Posts by Matthew Poole
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OnPoint: #WTFMSD: "Damning", in reply to Keith Ng,
It is impossible to look for anything.
Orly? From the original post:
And then there were file server logs. Normally, they aren’t that exciting. Except that WINZ name their files quite well. For example:
s:\SharedData\wi_wites\Waikato\HAM\Fraud Investigations\[Name of investigator]\[Name of WINZ client] 23 Jun 2011 Case 640026-10.WMA
That looks pretty damned searchable to me, if one had a spot of inside info.
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OnPoint: #WTFMSD: "Damning", in reply to Keith Ng,
Did they identify your downloads? And from that, which files you accessed?
Yes (I think).
I certainly see in the report that they saw your accessing the servers, and the transfer of data. I don't get from there to an audit trail of what you accessed, were they to be absent your USB key.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to TracyMac,
Likewise the IRD, based on what one of my lecturers (who also consults to IRD) said. If you're fiddling your taxes, you'd best keep sweet with everyone who knows.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Matthew Poole,
while the primary media outlet of the prolles – surviving only by being unworthy of being wrapped around good, honest fish and chips – was Ivestiy.
Ah, and it seems that my recollection was faulty since Ivestia was also a government paper. Making the Russian joke even more bleak.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season, in reply to Kumara Republic,
As they used to say in Russia, "v Pravde net izvestiy, v Izvestiyakh net pravdy." ("In the Truth there is no news, and in the News there is no truth.")
Which was, as I understood it, reference to the chief mouthpiece of the Party being Pravda while the primary media outlet of the prolles - surviving only by being unworthy of being wrapped around good, honest fish and chips - was Ivestiy.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Islander,
I don't recall whether Adam wears a sporran with his utility kilt. Didn't pay that much attention, TBQH. I just know that he often wears a kilt, and have witnessed such.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Russell Brown,
we have Kiwicon organiser and Insomnia Security employee Adam Boileau on Media3
Just remind him that the cameras can probably see right up his kilt. Might give some of the viewing audience a bit more of an view than intended.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Ds,
I'm in lust. She correctly calls then "personal identification number(s)" and "Pin(s)", never "Pin numbers". It's tempered by her never capitalising the full acronym as PIN, which gets a bit confusing, but maybe that's this new-fangled English that breaks so many of the rules with which I was raised.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to izogi,
Is the whistleblower’s legislation meant to legally oblige or require employees to use it for reporting things, or is it more intended to provide clearer legal processes for people who choose to report things when they’re faced with retaliatory action from employers?
Absolutely the latter. I would be distinctly queasy about the implications of legislation that tried to compel whistle-blowing.
The Protected Disclosures Act also only applies to internal disclosure or, where internal disclosure is not practical, disclosure to the Ombudsmen or a Minister of the Crown. The Act requires that public sector organisations establish internal processes for disclosing allegations of "serious wrongdoing", and protection under the Act only applies if those processes are followed. Going outside the organisation is a last resort where the employee believes there is wilful ignorance or a cover-up, and it's only then that going to the Ombudsmen or a Minister is protected.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Richard Busby,
Defcon as an "underground hacking network"
They're doing a pretty shit job of being "underground", I have to say, given that the alphabet soup of the United States' national security apparatus attend in force.