Something like this, perhaps?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSZUaCNX_ZA
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Crack team of boffins hash out how e-scooters should sound – but they need your help*
Do(ug)h! Half-baked security at Panera Bread spills customer data
HPE coughed up source code for Pentagon's IT defenses to ... Russia
Missed patch caused Equifax data breach
Thursday 14th September 2017 13:24 GMT
Re: Typical problem of many large organizations
What about a compensating control? You know that a system is vulnerable, and the risk of patching outweighs the [quantitively measured] risk of compromise, but you put in place a compensating control that mitigates the problem temporarily until a patch can be applied. IDS/IPS anyone? Snort SIDs 41818 & 41819 were available from March.
So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?
Saturday 19th August 2017 14:04 GMT
Re: Well...
The difference is that for a DECT phone is that you rarely (if ever) put it in your pocket and go out for a walk. That's why slimmer is considered better for a mobile.
"The problem today is that all the manufacturers are focussed on bringing out essentially the same product." - this I couldn't agree more with.
Retiring IETF veteran warns: Stop adding so many damn protocols
Tuesday 8th November 2016 22:35 GMT
RFC1925
This was immortalised a bit over 20 years ago in RFC1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths
(12) In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there
is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take
away.
Microsoft has crafted a switch OS on Debian Linux. Repeat, a switch OS on Debian Linux
Lock up your top-of-racks, says Cisco, there's a bug in the USB code
Tuesday 8th December 2015 15:42 GMT 
Denial of service
So, what they are saying is that, given physical access, someone with a specially crafted USB key can cause a denial of service. What about just pulling the power cord? Denial of service achieved, and much less time-consuming than going to the lengths of creating that magic USB key.
NZ Uni EMC broke considered ditching EMC before SNAFU
Trustwave's off to Singapore as Singtel slurps security company
Everything is insecure and will be forever says Cisco CTO
Vendors coalesce around 'MGBase-T' 2.5/5 Gbps Ethernet
Tuesday 2nd December 2014 10:25 GMT
This looks like marketing puff. There is absolutely no content on the MGBase-T Alliance website - could this just be a PR exercise, whilst the real action happens elsewhere?
Is this just a ruse to distract people from where the real action is? There is also the NBase-T Alliance, which purports to do the same thing - deliver 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps over twisted pair. This is backed up by actual work being done at the IEEE - and was reported on by The Reg: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/11/ieee_turns_crank_on_new_wired_ethernet_standards/
Methinks the MGBase-T Alliance are bandwagon jumpers.
Cisco COO: 'I actually thank God that we had a crisis'...
Thursday 5th June 2014 19:31 GMT
Re: I think they still need to make some cuts
"...get a 2-blade chassis, a router blade and a 24-port switch blade." Cisco are years ahead of you. They have this now: get a Integrated Services Router, with 24 port PoE switch blade. And firewall. And IP PBX. And voicemail. And WAN acceleration. And a mini-server-on-a-blade.
IANA starts handing out recovered IPv4 addresses
Cisco sends TrustSec offspring to IETF dating site
RM CEO: We didn't even try to sell PC biz before killing it
Friday 1st November 2013 15:49 GMT
Re: istuff
What nonsense. I agree that devices running iOS are closed, but have you ever actually used Mac OS X? Do you not realise that it's a UNIX-based operating system, and just by opening Terminal you have access to the real 'guts' of the machine, far more so than a Windows PC? Yes, a lot of Mac users are computer-illiterate, but most of the developers/admins/engineers that I know use Macs, for the very reason that it's a UNIX-like operating system.
Highways Agency tracks Brits' every move by their mobes: THE TRUTH
Wednesday 25th September 2013 16:23 GMT
Re: Compliance and Annoyance in One Easy Step
"How can this possibly be cheaper than setting up the traditional pneumatic cross-lane traffic counters?"
Tracking mobiles enables you to get information about the whole journey that was taken. Getting the same info using pneumatic cross-lane traffic counters would mean that every road would need to have them - surelt that's got to be more expensive?
Cisco coughs $2.7bn for Sourcefire
Tuesday 23rd July 2013 20:38 GMT
Re: almost 3bln ?
Just one change to NAT syntax - around the 8.2/8.3 software releases - that's a long way from 'each ASA F/W upgrade'.
FWIW, configuring NAT on Cisco ASAs is now loads easier than it was before.
After seeing the bad joke that is Cisco's latest 'CX' update to their ASA platform
The 'CX' bit is pretty good, crappy management notwithstanding.
BT to rent cheaper FTTP lines to ISPs - if they stump up £1k a go
Cloud upstart Nirvanix bins another round of US sales bods
Cisco eats Cloupia to control freak clouds
Cisco offers pint-size cell relief, lets mobile data spurt freely
Apple's skinny new iMac line: Farewell, optical drives
Apple Mac OS X Server for Mountain Lion review
Euro NCAP to mandate auto-braking in new-car test
Monday 6th August 2012 15:13 GMT
Re: Unbelievable bunch of stoneage arseholes
Well said (except for the 'dispair' bit). And how many commentors actually read the NCAP article in question? I reckon none, given the ignorance of some of the comments on here.
Personally, I would like to see more of the details and statistics and think about it, rather than coming to a knee-jerk reaction approx. 8 seconds after reading a 300 word Reg article. I reckon that the folk at Euro NCAP have given it a lot more thought than *everyone* reading this article.
Lazy password reuse opens Brits to crooks' penetration
Friday 20th July 2012 09:15 GMT
1Password and DropBox works for me
1Password on the two different computers (and one smartphone) that I own, with the encrypted password repository stored on DropBox. Easy synchronisation of password info on all computers, and all of my web accounts have secure, random passwords.
Until there is low-cost, universal multi-factor authentication available, we are stuck with passwords :(
Berkshire bigboy 2e2 in the pink - apart from crushing debt burden
LINX 'downed by ethernet loop' on external network
Exercises to keep your data centre on its toes
IPv6 networking: Bad news for small biz
Monday 2nd April 2012 13:16 GMT
Re: Ci$co and IPv6
Sorry chap, but the RV220W is not a 'real' Cisco product. Says Cisco on the box, but this is a continuation of the product development done by Linksys previously. Designed as an easy-to-use (i.e. graphical user interface) product, and not a 'proper' network device.
For less than £100 more, you could have bought a 'proper' Cisco router/firewall, like an 861W, and had 'proper' IPv6 support.
Data centers to cut LAN cord?
Wednesday 18th January 2012 13:50 GMT
EM interference?
Some good points raised here, particularly around bandwidth, cost, and security concerns.
Here's one more point - wireless networks can be seriously degraded by EM radiation. A datacenter is one of the most challenging RF/EM environments that one could possibly imagine. I would be very surprised if you could get consistently reliable connections, without frame drops. Think of all the EM interference!
Finally, there is constantly a drive within the datacenter for [consistent] low latency. Wireless technologies have higher latency than wired equivalents. Is this technology going to actually be useable?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
