Re: [LINK] Free cloud services

None of the free tiers are going to get you close to 8GB of memory, nor anything close to your laptop CPU-wise. AWS/Azure are the most generous with 1GB, and GCP is even less. Your only option would be to sign up for a free trial account with Azure or GPC which will give you a few hundred

Re: [LINK] Western Australia introduces new app to help with contact tracing

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:01 PM Tom Worthington wrote: > & comply with the Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing Protocol from Apple > and Google. > Unless I'm mistaken, that's not possible. The Google/Apple APIs are only available to official " public health authorities" (ie, governments), and

Re: [LINK] dmarc and mailing list issues

Don't let one poorly configured (by today's standards) mailing list put you off using DMARC... The Link list does several things that were common many years ago, but are not best practices today as they cause DMARC/DKIM to fail (such as modifying the subject) The real solution (or at least, the

Re: [LINK] Telstra “Game Optimiser” Snake Oil?

Not at all snake oil. Many of the major router vendors have similar products, such as Netgears "Pro Gaming" Nighthalk routers - https://www.netgear.com/gaming/xr500/ Based on that article, it looks like the Telstra routers will run the same OS as Netgear use, DumaOS from NetDuma -

Re: [LINK] COVIDsafe app update requires location on

This isn't new. Android devices have always required applications that do any form of Bluetooth scanning to have the "Location" permission. This doesn't mean that they are collecting your location using GPS (although with this permission they could), but is done because Bluetooth scanning can be

Re: [LINK] A massive data breach in Western Australia has exposed the confidential records of patients and hospital staff online.

This "privacy breach" has been going on for over 30 years. These "medical details" are actually just pager messages. Remember pagers? Those pre-mobile-phone radio receivers people used to carry to get messages? The protocol used by these devices is about 40 years old, and is trivial to decode

Re: [LINK] MyGov Phishing eMail

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:07 PM Christian Heinrich < christian.heinr...@cmlh.id.au> wrote: > If the above is true then what is their value add? > Their value-add is to their customers. In this case the sender of the email (happydontweb.live) is not a customer of theirs, nor presumably is the

Re: [LINK] MyGov Phishing eMail

Agari won't play any part in these emails, because (at least based on the information provided) they didn't claim to come from my.gov.au - either legitimately or otherwise. Tom's original email (which went into my spam folder in gmail, likely to the inclusion of a known-phishing URL) was : From:

Re: [LINK] RFI: messagelabs.com

Messagelabs is a cloud-based mail filtering (ie, anti-spam/etc) company. About 10-15 years ago they were the largest player in this space, although they have dropped off a lot since. They were acquired by Symantec in 2008, and Symantec was subsequently acquired by Broadcom last year. Having said

Re: [LINK] Question about the app: must location be turned on in order for Bluetooth to work?

As an example, at my previous employer they went through the building and placed Bluetooth LE "beacons" in the ceiling, each maybe 5-10 metres apart. We then had an app that detected the beacons, and based on which beacons it could see and their respective signal strengths it could map your

Re: [LINK] .nsw.gov.au and privacy

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 8:06 PM David wrote: > I wasn't suggesting there be no cloud providers because it's better to > keep discussions like this at a system-requirements level rather than > implementation. But I'm certainly prepared to argue for effective data > security which can be enforced

Re: [LINK] .nsw.gov.au and privacy

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 5:22 PM David wrote: > I have no desire for an account with Salesforce.com, which is a "customer > relations manager" and marketing company apparently based in San Franscisco. > You likely have dozens of "accounts" with Salesforce, but calling it a CRM system is a bit

Re: [LINK] Hhm .. a package from China Post

Not new... https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/27/americans-are-receiving-unordered-parcels-from-chinese-e-criminals-and-cant-do-anything-about-it/ As far as the Wuhan reference, the CDC has stated "there is likely very very low risk of spread from products or packaging that are

Re: [LINK] NBN fault maintenance

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 8:17 PM David wrote: > And on a related matter, I'm told by a field technician that the Arris > boxes (HFC / Ethernet protocol converters) supplied to those with an HFC > connection are notoriously unreliable. One found that 15 out of 20 devices > in two boxes of 10 were

Re: [LINK] Card Cancellation as a Condition of Statement-Entry Enquiry

This is standard best practice in the industry. You are claiming that the charge is unknown, which in today's world basically means fraudulent. It will take up to a month or more for the process to complete to decide if it really is legitimate, but in that time the presumption is that someone

Re: [LINK] ISP-level site-blocking of 'dangerous material'

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:30 AM Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > AFAIK (and I can't check it) is that 8Chan.com was only accessible via > Tor. I believe it had a .oinion url. > This is not correct. They were front-ended by Cloudflare (who do not offer any Tor services) until recently, when

Re: [LINK] Facebookdown, #Instagramdown...

