* Posts by Will Godfrey

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Brian Krebs criticises PayPal’s security as authentication flaws exposed

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No Surprise

As long as the management suffer no direct consequences, they'll do nothing significant. It's all about profits innit?

Google brews a fresh pot of Oracle's OpenJDK Java for future Android

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Re: non-harmonious Harmony

But could you handle the necessary empathy removal?

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My Guess

Google added extensions that it wanted to keep closed, but now that Android has such a huge market share, it's prepared to put them out out under the GPL.

P.S.

I also greatly miss Groklaw :(

Assessing the UK’s Government Digital Service

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Re: Who Is Worse?

That's because they are terrified of appearing to not be in control, but are actually clueless.

Vote now to name HPE's London boozer

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Rats

I never saw the original query on this otherwise I'd have suggested.

Yet

Another

Pub

As meaningful and significant as... what's the name of the company again?

Big Brother is born. And we find out 15 years too late to stop him

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Curious

They have this vast quantity of data, yet they still struggle to catch one terrorist.

At least 10 major loyalty card schemes compromised in industry-wide scam

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I feel left out

I don't have any 'loyalty' cards. Saw through the scam from day one.

Something for nothing? Oh yeah... about that bridge for sale...

Microsoft steps up Windows 10 nagging

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I don't understand

Why is there not a massive class action lawsuit aimed at the buggers?

Adobe: We locked our customers in the cloud and out poured money

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Short view?

They may have all the existing users by the nuts, but what about new people with no portfolio committed?

I can believe a dramatic change in Adobe's fortunes in a few years time.

Microsoft offers Linux certification. Do not adjust your set. This is not an error

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Hmmm.

Maybe I'm just old and cynical, but I regard this with deep suspicion.

Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre

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Not so fast

The only criticism I have of JF is that he didn't properly scope out the ability of the electricians - even that is assuming he was the one who employed them. Most ordinary electricians I have had to deal with are quite frankly numpties.

Also, it is the management's job to assess possible impact on the company not his. Especially when they went directly against his advice on replacing the kit. It seems they didn't even want to know what the risks were, let alone how to manage them.

US government pushing again on encryption bypass

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An Idea

Produce something like the committee designed horse (a camel) but specifically for the stock market - a well known source of shady financing.

Hacked Japanese space probe sends back first pictures of Venus

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Go Boffins!

A big plus for perseverance

MPs slam gov heads over 'childishness' on failed farmer IT project

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Sorry

Won't do it again.

... but HE pushed first.

Enraged Brits demand Donald Trump UK ban

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Obvious really

We have so much stupidity from gubbermint in the UK that we recognise it instantly and no way do we want any more imported from the USA!

Internet's root servers take hit in DDoS attack

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I don't think this is the biggie

I can't help thinking that someone is demonstrating his attack software to potential 'customers'.

James Clapper has found another reason why he lied about NSA spying

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Re: Why?

Make the most of it. The way things are going you won't be able to for much longer.

Nokia, ARM, Enea craft new TCP/IP stack for the cloud

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Re: TCP Offload?

@bazza, surely rather than increasing the attack surface, it takes it out of critical areas.

Brits leave 138,000 gadgets in the pub

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It's a lie!

I haven't got 138000 devices so how could I have lost them all.

Oh... Er....

Carry on.

Facebook to Belgian data cops: Block all the cookies across the web, then!

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Re: Powerful cookies

Whereas Facebook is all crooks and nannies

Brit hardware hacker turns Raspberry Pi Zeros into selfie slayers

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Hmm

Nice idea, but rather risky

Why are only moneymen doing cyber resilience testing?

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Re: Accidental connections

"The bean-counters are not generally the sane people ..."

FTFY

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Re: Why would they - they are PRIVATE companies.....

When did 'supposed' have anything to do with ripoff business decisions?

Meet ARM1, grandfather of today's mobe, tablet CPUs – watch it crunch code live in a browser

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Re: Pulling 6502

You are in a maze of twisty turny passages...

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Re: Pulling 6502

Being a BBC-ist I went straight from 6502 to ARM2.

The first thing that wowed me was all those (then 24bit addressing) registers, but what really blew me away was that you use any of them for any function - and the instruction set was short enough to be almost instantly memorable!

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There was a break in the supply, but as long as at least one IO line was high it was powered by the reverse diode on that line. Took them a while to discover why it would occasionally crash :)

Final countdown – NSA says it really will end blanket phone spying on US citizens this Sunday

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You are a cynical lot on here.

