Richard Chirgwin
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Singapore fingers deported fraudster for leak of list of thousands of HIV+ people
Accuses suspect of other stuff too, such as faking HIV status to get a work permit. Wait, what? → Read More
Mozilla security policy cracks down on creepy web trackers, holds supercookies over fire
Firefox makers sets out dodgy practices the browser will block → Read More
Arrcus looks to 400G future, Tonga stuck on satellite connection, and Linux Foundation's new edge computing effort
Roundup Relative newcomer Arrcus wants to help networking upstarts follow the industry's juggernauts into the 400Gbps Ethernet world with the latest update to its year-old ArcOS network operating system. Speaking to The Register ahead of the launch, founder and CEO Devesh Garg said the migration to 400G will take the industry about two years, and that should give challenger vendors the chance to… → Read More
Requests for info, gag orders and takedowns fired at GitHub users hit an all-time high last year
More stuff disclosed, but code host could rarely tell targets → Read More
I can hear the light! Boffins beam audio into ears with freakin' lasers
MIT boffins have used low-power lasers to beam audio directly into a subject's ear. The technique relies on the interaction between light and water in the air, a phenomenon known naturally enough as the "optoacoustic effect". In their experiments, the researchers found they could use this to transmit an audio signal which, while "silent" between transmitter and receiver, is detected at 60… → Read More
UC Berkeley reacts to 'uni Huawei ban' reports: We unplugged, like, one thing no one cares about
Meanwhile, Canada to sign 5G R&D collab with Nokia → Read More
SD-WAN admin? Your number came up in Cisco's latest bug list
Cisco's irregular patch cycle has come round again and this time the focus is on the company's SD-WAN product. As well as high-rated bugs in Webex, small business routers and various security products, Switchzilla has disclosed one critical bug in its SD-WAN, and another four vulnerabilities rated high. That critical rating was assigned to CVE-2019-1651, a bug in the SD-WAN's virtual container,… → Read More
World's favourite open-source PDF interpreter needs patching (again)
Still afraid of no ghost? You didn't read the script → Read More
Tech sector meekly waves arms in another bid to get Oz to amend its crypto-busting laws
Comment An alliance of Australia's tech and industry advocacy groups hopes, yet again, to have the country's encryption-busting legislation tweaked before the government goes to an election no later than May. Rather than a complete repeal of the Telecommunications (Assistance and Access) Act, the Communications Alliance-led group is asking for amendments, some proposed by the Australian Labor… → Read More
Oz auditor: Number of times failed government biometric project met a milestone = None
Nope, never. We think buying nothing cost us AU$34m, but nobody's sure → Read More
Remember Woolworths? Well it still exists in Oz. And Telstra wants NBN Co to help shove fibre in it
In one of its first major wins in the enterprise market, NBN Co* has confirmed it will pull fibre to Woolworths' properties in support of a Telstra contract with the supermarket giant. The Australia-wide deal was first reported by telco newsletter Communications Day, which said the contract covers 3,000 supermarkets, Big W outlets, Dan Murphy's and BWS liquor stores, and Caltex petrol stations… → Read More
Oracle robbed just about anyone who wasn't a pasty white male of $400m, says Uncle Sam
Lucrative govt IT contracts at risk in discrim legal battle → Read More
Build the wall... around your DNS settings, US govt IT staff urged by Homeland Security amid domain hijackings
Anyone still at their posts, please stop these address takeovers... please, helloo? Anyone there? → Read More
Stalk my pals on social media and you'll know that the next words out of my mouth will be banana hammock
Boffins reckon they can predict what you'll say based on your friends' activity online → Read More
France wants in on the No Huawei Club while Canuck infosec bloke pretty insistent on ban
Founder warns that 'mediocre employees' may have to go → Read More
Get in the bin: Let's Encrypt gives admins until February 13 to switch off TLS-SNI
End-of-life followed 2018 fake Website certificate drama → Read More
Lords of the DNS remind admins about Flag Day, Juniper likes Watson and more
PING, PING, PING … it's your networking roundup for the week → Read More
At 900k lines of code, ONOS is getting heavy. Can it go on a diet?
'Net greybeard Douglas Comer talks SDN with El Reg → Read More
Old bugs, new bugs, red bugs
Out of 284 flaws, 33 are rated critical. Big Red admins have big patches ahead → Read More
Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided...
Third stage failure means atmospheric fireworks show → Read More