Probably a misconfiguration. My local cable ISP assigns the DoD address block to its cable modems to its internal network and has some kind of abstraction layer to actual internet IPv4. Why? No idea. Some kind of real-time rationing and assignment of IPv4/IPv6? Maybe a bunch of their VoIP equipment doesn't need external IPs and they're trying to save space in their assigned blocks?

Was DNS Spoofing such a big threat that they chose to synchronize with their own servers instead of just using NTP pools? Presumably it's some kind of proprietary, SSL connection. Ugh. Still, at least it's something they could* patch out.

I was half hoping this was going to come from the "going-to-axolotl-questions department" ;)

"The fucking security community used digital nukes to potentially access some customer data. But we have since hired external consultants, so it will never happen again."

"The only way to protect devices from getting hacked is to avoid having the router expose its admin panel on the WAN interface"

Why would you willingly expose even the most secure login page to the net if you didn't have to? Between bruteforce, backdoor accounts, overflow errors, URL manipulation, and yes, even the dreaded default password,

tl;dr: Why do you have your admin panel WAN-accessible in the first place? -_-

You'd also have to pray they did not alter it any further.

Evernote, y u no revision?

And if you were playing an entirely decked out Destiny character, it would be a fine ass-guardian

So from what I get from this is that some third party cartridges actually use HP chips (presumably from reels of chips sold to a re-manufacturer of cartridges so HP can track down the re-manufacturer/batch if Joe has a printing quality problem, or whatever) and some just clone whatever chip they found first (I'm picturing thousands of printers all reporting that they have cartridge with SN#2477751135432 installed and it amuses me).

I've seen some pretty convincing fake cartridges in my time that hold themselves out to be genuine, brand new in box units. That said, the firmware had previously said "This cartridge has been previously used or is non-genuine" upon insertion and you could click okay to continue.

I haven't read specifically whether self-refilled, store-refilled or store-bought third-party cartridges were affected, or whether this was just for cartridges bought from the usual suspects (some ebay sellers, amazon vendors, ali*, etc). Working in a big box store, though, I haven't yet had customers complain about it, though, so with my tiny sample size, I'm going to theorize that is the case.

The pictograms in the morality assessment were a bit odd, considering most cars can survive a head-on collision with a concrete wall. Also, younger adults are more easily repairable and more resilient physically than older adults. I understand that's not the point of the morality assessment, but you can't just ignore those variables. What kind of speeds are the cars traveling in an urban setting that they can't stop in that amount of time? Are we abandoning "pedestrian airbags"? Are passenger airbags a thing of the past as well?

Over 9000? I'd like to say that's impossible, but I actually find it quite probable.

I can verify. There is a giant one in my wallet. I put money in... aaaaaand it's gone.

Good to hear I'm not the only one who was getting those spam friend invites. Good riddance.