Mind if I join the end of the queue? :)

Millions of families hit in toymaker VTech hack – including 200,000+ kids

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Re: You forgot ...

"... folded, mutilated, and spindled."

Damn you!

I've spent half and hour trying (failing) to remember the Sci-Fi story I saw that in.

Investigatory Powers Tribunal scraps its first annual report

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Well!

I'm just soooooo surprised by this.

BOFH: How long does it take to complete Friday's lager-related tasks?

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Re: Drill down

Tut Tut.

You're supposed to examine the swarf (in a meaningful way) for every mm you drill.

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I wonder if i could borrow the PFY for a while.

You know there is a problem when you have to install a time management program to organise the previously installed time management program.

So why exactly are IT investors so utterly clueless?

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Apparently...

There is more harmful bacteria in your mouth than your bum... but I ain't kissing anyone's arse.

Sneaky Microsoft renamed its data slurper before sticking it back in Windows 10

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Re: Worse than Google

There already is a term ... DOS

Deceitful

Operating

System

Kim Dotcom slams 'dirty ugly bully' Uncle Sam as extradition hearing ends

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I too have no liking for dotcom, but on the other hand think he's positively angelic compared to the US government and media barons.

Yes I know the brits were no better in the empire days.

How TV ads silently ping commands to phones: Sneaky SilverPush code reverse-engineered

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Re: No Problem

Upvoted for shits & giggles.

Don't give me ideas!

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No Problem

I haven't had a TV for about 4 years now :)

... and my phone is the dumbest one on the market.

Hmmm. Must give my pitchfork a bit of a polish.

How much has ICANN spent on lobbying US govt this year? $2.5m

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Re: "engagement and education" programs

Won't work. Their skins are so thick you'd just wear out the whips to no effect.

Apple's Watch charging pad proves Cupertino still screwing buyers

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It's Apple

What did you expect?

Tech firms fight anti-encryption demands after Paris murders

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Here we go again

New list of banned products that might be used by bad people:

Cars

Money

Knives

Hammers

Houses

Boats

Spades

pen & paper

etc.

Microsoft makes Raspberry Pi its preferred IoT dev board

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Lost (never had) the plot?

It seems to me both Intel and Microsoft are now firmly in the 'Me Too' bracket and have no real understanding of what the kit does that they are trying to muscle in on. Neither company appears to have any appreciation of the terms 'lightweight', 'simplicity' or 'efficient'.

Brit cops accused of abusing anti-terror laws to hunt colleague

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Added to which

it's a well known fact that the best person to investigate the fox's management of the hen-house is, of course, the fox.

Ex-GCHQ chief now heads up infosec firm's advisory board

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It won't work

... unless he has found a way to stop breeding a higher class of idiot.

Apple supremo Tim Cook rules out OS X fondleslab, iOS merger

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Stunning

I find myself also in total agreement.

I am now waiting for the sky to fall.

Drop the obsession with Big Data, zero days and just... help the business

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Re: how's that?

Milk, one sugar please... and a nice hot bun.

BOFH: We're miracle workers. But you want us to fix THAT in 10 minutes?

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Ahhhhh

BOFH back in full obfuscating form, so all is well... in spite of our gubbermint 'stuff'.

UN privacy head slams 'worse than scary' UK surveillance bill

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Wow!

I'm astonished that someone from the UN has actually hit the nail squarely on the head and driven it completely home in one swipe!

GCHQ director blasts free market, says UK must be 'sovereign cryptographic nation'

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Re: What?

What they do is sprinkle fairy dust and powdered unicorn horn round the back door portal so the bad guys can't see the way in.

UK lawmakers warn Blighty to invest more in science, or else

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Re: Utter nonsense

c'mon guys. Get your priorities right.

We need countywide high-res full colour CCTV with speech recognition and voice fingerprinting. The spooks will of course have a back door so they can go discretely about their business (along with favoured politicians). The {other} crims will therefore have this ability the following day along with Russia and China. America won't have to bother as GCHQ will pass all the info to them anyway.

AMD sued: Number of Bulldozer cores in its chips is a lie, allegedly

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Call me cynical

I can't help thinking somebody is backing this guy. I wonder who might want to distract AMD at a critical time?

Linus Torvalds targeted by honeytraps, claims Eric S. Raymond

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The whole world has gone crazy

I dimly remember reading about a guy who was threatened with arrest for sitting on a park bench eating a sandwich. Some PCO twit thought it was 'inappropriate behaviour' because there were children playing near by.