* Posts by Bloakey1

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ICO 'making enquiries' into bizarre shopper data spill at M&S

Bloakey1

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"So either not a cache problem, or Marks & Sparks were very naughty and weren't encrypting the pages."

I heard that they were having cache <sic> flow problems but this one seems to be worse than my wildest fears.

I once asked a Scottish systems administrator how big her cache was on a support call. She heard "how big is your gash?" and I got an embarrassed reply of "no bigger than any other girl of my age". Even now I cringe at the thought.

Deutsche Bank's creaking IT systems nervously eyeing bins

Bloakey1

Re: LOL

I say old chap, I do not catch your banter.

As to the cloud, anybody that gives up their control of their data to others and all the inherent risk therein, deserve all they get.

I must make sure to close any accounts outstanding with aforementioned bank.

UK in Frenchy cyber love-in to ward off 'information bomb'

Bloakey1

Re: By the absence of their sharing of critical information will you know them

I say old chap, I really do not catch your banter.

Bloakey1

"Does anyone else worry that while we are preparing to defend against a "cyber war", large groups of really nasty people in the Middle East and Africa are running rampage with actual deadly weapons."

I do, I am also concerned that we are using multi-million pound drones and missile systems when the enemy is effectively using their version of smart weaponry to whit: the suicide bomber and the donkey / vehicle mark 1. their systems are often more targeted, accurate and destructive than ours and their rules of engagement would gladden the heart of any squaddie.

KARMA POLICE: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever

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Re: Having given this a lot of thought, there is only one way to stop them!

I say old chap, that sounds a tad in the extreme.

How about if we get jolly batey with them and turn our backs whilst making a harrumphing noise? That should tell those rum coves what we think of them and their nefarious activities.

Bloakey1
Joke

Re: 'well unless you are a crim, what have you got to hide?'

"I told theme I had nothing to hide.

The judge still did me for Indicant Exposure."

Well then , that is a sure sign of your guilt.

Bloakey1

Re: Meanwhile, back in the real world....

"So, you are an extremist?"

We are all extremists when viewed from another view point.

'eBay' of targeted attacks infiltrated by ex- Shin Bet intel men

Bloakey1

I know, I inserted a smiley so re-read the post.

Have worked with them in past and Matkal through cooperation in Multinational Security Force but it was a long time ago.

Does your mother know that you are on this forum mixing with the Goys?

Bloakey1

עבודה גרועה.

Through their incompetence they triggered alarms, caused the forum to close down and denied other people from obtaining and / or receiving some very nice intelligence and the ability to recruit informers and maintain an 'in' on the site and its activities.

Anyway, what are Sin Bet 'doods' doing working on international issues, surely they are internal and satellite only? <insert smiley>.

SONY HACK WAS WAR says FBI, and 'we're still struggling to hire talent'

Bloakey1

Re: stupid FBI

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" help the man"

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I remember him from the 70's. it was always the man what did it, any little one of life's niggles and it was the man what did it. I believe he was particularly intrusive in your life if you were non Caucasian.

Scotsman cools PC with IRN-BRU, dubs it the 'Aye Mac'

Bloakey1

Re: This is Nothing New

Cool, it even tells you how to build your own modem. How quaint

Nice to know you can still buy a Courier modem, God those were the days. Demon was the only show in town and you started with a Unix console and then went about downloading your copy of Turnpike or whatever from there.

Happy days, no Web, no AOL users and Usenet was a nice troll free place.

'Walter Mitty' IT manager admits to buying gun on dark web

Bloakey1

Re: Pen-y-bores Entrapment?

"Wow, how do you manage to type with that chip on your shoulder?"

He can type because he is a well balanced individual and he keeps a chip on both shoulders.

Bloakey1

Re: Luger

"Was going to call you out on this ... and then remembered, seeing as I actually live next to Morden, that you're actually right on the money. Primarily Czech stuff, funnily enough..."

Ahh, well there you go, twas ever thus and the Krays were regulars in the pub opposite Morden cemetary. I live far away now but still have a house In Merton Park as a pension investment.

CZ pistols, hmmm, they do a very good PPK.

Bloakey1

Re: Luger

"Bloakeys El Reg colleagues described him as a “fantasist” and a “Walter Mitty type character”"

I do not have any El Reg Colleagues !!! Go over to ARSSE and you will me find me chatting amongst my peers about military life in foreign climes, ooh and same nomenclature as well.

My I.T. degrees seem a bit like fantasy, all that alcohol and all that free time, those were the days.

Bloakey1

Re: Entrapment?

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"A real one. And like people who want to be MPs, the very last person who should have a gun, is someone who wants to have a gun. They are - by definition - dangerous people."

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Rubbish. Tell that to ex squaddies. hunters. Olympic shooters etc.

