November 2020. Qualys' blog post has the disclosure timeline at the bottom: https://blog.qualys.com/vulner...

Tracking and advertising. These things emit BLE beacons that apps on your smartphone pick up. This allows for analytics in malls, geofencing ads, ... (Look up Eddystone and iBeacon.) That coupon app for your supermarket chain? Allows them to track your every move through their store, from the moment you enter to when you check out.

Other uses include "indoor GPS" (having the app show your location in the building on a map, ...).

https://documentation.meraki.c...
https://www.arubanetworks.com/...
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/...

I found it interesting that Apple's 'digital crown' concept apparently isn't very comfortable to use while my Android Wear watch (an LG G Watch R) is perfectly serviceable with just a single button (to wake it up) and the rest of the UX being driven via the touch screen itself. (The apps you open most often are always at the top of the list, so getting to my groceries app is a simple swipe left and a tap.) Similarly, it's screen is always on, so the most basic function of telling the time is always right there, no matter whether the accelerometer noticed me raising my wrist or not.

Of course, it does suffer from the same 'what can you do with it' problem that the Apple Watch does. Apart from dismissing notifications, using voice commands to set Google Now reminders or start the occasional timer/countdown, there really isn't that much useful functionality to benefit from. App-wise, I really only use two: one to track my groceries (Bring!) and one to tell me I've left my phone somewhere by alerting me of the Bluetooth connection loss (Cerberus).

The linked article doesn't mention this but the way FinFisher got into the Backup server was by simply mounting its iSCSI volumes which required no authentication at all. (Technically, the iSCSI targets were supposed to be on a separate network, but it turns out you could still get at them from the main network.)

The lesson there: It doesn't matter which network the service is in, turn on authentication!

Probably means 'folks who grew up with Windows XP, where Microsoft yet again abused their OS monopoly to peddle one of their services (MSN) and push the others (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo-IM) into obscurity'.

Not that the others weren't working hard on obsoleting themselves, cf. ICQ's very obnoxious later clients.

So, all we need now is a way to trick the local client (iTunes) into thinking you have a file that you do not ... -> unlimited music for $24.99!

There's SipToSis, but you need to be running one (or more) Skype Clients to use it. (One Skype Client per Skype Account you intend to use.)

There are several other solutions that use the same method, but I use SipToSis since it is available under the GPL.

Yep ... November 2008:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/14/2138205

Mine is the Logitech G15, and yes, the not_having_that_bloody_'double'_delete_key was a factor, as were the not-rearranged home/end/pgup/pgdn keys and the presence of the insert key in its normal position.

I frequently use shift+insert to paste (especially in places where CTRL+V fails) and will not put up with a keyboard where it was removed.

And don't even get me started on the 3-by-3 arranging of F-keys that I've seen on some recent keyboards.

I like my keyboard as it is. The one key I absolutely never ever use is that windows/menu key on the right (next to right-CTRL), but it doesn't bother me enough to even ponder its removal.

If the keyboard manufacturers want to add value to the keyboard, they can feel free to add multimedia buttons at the top, which I can use or ignore. (Preferably they'd agree on an industry-wide standard for them and then use that on all keyboards, so I don't have to relearn the buttons every time.)