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Comment you don't want their actions. (Score 4, Interesting) 107

by Lead Butthead (#49510989) Attached to: D-Link Apologizes For Router Security

Keep in mind this is a company that has a history of doing malicious things; willful violation of GPL that was resolved only when they're drag into the court and lost, hard coding default time server IP address in firmware (imagine hundreds of thousands of them all attempting to sync at the same time daily) It demonstrated a culture of (sociopathical) disregard for others, that alone is reason enough to not buy any of their products.

Submission + - MakerBot lays off 20 percent of its employees

Submitted by Jason Koebler
Jason Koebler writes: MakerBot fired roughly 20 percent of its staff Friday. Figures from 2014 placed the company’s ranks at 500, meaning the cuts could equate to roughly 100 employees. The orders came from new CEO Jonathan Jaglom, Motherboard was told. Employees are apparently being led out of the company’s Brooklyn office by security today.
“It’s about 20 percent of staff,” a MakerBot representative, who asked not to be identified because she had not received approval to speak to the press, told Motherboard. “Everyone suspected that something would be coming with the new CEO, and that there would be restructuring coming.”

Submission + - The Hidden FM Radio Inside Your Pocket (npr.org)

Submitted by mr crypto
mr crypto writes: Data providers would probably prefer you not know that most smart phones contain an FM chip that lets you listen to broadcasts for free: "But the FM chip is not activated on two-thirds of devices. That's because mobile makers have the FM capability switched off." The National Association of Broadcasters, National Public Radio, and American Public Media — have launched a lobbying campaign to get those radios switched on.

Submission + - FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment (securityledger.com)

Submitted by chicksdaddy
chicksdaddy writes: The Feds are listening and they really can't take a joke. That's the apparent moral of security researcher Chris Roberts' legal odyssey on Wednesday, which saw him escorted off a plane in Syracuse by two FBI agents and questioned for four hours over a humorous tweet Roberts posted about his ability to hack into the cabin control systems of the Boeing 737 he was flying.(https://twitter.com/Sidragon1/status/588433855184375808) Roberts (aka @sidragon1), joked that he could "start playing with EICAS messages," a reference to the Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine-indicating_and_crew-alerting_system).

Roberts was traveling to Syracuse to give a presentation. He said local law enforcement and FBI agents boarded the plane on the tarmac and escorted him off. He was questioned for four hours, with officers alleging they had evidence he had tampered with in-flight systems on an earlier leg of his flight from Colorado to Chicago.

In an interview with The Security Ledger (https://securityledger.com/2015/04/hacker-on-a-plane-fbi-seizes-researchers-gear/), Roberts said the agents questioned him about his tweet and whether he tampered with the systems on the United flight -something he denies doing.

Roberts had been approached earlier by the Denver office of the FBI which warned him away from further research on airplanes. The FBI was also looking to approach airplane makers Boeing and Airbus and wanted him to rebuild a virtualized environment he built to test airplane vulnerabilities to verify what he was saying.

Roberts refused, and the FBI seized his encrypted laptop and storage devices and has yet to return them, he said. The agents said they wished to do a forensic analysis of his laptop. Roberts said he declined to provide that information and requested a warrant to search his equipment. As of Friday, Roberts said he has not received a warrant.

Submission + - Security expert pulled off flight by FBI after exposing aircraft vulnerabilities (foxnews.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: One of the world's foremost experts on counter-threat intelligence within the cybersecurity industry, who blew the whistle on vulnerabilities in airplane technology systems in a series of recent Fox News reports, has become the target of an FBI investigation himself.

Chris Roberts of the Colorado-based One World Labs, a security intelligence firm that identifies risks before they're exploited, said two FBI agents and two uniformed police officers pulled him off a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 commercial flight Wednesday night just after it landed in Syracuse, and spent the next four hours questioning him about cyberhacking of planes.

Submission + - Japanese court orders Google to remove negative reviews from Google Maps (techcrunch.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As reported by TechCrunch, the Japenese Chiba District Court issued a preliminary injunction forcing Google to delete two anonymous reviews for a medical clinic. Although negative, neither review violates Google policies.

"The decision is based on a defamation suit from the clinic, a key part of which included an affidavit from the doctor who interacted with the anonymous reviewers and denied their claims."

And here is the key part:

"The court ruled that Google not only removes the content in Japan, but across the entire globe too."

Google is currently considering it's options including an appeal.

Comment Re:Defense was never arguing innocence (Score 1) 250

by Lead Butthead (#49432083) Attached to: Verdict Reached In Boston Bombing Trial

... it was to argue that he should receive life in prison rather than the death penalty.

I would support that, but not because I might've harbor some lofty respect for life; it is far cheaper to lock up this witless git and throw away the key than pay for the endless appeals required in a capital case.

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