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HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Apr 03, 2018 10:32 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... s_privacy/ -- new DNS server to try out, in case you're into that stuff. That it also does the latest DNS security stuffs is also pretty interesting.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... bm_ageism/ -- interesting little perspective on things

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Apr 06, 2018 7:39 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... ol_outage/ -- 17years up, and only 5hours total outage... wow, impressive!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... power_out/ -- if this happened on my watch, I'd be looking for the
nearest exit to run out of...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/06/on_call/ -- "negative energy waves" and an out of sight wifi keyboard...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/06 ... man_waste/ -- literally changes the meaning of the phrase
"you aren't worth s**t!!"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... e_upgrade/ -- "we did some
radical work on our bank's IT infrastructure. This work did not go smoothly." Translation : "IT was told again to do
too much with too little by TPTB, and it spectacularly blew up in our faces." *sighs*

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... umer_data/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... your_data/
Really interesting read, just from the fallout from data breaches / sharing / slurping / etc gongshow...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:58 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/09/who_me/ -- turning off the PROD instead of the TEST server... yeah, that's never fun.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... _the_dead/ -- Windows File Mangler... d**n, do I dare
try, just for the nostalgia?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... e_freedom/ -- interesting piece about the whole "fine balance
between security and convenience."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/0 ... backdoors/ -- TPTB drinking in the koolaid of a "trusted back door" again...
oh boy...

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:00 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/1 ... _in_world/ -- o.0

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/1 ... _hack_ftc/ -- oh, Uber, Uber, Uber... pretty sure Uber's new CEO is buying
Pepto Bismol by the tanker traincar by now...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/1 ... mart_sofa/ -- a problem in
search of a solution?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/13/on_call/ -- being the family's "IT support," I can TOTALLy relate to this story. And I've
got one or two stories myself of family getting everything for nothing like this.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:03 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/2 ... _showdown/
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2018/o1803.pdf
-- in regards to the recent "Apple, give us an authorized backdoor to your phones... pretty good read.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/30/on_call/ -- IT sung to Pirates of Penzance "Modern Major General."

http://darfe.es/joomla/index.php/descar ... snort-en/0 -- interesting article on SS7 and how it works

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 5:59 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/16/who_me/ -- not that I had AOL when I was younger, but good to hear the backstory on that

OOOPS!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/1 ... e_lawsuit/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/1 ... n_implant/ -- "Let's hack the brain!" NICE!

Regards

Post by **Taurec** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:38 pm

Maybe I should start a wordpress and give you access for curated posts

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 3:38 pm

Yeah... or I get onto this newfangled twitter, linkedin, et al... Le Sighs. But I'm happy here, tho no one really comes by any more. Plus I should get into the new FMP...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/20/on_call/ --

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/2 ... ch_survey/ -- damn, why don't I get any sweet "tastes" like this?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/2 ... episode_6/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/23/who_me/ -- gawks and facepalm!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/2 ... pc_outage/ -- "was a weekend firmware update to some
of the Dell networking hardware ... When things didn't go as planned, services went down, ... would actually need to
replace the knackered switch gear." Been There, Done That, Achievement Unlocked. Thank God for 4hr RMA SLA... some
of the time.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/2 ... nson_dies/ -- maybe Hollywood could look into a movie of this guy?
Oh right, "Z-WHAT?! That'll never play!"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/27/on_call/ -- "The manager had formed that opinion after reading consumer
technology magazines that left him convinced that he knew all about IT and that pros knew far too little to justify
their pay packets. Or even their existence."

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu May 03, 2018 11:18 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/2 ... _backdoor/ -- clipper chip, damn, that is a blast to the past, and I
forgot about that brouhahah

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/30/who_me/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/3 ... ck_attack/ -- all that trouble to hack an early release for someone,
he'll have plenty of time to reflect on that...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/30 ... on_payout/ -- 8.5mill too muhc to split, so we'll send it
to the lawyers' alma maters... riiiiiiight!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/0 ... ed_drains/ -- name the drains!

I like the Pennywise idea!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/0 ... _sht_bank/ -- oh to be a fly on the wall
at the TSB headquarters right now...

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/heres ... 1825610558 -- the one pilot's story about
the SR-71, tho the way I heard it it was about who was higher than faster than all...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/body-foun ... -1.3908743 -- [Bugs Bunny] I knew I shoulda taken
that left turn at Albuquerque!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue May 08, 2018 5:03 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/04/on_call/ -- “because I know the mayhem they can wreak on unsuspecting customers who don't treat them in a civil and kind manner.” YEAP!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/07/who_me/ -- ahh, the wonders of the 120V/240V days...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/0 ... _business/ -- I know all too well of bodies treating their IT as a cost center. Nothing like a hard down
situation to SHOW you can't live without functional IT. And getting you planning for some form of Disaster Planning / Recovery.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sun May 13, 2018 8:33 pm

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/u-s-s ... 1825953800 -- "I did it for the lulz" probably isn't the smartest reason to try this thing...

https://jalopnik.com/why-romes-buses-ke ... 1825902607 -- "oh, I was late today because my bus caught fire..."

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon May 14, 2018 9:26 pm

Always love alittle (bad) news for Uber
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/0 ... g_economy/ -- working for Uber, Lyft, etc. are you a contractor or an employee?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/0 ... ing_taxis/ -- Uber wants to handle
flying taxis. We can't even get automated driving ones working...

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/ ... bs/559382/ -- Wow! And rather poignant when you think about it...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/1 ... t_upgrade/ -- unlike the TSB TITSUP situation,
Aegon's actually responding to inquiries and being courteous about it... whoever is in their PR dept, KUDOS!

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue May 15, 2018 8:11 pm

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/1 ... 2000_feet/ -- I'd LOVE to hear what caused this. As pointed out, there was that case with the British Airways flight where the wrong bolts were used.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/1 ... rums_lost/ -- no backup, and the admin's on vacation... where have I seen this movie before?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Wed May 16, 2018 10:39 pm

https://jalopnik.com/nevada-cops-find-3 ... 1826047890 -- idunno what's worse, trashing a car like that, or the car was
worth that much in the first place someone just trashed it like that.

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/ind ... wnies.html -- well got to say I've had coworkers I've hated that much, don't know
if I'd go so far as to bake laxatives into goodies like that... maybe...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/1 ... ury_at_55/ -- another nice milestone for NASA history

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/1 ... ice_ditch/ -- "an as-yet-unspecified technical glitch with
a "Cisco switch" was behind the issue, "everything connected to that switch needed to be rebooted"." Think I've seen this kind of issue before, good
question is exactly WHICH model "Cisco switch" was involved.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Thu May 17, 2018 7:50 pm

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/woman ... 1826082960 -- yes, us Canadians can be just
as rude and crude as anyone else, but taking a public crap like that, then throwing the used napkins at the staff? I'm SERIOUSLY
wondering just how this escalated so bad said "customer" thought that was a valid recourse to express their frustration?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/17/nest_outage/ -- your IOT (security) is down, so what's your DR plan?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/1 ... atrocious/ -- I'm wary enough of name-and-shame vigilante justice, but THIS is
just scary! Nail these guys to the wall!!