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Submission + - Lizardsquad member Vinnie Omari arrested, home raided. (neowin.net)

Computershack writes: The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) has arrested a 22-year-old man from Twickenham on suspicion of fraud by false representation and Computer Misuse Act offences.


The arrest yesterday (30/12) is in connection with an ongoing investigation in to cyber fraud offences which took place between 2013 and August 2014 during which victims reported funds being stolen from their PayPal accounts. The arrested man was released on bail until 10 March.

Submission + - UK Arrest over Xbox Live and Playstation Network outages (neowin.net)

An anonymous reader writes: Neowin.net is reporting the arrest of one Vincent Omari, a UK citizen, in the Christmas Day DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on the Sony's PSN and Microsoft's XBL systems: 'In documents sent to Neowin, Vinnie Omari has been accused of "hacking of the Playstation Network and Xbox Live systems over the Christmas Period"... While this is the first arrest related to the recent service disruptions, it may not be the last... In further conversations with those who are familiar with the investigation and the arrest, Omari believes that the police will not find anything of substance on his computers. He's alleged crime is that he helped coordinate the DDOS attack on the service. Further, Omari believes that this arrest will give him more credibility in the cyber security space.'

Comment Re:Amount could be reduced, not increased... (Score 1) 75

Do realize that they could be uncomfortable because the amount of data Apple wants to collect is greatly REDUCED from what credit cards collect - the statement does not state which direction of the amount goes.

Credit cards in the UK don't work like they do in the USA. The only thing the credit card company knows is how much you've spent and what retailer you've spent it at. They don't know what you've bought. My credit card company online statements break down spending into categories. Quite a lot of the time its in the wrong category because I've bought something somewhere which is not that company's main line of business. An example would be buying screenwash at Tesco for my car. It doesn't go through as automotive but groceries if I buy it from the store and not the supermarket forecourt.

Comment Re:But what laws are they breaking? (Score 1) 139

They certainly do have laws against this. Here in the UK there is the Computer Misuse Act which is the most obvious. As regards to a solution, you can't really defend against a DDoS. There is no way to distinguish a legitimate request to www.google.com from one from a machine that is part of a Botnet until its done a certain number of retries which makes it obvious.

Comment Re:4 Days? (Score 1) 250

It takes about 30 minutes, if that (15-20 normally) to unload 4-6 pallets from the truck,

You'd be fired in most warehouses in the UK if you worked that slow. Shit I loaded myself with a pump truck on Saturday night and stuck 18 pallets on my semi-trailer in half an hour and that is with a forklift truck driver going into the warehouse and bringing them out to me one at a time. It only took them 30 minutes to unload and check 26 pallets I delivered to a Tesco distribution centre on Sunday morning.

Comment Re:4 Days? (Score 1) 250

You can unload 13,000 cases of unpalletized canned goods in four hours, the same amount of time it takes anyone else with pallets? That's pretty fucking amazing, I must say.

What the hell? A standard 40' shipping container takes 24 pallets. You can unload/load 24 pallets in about the same number of minutes, even less if they're all stacked on the loading dock next to the ramp for the container. You're probably looking at an hour to unload 13,000 cases palletised.

Comment Re:Like many inventions ... (Score 5, Informative) 250

Thank you for demonstrating you have no fucking clue about haulage or logistics. The vast majority of goods are transported palletised. You can unload 3,000 cases of palletised goods far faster than two or three people stuck in the back of a semi-trailer can put them on a conveyer belt. It takes a warehouse 20 minutes to unload a full 26 pallet load semi-trailer, it takes 2hrs to unload 1500 cases on a conveyer belt. I should know, I've spent 20 years as a trucker.

Please stop commenting about something you don't know shit about, you're just embarrassing yourself.

Comment Re:Like many inventions ... (Score 5, Informative) 250

It takes time to build pallets. It takes time to break apart, resort, and rebuild pallets. It costs money to repair and replace the pallets themselves. Pallets require extra ceiling space to actually pick them up and put them into a truck or container, resulting in wasted volume in that truck or container. The logistics industry is quickly moving away from pallets for everything but long term storage.

Actual truck driver here. No they're not or at least in Europe they're not. You can load a pallet onto a truck with just a couple of inches clearance, enough for the skids on the pallet not to slide along the floor. What actually determines pallet height and therefore wasted space in a truck is the racking at the warehouses. Its the spacing between the shelving on the racking. Rented pallets is the model used the most with Chep being the largest player in the world. Most large companies won't accept goods unless they're on Chep pallets, that's how well they're built and how well designed the rental system is. You don't need to worry about the time it takes to build pallets or repair them because Chep take care of that. You merely send one of your trucks in to a Chep factory en-route back to load up 300 pallets or get Chep to deliver them and collect the damaged ones.

Comment More Tesla lies..... (Score -1, Flamebait) 133

Well colour me surprised. So their promotion video bragging that it was faster to swap not one but two batteries in less time than it took to fill up a car with one of the largest fuel tanks on the market was actually not a true representation and the best they can currently manage is three minutes a battery? Not only does it take just as long to swap out a battery to get a 300 mile range as it does to fill an Audi that'll do a thousand miles on a tank of gas, you get to pay the same amount of money as well for the privilege.

Comment Re:Better than the USA (Score 3, Informative) 70

At least the major cable guys offer unlimited data a month, and price you according to the speed that you wanna rent. Which sounds fair. One has to pay far more than that in other countries - not sure about Europe, but definitely it's far cheaper than Asia

I pay the equivalent of $50 a month for 80mbps down, 20mbps up with no data caps or throttling here in the UK.

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