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Comment: Re:WRT54GL (Score 5, Informative) 133

by VValdo (#42586057) Attached to: Remote Linksys 0-Day Root Exploit Uncovered

I agree it's bad form not to put the router models in the summary. But from the press release...

Exploit shown in this video has been tested on Cisco Linksys WRT54GL, but other Linksys versions/models are probably also affected.

(emphasis mine)

Incidentally, re: the GL model of the Linksys-- the "L" I'm pretty sure stands for Linux, and was the model that was in response to everyone reinstalling dd-wrt and other firmware...

Comment: Re:One Billion? (Score 1) 162

by VValdo (#39625705) Attached to: Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion

Any recommendations anyone have for a good free Android alternative for something to take quick snapshots, apply a basic filter, and share them with people? Tried Vignette and Retro Camera and they both sucked compared to Instagram.

I am not a instagram (or facebook, for that matter) user, but I did take a quick look at Pixlr-OMatic and it's probably what you're looking for.

+ - NYTimes:->

Submitted by VValdo
VValdo writes "John Markoff's NYTimes story covers an amazing discovery by cryptographers who analyzed 7.1 million 1024-bit RSA public keys on the Internet and discovered about 27000 of them were insecure due to a bug in the generation of random primes. Their paper is here. My question: I've got a ton of RSA keys. Is there an easy way to test them?"
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Comment: Re:This violates the fundamental rules of capitali (Score 1) 548

by VValdo (#38003854) Attached to: End Bonuses For Bankers

Simple except that some banks are so big and entangled into the system that if they go down, it would start a chain reaction that would take down the entire financial system, destroying other banks, creating runs, destroying pensions, toppling industries and ultimately collapsing the entire world economy.

This isn't an ordinary situation with two lemonade stores competing against each other. These are companies that have gotten so huge that entire governments depend on their existence. The consequences of their failure is so significant that countries are forced to essentially pay them if they ever get in danger of bankrupcy. Hence the bailouts.

The "fundamental rules of capitalism" don't allow a company to profit exorbitantly to the point that any failure can tank the entire system. Reward requires risk. And the heads of these companies know that there is no risk really-- not to them personally because they have golden parachutes and bonuses that pay out before the cumulative damage to their companies is done-- and not to the company, because existentially losses will be covered by the government/people to avoid the destruction of the world economy.

So it's not so simple, really.

Comment: Re:Don't forget his other 70's TV series (Score 1) 165

by VValdo (#35628496) Attached to: Leonard Nimoy Turns 80

Another series he did, besides "In Search Of..." (which was a cool show) from the early 80s that for some reason doesn't show up on his IMDB pagewas on Nickelodeon called

Standby... Lights Camera Action!

It was broken into segments where they showed "behind the scenes" making-of videos of movies including "Gandhi", "The Meaning of Life", and "Return of the Jedi" (examples here)

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Comment: Oh, and I want to add... (Score 1) 1

by VValdo (#34179496) Attached to: T-Mobile G2 "Permaroot" achieved.

Although scotty2 took the month-long lead in this effort, there are numerous others in the ragtag team of #g2root who deserve credit including tmzt, pershoot, cyanogen, IntuitiveNipple, Disconnect, cjb, paulobrien, teferi and more...

Instructions for rooting w/o using the VISIONary app are here, and may help address some issues with flashing (esp. pre-OTA) that people have reported. Check the XDA threads and wiki for additional info.

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+ - T-Mobile G2 "Permaroot" achieved.-> 1

Submitted by VValdo
VValdo writes "After over a month of relentless hacking, genius scotty2 has finally smashed the G2's notorious emmc-read-only-on-boot mechanism, which had been incorrectly characterized in the press as a "rootkit". The hack involves several steps-- first achieving "temp root" through a fork bomb exploit, then running a specially crafted kernel module that power-resets the read-only emmc to bring it up in read-write mode. Finally, the bootloader is re-flashed, which permanently removes the read-only on subsequent boots. The whole process is said to be automated by tomorrow."
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Comment: Planet Money (Score 2, Interesting) 452

by VValdo (#34009588) Attached to: LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux

Trading this fast brings the market closer to optimal economic efficiency, where prices at any instant accurately reflect value. Latency contributes to the very inefficiencies that you blame these "large investment firms" from profiting off of.

Let's just relax and listen to this episode of Planet Money on high-frequency trading.

I know. It's NPR. They fired Juan Williams. Whatever. (FWIW: on the Diane Rehm show from Friday, they defend Williams, say there was a "rush to judgement" and say that NPR went "off the handle". You'd NEVER see most news employees do that on-air.)

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