Oh, and how dare you compare potential murderers, mass shooters and gun nuts to politicians, it is slander of the worst type. Paedophiles, rapists, spammers, PSI companies, lawyers and politicians all live in the same bucket as far as I am concerned.

Bloakey1

"An potential possession in what can only be described as Weapons Of Mass Destruction in a country that fears anything above the fruit knife."

How dare you sir. A fruit knife that is smaller than the palm of your hand, is sheathed in a steel scabbard and securely locked with a Chubb lock and stored in a steel cabinet with various dead locks is perfectly acceptable.

It is butter knives that are the menace and are the cause of death for more wealthy Dowagers than the police would care to admit.

Ban them I say, think about the children growing up to be dowagers.

Bloakey1

Re: Luger

Yes it is an LC9 but El Reg is not renown for its knowledge of firearms and one picture of a gun is equal to any other.

Personally I would go with the MAC 50, Browning Hi Power or in my latter years the Beretta 92f.

It would have been easier for this chap to have gone down to Lunnon and to have spoken with a few geezers down Morden or Mitcham way. He would then have had access to some of the finest firearms that the Balkan people ever produced.

Failing that he could have come to my local pub had a few pints and then walked across the road and bought any pistol up to 7.65 legally.

Muppet and a walt extraordinaire.

Witness Apple's iPhone-iPad extravapalooza here in our no-hate zone

Bloakey1

Re: Well, thanks

Agreed. My heart rate increased and i was pouring with sweat at the thought of such a glorious day. A day when Windoze Lusers and Android pussies were put firmly in their place.

Then I suddenly realised that I did not give a fsck and that none of my money would be spent on these products.

http://lastcrazy.com/and-not-a-single-fuck-was-given-that-day/

'A word processor so simple my PA could use it': Joyce turns 30

Bloakey1

Re: Proper manuals

"Proper manuals were an invaluable feature of many pre-internet computers, I reckon. Even humble creatures like the Dragon 32 and CPD464 came with one. Great stuff."

Pre Internet? the Inertnet <sic> was around in the late 60s , the Wibbly Wobbly Web came later when the Berners-Lee chap brought us an avalanche of AOL and Compuserve users and enough CDs to make baby Jesus cry. Then the trolls and spammers came and those halcyon days ended.

I remember these machines, I went from one of them to an Amstrad PPC640DD, with Lotus Symphony and Xtreegold for a bit of file action. the modem was blisteringly fast and Bulletin Boards were a doddle to access.

Et voilà: Violated Versailles vagina might stay violated

Bloakey1

Re: Er, why are we following this?

Exactly. the juxtaposition twixt art and life show clear parallels to the human condition and giant pudendae.

That is art speak for racists are a bunch of giant c***s. As to whether it is art or not i will leave it up to the behoider, but I personally would not have it in my garden as it would upset my gnomes and make my missus jolly batey.

Reg reader shares AshMad blackmail email about which he gives 'zero f***s'

Bloakey1

Re: Legal precedent

<snip off quoted court case that never was>

"But then I am a firm believer that if you can't tell your wife about it then you probably shouldn't be doing it."

Tell her when making love that her sistser is better at it than she. You will have to hang on but you will have the ride of your life.

I actually agree, my wife once told me I was brutally honest.

Daredevil Brit lifts off in 54-prop quinquaquadcopter

Bloakey1

Re: Pure Garden Shed Boffinry....

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"Ok.. maybe not boffinry but parts-filddling."

Nothing like removing the context to make a remark.

Sooooo, what you do in private in your shed should be kept there. What happens in the shed stays in the shed.

I tried some boffinry with my SO in the shed and she was having none of it, so yes after that I did fiddle with some parts.

Bloakey1

"has the CAA been advised of this? Does he have a pilots licence? Is the aircraft approved / licenced? Is he insured for public liability - he's in a public park?"

Fsck me. Every time I go to the toilet now I have to do a risk assessment and follow the check list;

Seatbelt on.

Helmet on and pointed towards bowl.

Glasses on in case of splash-back.

Legs braced and back straight to avoid strain injury.

Bloody health and safety!!!

This thing is awesome yet useless, as awesome in its futility as the floppy disk RAID array, yet I love it and will cherish the memory of seeing it.

Floppy RAID array, a whole 4 megabytes of awesome storage potential;

http://macguild.org/raid.html

Stingray stung: FBI told 'get a warrant'

Bloakey1

"So right.

It doesn't matter how many laws and checkpoints are in place if we can't reliably determine that the data collected is actually deleted when it's supposed to be."

The Brits tried to use one of these on Julian Assange / Ecuadorian embassy. The data on it had been so thouroughly cleansed that it was still loaded up with the settings of its last use. Namely targeting a gangster in Eastern Europe. Imagine young Julian's surprise when he found that he was connected to Bulgarian Telecoms (something like that).

I suppose the upside would be that you do not get billed for the calls.

