

Hmmmm

Anyone else hear Huey Lewis playing in their head when they read/watched this article?!

Superb idea!

With a heavy dose of sarcasm....when all the software in the world has a "Crack on Demand" API built into it, unicorns will dance in Times Square and there will be love and rainbows everywhere as the bad guys will be able to be found with amazing ease by anyone able to use a keyboard and mouse. The world will be a be beautiful place of openness, happiness and joy!

Oh so you mean Power Armor?

I for one welcome out Brotherhood of Steel defenders with their Power Armor and obsession with gathering and perserving technologies, we'll be grateful when the Super Mutants and feral Ghouls start trying to take over large parts of Reading and the southern counties!

"You can thus build a factory, that can build robots.."

Well duh! Of course your can, didn't you own the "Droid Factory"(tm) when you were a kid? All those spare bits that got lost and still only managed to make 3 types of droids!

Oh yes, ISPs blocking Pirate Bay and many other torrent indexers, that only takes the addition of the a five letter word beginning with "P" to be suffixed in the website search and you're back on your merry way to "warez" nirvana.

"(can you even remember what the internet was like in 2014?) "

What the heck? Typical moronic journo type with a 3 second attention span.

I remember using the internet back in 1993, right through to now. I remember seeing the technologies begin and improve. I remember dialing up to my ISP after 8pm back in the mid 90s, as the calls were cheaper at night. I remember the first time I used a 512kb pipe to my ISP and how lightning fast it seemed. I remember using Napster when there were only a few thousand people on it. I remember using IRC chans for the first time,"meeting" fellow game players and music fans.

So yes I remember a heck of a lot over the last, almost 25 years of using the internet.

So no real DR plan then!

"Perhaps more problematic is the fact that there was no backup provision at all for the majority of systems."

AND

"All our data was backed up and the business continuity plans in place meant those services were manually delivered."

So basically another half-arsed, "shit never goes wrong why spend money" security/DR plan then! So no live fed DR site for a critical city infrastructure. We'll just back up the data but we've no provision for a DR situation in which to restore the sodding critical data, not even a standby agreement with our kit provider to supply XYZ kit in an emergency. Cue frantic calls to IT staff and IT purchasing dept to try to arrange a site/some kit in a few hours, only to discover the only spare SAN array like the one we need is sitting in a customs somewhere in a Dutch cargo port.

IT: "Can we have a proper DR plan put in, here's the details of what we need."

Management: "HOW FOOKING MUCH?!!"

IT: "OK, we have 'PLAN B', it's dead cheap and we can do a few backups for a couple of quid but it won't work very in an emer...."

Management: "Yep, that's the one! Make it happen!"

FFS!

£1bn...they could have hired more security staff to look over mass surv data they're collecting and maybe nab more "bad guys", at least then we'd have something useful to show for all that dosh piss up the wall!

“We are Grey Hat Hackers. Not skids not fakes not wannabes,”

Rather than wasting time performing DDOS attacks when they're bored, perhaps they would be wise to spend a little more time in after-school English classes.

I'm at a complete loss, do I laugh or cry?

I appreciate that some people are not technically minded. I myself do not know that much about the legal profession or accounting but the difference is that I wouldn't get up in front of thousands of people, who are pinning their futures on my abilities to help them, and start spouting off an absolute load of utter tosh about which I know sweet FA!

Is this another of those "Must have admin privs, access to DC" pre-requisite things?

If so then if I have that level of access to a DC, all I have to do is code up a DLL in C that hooks into the Windows LSA API, drop it on a DC, hook the DLL into the registry and it'll start spitting out clear text names and passwords every time a user changes their password!

We need to grow up first

We're too immature to be allowed off this planet. We simply don't have the understanding of ourselves and enough appreciation about how to behave. We're like grounded teenagers, slamming doors, breaking stuff and not giving a monkey's toss about things around us. On an individual basis, we many not have the mental fortitude to cope with years of "captivity" in tin cans, floating about up there without it having some form detrimental effect on our health.

We need to grow up a lot before we allowed out on our own.

Bit of a self righteous prick then!

What business is it is of his or any of us how much time someone wants to spend sending pictures of themselves to their mates? That's their problem not yours. Same as it's not my business to find random junkies and try to get them of their poison of choice.

The problem today, too much obsession with other's business. I suggest this self-righteous twat and his gadget find something far more productive to do with his talents than bothering people who aren't bothering him!

Care, consistency and quality at every stage, just how software development should be...shame some of the most expensive software we pay tons for, isn't maintained with quite the same attention to detail!

Plain English please!

"military information support operations "

What's wrong with the word propaganda? It's a perfectly good word that describes exactly what it is, just as other words like "war" and "death", words are nothing to be frightened of. Just like that nonsense during the last little holiday the US Army hadm when they decided to "pacify Fallujah", rather than "bomb the **** out of a large town"!

Seriously, you're trying to conquer hearts and minds of very impressionable and sometimes, slightly dim people who are fooled by the crap spewed by IS, and as such if wish to get everyone behind it let's try to speak clearly and concisely so everyone knows what's going on.

Oh dear

"The return of the worm has seen the reported infection of police body cameras. Cameras from supplier Martel Electronics came pre-infected with the malware, according to researchers at Florida-based iPower."

There's a company with the need for a QA dept!

Ah, the biz version of SEUCK!

And just like SEUCK, it will...erm, well suck!

That there's the problem!

The legal systems are so disperate and stuck in the dark ages. Germany says it's the ISP's problem for allowing it, Sweden says it's not. UK says it's both the ISP and the users. Other countries say it's the providers and/or users! What a mess!

The internet is transnational, it doesn't care about borders or political borders. If the copyright holders want to sort this mess out to their advantage they need present an organised front in all countries and work towards a common goal. All this fragmented action does is make the legal eagles that bit richer with every ridiculous case that comes up.

What will this give?

Already reports coming through that various agencies knew that something big was going down before the Paris killers struck. I believe the services had alerted the local council in Brussels that a couple of these nutters where heading their way and were planning something nasty.

So remind me again, if they already have enough info to know what the nutjobs are up to, why do they need more info on the rest of us? Oh silly me, of course! So they farm can farm off the resourcing for this fecking huge white elephant to the tech supply companies that the MPs are on the boards of! Duh!

Cyber....bollocks!

We need more money. How can we secure it? Oh yes, put the prefix "cyber-" and instantly it becomes all techno and important.

A right load of cyber-wank!