Sure but not as risky as running MSExcel in the context of a user with permission to write to HOSTS….
Posts by Tomato Krill
224 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2017
Facebook prank sent techie straight to Excel hell
Client demo in 30 minutes. Just what could go wrong?
Google Maps just got lost for a few hours
50 US airports to be surrounded by 5G C-band-free zones
Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email
Say what you see: Four-letter fun on a late-night support call
BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine
So the data centre's 'getting a little hot' – at 57°C, that's quite the understatement
SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down
McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law
Oracle and partners sued over claims they over-elevated NetSuite's capabilities
Ofcom gets new CTO as UK regulator welcomes Amazon Alexa Smart Home exec
Ubuntu, Wikimedia jump ship to the Libera Chat IRC network after Freenode channel confiscations
This week, Apple CEO Tim Cook faced surprisingly tough questioning from judge
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz? Detroit waits for my order, you'd better make amends
Re: Don't ask "is it plugged in"
It’s remarkable how clever a lot of tech support professionals think they are when faced with perfectly ordinary people with at least average intelligence that they are unable to utilise to troubleshoot something as simple as an unplugged device.
It’s a classic workman blaming tools situation and the inability of some folks to hear what they’re saying (and have the empathy to understand the message it’s putting across) is amazing
Doncaster insurance firm One Call hit by not-dead-at-all Darkside ransomware gang
It’s no different to how it was before - money laundering through mules of differing degrees of awareness.
There are sites I’m aware of where you can participate in this under the guise of exchanging other assets, and I’m not a criminal and have no interest in either Bitcoin or money laundering so safe to say there are no shortage of sites for exchanging illicit bitcoins for real world assets with the expected level of loss of value
Here's how we got persistent shell access on a Boeing 747 – Pen Test Partners
The Microsoft Authenticator extension in the Chrome store wasn't actually made by Microsoft. Oops, Google
Axa insurance offshoots pwned as Ireland reveals second ransomware hit
Re: Curious....
At the very least sophisticated level, that one PC has access to multitudinous servers and file stores - else what’s the point of the PC.
But often it’s used as a stepping off point and either something worm like or even an actual human will go from
boxen to boxen, installing the utility of nastiness and then pulling the trigger when ready and encrypting everything
Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page
We were 'blindsided' by Epic's cheek, claims Apple exec on 4th day of antitrust wrangling
SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts
Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem
Windows 10 Insider build fixes the fix it sent out to fix the fix that broke printing? Afraid not, but here's a new Notepad icon
Cherry on top: Dell shoves MX keyboard into its Alienware m15 R4 ultrabook
Missile systems software dev leaker has sentence almost doubled after UK.gov says 4½ years was too soft
Why yes, I'll take that commendation for fixing the thing I broke
Google emits data-leaking proof-of-concept Spectre exploit for Intel CPUs to really get everyone's attention
HP loses attempt to deny colossal commission to star sales staffer
Apple iOS 14.5 will hide Safari users' IP addresses from Google's Safe Browsing
My bad! So you're saying that redacting an on-screen PDF with Tipp-Ex won't work?
Amazon coughs up $62m to shoo away claims it stole driver tips, cut pay rates without telling them
Re: Just say no
Precisely this, and the ‘sacrifice’ of going without the odd bit of content (roulette wheel that whole side of this anyway, there one week gone the next as is true for Netflix) is in my view well worth it for making a moral stand and giving business to alternatives and supporting jobs with those instead
Cisco intros desktop switches, one with USB-C to power your laptop
Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking
To plug gap left by CentOS, Red Hat amends RHEL dev subscription to allow up to 16 systems in production
Windows Product Activation – or just how many numbers we could get a user to tell us down the telephone
Facebook tells Portuguese court that a biz called Oink And Stuff makes profile-harvesting browser extensions
Be careful where you log into GitHub: Dev visits Iran, opens laptop, gets startup's entire account shut down
Brexit freezes 81,000 UK-registered .eu domains – and you've all got three months to get them back
Re: This is to punish the UK
Nice try but you know perfectly well that there are a more significant number of localised TLDs that you can’t have, unless you operate or reside in that geography
Italy certainly used to be one, so don’t pretend it’s unreasonable for .eu to be reserved for the eu countries
All I want for Christmas is cash: Welsh ATMs are unbeatable. Or unbootable. Something like that
Considering the colonisation of Mars? Werner Herzog would like a word
Re: travel distance
No I think you are exactly wrong - so for example I drive around 35k miles/year as does almost everyone else in a similar job. I do 300 mile round trips every week.
How many of those are there? Judging by the roads, lots. Lots and lots, and the combined total is of significance
Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight
It just isn’t as straight as that though - so say you I hit your monthly spend cap on day 5 of the month - what happens to your data, VMs then? They have a cost associated with storage them so the only option then is to delete them immediately?
Even if your budget / quota is sophisticated enough to allow you to earmark some for that storage, generated user data etc still grows and has an ongoing cost requirement once the quota is reached