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Timetravel Hoax

Timetravel Hoax

October 25, 2018 by • , , , , , , , 0 Comments

Is John Titor a time traveler?

I was made aware of a story about a person who has supposedly built a time machine, so i decided to do some DNS sleuthing. Hypno 17:42, 27 Jan (GMT)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=john+titor

Main sites about john titor:

  • http://www.johntitor.com
  • http://strategicbrains.com (http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com)
  • http://www.timetravelinstitute.com

In one of these sites, John Titor was said to have first started posting on a site called the “time travel institute” – http://www.timetravelinstitute.com

  1. johntitor.com – registered via godaddy.com at http://www.domainsbyproxy.com. Primary nameserver: speakeasy.earthlink.net
  2. strategicbrains.com – registered via godaddy.com at http://www.domainsbyproxy.com. Primary nameserver: dns.netcfm.com.
  3. timetravelinstitute.com – registered at http://godaddy.com. Primary nameserver: ns1.rjsb.com.

BREAKER !!!

We did investigate about time traveller John Titor and sorry to state that no such person existed … we did send somebody to the year 1975 but cannot revela his identity for security reasons. We are closely monitoring the event/s here. We are still analysing why or how a ” time traveller” from our year got to your worldine, which in any case, is unauthorized by the TTC Florida.

John Titor , we assume, is not his real name. The one we sent to 1975 still have not returned. For more details you can always feel free to contact aberwiki.org.

Government IT Failures

Government IT Failures

October 13, 2018 by • , , , , , , , 0 Comments

While thinking about how an ID database might be designed, implemented and rolled out with a budget of £3.1bn I decided to have a look into the government’s track record on IT open source projects wiki.

If you find any more government IT failures out there do add them here, I suggest limiting to failures of the UK government for now as otherwise this page could quickly become unmanageable.

May 2001, Payroll system not delivered 9 years late
Company McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
Department Department of Finance and Personnel
Cost £3.3m
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/15/civil_service_project/
2001, MoD Computers hacked ‘at least’ 48 times
Company n/a
Department Ministry of Defence
Cost unknown
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1128637
2002, Government website hands out money to ‘fraudsters’
Company Capita
Department Department for Education and Skills
Cost Unknown
http://www.computerweekly.com/Article109438.htm
November 2004, 80,000 Staff Unable to process new pensions
Company Microsoft & Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Department Department for Work and Pensions
Cost unknown, but the support contract costs £2bn annually
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4044085.stmhttp://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2203http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/dwp_network_outage/
November 2004, Police in England & Wales unable to use fingerprint system NAFIS for over a week.
Company Northrop Grumman (TRW at time of implementation)
Department Police Information Technology Organisation (public-body)
Cost Implementation cost £88m
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/02/nafis_comms_glitch/
May 2006, 18,300 MOT testing centres disrupted by technical problems with MOT system delivered 4 years late.
Company Siemens Business Services
Department Ministry of Transport
Cost Implementation cost: £230mCompensation cost: unknown
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/30/pcs_slams_mot_system_delays/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/16/mot_computer_crash/

Inland Revenue

  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/eds_revenue_rage/
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/09/inland-revenue_destroys_1m_tax_records/
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/05/eds_wins_prisoner_deal/
  • http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/04/19/inland_revenue_computers_back_to_future/

Benefits system

  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/12/dwp_research_csa/
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/22/eds_revenue_again/

Gov computer stuff

  • http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/07/12/homeoffice_thieves_paradise/
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/05/mps_openness_ogc/
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/27/id_card_costings/
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/14/eds_government_probe/

Corporate identity – new scandal over ID cards Has a list of Government IT Failures.