Category Archives: Technology Fails

Follow-up to “Vodafone #Romania and #GDPR, or how to trick customers to circumvent #GDPR”, first GDPR related fine

By | May 24, 2018
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Follow-up to the Vodafone case, they got owned. Vodafone was fined because of the dishonest campaign, which tried to circumvent the new GDPR regulations. See the article in romanian: Vodafone ia amendă de la ANSPDCP pentru o campanie de obținere a consimțământului pentru utilizarea datelor cu caracter personal. Basically, several people and news outlets contacted… Read More: Follow-up to “Vodafone #Romania and #GDPR, or how to trick… »

Elevate guest/standard #Windows 10 user to administrator from safe mode

By | April 22, 2018
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There is a known issue that when you upgrade from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro directly you may end up with your only user changed from administrator to guest. This is what happened to me on one of the family laptops. Of course you end up with a stupid useless machine on which… Read More: Elevate guest/standard #Windows 10 user to administrator from safe mode »

Vodafone #Romania and #GDPR, or how to trick customers to circumvent #GDPR

By | April 22, 2018
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Yesterday I received two weird SMS messages from Vodafone. They are basically trying to trick me in accepting a contract that is invalidating some of my rights that I will get due to the new European GDPR regulation. First message: Buna! Iti oferim cadou 5 GB trafic national,valabil 30 de zile; pentru aceasta te invitam… Read More: Vodafone #Romania and #GDPR, or how to trick customers to… »

#Facebook clean-up check-list for people who cannot #deletefacebook

By | April 22, 2018
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Due to the fuck-up of Facebook I decided to drastically remove my contact with it. I am not from the pack that just now discovers “amazed” that on Facebook you are the product. My upbringing as an East-European kid in a communist dictatorship made me aware early in life that there is no free meal.… Read More: #Facebook clean-up check-list for people who cannot #deletefacebook »

Bad #mobile data #infrastructure generates Frankenstein solutions

By | January 31, 2018
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This product Zifilink is so weird that I am doing free advertisement for it. This is what happens when there are lots of mobile providers in a market and all have shitty mobile data signal. I present you the “make your own mobile gigabit” with a dongle Frankenstein tree 🙂 Come on ! look at… Read More: Bad #mobile data #infrastructure generates Frankenstein solutions »

IT Traveller: #Failed airport #technology (Istambul)

By | January 11, 2018
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I travel quite often across the world for job related purposes. Being an IT guy that does servers installations, develops and deploys enterprise software across the world I am always noticing everything that is IT related. It is always fun to see failed tech in airports I transit or in hotels where I stay. This… Read More: IT Traveller: #Failed airport #technology (Istambul) »

#Biometric #authentication is useless and dangerous alone

By | October 14, 2017
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Again and again the same myths and misunderstandings resurface from time to time. I noticed again a misplaced hype in an article shared on twitter about how biometric authentication will simplify banking. I have to share again something I learned many years ago when I was junior research student in a computer security group and… Read More: #Biometric #authentication is useless and dangerous alone »

IT Traveller: Failed airport technology

By | March 11, 2017
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I travel quite often across the world for job related purposes. Being an IT guy that does servers installations, develops and deploys enterprise software across the world I am always noticing everyting that is IT related. It is always fun to see failed tech in airports I transit or in hotels where I stay. Failed… Read More: IT Traveller: Failed airport technology »