Posts by Victor Ludorum

Re: Good but...

Of course it is, but it serves two main purposes:

1. Joe Public feels reassured that the authorities are cracking down on this sort of activity.

2. It sends a signal to the ne'er-do-wells that the authorities will find you.

Re: Locks.

Try Covert Instruments for a good selection of quality tools.

'This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and today I'm going to show you how to open a data cabinet with some simple tools...'

Is Jake the LPL?

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Re: BASIC

Never saw a C compiler for the BEEB (well, I may have seen a TinyC compiler, but I can't remember much about it).

For some reason, I thought there was a C compiler ROM for the BBC. A quick bit of sleuthing turned up BeebugSoft's Micro-C. There may be others.

Re: is 10x $$$ normal?

But do you get a business grade SLA?

Re: Thunderbird Calendar

Haven't used Thunderbird for a while, but ISTR you need the Lightning plugin for calendar functionality.

The majority of non-technical customers just want a router that they can plug in and it just works^TM.

The majority of ISPs want as little as possible (with the minimum of configurable options) connected to their service so they don't have to support an endless combination of devices.

Re: Time to walk away.

Open source hardware would be good.

Would that be the hardware that a certain company dissed using riscv-basics.com?

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Re: Which question did you answer ?

Going OT for a bit...

It's a bit like certain drivers not using their indicators (blinkers). I think they assume that you are telepathic and automatically know which way they want to go. They think they don't need to use their indicators because they already know where they're going...

Re: How secure *IS* your system

It was 35 years ago - I just remember it was a BBC network but wasn't Econet.

Re: Just realised I DO care about the US spelling, after-all

the meaning of the comment is made ambiguous

That's kind of my point.

I was giving an example of opposite meaning between English and Americanese phrases.

Re: But I DO want to know!

I think that was Happy Eater.

Re: Hang on..

There is a possibility it's not the DIMM, but a component on the motherboard that has failed. Soak testing the new memory will help to eliminate that possibility.

Re: Once again, a professional company is hacked

There has to be a trade off between ease of use, convenience and security.

Air-gapped data is secure, but convenient? No.

Time-based 2FA (e.g. Google Authenticator) is probably one of the best compromises, but can be MITM-ed.

SMS-based 2FA can also be MITM-ed.

A hardware (U2F/FIDO) key is probably the most secure, but less convenient to use. And it can be lost...

I think the best option is continuously educating the user, but that is often seen more as a cost than a benefit to the company.

Re: Depressing

Don't leave us guessing, what was the reaction?

Re: Trussed Up

There's Cheddar, and then there's West Country Farnhouse Cheddar (PDO).

Re: Am I missing something ?

I'm not sure a Google Authenticator style 2FA would have stopped them. According to the article the login credentials are sent instantly from the fake login page via Telegram. Assuming the fake login page also then asks for the 2FA code, the man in the middle has a (max 30 second) window of opportunity to capture and use that 2FA code to login.

Re: Having read this story

I DON'T NEED A FIRST NAME.

But many orgs (including GMail and Outlook) sinkhole OVH IP addresses for outgoing mail. How do you get round that?

Re: RISC OS

I loved the file save method in RISC OS - you just dragged the save file icon to the folder (directory) you wanted it in. Even now, there are many Windows apps where the file save dialog doesn't seem to remember what folder you were using last, and you have to click through multiple levels to get to the folder you want.