* Posts by chivo243

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Yahoo! says! hackers! stole! ONE! BEELLION! user! accounts!

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This is awesome

I have forgotten my Yahoo password... Maybe I can find it now?

Infosec bods: This is a backdoor in Skype for Macs. Microsoft: No.

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I upvoted you, but there is still OS X. My old G5 still runs OS X 10.5.8. It would be nice if it could run macOS...

And this isn't news unless you have skype auto update turned off... I'm past the version(s) in question and never manually update.

If you bought a dildo in Denver, the government must legally be told

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Big Brother

There will come a time

When the Gubbermint will know exactly which item you bought, you bought bottle xxxxxnnnnnxxx on this date, and we found it in the park under a bench. Here is your littering ticket btw...

Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking

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Headmaster

Unacceptable

Need I say anymore?

Is your Windows 10, 8 PC falling off the 'net? Microsoft doesn't care

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Next Option?

"So users can either reboot, switch to static IPs, try the flushing commands, revert their updates to an earlier point, install Linux, try macOS, or give up and move off the grid into the forests where it is calm and peaceful."

Done all of the above except moving to the forest, which seems to be moving up the leader board, fast, see you in Fanghorn?

Yes, the Elvish cloak...

Kentucky pried chicken: Fried grease chain's loyalty club hacked

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Light duty

For that mailserver.... sending messages out to both users of the poultry game. Seriously how many people frequent the Col enough to earn points?

Ransomware scum offer free decryption if you infect two mates

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Re: So...

I was thinking the same thing. +1 for you, in fact, one could start a service... point these guys to phony users on disposable VM's, something, something, profit...

Russian hackers got Trump elected? Yeah, let's take a close look at that, says Obama

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Unhappy

boo hoo boo hoo snif snif

I cannot believe the amount of crying and pouting and just plain bad sportsmanship this election has brought in Americans. Personally, I'm past disgusted, and wallowing in disappointment.

It's all like a bunch of spoiled children that aren't getting their way.

Sysadmin told to spend 20+ hours changing user names, for no reason

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Re: 2IC's name

We once had a director that decided that to avoid problems with duped usernames, we would use the first 4 letters of the first name, and the last four letters of the last name...

carlhell was one of the permutations... Don't ge me started on asian names which may have only 3 letters in the first and last name.... or worse yet only 2 letters...

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funny thing about these requests

my feet get really, really heavy when one of these come across my desk.

Guess King Battistelli's plan to fix the Euro Patent Office. Yep, give himself more power

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It all sounds so

Star trekkey.. You know, the outcome of the trial determined before the trail, isn't that what makes Planet Earth great?

Could this be you? Really Offensive Security Engineer sought by Facebook

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Re: Is having a Bacefook account one of the conditions?

I'm also unavailable if I need myface account er spacebook or titter ad nauseum.

I do, however, possess the personality they seek.

Burning desire helped us collar arson suspect, claim Danish cops

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Millennium Episode

Season 1 episode 5 522666

Dealt with blowing things up and the bad guy leaving a little something behind after watching the explosion

Yes, yes, mine is the fireproof raincoat...

Everything at Apple Watch is awesome, insists Tim Cook

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Holmes

Just let me

record this notable news note on my Newton... while I listen to music on my iPod. Seriously this was a niche market to begin with. I haven't owned a working watch since mine was ripped off putting a UPS in the rack. I don't see any upswing in sales.

Apple Watch sales go over a cliff: Down 2.8 meellion per quarter in a year

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Headmaster

Someone is lying!

I wonder who it might be?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/6/13852560/apple-watch-sales-tim-cook

Local TV presenter shouted 'f*cking hell' to open news bulletin

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Re: Good for wankings!

er is that rankings?

Hackers waste Xbox One, PS4, MacBook, Pixel, with USB zapper

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I see an increase

In hot glue gun sales and wire cutters!

Woman rescues red pepper Donald Trump from vegetarian chilli

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Nice Joke, but...

Chili isn't from Mexico:

If there is any doubt about what the Mexicans think about chili, the Diccionario de Mejicanismos, published in 1959, defines chili con carne as (roughly translated):

“detestable food passing itself off as Mexican, sold in the U.S. from Texas to New York.”

This was even one step further off, it was "veggie" chili! And true chili doesn't contain beans...

Vegans furious as Bank of England admits ‘trace’ of animal fat in £5 notes

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I'm up for down votes

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals

Yes, my coat is leather...

Men overboard! US Navy spills data on 134k sailors

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Re: Full Disclosure?

@Andrew Commons

Leaks involving seamen is invariably bad news.

This usually comes from bad seals...

Thank you, I close here tomorrow with two shows! The late show can get a little blue if you know what I mean ;-}

Deliver-oops! Takeaway pusher's customers burger-ed by hijackers

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Devil

this is easier

than breaking into the delivery dude's car and stealing all his deliveries... I used to deliver when in uni, this happened a few times

Stay out of my server room!

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Angel

It took time

...but we now have all of our SER/MER's secured, finally. Besides our IT team, only building security has keys ;-}

Fallout from Euro Patent Office meltdown reaches Dutch parliament

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use a different photo!

Reusing the same stock photo for two stories originating in the Netherlands in the same morning? Tsk, Tsk...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/22/mp_kees_verhoeven_wants_eu_to_regulate_the_internet_of_st/

Hackers electrocute selves in quest to turn secure doors inside out

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Re: They're still alive after electrocution?

