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Submission + - Western Digital 'My Cloud' devices have a hardcoded backdoor (betanews.com)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: Today, yet another security blunder becomes publicized, and it is really bad. You see, many Western Digital MyCloud NAS drives have a hardcoded backdoor, meaning anyone can access them — your files are at risk. It isn't even hard to take advantage of it — the username is "mydlinkBRionyg" and the password is "abc12345cba" (without quotes). To make matters worse, it was disclosed to Western Digital six months ago and the company dot nothing.

GulfTech Research and Development explains, "The triviality of exploiting this issues makes it very dangerous, and even wormable. Not only that, but users locked to a LAN are not safe either. An attacker could literally take over your WDMyCloud by just having you visit a website where an embedded iframe or img tag make a request to the vulnerable device using one of the many predictable default hostnames for the WDMyCloud such as 'wdmycloud' and 'wdmycloudmirror' etc."

Comment Re:Macron is dumb as a brick (Score 2) 299

France has also a long history of law writing and selective enforcement...

The nearest of free speech legislation is a 1881 law about freedom of the press, where papers can write anything, as long as some publication director is personnally responsible of what is written. It is the basis for legislating blog posts, where a bad comment about a business on social media can cost an individual thousands of euros. As for revolutions, french citizens are globally reticents about arms, except for hunters, and they no longuer use pitchforks to work.

Comment Re:Two things (Score 1) 85

by lfourrier (#47270689) Attached to: The Game Theory of Life
one can discuss, at length, and some will. The initial question I asked was : " are algorithms discovered or created? ". The only sure thing I can say (and I think any honest person would say) is : It seems an easy question, but there is no easy universal answer (even without going to theories where consciousness and self are emergent illusions)

Comment Re:Two things (Score 2) 85

by lfourrier (#47270181) Attached to: The Game Theory of Life
Begin with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics. Then find from which position you stand whith your "simple answer". Then study the diversity of points of view and arguments, and see if you can prove their errors. If you can do that really well, publish. You will be famous.

But saying mathematics is a language and the things described are not part of mathematics, or perhaps they are, and a poem cannot describe something... I feel you have some work to do before being able to convince everybody.

Comment Re:Two things (Score 3, Interesting) 85

by lfourrier (#47269983) Attached to: The Game Theory of Life
"algorithms are made up"

succint unproven "fact" for a question that can give work to philosophers for a few years.

are mathematics (of which algorythms are a small part) discovered or created ? No one has a clear answer to that question.

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