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Coming to the big screen: Sci-fi epic Dune – no wait, wait, wait, this one might be good

Thursday 2nd February 2017 10:16 GMT creepy gecko

Re: I am obviously alone in this.

Upvote, and a beer.

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Netherlands reverts to hand-counted votes to quell security fears

Thursday 2nd February 2017 09:05 GMT creepy gecko

Is this a Bing translation?

“I said that can not exclude the government that state actors can benefit from influencing political decisions and public opinion in the Netherlands and purpose deploy resources to try also to achieve influence”, Plasterk's letter says.

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Dido queen of carnage steps down from TalkTalk

Wednesday 1st February 2017 21:10 GMT creepy gecko

Baroness?

I gather from a quick perusal of her Wikipedia page that Dido is a life peer. Presumably she can sit in the House of Lords. Is that the public service she intends to spend more time on?

She'll probably end up as a Government minister for something IT related.

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Gamers warned to swerve phish-hooks after forum breach

Wednesday 1st February 2017 19:51 GMT creepy gecko

Re: Don't Care

"Tough shit then."

Yes, exactly what I thought. It's hard to have any sympathy under those circumstances.

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GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail

Wednesday 1st February 2017 17:32 GMT creepy gecko

Oops!

I feel sorry for the sysadmin, but the failed backups are almost beyond comprehension.

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Human memory, or the lack of it, is the biggest security bug on the 'net

Wednesday 1st February 2017 12:20 GMT creepy gecko

Passwords; Diceware

GRC's Perfect Passwords is worth a look...

https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

Diceware is another useful approach.

A password manager is essential these days. How many different accounts and passwords does the average person have to keep track of? I certainly couldn't remember more than a small fraction of mine.

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Trump's cartoon comedy approach to running a country: 'One in, two out' rule for regulations

Tuesday 31st January 2017 15:28 GMT creepy gecko

Repealing old and unused legislation is fine, but Trump's executive order sounds almost like a supermarket BOGOF offer. The man is not fit to be President.

Someone needs to do the right thing and take the pen out of Trump's hand. Problem solved.

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