Posts by jdoe.700101

Re: but it's not always as easy as that to implement.

According to the disclaimer/warning (above) when setting up an Exchange account, yes.

When I noticed this functionality last year in the AWS WorkMail console it rang alarm bells, as I did not recall seeing the disclaimer at the time. After a bit of surfing I found (and lost) a youtube video by someone you unexpectedly confirmed using their phone, that "wipe" really did mean the full device.

Apple also confirmed it was expected behaviour and referenced - https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/deployment/dep158966b23/1/web/1.0#dep10d49a1cc

I have seen it applied in large financial organisations all the way down to team sizes of 10 or less. Meaning that there is no point trying to build a successful team, as you always need a sacrificial lamb.

I have also seen teams spread globally stacked ranked against each other, when the only thing that they have in common is that they work for same global department. e.g. is Alice in New York above or below Bob in Singapore, and where does Mallory in Bangalore sit in the rankings.

Re: Even HP Cartridges don't work in HP printers

Canon also region locks their cartridges. I've just inherited a laser printer which I'll use till it dies, and go to the print shop when I need something in colour.

You can still purchase a perpetual license for 1Password, they are just "de-emphasizing the standalone license option". When you download and start 1Password, it will prompt you to purchase a subscription, or license.

Re: Confusing.

Apple has supported 64 bit apps since 2007 (Leopard), and 64-bit kernels since 2009 (Snow Leopard), so 10-12 years of "legacy" support seems pretty good to me.

Re: he is missing the lowest hanging fruit

He may also wish to ask WhatsApp why they are not enforcing their terms and services. Because I suspect that the majority of their users are in violation of the following:

Address Book. You provide us the phone numbers of WhatsApp users and your other contacts in your mobile phone address book on a regular basis. You confirm you are authorized to provide us such numbers to allow us to provide our Services.

Re: What a mess

I had a similar issue a couple of years ago, using details from my LinkedIn account. Not having a Facebook account didn't help, but after the third account appeared, the following request fixed the problem permanently:

"Could you please let me know what you require, in order to divulge all contact information (ip, email addresses, etc...) about the creator of these accounts, so that I may file a formal complaint with the appropriate authorities?"

Knowing what we know now, they have plenty of information to track such requests back to physical device.

Speaking of carbon paper...

I used a sheet of it the other day whilst filing my tax return at the Japanese tax office. Can't remember the last time I saw anyone else use carbon paper.

Re: About time

At least Adobe isn't on the list...yet.

If the Amazon door key requires power, internet and an app, to let you, or anyone else, open it from the inside, then I'd classify it as a death trap. It's bad enough that some insurance companies in some countries require deadlocks to be installed, but at least with deadlocks, you can leave a key in them when inside.

Re: Better than the next guy

You're conflating two very different cases here. If a car is designed to safely stop and refuse to proceed autonomously because it detects a situation it can't cope with, then at most it's an inconvenience.

Assuming that the car can safely stop, that other cars nearby can also handle the car stopping, and that the car has manual controls, then yes it could be argued that its an inconvenience. However, if an autonomous car does the bulk of the driving, and leaves the unusual driving to the human, you could argue that they are making driving more dangerous. Because in such situations, the human will have less driving experience than previously.

Re: Plaintext passwords??

Unfortunately hashed passwords don't work so well if you are using them to connect to things such as Wi-Fi base stations, mail servers, etc...

Maybe Equifax is different, but when I worked for a US finance company, all trading needed to be approved by the compliance department, and such approvals were good for 24 hours. Presumably this was to ensure that embarrassing situations like this could not arise.

Re: Credit ratings

I think another part of the 2008 issue what that everyone thought that they had successfully transferred the risk, and thus weren't too concerned about credit ratings.

Re: If it did not have 2FA or certs it was asking to be hacked

The problem with failed login limits, is that it makes for the perfect denial of service attack. Ideally you take out the access control admins first, and then everyone else.

Re: 'Security' questions?

One of my banks allows the customer to choose their own web banking username. I generated mine using 1Password, and as such is 40 random characters. The password is only 10 random characters, as that is the maximum password length.

Re: As long as the H1B visa has the present restrictions, it needs to be cut

If the employer was decoupled from the visa except upon renewal, then the visa holder would be free to find a better paying job once they realised that they were being exploited. In theory this would naturally raise the salary floor and make such visa less attractive.

Re: Why has Flash been so bad?

Photoshop was actually developed externally and first? available as a BarneyScan XP, which came with the BarneyScan film scanner.

Adobes problem is that their products reached maturity years ago, and have been adding bloat in order to (try to) justify their upgrades.

Re: It is literally like this

alternatively in Java:

long time = System.currentTimeMillis();

Re: IBM

It's Better Manually