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Message 1414901 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 2:12:17 UTC

Can this be 'trusted'?


ISPs scramble to explain mouse-sniffing tool

Would you trust faceless corporations with your, er, mouse movements?...

Sky Broadband has been caught using JavaScript to track every click and shuffle on its support pages, but it's not alone: other ISPs have also admitted recording every frustrated wobble of the mouse...

... but the practice of logging one's activity within a website is far from limited to that industry...



Facebook strips away a bit more of your privacy – but won't say why

You also agree to have your FACE displayed in ads...

Facebook is slurping mobile phone numbers from its users without explaining why, it has emerged...




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Message 1415033 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 11:45:24 UTC - in response to Message 1329048.  

Can we really trust IT? Not according to this report....

Chip & Pin had its day?

....with a nice highly debatable ending........

"You have no control over tech security."


"I personally won't use online banking, and I only use a cash machine with an account which has relatively little money in it," he said.

Now that's a little extreme. Although i admit i do only use either my credit card or paypal online, because both of those come with much higher levels of buyer protection than a debit card.
And both of my bank accounts have little money in them, so it doesn't matter which one i use in that respect.
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Message 1415034 - Posted: 13 Sep 2013, 11:46:54 UTC - in response to Message 1415004.  

The title of this thread is "Can we really trust IT?"

The answer is invariably yes, what you can't trust are the people using IT that don't know what they are doing, but still make a living at it!


IT can be trusted to do exactly what it's ordered to do.
Just depends who's giving the order.
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Message 1416319 - Posted: 16 Sep 2013, 11:17:30 UTC

No you definitely cannot trust I.T or the muppets that use it.....

Whatever happened to good old common sense?

How to lose customers PDQ
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Message 1416321 - Posted: 16 Sep 2013, 11:20:40 UTC - in response to Message 1416319.  

No you definitely cannot trust I.T or the muppets that use it.....

Whatever happened to good old common sense?

How to lose customers PDQ

Well, you can't fault his honesty. And i refuse to believe that any customer service representative hasn't said the same thing at some point, he was just unlucky enough to get caught.
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Message 1416327 - Posted: 16 Sep 2013, 11:30:48 UTC - in response to Message 1416324.  

No you definitely cannot trust I.T or the muppets that use it.....

I assume that you will be shutting you business down then?


Yep you definitely got out of bed the wrong side this morning.
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Message 1416331 - Posted: 16 Sep 2013, 11:36:27 UTC

You two are as bad as each other. Both of you stop trying to provoke the other and we'll have a far better time of it.
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Message 1416338 - Posted: 16 Sep 2013, 11:46:37 UTC - in response to Message 1416331.  

You two are as bad as each other. Both of you stop trying to provoke the other and we'll have a far better time of it.


Now that comment is thought Provoking :)
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Message 1416382 - Posted: 16 Sep 2013, 14:21:21 UTC - in response to Message 1416367.  

Watch it Simon, you'll end up being proposed as a Mod.


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Message 1419240 - Posted: 23 Sep 2013, 12:30:20 UTC

OK, so you might be safe from having your finger ends chopped off when you get mugged for:


Apple Touch ID fingerprint tech 'broken', hackers say

... Germany's Chaos Computer Club claims it "successfully bypassed the biometric security of Apple's Touch ID using easy everyday means".

By photographing a fingerprint left on a glass surface and creating a fake finger they were able to unlock the phone, the hackers claim.

But Apple maintains Touch ID is secure...



Rather silly...


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Message 1419241 - Posted: 23 Sep 2013, 12:32:06 UTC
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And for pretty much the continuing monthly silliness...


DeputyDog attack targets latest IE zero day

Security researchers have spotted two new targeted attack campaigns aimed at organisations in Japan, China and elsewhere in Asia, one of which exploits a zero day exploit in Internet Explorer revealed only last week...



Strange how other web browsers do not seem to suffer in anything like the same way?...

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Message 1424302 - Posted: 5 Oct 2013, 1:09:32 UTC

'I don't trust Microsoft' after NSA disclosures says former privacy chief

Open source is the way to go warns Bowden

Caspar Bowden, who was Microsoft's European chief privacy advisor from 2002 to 2011, has said that he no longer trusts his former employer after the disclosures about its involvement in NSA surveillance schemes.

