Posts by happygeek

What she said. Tags are there for a reason, if only more people used them properly.

The response has not been particularly smart in any way. I am still getting prompts to change my password, despite already doing so and having password changed messages in my onsite inbox.

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welcome aboard

Welcome. From Grandad.

Welcome Mykul

I used to be really needle-phobic as a kid, and teenager. Then I got ill with Viral Encephalitis, ended up in hospital for best part of a year and soon had to learn to accept needles as an everyday part of my life.

I admit that I may have taken that acceptance into a very unlikely realm over the years though.

Mine was a word processor: Amstrad PCW 9512

Blimey, hark at Mr Moneybags. I could only afford a PCW 8256.

I was into the Amiga originally, used to write for various Amiga magazines (there were loads of them on the newsstand back in the day) as well as ezines (anyone remember Just Amiga Monthly, or JAM for short?) and had a hand in a few games on the AmigaDos platform - mainly creating level maps and stuff.

If (or rather when, if I'm being honest as ink is such an addiction) I get my legs done the design will be a full 'leg sleeve' for both right and left. I have to have symmetry in all things (OCD tendencies) and I like the idea of going big and putting that large blank canvas area to good use :)

How about:

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Lau - Halifax
James - Leeds
Misfits - Leeds
Pearl Jam - Leeds
Kings of Leon - Manchester
Dead Kennedys - Newcastle
Dickies - Newcastle

Hehe. I also have:

More on lower left side of head, hands/fingers (double knuckle ink on both and thumbpads), wrists, full sleeves on both arms (extending into pits) chest work.

I am still a work in progress, after 30 years of inking. Going to get some coloured background behind the backpiece to lift it a little, both legs are bare canvas so really need to think about them, and am itching to go for a top of the head design at some point. Oh, and I have some free space both sides of the neck but my beard is getting quite long now and even with the beading in I'm not sure if it's worth inking there.

Had to sell the Fiat 500 and buy a van, hence the Bongo. Plus, I wanted a dayvan/camper project anyway - but don't tell the boys or my hold over them will be lost forever :)

A very small taster of some of my ink...

Part of my head work

My throat

Backpiece

Left hand

Right hand fingers, top set (more on lower knuckles)

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What he said! Welcome...

My 13 year old twins have started a band, called 'The Nameless' and I now appear to be a roadie...

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DMR!!!! Welcome back cobber :)

Sorry to say this, but that sounds very dodgy to say the least. What problems are you having setting up your PayPal account for your commerce site, what has PayPal said in relation to this?

Yep, emails have gone out now as well. Shame it took so bloody long...

More right here on DaniWeb: Is eBay's stolen password database for sale?

Although it took eBay itself an absolute age to disclose that a serious breach had taken place, and then completely screwed up the process of ensuring users change their passwords, this should come as no real surprise. Happygeeks' Law states: the larger the corporate, the longer it takes to admit anything and the bigger the chance it will handle it badly. What is surprising is that it has taken so long for the stolen database of user credentials to go up for sale on the dark market.

If you consider that the breach itself happened a couple of months ago, and eBay has known about it for a couple of weeks, why is it only now that the database has been put on the open market? The obvious answer is that the value of that database will increase once everyone knows about, all that free publicity etc. But the obvious answer is also the wrong one; this kind of information is most valuable before anyone knows that it has been compromised. It's like a zero day thing, if nobody knows it has been stolen then nobody is prepared for an attack. Now the news is out, now that eBay and eBay users alike are aware of the breach, passwords will (eventually) be changed and everyone will be watching for unusual activity. That devalues the data, not adds a premium to it.

So why put it up for sale now? Good question, although a better one would be 'is …

The stolen credentials database is apparently up for sale (1.45 Bitcoin if anyone is interested) on the dark market now. I'm investigating if this is the real database or just a chancer cashing in on the news, and a new story will be posted this morning about that...

Ebay is asking its users to reset their passwords due to the unauthorized access to our corporate information network. This may result in a delay of service due to the high traffic volume. We ask for your patience and that you return to eBay soon.

I should add that I appreciate eBay has a huge membership and there is a certain load balancing need required when password changes are being done in such large number. However, given the size of the compnay and the profit which it makes, I would have thought it could have managed to get the necessary resources in place to deal with this event. After all, it has had two weeks (since discovery of compromise) to organise the breach response.