French hacker besmuts road sign right under Les Plods' noses

Bloakey1

Re: "the Francophone hacker"

added to cope with Edit by poster.

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" Protip: You ain't gonna pass an exam in "grammaire française"."

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I already have done so and from a fairly prestigious academic establishment in Paris.

"Full disclosure: Writing in french is part of my job description. "Dont acte"."

Hmmm, if that is the case, what happened with "french"<sic> which as we all know is French in English?

As for " Dont acte" <sic> should that not be "Don't acte"? although I am not sure where you are going with that particular linguistic mix.

Ohhh and by the way, I am not "matey", Matey or any other silly nomenclature intended as a pejorative side swipe.

Bloakey1

Re: "the Francophone hacker"

"Yeah well, maybe you should just learn to write french first, matey."

I speak fluent French both high and street, I can also write in the language and even read when my glasses are to hand.

Perhaps you ought to learn how to write in English and then you would find that "French" would follow in a fairly transparent manner.

Bloakey1

Re: "the Francophone hacker"

"As ususal, Google doesn't know its arse from its elbow and is trying to be too clever with technology."

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Well said that man and agreed on validity of both words.

I served in the French Foreign Legion with a chap from Alsace Lorraine whose Legion name was Jean Kuhl. My how we laughed at that one.

Bloakey1

Re: "the Francophone hacker"

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"Zones piétones (should be: "Zones piétonnes")"

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I would not like to be a "couille dans le potage" but you are wrong, in fact as wrong as a very wrong thing. Think context as in one who walks and a place dedicated to people who walk.

As for El Reg. saying couille meaning testicle, that is utter balls and loses the pejorative / offensive intent of M. Hackeur <sic>

Prepare to be Thunderstruck: What if 'deuszu' ISN'T the Ashley Madison hacker?

Bloakey1

Re: "For all we know, Zu may be a dog on the internet."

I told my psychiatrist that I felt like a dog, had panic attacks near lamp posts and had taken to covertly sniffing ladies front bottoms!

He said "OK, go over and lie on the couch".

To which I replied "I am not allowed on the couch!"

Bloakey1

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"And is therefore working for a TLA or the Isreali's."

No, he is working for the Chi-Knees and the Leban-Knees, the Is-Really's do not come into it and neither do the Pale-Stinians, or the Portu-Geese.

As for TLA, they went bankrupt shortly after Locherbie.

FireEye intern VXer pleads guilty for Darkode droid RAT ruse

Bloakey1

Re: admin known as Sp3cal1st

Might be tipping hat to military, SP3 used to be equivalent to E4 and was a master specialist as for Cal and 1st that could be unit stuff.

Adulterers antsy as 'entire' Ashley Madison databases leak online

Bloakey1

Re: Security Flack

It appears that Ashley Madison's security was way better than some of the other hacks out there. They were using Bcrypt for example to encrypt passwords.

I am not seeing enough background chatter to suggest that this is truly genuine.

Bloakey1

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"They are as bad as the people who were site members."

Talking of members, are we going to see all those dreadful willy pics that go with this type of account? I for one do not fancy 9.6 gigs of that.

Bloakey1

Re: Karma?

But my karma will run over your dogma.

Who is to say it is not all a hoax and the data has been scraped and aggregated from elsewhere?

Karma my arse.

Bloakey1

Re: anon obviously

"If they have card and billing details, they are more likely to be real."

Yes but from what site? Argos or Costco perhaps?

Bloakey1

Re: anon obviously

"And impotent."

It sounds like you would need to be very impotent <sic> to be on the VIP web site.

Who is to say that it is not a load of old rubbish scraped from elsewhere and posted as coming from this kind of site? Someone might be trying to stir up some social perturbation.

Stand by for viral postings from Twook and Facebitter telling women / men to check if their man / partner is on the site. Job done, social armageddon imminent, but ohh the horror, think of the children.

Armageddon out of here, toodle pip.

ZTE Nubia Z9 Mini: The able Android smartie the company won't sell you

Bloakey1

Re: Dual sim

I am using the Alcatel onetouch <sic> dual sim and it is the best phone I have used in years. The battery life is impressive and it turns itself off at night and on in the morning saving further power.

Well done those French chappies.

Apple's AirDrop abused by 'cyber-flashing' London train perv

Bloakey1

Re: Is it flashing...

No it comes under disposing of swollen goods and she can be arrested for receiving swollen goods.

Bloakey1

Re: Violated from looking at a dick pic?

I am heartened to learn that flashers have adapted this technology and have embraced the concept of content delivery.

Well done that flasher!

I get annoyed when the term disaster or massacre involves the death of a few people. It seems to trivialise the whole thing and leave us no term to use when a genuine disaster comes about. Ohhh and the term hero has been much abused as well. Hmmmm, must go as I am dropping into rant mode.

