What does London's number 65 bus to Richmond have to hide? OS caught on camera setting fire to '22,000 illegal file(s)!!'
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/06/19/bork/
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It has taken a while for the bork team to uncover it, but the shot taken on the number 65 bus to Richmond back in October 2016 seems incontrovertible. Illegal activities appear to have taken place, and we don't mean the mystery can left crumpled at the top of stairs.
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Tidy up after yourselves, m'kay?
Provided by a source (OK, a Register reader) who asked to be identified as "Todor", the screen on the top deck of the London bus has been caught in the act of deleting 22,000 "illegal files".
As some might say, " [2]but her emails !"
We will never know what those illegal files did, nor what was being shown during 2016 to passengers on the number 65 to Richmond. Suffice to say that the result of the United Kingdom's European Union membership referendum earlier that year came as a surprise to many, and that it was a few short weeks after this photo was taken that the US elected a former reality show host as president.
Todor hinted at what nefarious schemes might lie behind the blue screen of illegality: "Mobile torrent server? Russian hackers hiding their tracks?" he whispered.
Or maybe it is just an OS trying to deal with disk corruption during boot-up before vanishing up its own fundament.
El Reg would also draw your attention to the hoodie-wearing individual sat in the always popular front-seat position. The uniform of the hacker, for sure. Meaning the screen could be showing a wiping of footprints or a hack aimed at disrupting London's well-oiled transport system.
We'd suggest showing up at a bus stop with a bunch of prams. That tends to have the same disruptive effect, without an illegal file or hacker hoodie in sight.
Transport for London told us: "This appears to have been a technical glitch on one of the CCTV screens, with no personal or private files displayed. We have CCTV in place across our bus network to help keep our drivers and customers safe."
Seen your own fracture in The Matrix ? Or just spotted a screen of blue doing something it ought not? Send an [3]email to the bork desk with your photo of failure. ®
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[2] https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/03/hillary_clinton_email_investigation_winding_up_reports/
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65 bus route
Back in the day when Red Ken simplified bus ticket prices by introducing zones, you could probably travel further on a 65 than any other bus and stay in one zone.
I don't know why anyone would want to know this.
Happy days, travelling from Kingston to Ealing for a pint or two.
Re: 65 bus route
Absolutely.
Ealing Broadway to Chessington Zoo for a day trip. Took about an hour and a half, IIRC. Sat at the front, up top, with my Grandma.
Happy times.
There's a reflection in the screen.
Enhance! The deus ex machina of crime drama...
https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk
Re: There's a reflection in the screen.
I regret that I have only one upvote to give (and of course an obligatory virtual pint, hence the icon).
I'm more interested in the source
Is it pronounced like Two Door, or a very modern ToDoer, ToDo'r?
Re: I'm more interested in the source
It's Hodor, but with a T
Re: I'm more interested in the source
THodor?
Meaning the screen could be showing a wiping of footprints or a hack aimed at disrupting London's well-oiled transport system.
Or the bus driver was keeping his porn stash there, to while away those long hours stuck in traffic?
It's where the government keeps their Brexit and Covid plans...
They were told a mobile backup site would be terrorist-proof.
Re: It's where the government keeps their Brexit and Covid plans...
Alright, but what is in the other 21,998 files?
Re: It's where the government keeps their Brexit and Covid plans...
Backups, of course!
Re: It's where the government keeps their Brexit and Covid plans...
backups indeed, all the way down...
What's it hiding?
Given that it's the bloody 65, the least punctual bus in London, it's hiding that it's half an hour late and is going to kick everybody out at Ham Common.
Let's not overlook the crime of use of the double exclamation mark.
Market Leader in File Transfer missed stop by mass deletion
Fixed your title for you.
Or I could go with a "Data bus" example...
the hoodie-wearing individual
with his feet up, like a good boy he (?) is while having dinner with his (?) old ma & pa. When I see this, I always have this image of a Texan chain massacre... it calms me (somewhat).
It was blatantly the Russians. They were "checking our infrastructure" when they realised that they may be found and decided to quickly delete their tracks. It was just merely unfortunate that the entire top deck of the 65 could see what they were doing.