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Comment: Re:AMD is done and gone... (Score 3, Insightful) 182

by Mojo66 (#40009917) Attached to: AMD Trinity A10-4600M Processor Launched, Tested

Exactly. These articles and benchmarks are a joke. The Intel CPUs are so far ahead, in performance and value, that I can't help but feel embarrassed for AMD.

Without AMD you clueless retard would have to pay 5 times the price for an Intel CPU. You should thank them for providing competition instead of dissing their products.

Comment: Re:Where's the one on Apple? (Score 0) 375

by Mojo66 (#39997971) Attached to: Windows RT Browser Restrictions Draw Antitrust Attention

There is a big difference between Apple's and Microsofts behaviour: Microsoft are (ab)using the billions of monopoly dollars they rake in from Windows and Office to become dominant in other markets, too. See for example selling Xboxes below production costs just to drive competitors out of the market in order to rule over the home TV set. Similarly, they will use their power and billions of dollars that they made from their two monopolies and try to drive Apple out of the tablet market. Whereas Apple does not use their billions they made from their iPad monopoly to get Microsoft out of the PC market, right? That's the big difference. Apple just defends their own market, whereas Microsoft wants to rule the world.

Comment: Re:Flaws not necessary? (Score 1) 59

by Mojo66 (#39806931) Attached to: Backdoor Found In Arcadyan-based Wi-Fi Routers

malformed junk that makes its way into the hose.

As you might have guessed from the link to the original article in german, english is not my native language. Whereas submitters of pieces that are already written in english can just copy/paste the relevant parts into their /. submission, non-english sources have to be translated by the submitter. It's anyone's choice to wait until an english-speaking site picks up the story written in perfect english, or read the "malformed junk" version while it is still fresh...

Security

Backdoor found in Arcadyan-based Wi-Fi Routers

Submitted by Mojo66
Mojo66 writes "A recently reported flaw that allowed an attacker to drastically reduce the number of attempts needed to guess the WPS PIN of a wireless router isn't necessary for some Arcadyan based routers anymore. According to german computer publisher heise (google translation, original here), some 100,000 routers of type Speedport W921V, W504V and W723V are affected in Germany alone. What makes things worse is the fact that in order to exploit the backdoor, no button has to be pushed on the device itself and on some of the affected routers, the backdoor PIN ("12345670") is still working even after WPS has been disabled by the user. The only currently known remedy for those models is to disable Wi-Fi altogether.

Since all Arcadyan routers share the same software platform, more models might be affected."
Privacy

One in 10 Used Hard Drives Contains Old Personal Data-> 1

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes "A U.K. organization today released independent study results that show one in 10 secondhand hard drives sold online may contain "residential personal information," such as bank statements, passports and medical details.

In an effort to underscore the need to throughly scrub machines, mobile phones and memory sticks before passing them on, the Information Commissioner's Office contracted with the NCC Group to secret shop some 200 hard drives, 20 memory sticks and 10 mobile phones from primarily online auction sites in December 2010. Some also came from computer trade shows.

Using widely available freeware forensic tools, a team found more than half (52 percent) of the hard drives were unreadable or had been wiped of data. The remaining 48 percent still contained information, 11 percent of which held personal or corporate data.

In all, 34,000 files holding personal or corporate information were recovered, according to the study report."
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You mean you don't want to watch WRESTLING from ATLANTA?