Posts by Kevin Smith

LHC has created a portal already!

.. or at least, I seem to have woken up today in a parallel universe where dangerously under-educated cleaners and tractor mechanics are more knowledgeable regarding physics than actual physicists.

Or perhaps they are just idiots with delusions of grandeur who don't realise when to stop spouting drivel?

Nah, you're right, it's definitely evil LHC shenanigans.

Injection...

"Would an unsuspecting user who connected to a rogue open router realize that when they clicked their bookmark for GMail, it displayed http://mail.googlie.com instead of https://mail.google.com?"

An attacker wouldn't even need to redirect the user like that - if they connect through the attacker's equipment then any request the user makes can be misrepresented as whatever the hell the attacker likes - mail.google.com can be a fake-but-otherwise-identical page hosted on the attacker's own machine, which stores login details and then uses those details to return the real page from google.

The computer-illiterate consultants at my (UK local government)workplace are currently engaged in a project to get wireless access enabled across the organisation - this was originally disabled as it was correctly deemed impossible to ensure the security of our data when connected to an external network. As ever in local government, the popularity/political vote won out over common sense, so if you live in the UK you may want to check on YOUR local government's policy regarding public network access - they're only too happy to trade the security of your personal data for the marginal political gain of allowing staff the convenience of connecting to unsecured networks in public places.

FFS

Guy, if this is the usual quality of your "journalism" (I'm not going to go to your piece of shit site to check because that would be another couple of minutes of my life I'll never get back), please do us all a favour and never again clog up the web with your fucking drivel. You are a pathetic, mewling, talentless waste of space.

Sorry if you don't find this to be constructive criticism, but frankly I can't find anything constructive to say and even if I could this poor excuse for an article would not merit taking the time to do so.

El Reg, what the fuck do you think you're doing publishing this shite?

Mac Ads...

On the subject of power cables, I'm amazed no-one has mentioned the Mac ads plastered all over bus stops featuring cool Mr. Mac and tightarse Mr. PC. The most amusing I've seen has to be one I saw a while back where the poor marketing plebs had obviously found themselves unable to think up a credible case to promote their product and so came up with:

Mr. PC (in wheelchair with cast on his leg): "I fell over my laptop power cable and broke my leg."

Mr. Mac (grinning) : "Mac laptop power cables have a release system so you can't trip on them."

...because damned if THAT isn't high on my list of purchasing criteria! I'm surprised they didn't go into all the other benefits of not breaking your leg - like being able to escape more easily when said power cable burns your house down, perhaps?