What makes you think Facebook use "cloud storage"? All Facebook data is stored on their own systems, in their own datacenters. (Even if they did use external cloud storage, I'm not sure how an outage "demonstrates is the false economy" of such storage?) Scott On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:22

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: > This "smart city" ... sensors monitoring everything from air quality >> to pedestrian traffic, even the flushing of toilets. ... >> > > This doesn't add up to enough data to need 5G or even 4G. Sydney's Green > Square, which is projected

Re: [LINK] Don’t believe the hype: We’re a long way from 5G

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 5:03 PM, David wrote: > So what are we supposed to be doing on our mobile "devices" or widescreen > TV which needs a bandwidth of 100 Mbit/s, let alone 400 Mbit/s, and > justifies the considerable cost of implementation? > 5G isn't about mobile devices. It's about

Re: [LINK] More Earth-Shattering IoT Applications

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 3:36 AM, Roger Clarke wrote: > > > ... a soil monitoring sensor will be used to measure the field's > moisture, potentially allowing council to save on water costs and > maintenance. > > The groundsman and his travel to grounds are a fixed and

Re: [LINK] The experts agree, Turnbull’s NBN is ‘a national tragedy’

n has just started deploying FTTP in Boston - the first city it's added in around 7 years! (AT on the other hand is actually doing some FTTP, but they are starting from a base of zero) I stopped reading at that point... Scott On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:04 PM, David Boxall <lin...@boxall.name> wro

Re: [LINK] The experts agree, Turnbull’s NBN is ‘a national tragedy’

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 6:02 PM, David Boxall wrote: > Globally, the majority of connections are now through FTTP. >> > I presume Mr Tucker has numbers to back that up? It's certainly not the case here in the US, and I doubt it is in most countries (with a few notable

Re: [LINK] British researcher finds a 'kill switch' for global cyber attack

No, but you can have it do a TXT lookup and check the response, or something similar. For bonus marks, sign the response using an asymmetric key so that it can't be reverse engineered. (or any one of a thousand other options that would be far better than a single DNS lookup as this one seemingly

Re: [LINK] Jan's NBN experience

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Andy Farkas wrote: > Jan is on a 12Mbps plan. Modern-day wifi (802.11ac) can do 300Mbps. My > ancient wireless access point (WAP) can do 54Mbps (802.11g). > No, it can't. 802.11g maxes out at slightly less an 20Mbps useable, less with more

Re: [LINK] https/metadata

On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Kim Holburn wrote: > What are ISPs being asked to save of these requests? > Nothing. Scott ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] RFI: Census Site Implosion

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > It seems they (ABS and IBM) were using Softlayer. Umm. SoftLayer IS IBM. > Someone rang their > help desk and asked if it was likely that there had been a DDoS. The > response was - very unlikely. > Yes,

Re: [LINK] Are Robots Still Just "Tools" When They Are Used to Kill?

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Paul Bolger wrote: > I wondered whether this was something they had prepared for this sort > of situation, or something they cobbled together. > It was the same setup they use for detonating suspected explosive packages/etc. > I'm not sure

Re: [LINK] U.S. opens investigation into Tesla after fatal crash in Autopilot mode

The same driver, several months ago - http://www.marketwatch.com/story/watch-a-tesla-model-s-autopilot-take-over-and-save-driver-from-near-collision-2016-04-16 You can't be certain from the video, but given the truck seems to be at least partially in front of him at all times, you've got to

Re: [LINK] Friday :)

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Andy Farkas wrote: > You assume he was using leenux. I did no such thing. The question clearly states that he's running CentOS 7 via the tag "Centos7". The history for the question shows that the tag was added by the original author.