+1 for beating us to it...

but why do .exe's keep living? They are executable no?

Facebook Fake News won it for Trump? That's a Zombie theory

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Holmes

In this day and age

Isn't all news fake to some degree? I don't think any news is really accurate, I think you have to had witnessed it yourself, and then details morph in your own mind over time. Ask anyone who takes statements from witnesses at crime scenes. Your mind fills in the gaps surrounding details of events that take place under psychological stress.

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myspace

Hopefully FB will achieve the status of myspace...

Searching for 'Fatty Kim the Third' banned on Chinese social media

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another phrase banned due to bullying

Phatty, phatty bumbulatti is now classified as hate speech...

Adobe fined a whole million dollars for 2013 mega-breach

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Re: Lessons learned

@tfewster

Ah, the Hermes Conrad philosophy:

Hermes: Alright, alright. What do we do when we break somebody's window?

Dwight: [sheepish] Pay for it?

[Hermes laughs.]

Hermes: Oh, heavens, no! We apologise, with nice, cheap words!

Mac book, whoa! Apple unveils $300 design tome

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fanbois from their hard-earned money...

When has a fanboi ever worked hard for their money?

Navy STEALS? US sailors dispute piracy claim

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Pirate

Haarr! They're the same matey!

Navy? Pirates? One is sanctioned, one is not...

Microsoft, Slack et al will 'laugh their asses off' at IBM's biz messaging tool

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Trollface

Late to the party again?

Wha? I just got here, and everybody is out the door for a curry?

Adult FriendFinder users get their privates exposed... again – reports

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Has the whole world gone Madison? I Ashley think so!

Trench coat because erm, ah, what were we talking about?

Married man arrives at A&E with wedding ring stuck on todger

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Re: A wedding ring...

+1 as I wondered something along those lines.... And remembered the joke about big hands and big feet.

Portable drive, 5TB capacity. Hmm, there's something fishy here

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@tin 2

I was wondering where I can get a 500gb usb drive, guess I'll be dumpster diving for this one?

Russia shoves antitrust probe into Microsoft after Kaspersky gripes about Windows 10

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I remember days of people howling at MS because selling Windows without AV was tantamount to selling an auto without a seatbelt. Now a company that built their business on filling MS's void is moaning.

Just goes to show, you can't please everyone...

US citizens crash Canadian immigration site after Trump victory

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Re: Mission Accomplished

Yes, I believe you're on the mark. Carter was the last human to hold the office.

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Holmes

It was a choice not an election...

either candidate A or candidate B. That is a choice. An election would have many candidates, the two party system is a joke.

Russian banks floored by withering DDoS attacks

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I know passwords

and I know management, but password management? Must be an oxymoron... military intelligence and so forth...

Angry user demands three site visits to fix email address typos

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@Anonymous South African Coward

Internal mail group, many people on vacation at the same time, everyone of them had out of office reply enabled, message sent to the group.... 30,000 messages later~ Just call it a mailbomb!

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Oh man, I feel his pain

Walked a mile in those shoes... Education can be a rough place to work. Just as doctors are the worst patients, educators can be the worst learners....

Left-wing cyber-hangout blames security breach on pro-Trump trolls

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A new hacking crew?

pro-Trump hacker trolls ?

let the mudslinging continue!

Going to need lots of popcorn...

Some! at! Yahoo! knew! about! mega-breach! as! early! as! 2014!

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Sharing is caring

For whatever reason, it seems Yahoo! has deliberately delayed sharing critical information... except with Big Brother.

And it's probably the only reason Yahoo! didn't die on the vine years ago.

Japanese cops arrest serial 'foot licker'

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I see what you did!

Foot licker story in Bootnotes.... +1 for El Reg!

Judge throws out Trump lawyer's demand for poll worker info – because it'll feed Twitter trolls

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Meh

Cue an overweight crooner

...what ever will be will be...

Now we get to see how little power the president really has. All of his goofy plans have to be approved by some other groups *senate* *house of reps* Surely there are some intelligent people those groups to keep him on a short leash?

The Reg seeks online community manager

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Headmaster

A bridge too far

I have to doubt advertising on El Reg for a social doodad manager will work... Most of the commentards really dislike social media and all the frippery involved

Fresh Euro Patent Office drama: King Battistelli fires union boss

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Re: Concrete Decision

It should read: He would have been a cornerstone of the organization...

Any questions? No, not you again at the back, please God no

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Re: Incontinent Flyer

@A K Stiles

"So that would be an "all-too-frequent" flyer then?"

Those are the users who rack up the most Helldesk tickets...

Swiss, geez: Robo-hooker coffee shop to be erected in Geneva

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It's early...

...but there's a Star*ucks joke in there, I guess I need coffee?

Adblock overlord to Zuckerberg: Lay down your weapons and surrender

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Re: Eyeo says it [..] wants "user empowerment"

I now use Ublock Origin

Well said, and I too now use Ublock Origin for 5 or 6 weeks or so..

Survey finds 75% of security execs believe they are INVINCIBLE

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Re: optional title

@Doctor Syntax

But the difference between "Execs" and IT Sysadmins is that after a breach the Exec is heading down the road to another cushy job and salary, the sysadmin guy might be out of work a bit longer