Submission + - CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship with Rootkits (xda-developers.com) 1
Discuss.
a "meta" viewpoint that reads it as both serious and satire simultaneously.
Schrödinger's viewpoint? Don't open the box, or you'll collapse the waveform!
Here's another one for you, in case you missed it: Triceratops didn't exist.
Seems to be the same gaffe that they made with the Apatosaurus.
Any app on affected devices that requests a single android.permission.INTERNET (which is normal for any app that connects to the web or shows ads) can get its hands on:
- the list of user accounts, including email addresses and sync status for each last known network and GPS locations and a limited previous history of locations
- phone numbers from the phone log SMS data, including phone numbers and encoded text (not sure yet if it's possible to decode it, but very likely)
- system logs (both kernel/dmesg and app/logcat), which includes everything your running apps do and is likely to include email addresses, phone numbers, and other private info
The virtual graphics adapter may not be all that powerful, but it looks like people have been having success with VMware and doing a hardware passthrough for the video card.
I'd bet that in a couple of years this becomes a standardized feature of other VM systems as well.
Kill 'em all and let root sort 'em out!
when you say "firmware" you are leading me to believe they are not IOS supported devices.. and if that is so then they are from the linksys side and not what i consider actual "cisco" hardware.
Yes, they're definitely of Linksys origin - pre-Cisco buyout by quite some time. They're significantly more reliable than the standard Linksys home router, but I suspect the fact that I always made sure to supply them with a nice clean 60 Hz sine wave at 120V had a lot to do with it.
while i like/liked linksys and i like cisco - and i'm fine with the buyout.. some of their decisions have muddied the waters and made it a little more difficult to find the right solution.
I agree - Cisco putting their name on Linksys hardware in the consumer sector is easy to see past, but knowing whether you're looking at something that descended from Linksys or IOS heritage is difficult at the bottom end of the business line.
I generally don't deploy these for my clients any more, as I'm working with businesses that are willing to invest a bit in more feature-full hardware than I was before. I've had good luck recently with Fortigate, and their focus on security is, IMHO, worth the slight premium for the hardware and the yearly support contracts.
A guy can dream, right?
That's likely because the RV series came out of their Linksys purchase - I've deployed Linksys RV042 routers in the past; they were reasonably priced and didn't give me any maintenance issues.
They were rather lackluster from a configuration and firmware perspective - they were capable of basic VPNs and had 2 WAN ports, but that's about all for features over a home class router.
Real business is done over spark gap transmitter.
That, or carrier pigeon.
Thanks. Now I have "Never Gonna Give You Up" as sung by a Dalek stuck in my head.
That's irrational.
He sneezed?
1/2Tau * r^2.
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