Re: [LINK] Friday :)

There was very clearly something wrong with the question from the start. The command described doesn't actually do what the author suggested (wipe the entire machine) - in fact, it does nothing but return an error. # rm -rf / rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’ rm: use

Re: [LINK] Australia Post to lose passport services

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Stephen Loosley wrote: > Having received my passport renewed for 10 years today, by registered > post, exactly three weeks to the day after having fronted to one of the > authorized post offices, I'd say the current system works

Re: [LINK] Anticipated service life of fibre (was: Does NBN need a third satellite?)

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Andy Farkas wrote: > David, you've mentioned this "anticipated service life" a few times now. > > None of us can see into the future, but what would replace something > that can go at the (constant) speed of light? The life of a fibre cable >

Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Tom Worthington < tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au> wrote: > > However, there is no harm in the satellites being used to download movies, > when there is capacity available. But I suggest priority should be given to > services such as health and education. So does

Re: [LINK] Where is the GOV.AU Alpha prototype?

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Tom Worthington < tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au> wrote: > The Digital Transformation Office released a "prototype" of GOV.AU: > http://dto.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=18f172213d32ca205c7e524bd=33ca021784=094181f64a > > But where is the GOV.AU Alpha

Re: [LINK] Quote ' the internet of dangerous broken things'

Unfortunately this type of problem is not new. About a years ago, with very minimal effort, I managed to get control of the entire TV setup in a certain hotel in Asia (one of the major worldwide chains, no less) - everything from being able to turn on or off TVs in any room, change channels, remap

Re: [LINK] Faults? Telstra?

that area, or that has been involved in search and rescue operations will tell you that the odds of finding him in any realistic time is all but zero. Scott On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Karl Auer <ka...@biplane.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 13:01 -0800, Scott Howard wr

Re: [LINK] Faults? Telstra?

Damn autocorrect... Google for "D2009/105306" for the report. Scott On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Karl Auer <ka...@biplane.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 13:01 -0800, Scott Howard wrote: > > Whilst your statement is potentially true for other situations,

Re: [LINK] Faults? Telstra?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:36 PM, David Boxall wrote: > More likely, they're conditioned to avoid thinking. Decision support > systems are set up to minimise costs in the short term. It has killed: > > Whilst your statement is

Re: [LINK] The DVD is not dead!

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Avi Miller wrote: > Actually, Netflix are quite happy to put a storage node at an ISP: > My point was that it only works when it's driven by the content provider (Netflix, Akamai, Cloudflare, etc), not when it's driven by the ISP. ISP

Re: [LINK] TPG international fibre cable fault - where was that break again?

PPC1 is around 6,900km long, so the fault is over 2,300km from Sydney - not 700km. It's also somewhere in the Pacific ocean, not just down the road from SeaWorld... The major cause for the delay in fixing it is the fact that the ship that is normally on standby for repairs like this is currently

Re: [LINK] Young Aussies losing ground in digital economy

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Jim Birch wrote: > I don't get this idea that everyone should be coding an app. It's a > specialized area with limited opportunities. > My mother still uses the sugar scoop I made in metal-work class at school. My grand-mother still uses

Re: [LINK] Okay for PM to Use Non-Government Internet Services

*"If you're using a commercial email service that's being carried through the telecommunications network, it will be covered by all of the same rules that apply to a Government-based service."* Public email systems have no requirement to be encrypted. Nor any requirements for strong passwords,

Re: [LINK] web: Microsoft's Windows 10 is recording your voice and your key strokes - here' ...

Realistically what needs to happen is that Microsoft should be forced to state they are doing this the very first time that you boot into Windows 10. At that same point, users should be given the option to disable any or all of these "dial-home" features, preferably with a good description of the

Re: [LINK] Of Fossildom and Other Ailments

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Andy Farkas wrote: > I suspect someone will fork FF and hack the bad bits out. > Or you could just go into the settings and disable it. Scott ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au

Re: [LINK] ATO Voice fingerprint

It's a security measure. The next time you call, if your voice is significantly different it will be detected, and they will know that there's at least a real possibility that it's not really you. What will end up being stored is not the recording of the call, but data regarding the voiceprint

Re: [LINK] web: iPad app failure delays 74 flights in the US, forces pilots back to paper c ...

