thanksforallthefish

Ahh, yeah ok, not too surprising I guess. Thanks

Did anyone ever find out what "Nicole" etc actually wanted ? I just blocked and immediately reported spam, but tbh never actually ask what flavour of scam "she" was up to

Was installed below the waterline - not specified whether it was divers or submarine drones in info so far made available. All the Russian current protections were apparently air and sea not submarine - other than nets (which were clearly ineffective).

Edit more info than in the above article can be found here

https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-hits-crimean-bridge-for-the-third-time-this-time-underwater-8841

It's an entire german state cutting off 800k p.a of MS revenue. That's not piecemeal is it ?

Schleswig Holstein (sp?) are doing so, ditto Copenhagen and Aarhaus (DK) and I believe France are looking into it

I'm shocked ! Shocked I tell you ! Ok, not that shocked

I used to be one of those sysadmins, and the short answer is appropriate risk management, better network controls a locked down OS and immediate action to push out the patches for serious issues.

I quite frankly detest M$ but keeping your pc patched isn't propaganda.

If you know enough to manage the risk (including proper network firewalls and good internet hygiene) then sure, keep going for a while. Zero days aren't daily, they're a handful per year.

On the other hand if you have no clue about ITSec then you genuinely need to upgrade asap because you're metaphorically running around with your genitals exposed.

Your comment leads me to suggest you probably dont have the skills to do an appropriate risk assessment.

But you do you. I'm not your Dad

So here comes alkaline rain to replace the acid rain we got rid of 40 years ago. Genius idea. Not

Yep still exist.

No more security patches. That should be dead to you if you don't want to host thousands of parasitic bots & malwares

Unfortunately, I'm a Windows user.

There is a solution for that 😁

And this is a very positive thing for Australia and Canada. The closer the ties the better, both countries have a huge amount in common culturally and economically. Oz NZ & Canada are very much brothers and we should support each other.

I am very positive about the steps towards closer alliance that are being taken by NATO-1 since the Tangerine Palpatine took office.