Encrypt all the things!

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^I'm sure the owner of this forum could find out what you thought you deleted. No hiding on the interwebs

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That sort of comment will get you banned!

I doubt it.

I recommend encryption precisely because it protects user data from sysadmins, let alone lay users of a system or third parties. When done properly, no-one except the users who own the data and those that they delegate access to can see anything.

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Canestan or any other jock-itch cream should help until you get to your VD clinic for a course of antibiotics.

Many thanks, just what I needed to know.

over the weekend discovered that a lost iPhone had been discovered, then noticed a notification that somebody had logged into iCloud; so the lost iPhone no longer appears in FindMyiPhone,

• which surprised me, as unless somebody had hacked into my iPhone to find out my iCloud password, or guessed my fingerprint / combo-code.. quite unsure how they managed to recover the lost iPhone,
  
  

(though happy that they did!)

Virgin Media starts turning customer routers into public Wi-Fi hotspots.
https://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2017/04/virgin-media-wifi-public-hotspots/

I'm actually astonished that an ISP would do that.

It's an interesting idea...but very weird / creepy at the same time

You can opt out in the "My Profile" section on their site. Needless to say, I've already done that.

BT have been doing this for years anyway.

That's what BT have been doing for ages, no? Same as FON?

I should still have FON access actually, assuming they're live?

So they have. I didn't know that.

Flying to the US on Tuesday, I don't want to go.

My Superhub isn't wifi though, I just use it to take cable to my Asus router so I'm unlikely to be effected.

Yeah, all this shit happened after I booked TABR. Not thrilled. Please let us know how you get on?

In some ways it's a decent idea, given the speeds that Virgin can offer there is probably spare capacity in terms of bandwidth and if they set the hub up so that the guest wi-fi uses a different channel that should eliminate a lot of the conflict (except that all Virgin customers are going to double the number of wi-fi networks).

On the other hands, the hubs are pretty shit and the wi-fi signal not great. Someone would have to be stood right outside your house to use it.

Obviously I've opted out.

I did wonder whether having your hub in modem mode would stop it but there's no reason why it would if it's an entirely separate network.

My modem is in modem mode only, but I've also gone and opted out.

You would hope that as an end-user you'd have control over whether or not wi-fi is enabled.

I will also switch my Superhub to modem only, then simply rely on my other Asus router (which has the benefit of running infinitely better firmware compared to the awful version that runs on the Virgin device).

Parrot exploit

One thing I noticed in the coverage of the attack in Paris was that the BBC reported that security services had known of the gunman, who had talked about his desire to kill police officers on the Telegram messaging service.

That was very soon after it happened, not sure how the information was obtained.

PIA has suddenly stopped connecting on my phone. Still works on the desktop though...

Any ideas?

I've tried a janitor fix and still nothing.