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Comment #17057450
I suspect light sarcasm on the part of the perpetrator.
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Comment #16892344
This was an absolutely fascinating read, the paper isn't too dense for a layman to read and understand. Finished reading the paper and it definitely makes space travel seem more wi…
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Comment #16460819
Of course, if your stereotype is correct, this does beg the question about who decided it was a good idea to GIVE 'the kids' all these trophies.
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Comment #16309969
That'd be quite the technological feat considering they don't currently have cameras built in.
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Comment #15295476
Anyone got a non-paywalled link to this story?
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Comment #14979494
Ah. Thanks. So the idea is to stop the user before they get that far, I suppose. Doesn't this hark back to "If the attacker has local access, it's already game over"?
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Comment #14979465
Forgive the naive question, but would 2FA completely mitigate this attack, assuming that the org trying to access a key vault did not have access to the 2FA device?
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Comment #14497304
Funny you should say that. Here in the UK we're three episodes into a Handmaid's Tale TV adaptation. It's surprisingly good and you're right, it's excellent TV, even if I found the…
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Comment #14444189
Capital and Heart are privately owned and operated stations. The BBC Charts usually air on Radio 1 I think on Friday, so we will have to see if they opt to play it then, though I s…
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Comment #14443819
This happened in the past, a lot of people bought the track 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' from the Wizard of Oz movie in the week Margaret Thatcher died, BBC refused to play it des…
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Comment #14443791
I worked somewhere where the behaviour described in OP's post happened. It was just lighthearted. We worked in desk 'bays', so someone sat next to the unlocked PC would have visual…
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Comment #14359824
Yes - the first year of University was designed as a catch-up to those who hadn't previously had exposure to this sort of thing and weed out the coasters. I must stress this was a …
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Comment #14359720
Yes, to those who had studied it was fairly obvious what the solution was, but the phrasing was such that to those who were just trying to wing it failed miserably.
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Comment #14359513
At University we had a question around this type of 'transfer'. I can't remember how it went exactly but we were to calculate the bandwidth of a jumbo plane carrying x amount of ha…
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Comment #13985757
We didn't have a chance at PR. Highly emotive[1] and ridiculous[2] campaigning from the No side saw to that, much in the same way as it saw to Brexit. [1] https://static.guim.co.uk…
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