Posts by Daniel O'Regan

4 posts • joined Friday 9th May 2008 11:07 GMT

Posted in Feds declare victory over notorious Coreflood botnet

Posted Thursday 23rd June 2011 21:49 GMT

Daniel O'Regan

Consequences

So they reckon they were safe running a command on remote PCs? So if the next viruses STOP command formats the hard disk who get the blame?

Posted in New York to beam disaster alerts to Xbox gamers

Posted Thursday 26th November 2009 11:47 GMT

Daniel O'Regan

And the minute it's up and running....

How many games are going to include this emergency broadcast as part of the game for 'immersion' purposes?

When a real one comes it'll assumed to part of the game they're playing.

Posted in Taser rolls out taser-on-a-roll, new military zapbomb deal

Posted Tuesday 13th May 2008 12:15 GMT

Daniel O'Regan

Electrified face masks

Surely a simple water pistol will make these a stupid piece of protection? If it'll jolt anyone touching it by hand, the voltage should surely give anyone wearing wet clothes a bit of a jump?

Posted in Irish data protection chief in leaked report 'hack'

Posted Friday 9th May 2008 11:18 GMT

Daniel O'Regan

Re: Hacker he aint

It is hacking per se, but in the proper sense of the word. Unfortunately the media has tarnished the image of the hacker by calling crackers hackers.

Nice one Damien!

From examiner.ie -> Asked yesterday at the official launch of the 2007 report if he was embarrassed by the latest incident, Mr Hawkes replied: "Not exceptionally."

Gotta love that! Nice find Damien!