The cost justification around using the iPads in the cockpit was largely based around the savings from the cost of the paper - both in terms of keeping it up to date, but also the physical weight multiplied out over the 6000 flights that AA flies each day. Having paper as a backup would negate

Re: [LINK] Is it true??? HFC can carry 100MBS ...

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jan Whitaker jw...@janwhitaker.com wrote: Can HFC carry 100 Mbps and later 1 Gbps? That's what Malcolm Turnbull just said on ABC radio. Can it do it without degradation or is it still a shared delivery system that dies the more people you put on it? Yes.

Re: [LINK] Firefox Browser, full HTTP/2 support

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Stephen Loosley stephenloos...@outlook.com wrote: the most active participants are volunteer engineers from projects like Firefox, Twitter, Microsoft's HTTP stack, Curl and Akamai Sorry, which of those are 'volunteer engineers? The Mozilla corporation

Re: [LINK] Australian Patents

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Kim Davies k...@cynosure.com.au wrote: Or, perhaps because Australia doesn’t have the same legal climate as in the US where your IT company will get dragged into court in Marshall, Texas unless you file thousands of meaningless patents for defensive purposes.

Re: [LINK] Gumtree

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca wrote: I think the google may be protesting too much. If you follow the links for the two sites listed, i.e. /*zamcheck.org/ http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=zamcheck.org/*//*, *//*indolocker.com/

Re: [LINK] Disable clipboard for password input

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca wrote: A comment on the plug-in page mentioned security and privacy issues being addressed by this plug-in. Now that I think about it, I suppose anything on your clipboard could be surreptitiously copied to rogue websites. Not a

Re: [LINK] Gmail and crypto

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: To the best of my knowledge, the VAST majority of email is shipped between servers in clear text. Facebook's data disagrees.

[LINK] Mary Meeker - 2014 State Of The Web

Every year, former analyst and venture capitalist Mary Meeker releases an in-depth look at the state of the web. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers partner also hints at up-and-coming startups and uncovers digital trends with an array of surprising stats.

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: FAA gave Boeing and the airlines THREE YEARS to install two light bulbs for extra safety... In March 2011, the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States released an airworthiness directive requiring all

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Are we talking about the same bulletin? You quote one dated 2010, the one referenced is 2011-3-14. http://avherald.com/h?article=43778c6b Yes. If you click on the directive in that entry you'll see the text I quoted.

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Kim Holburn kim.holb...@gmail.com wrote: Why are they using flash drives that sink? Because creating something that is able to withstand the forces of a crash, and then have sufficient battery power to ping for several months (or more), which is also capable of

Re: [LINK] FTTP soon normal

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Rachel Polanskis gr...@exemail.com.auwrote: Also, when it comes to the internal fibre link from the wall outside, we were told it is Single Mode Fibre and so is only suitable for short runs. You probably mean Multi-mode fiber, which is only good for runs up

Re: [LINK] FTTP soon normal

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Stephen Loosley step...@melbpc.org.auwrote: Wow. Sounds like 1Gbps speeds are shortly going to become pretty standard across much of the United States. Up to 100 cities in 25 markets is very, very far from pretty much standard. Despite living in the middle of

Re: [LINK] The Heartbleed Bug in OpenSSL

In general, most apps on Android are not going to be impacted, even if they are (technically) vulnerable. In order for Heartbleed to be abused on a client device like an Android device, an App on the device will need to connect to a malicious server - one that has been specifically setup to abuse

Re: [LINK] Cyber hijack of MH370?

