Posts by EnviableOne

Re: Where to Begin

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/bill-gates-warren-buffett-new-nuclear-reactor-wyoming-natrium

Re: 2018?

The original act was the Data Protection Act of 1984

Followed by the Access to Personal Files Act 1987

Then the Data Protection Act 1998 based on the EU directive 95/46/EC

Then the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 based on 2002/58/EC

Then the DPA 2018 based on the GDPR

In tandem, the Uk started the information security standardisation by developing BS 7799 which evolved into ISO/IEC 17799 that then became the ISO 27001 that we all love

Re: That's a nice little website you have there,

like their dominant position in the OS market...

Re: "has the potential to [..] mitigate climate change"

if you can build a static platform in geostationary orbit, you can build a space elevator and do away with all that explosion and death, and nanotubes might just provide the required strength.

Re: The guiding principle

Surely this is a Qbit.

1,0 or something

maybe a QuantumBoolean or Qlean

to be fair KU Leuven have some chops when it comes to finding vulnerabilities.

they are responsible for Plundervolt, Foreshadow and Krack

they have also displayed vulnerabilities in wearable medical tech, keyless access systems and many others.

The German government acting in its capacity is able to change the german constitution or initiate actions to that effect, very much "Intra Vires" as in within their power.

This does not affect the previous decisions of the court which are and will continue to be valid under the constitution at the time, but the representatives of the german Volk can and should be able to amend the constitution applying to them.

Re: Jeez - KIR

It's an admission of failure. we get this wrong so often that we will put code into the product to roll back any change we make, that break things, just so we can keep releasing rollups and not individual patches.

Re: Dumbf***ery abound

running FF ESR with uBlock and NoScript and no adds ... no need for added complexity of pi hole

Re: "Close copy"

what people are forgetting is that TSMC have several fabs on the Chinese mainland, namley shanghi and Nanjing

the CCP have eyes and ears in the systems.

Re: How is this the fault of "Legacy Systems"?

The NHS dont pay for that, theirs board bonuses to think about

the point is the dollar and the pound are not backed by gold silver or anything else, just like cryptocurrencies.

The UK won't go to war to protect the value of a pound; if they did, the value of it would fall considerably, the same as the dollar...

both central reserve banks have been creating their respective currencies out of thin air in their trillions, in the process of quantitative easing, that has been going on seriously to get the markets out of the 2008 crash.

I fail to see the reference to the film, about an anti-soviet conspiracy controlled by a computer.

Personally, I see all currency as a bad investment and turn cash into something tangible at the first opportunity.

I was pointing out the fact so-called "real" currencies are just as vulnerable as crypto, look at the countries that have revalued their currencies in recent years, compared to the amount of crypto that has failed.

The Venezuelan Bolivar in 2018 and 2021, the Belarusian Ruble in 2016, the Turkish lira in 2005, the multitude of re-valuations for the Zimbabwe dollar between 2006 and 2009, the Italian lira was on the verge of a re-valuation when the euro came in.

Re: Stability is something that has been missing from the Windows world for some time.

Windows 98 SE SP5 FTW!

peak windows, stable as anything and has USB support

try literally any other collaboration tool.

You'll find that Lync For business AKA teams, is clunky resource hogging and lacking in functionality

Webex, Zoom and Slack are the big guys, but a myriad of smaller providers provide similar or better services at a better quality.

The problem is, as with Excel, "Everyone" uses it, and it's "free" (Included) with your O365 costs, so the PHB and finance wonks, refuse to pay for something that's better because it is good enough...

Re: It now owns your store, your doctor, and your shopping history. What's next?

UnitedHealth Group already bought EMIS, which has the Data of 60-70% of UK GPs surgery and a direct API to TPP that have the rest.

Re: So basic ---- still!

I am starting to wonder wy OWASP publish the top 10, the original and latest are for the want of a bit of re-phrasing the same issues

Re: Proposal

Never going to happen, Open source only goes so far, until someone forces you to pay for secret sauce

Re: Trade dispute...

as i said about 5 months ago now:

depends where they list it

New York - Great for US companies

London - Vote of confidence in Post Brexit Britain

Frankfurt - Vote of confidence in Europe (no-confidence in Britain)

Hong Kong - Bad for the US, Good for china

Tokyo - Where SoftBank is at, probably the best neutral location.

but all of them will be competing, and it might end up dual listed

Re: "This update is just awful."

the difference is Apple have a test and quality control team that fixed the bugs in the beta.

and it was at least called a beta, rather than a release.

that was Jobs, and how he worked.

Apple is now basically a marketing machine that makes it look like their next minor innovation is gods gift to technology, even though Samsung, Sony or google did it 5 yrs ago

Signal + google

might as well use the Signal + Meta integration known to others as "WhatsApp"

Re: It's a shame...

this is the reason there are only 1B data subjects, not the 1.45bn citizens in china

Re: And the TLAs?

with this SCOTUS, who knows

Re: This from the company...

UPS - Undoubtably Packages Stolen

DHL - Damaged, Hijacked or Lost

TNT - Take Nothing Today

there are a million more of them

Hermes changed there name to the amount of deliveries they fail (Evri)

Re: Looking at the more general background

to most companies, ethics is a county to the northeast of London

Re: No such thing

there is private ownership, at the discretion of the the CPC

Just ask Jack Ma (Alibaba) or "Pony" Ma (Tencent)

both got hauled over the coals for not doing things the right way

Re: Powershell 7.2 improves on 5.1?

the big advantage 5.1 has over 7 is ISE.

Makes getting into PowerShell a lot easier, and means you don't have to have two windows open...

Re: Our data, not theirs to sell

The Lansley reforms brought in by the Health and social care act 2012 broke the NHS into 3000 organisations with their own boards that had to compete with each other and private providers to provide NHS branded services.

these organisations have their own boards of directors getting paid £100k+ each and have no economies of scale or power when negotiating with suppliers.

if you look NHS-wide, this has driven up costs and down quality and support, according to a study released yesterday, this has also correlated with an increase in avoidable deaths

Basically, the NHS is broken and the Torries did it.

Re: rotating passwords

a couple more resources to throw at the auditors:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/your-password-expiry-policy-may-have-reached-its-expiry-date

https://www.troyhunt.com/passwords-evolved-authentication-guidance-for-the-modern-era/

Re: Nomenclature

yeah, but let's not start done the acronym reuse in the same space rabbit hole

Just ask a physicist what rho represents.

I still go back to this quote I found somewhere:

Build your network as if the endpoint is owned.

Build your endpoint as if the network is owned.

– @0DDJ0BB

— SecuriTay (@SwiftOnSecurity) November 21, 2015

Re: Wassat, then?

Pay Peanuts get muppets...