* Posts by Matt Aldred

4 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2007

Undetectable data-stealing trojan nabs 500,000 virtual wallets

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Ties to Russia?

Absolutely, having lived in Russia I found that the few banks that do offer online banking, only allow extremely limited transactions to be carried out online. The account I had allowed me to check my balance and move money between my own accounts in the same bank (which still took 2 business days). Not much use to criminals.

AMD confirms 'Atom-smasher' chip on its roadmap

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27mm² ???

Wow have they invented some new miniaturising technology?!? 812 terminals squeezed into a 5.2mm*5.2mm package? Genius! Especially when 100 terminals just fits into 9*9mm.

On the other hand... maybe it's a typo... oh well...

Mine's the one with 'pedantic' written on the back.

Random number bug blights FreeBSD

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Commodore C64

"I want this on my next motherboard, please, with the drivers for all the operating systems."

Didn't the Commodore C64 have this?

Home Office discusses thief-proof phones

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Russia? Africa? How about Jersey! As a youth I used to work in a mobile phone shop, one of my collegues had a racket buying "second hand" phones no-questions-asked and selling them to shop in Jersey.

As Jersey doesn't (or at least didn't) subscribe to the UK's IMEA blocking scheme the phones could be used no problems.