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California Passes Wi-Fi Guidance Law 204

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 04, 2006 @08:16PM from the he-wants-us-to-think-for-ourselves dept.

MrNonchalant writes, "California's legislature has passed a law requiring Wi-Fi device manufacturers to include warnings about security. From the article: 'From 1 October 2007, manufacturers must place warning labels on all equipment capable of receiving Wi-Fi signals, according to the new state law. These can take the form of box stickers, special notification in setup software, notification during the router setup, or through automatic securing of the connection. One warning sticker must be positioned so that it must be removed by a consumer before the product can be used.'"

Comment Re:Leach (Score 1) 543

by ManOfMidnight on Wednesday June 21, 2006 @04:56PM (#15578916) Attached to: Pirate Party Comes to the U.S.

I can't help but wonder if you would actually say that to his face. If you did, though, I would have to tell you that the suit you are no doubt wearing looks very expencive, and that I hope that nobody decides to accidently spill hot coffee on it after a comment like that. Do you see how easy my generalization was? Do you see how much sense it made? I'd say it was about on par with yours.

Highly Critical Hole Found in IE 336

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 23, 2006 @02:20PM from the must-be-thursday dept.

dotpavan writes "Eweek reports on a highly critical MS Internet Explorer hole found by Secunia Research's Andreas Sandblad. The vulnerability is due to the processing of the "createTextRange()" method call applied on a radio button control. From Secunia, "The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2." The vulnerability has also been confirmed in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview (January edition) though it could be avoided by turning off Active Scripting, as suggested by Microsoft Security Response Center blog. How would this put MS in the market, hit by the ever-growing shots of vulnerabilties? And would the divorce of IE7 from Vista's Windows Explorer help?"

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