slazer2au

Very likely the Aussie police won't say exactly. All they have said so far is the devices are modified smart phones and they compromised the devices with a supply chain attack.

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/afp-operation-kraken-charges-alleged-head-global-organised-crime-app

Main parts

The handsets, which were a modified smart phone, were sold for about $2350, which included a six-month subscription to an encrypted network and tech support.

The administrator regularly pushed out software updates, just like the ones needed for normal mobile phones.

But the AFP was able to modify those updates, which basically infected the devices, enabling the AFP to access the content on devices in Australia.

Rotated a horizontally polarised antenna to vertical polarisation because the contractor wasn't listening.

The Register is the only news outlet that I actively read, I get the random splatter of other outlets via Lemmy.

LoTR, hunt for red October, most Bond films. The Mummy.

Kung Pow

I'm just a birdie too.

If you keep reading it is infact a modified firearm

The weapon of mass destruction charge was brought against Routh over a fully-automatic machine gun he had, according to the News & record.

I can explain it a thousand times and people will still treat company equipment during company time as private.

I am more annoyed about managers giving the impression that we actively watch things. We don't. We have more important stuff to do because we are chronically underfunded

Overhearing onboarding managers explain how IT watches everything staff do.

No we don't randomly remote into your system to see what your screen you are on.
No we dont actively look at your web history.
No we don't actively read other staffs outgoing emails for data loss.

We have automated systems for 2 and 3. Even then we only do something if requested by HR or Legal.

€0.30 /kWh

Moving to the cloud is a business decision not a technical one.

Csuite sees us spending Capex 200K on a server or 2 and several thousand opex per year to maintain it.

Cloud takes that 200K Capex and move it to Opex with significant markup markup.

From a technical pov we st it as a waste but business will business itself into cost overruns

Nope. I keep the internet working.

People seem happy when I say that. Unless my internet at home craps out and my wife makes a cheeky joke about it.