It clearly hasn't, by the way, as the password reset process isn't working. As of now, reset codes by email are delayed up the wazoo (nothing arrived to me at all after requesting one, in any mail folder) although text codes are working. Unfortunately the reset process seems broken, as my new password is being seen as incorrect when I try and log in. I tried to reset again using a new text code, only for the reset screen to freeze and on the third attempt a message about eBay being really very busy with users changing passwords and so the service is temporarily unavailable. Doh!

Following on from the news that an eBay password database has been compromised, and universal advice from security experts that users should now change their passwords, one thing has been loud clear: the total lack of that password change requirement from eBay. Sign into eBay and there is nothing to say stop, change your password. There has been no email sent to registered users urging them to make the change. In fact the only I've read of it have come from news stories in which they state that eBay are 'urging users to change their passwords' but truth be told it's a damn funny definition of urging if you ask me.

However, I have finally found the message that asks you change your password and the proof is right here in the screenshot below.

The only problem being that eBay has opted to put that message on the change your password page. That's right, to see it you have to sign into eBay, go into the My eBay section, navigate to the Account tab and then the Personal Information section, and finally scroll down and hit the edit password button.

Yep, the only people who will see the message 'urging' them to change their password are those people who have already made the decision to change their password. Hit the 'learn more' link after the password change request screen and you finally come to a page with "A Message From Devin Wenig" which says:

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Without doubt my most painful was the throat, hour and a bit of agony was that - had to stop for a 10 minute break after 40. The armpit was pretty bad, spine as you say, and the head although that was also weord what with the vibrations through the skull and the odd sound that makes :)

When it comes to my own body then at a push I guess I would opt for my hands, especially since they have been fully decorated (upper and lower knuckle tats, back of hand tatas, thumbpad tats, wrist tats.) My hands are quite small for a big man (6'1" and 14 stone) but, thanks to having worked as a writer for the last 24 years, they are also very baby bum smooth without the usual hardness that a man of 50 might expect.

Alan, if you hated the inner bicep inking then don't get anything that goes up into your armpit, on your throat or your head for that matter. They are much, much worse. Nice ink!

Oh, and: wuss!!! :)

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Plenty of us would love a mobile app (something that makes DaniWeb usable on Android would be very cool) but as Dani says, someone has to want it enough to actually code it. AIUI the numbers just are not there from the device access perspective to make it a priority (or even just make it for that matter) on the in-house todo list.

Hey, welcome Aatif.

Nice one Alan, you will have to post a pic once it is done. Unless it is on your arse. We don't want to see that ;)

As for the van, not a VW. Not a huge American jobby either. I'm picking up my Mazda Bongo (Japanese import) on Thursday. It's unconverted at the moment, so will be a project for me. Looking to add a rear conversion and turn it into a dayvan/weekender. Currently has 8 seats which fold flat to make a bed, which will be good enough for the time being. It's small, officially classified as a MPV rather than a van, about the size of a VW camper I guess. I'm naming it Jean-Claude, because it's one heck of a Damme Van.

How do passwords work?

What a password isn't, or at least really shouldn't be, is some kind of secret word or phrase that is simply compared against a table of usernames in a login database. Such plaintext systems are about as secure as a chocolate padlock on a furnace door. Even a login system whereby those passwords are encrypted isn't much better, although many people assume they are safe as houses. Breaches across the years have proven how insecure any system which relies purely on reversible algorithm encryption really is. The user logs in and enters a password, this triggers the system to decrypt the password in the login database that is associated with the username and if they match then authorisation is granted. The weakness here should be obvious, and simply put if someone manages to get access to the encrypted password database itself then it can be copied and cracked offline at their leisure as has happened time and time again.

Hashing

Which leads us to the next step up the password protection ladder, and that's usage of hashing. Think of a hash as being a one-way mathematical function, an algorithm to morph the password itself into a really long number and destroys the password data in so doing. It's the hash value that is stored in the login database, and when a user enters their password the hash is decrypted to provide the 'long number' value of that password and if they match authorisation is made. This …

I've just bought a camper van to satisfy the hippy in me.

Welcome to you as well then...

Faceache must wait, work deadlines get priority. May move to espresso and Tramadol later :)

Not at all, I can think of much worse things to be :)

Right now the best word is, without doubt: painkiller

Morning Ana - the tattoo wearing, biker chasing, geek girl :)

Contrary to popular belief, Mary Mary wasn't...

Strong coffee and ibuprofen. Bloody tooth/face ache...

Only 11 tats blackmiau? A mere ink beginner then :)

You could probably add a 0 and then treble it here. Actually, I have no idea how many I have, only how little blank skin is left. The last two pieces of ink I got were on the back of my head and my throat, which kind of sums the space problem up...