And these notification emails are often a joke. Who did they notify in your organisation exactly? What should be be looking for in terms of sender or subject. Some previous "notifications" have been the equivalent of filing it in a locked filing cabinet in an old toilet with a "beware of the leopard" sign on the door... MS's excuse is "well we told you", but they actually emailed role accounts which never, ever check their email.

At the scale Amazon's working at, how much more difficult and costly is it to have your offsite backups on a different continent, versus merely a neighbouring country/state? I assume someone competent decided that having UAE backups in Bahrain were "good enough" compared to, say, Australia.

I haven't shopped at Sainsbury's for over a decade. The last time, I wanted to buy a pair of jeans (having just ripped the arse out of my own) but they had no fitting room because "people can't be trusted". The only option was to buy them and then try them on in the toilets. Said toilets were beyond squalid, and I asked - politely, with a smile - whether I could speak to a manager. What I got instead was two security guards, who made it clear that there was no room for reasonable discussion. So throwing false shoplifting allegations around doesn't surprise me in the least.

65N here, we're getting 4 hours of daylight in December and no proper darkness for months no matter how much we piss about with the clocks. Yet still we insist on pissing about with the clocks.

A fairly quiet site I help run got taken out by this. But we're using Cloudflare because, without it, we get overrun with AI scraper bots and the database server falls over.

Boeing said in a statement. "To ensure compliance, we are removing any affected parts on airplanes prior to delivery. Our analysis shows the in-service fleet can continue to fly safely."

Great, if they hadn't already been caught raiding the scrap bin for parts to fit onto new aircraft...

Mmm, yes, stab the fingers I'm about to eat with into half the town's faecal bacteria, delicious. Yes, wash your hands before eating, I know... but how many people actually bother with that?

I live at 65N and I'm going to work in the dark regardless. Sunrise at 1030, sunset 1430, except it never bothers to drag its arse over the trees. The darker evenings are just an unnecessary kick in the balls, right as the weather turns to shit for a month.

Now Kije was a hussar bold, a hussar bold was he...

"If the some reason interesting, I move on."

Are you using a speech-to-text tool?

I think that's $25,000?

Kermit kingdom. The muppets are in charge.

HA HA!

Your water-treatment plant is just NOT capable of poisoning you with treatment chemicals. Period. Not *physically* capable, if we tried our hardest.

Camelford would beg to differ. I hope that lessons were learned and that it would now be physically impossible to screw up that way again.

Having watched Deviant Ollam get into a treatment plant with nothing more than a piece of bent metal, it's the meatspace vulnerabilities that concern me more than the remote hack - especially given the efforts you describe to design out stupid or malicious computer-controlled actions.

Really enjoyed your post and learned a lot from it. Thank you.

...these ghouls being fitted with concrete shoes and dropped into the ocean right over the wreck site.

Not because I want an NFT, but because I'd like to see these ghouls being fitted with concrete shoes and dropped into the ocean right over the wreck site.