Speaking at the Congress on Privacy and Surveillance in Switzerland on Monday, Bowden said that he wasn't aware of PRISM, whereby the NSA could trawl through Microsoft's servers (encrypted or otherwise), during his tenure at Redmond. He oversaw Microsoft's privacy strategy in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa during his tenure.

Bowden said that the extent of surveillance, revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has convinced him that the current system is fatally flawed...

... "The public now has to think about the fact that anybody in public life, or person in a position of influence in government, business or bureaucracy, now is thinking about what the NSA knows about them," ...

"So how can we trust that the decisions that they make are objective and that they aren't changing the decisions that they make to protect their career? That strikes at any system of representative government."

These days Bowden said he is sticking with open source software that allows him to examine the underlying code itself...



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Message 1424438 - Posted: 5 Oct 2013, 5:15:31 UTC - in response to Message 1424302.  

These days Bowden said he is sticking with open source software that allows him to examine the underlying code itself...

Unfortunately http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/086.pdf that isn't any more secure ...


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Message 1425846 - Posted: 8 Oct 2013, 20:00:11 UTC

I think OpenSource is the way to go because it means more eyes on the source code..
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Message 1425873 - Posted: 8 Oct 2013, 20:56:03 UTC - in response to Message 1425846.  

I think OpenSource is the way to go because it means more eyes on the source code..

I keep hearing this in my head "A stupid decision made by millions is still a stupid decision."

So millions of stupid eyeballs ensures security while a couple pairs of smart eyeballs doesn't? (Unless they belong to the NSA!)

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Message 1426173 - Posted: 9 Oct 2013, 17:13:51 UTC - in response to Message 1425873.  

I think OpenSource is the way to go because it means more eyes on the source code..

I keep hearing this in my head "A stupid decision made by millions is still a stupid decision."

So millions of stupid eyeballs ensures security while a couple pairs of smart eyeballs doesn't? (Unless they belong to the NSA!)

no actually changes made are reviewed again and again by not so stupid people. Why are you accusing Linux coders and developers of being stupid. Seems a bit short sighted. If I were to go in and change code and have them accept it as gold then they'd be stupid. I would never attempt it and I doubt they'd ever consider anything I could produce as useful


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Message 1426204 - Posted: 9 Oct 2013, 17:57:53 UTC - in response to Message 1426173.  

I think OpenSource is the way to go because it means more eyes on the source code..

I keep hearing this in my head "A stupid decision made by millions is still a stupid decision."

So millions of stupid eyeballs ensures security while a couple pairs of smart eyeballs doesn't? (Unless they belong to the NSA!)

no actually changes made are reviewed again and again by not so stupid people. Why are you accusing Linux coders and developers of being stupid. Seems a bit short sighted. If I were to go in and change code and have them accept it as gold then they'd be stupid. I would never attempt it and I doubt they'd ever consider anything I could produce as useful

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Message 1426849 - Posted: 10 Oct 2013, 22:01:27 UTC

A true story.
3 Oct. my W8 machine lost all video function, probably my fault.
I e-mailed the manufacturer, Dell 4 Oct. I got no response until 8 Oct. After a few e-mails and phone call from Dell they said they would ship parts out to a service tech and swap out the MB, PS and video card. Today the tech arrived did his thing and it is back on line. A bit less than a week down. I think that is pretty good service.
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Message 1427020 - Posted: 11 Oct 2013, 9:22:49 UTC

I have nothing against Dell, all the laptops i've ever owned were Dell.
Well i say all, i've only ever had one. My parent's bought it for me when i started university, so can guess how long ago that was.
It's still going strong though, it's had three new batteries, a memory upgrade, and a new larger hard drive, but otherwise no issues. Can't fault that.
They even supplied it without Windows at my behest, thus knocking £50 of the price tag, but that's for another thread.
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Message 1427068 - Posted: 11 Oct 2013, 13:52:51 UTC

Yes, Dell is very good at fixing their boxes. Had a work one go south a month after it arrived and next day someone was there to replace parts.

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