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Comment Re:Hooray! (Score 1) 676

There's been stupid conspiracy theory class criticism of every president I've lived under on every possible point. (Well, I can't remember so much about JFK. I was one year old when he was assassinated.). With Obama, it can be racial, or that he's a muslim or the birther nonsense

But there's also yet to be one that didn't deserve well thought out criticism of policy.

Comment The NSA Obviously: (Score 1) 446

Just create a web site lauding ISIS (or the little green men in Ukraine, or the North Koreans, etc. There's a long list.).

You're guaranteed to have all your data backed up on the best quality archival storage the US government can find!

Just don't get too over the top. Predator drones, you know. ;)

Comment Re:Hooray! (Score 1) 676

"If people consistently think your criticism has racial overtones "

It's certainly not consistently, but has happened. Mostly I've chuckled at how ridiculous it is, or replied: In the words of Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon."

Laughing at misplaced righteous outrage usually works a lot better than replying in kind.

Cellphones

LG's Leather-Clad G4 Revealed In Leaked Images 39

An anonymous reader writes Evan Blass, known on Twitter as @evleaks, released images of LG's G4 smartphone which was supposed to be unveiled April 28th. "The images reveal what appear to be a multitude of swappable back plates. There are at least six different real leather backs (ranging from black and brown to baby blue and yellow), as well as three more traditional plastic backs. It's fair to assume that the leather versions will carry a cost premium. The LG Quick Circle case, which has a window to let you view notifications while the cover is closed, also appears to be making a return with the G4."
Security

Research Finds Shoddy Security On Connected Home Gateways 88

chicksdaddy writes Connected home products are the new rage. But how do you connect your Nest thermostat, your DropCam surveillance device and your Chamberlin MyQ 'smart' garage door opener? An IoT hub, of course. But not so fast: a report from the firm Veracode may make you think twice about deploying one of these IoT gateways in your home. As The Security Ledger reports, Veracode researchers found significant security vulnerabilities in each of six IoT gateways they tested, suggesting that manufacturers are giving short shrift to security considerations during design and testing. The flaws discovered ranged from weak authentication schemes (pretty common) to improper validation of TLS and SSL certificates, to gateways that shipped with exposed debugging interfaces that would allow an attacker on the same wireless network as the device to upload and run malicious code. Many of the worst lapses seem to be evidence of insecure design and lax testing of devices before they were released to the public, Brandon Creighton, Veracode's research architect, told The Security Ledger. This isn't the first report to raise alarms about IoT hubs. In October, the firm Xipiter published a blog post describing research into a similar hub by the firm VeraLite. Xipiter discovered that, among other things, the VeraLite device shipped with embedded SSH private keys stored in immutable areas of the firmware used on all devices.

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