Perhaps middle-aged blokes SHOULDN'T try 34-hour-long road trips

Bloakey1

Re: Pop quiz

i'll lend you one if you want ;) I have multiples just for the hell of it.

The old bill over here have lightened up a bit of late. They don't seem to impound them any more but just levy a fine.

Be careful on the N125 at the moment, it is a veritable death trap and will be until the end of August.

Bloakey1

Re: A few things

"I don't know what your time is worth, but the figures mentioned are €30,000 for a 5.7 litre car. The two cars in my driveway are 4.5 litre twin turbo and a 7.6 litre normally aspirated. Disappointed as I am to have to say this, 34 hours of my time is worth far, far less than €30,000 at any hourly contract rate I can aspire to charging in my wettest wet dreams."

Agreed. I live in the aforementionade country and it is a right pain in the you know what. I have four cars and it would cost me a lot to register them all. One of them that I did look at registering (called matriculating here) cost 5 grand to buy and would cost 24,000 to register.

It is madness and they have been taken to various European courts over the matter and have lost every time. It is however more financially beneficial to pay the subsequent fine and then keep on fleecing the people with foreign cars.

Hurrah! Windfarms produce whopping one per cent of EU energy

Bloakey1

Well the Portuguese have managed to hit 100 percent supply a few times in the past. They have wind farms everywhere and are one of the leaders in the field. It just shows that it can be done and when you factor in all those people with solar panels that supply the grid with their excess one can see the potential.

New study into lack of women in Tech: It's not the men's fault

Bloakey1

Re: How about construction then?

"its a bit of a self fulfilling thing: after all who wants to go into a profession dominated by the opposite sex?"

i remember the 'good old days of the eighties' I saw many a job advert along the lines of:

"Male or Female bricklayers wanted. Must be willing to strip to the waist in summer".

I kid you not.

IT in Iran: Servers sold on the grey market, and the rule of FOSS

Bloakey1

Re: Tragic

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"As for the daesh now running amok.. our buddies the Sauds are responsible that nightmare. That bit of history way back when the royal family consolidated their power and started funding them points the direction this is headed. Regime changes in the mid-East are never a good thing in the long term."

Daesh is a creation of the US as is the house of Saud. Do not forget that the house of Saud funded, bailed out and otherwise supported a certain war criminal called George W. Bush throughout his career.

Bloakey1

Re: @Bloakey1

"Indeed, I worked for a few years with an Iranian and we still see each other at conferences once a year. Lovely bloke, very philosophical."

Yep. I fought in Lebanon in the eighties and I always said that while the US was playing poker the Iranians were playing chess. They are a sophisticated people and have centuries of history behind them whereas the US , well the less said the better.

A certain Eisenhower once wrote as he was leaving office:

"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."

Bloakey1

Phewww, I thought you were going to say you went in via an already crowded balcony.

I like Iranians, a very cultured lot. I once had occasion to sup mint tea with Hezbollah in South Lebanon and they were nice chaps and not crazies at all. We are living in a strabge world at the moment where the USA's declared axis of evil are all being brought back into the fold. We are indeed living in strange an interesting times where the main enemy now is a creation of the USA as were the few mutations before.

I think it is time to sanction the US!!!

So what the BLINKING BONKERS has gone wrong in the eurozone?

Bloakey1

Re: Be careful what you wish for

Hmmmm.

The Germans know exactly what they are doing and in particular regard to Greece.

They went through all of this when East Germany collapsed and was taken on board by West Germany. The even had an entity to absorb all of the public businesses and assets so that they could be sold off in an efficient manner (Treuhand). Thie approach did not work for them either and that entity was vilified in the public mind and lost money hand over fist.

Who was the man behind this calamitous change of events and denudation of the East's assets? Why a chap called Wolfgang Schäuble.

Funny that, I wonder if it will work second time around.

Google gives away 100 PETABYTES of storage to irritate AWS

Bloakey1

Re: Good News, I Think

Putting your data in the cloud is like lending your wife to the bloke down the pub.

You can't guarantee her integrity or his.

you are still legally responsible for her.

you do not know if she will come back when you need her.

Will she come back in a timely manner if at all.

When and if she does come back she might be corrupted.

She might not come back in the right format (pregnant).

She might have been interfered with and no longer be useful to a native app.

The permutations are endless, I keep my data close because I care.

Want longer battery life? Avoid the New York Times and The Grauniad

Bloakey1

Re: I've noticed the effect.

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"Must be quite a power gobbler."

That made me smile. I had visions of the eighties, shoulder pads and lots of hair and a certain secretary who .....

For those of you running Firefox, have a look at lightbeam and see what it tells you about your favourite sites.

Bloakey1

Re: Graun Groan

The worst site that I go on is the independent, the Grauniad is OK although it gets jolly batey about ad blockers.