Latest data apparently shows that the course change was programmed into the FMS at least 10 minutes before last contact, which pretty much debunks this theory. Scott On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Jim Birch planet...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [LINK] Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au wrote: I find it amazing that these planes aren't fitted with some kind of beacon, independent of the comms. They are - it's called a transponder, and the 777 has two of them configured in a redundant manner - if one

Re: [LINK] Cyberattacks, max the CPU and turn-off fans

This is hardly new(s). Viruses that damage hardware date back to at least 1998 with the CIH virus that overwrote the computers BIOS, in a day where this could frequently not be recovered from without physically replacing the BIOS chip in many systems -

Re: [LINK] Adobe Flash problems

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jan Whitaker jw...@janwhitaker.com wrote: Problem is, when you say update add-ons in Firefox, the result is a report that everything is up to date, including Flash, which was last updated 1 October 2013. There have been multiple updates to Flash since October

Re: [LINK] Adobe Flash problems - update fails with OS X Lion and above

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca wrote: The latest one for my Mac running OS X is this: *install_flash_player_osx-***12.0.0.44*.dmg* which is amusing, since their emergency bulletin mentioned that the update is to version *12.0.0.43. *In the time between

Re: [LINK] How Do I Stop Spam from the Palmer United Party?

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: ... As far as I am aware, being a political party means they are outside the anti-spam legislation. ... Discussion on the Whirlpool Forum appeared to indicate that political parties are exempt from some

Re: [LINK] McAfee now Intel Security

To quote John McAfee on the change : “I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet. These are not my words, but the words of millions of irate users,” he said, adding, “My elation at Intel’s decision is beyond words.”

Re: [LINK] NYT: Snowden is a whistleblower and should be offered a plea to return home

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca wrote: Note that the US prison system has been privatised and is run for profit. This has resulted in a higher incarceration rate. Actually the number of prisoners has been steadily reducing since 2009. The incarceration rate is

Re: [LINK] A security question

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Roger Clarke roger.cla...@xamax.com.auwrote: NAB's 'solution' for such customers is to set a bank-imposed (not customer-selected) daily transaction ceiling ($2500), and preclude use of Internet Banking for overseas data transfers. They also offer a number of

Re: [LINK] A security question

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Roger Clarke roger.cla...@xamax.com.auwrote: (2) The actual level of successful hacking is passably low I think that factor needs re-phrasing, e.g.: (2) The level of successful hacking that costs banks serious money or material reputational harm is

Re: [LINK] A security question

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:12 PM, David Lochrin dloch...@d2.net.au wrote: Trouble with mobile phone/SMS is that it relies on the phone number, still being in the correct hands. There have been several articles about prepared thieves using mobile number portability to move the target's number

Re: [LINK] GMail clobbers image tracking in ads

Although what you've included below is what is widely being reported, it is NOT what Google is currently doing. Google is currently NOT pre-downloading images, but instead are downloading it and caching it the first time that it is accessed. They are also moving towards displaying images by

Re: [LINK] One gigabit on NBN

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Richard rchirg...@ozemail.com.au wrote: The SMH's $20,000 per month presumes zero contention on the CVC - a gigabit clear channel. At 20:1 contention ratio, it'd be $1000 a month. Contention ratios are set not by NBN Co but by the retailer. That presumes

Re: [LINK] Amazon Prime Air

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Andy Farkas an...@andyit.com.au wrote: Even Bill Gates says Amazon drone delivery plan 'overoptimistic': I disagree. I think that their plan has achieved everything they wanted it to, and probably far more than they would have ever expected. News coverage

Re: [LINK] RFC: Easier Security for SMEs and Consumers

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Rick Welykochy r...@vitendo.ca wrote: great as Wi-Fi Arial, cracks wep in like 20 mins, cant do wpa/wpa2 psk gave it like 12hrs on each program no luck Strange. I agree that wpa is much more difficult to crack, but I was under the impression that wep can be

Re: [LINK] Samsung region locking Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S4

Samsung went on to say that the region lock can be *removed free of charge*through a Samsung service partner. The regional SIM lock has been applied to the Galaxy Note [3] and Galaxy S4 devices through a software update in *selective markets*. Looks like it's just a way of trying to limit

Re: [LINK] refusing contactless cards

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Craig Sanders c...@taz.net.au wrote: because i don't want to carry something in my wallet that can be scanned remotely to give an attacker my name, credit card number, CCV code (and possibly other details including my address - i'm not sure about the address

Re: [LINK] Message from ASIC or not?

Domain Name: SGE.NET Registrant: Verizon Business Australia Pty Ltd 243 Northbourne Ave Lyneham Canberra, ACT 2602 AU All of the (public) IP addresses listed are in Australia, and are registered to Verizon Business. I would have no doubt this is legitimate, with Verizon acting as a