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Comment Re:Germany..... (Score 1) 340

The most likely explanation, when all else is ruled out, is usually the truth.

‘When all else is ruled out’ is a bit wider than invalidating ONE possible reason.

This isn't pseudo-science. It's logic and deduction.

This certainly isn’t logic and deduction. Maybe on a TV show, but not in the real world.

Comment Re:Half a century (Score 1) 32

These types of attacks have been around for half a century, this is nothing new - it is amazing that these supposedly brilliant young tech workers are falling for the same social engineering hacks their grandparents did back in the seventies!

Completely agree, this is _exactly_ how our local hackers operated in the eighties. Only differences are that they had to get the line number to the modem bank first, and that they could easily claim to have left their (paper) agenda with all the numbers at home.

Social engineering > Security

Submission + - SPAM: China Created a Fail-Safe System to Track Contagions. It Failed.

schwit1 writes: "After SARS, Chinese health officials built an infectious disease reporting system to evade political meddling. But when the coronavirus emerged, so did fears of upsetting Beijing."

After doctors in Wuhan began treating clusters of patients stricken with a mysterious pneumonia in December, the reporting was supposed to have been automatic. Instead, hospitals deferred to local health officials who, over a political aversion to sharing bad news, withheld information about cases from the national reporting system — keeping Beijing in the dark and delaying the response.

The central health authorities first learned about the outbreak not from the reporting system but after unknown whistle-blowers leaked two internal documents online.

Even after Beijing got involved, local officials set narrow criteria for confirming cases, leaving out information that could have provided clues that the virus was spreading among humans.

Resistance to sending bad news up the chain is typical of any authoritarian regime.
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Submission + - Coronavirus has led to a 775% increase in use of Microsoft Azure services (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on its services. The company says that there has been a huge increase in Teams usage, and there are not over 44 million daily users.

In regions where there are isolation and home sheltering orders in place, Microsoft says that there has been a colossal 775 percent increase in usage of its cloud services. Despite the surge in demand, there have not been any significant service disruptions.

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