Comment Re:Why so expensive in the US? (Score 1) 235
You can get normal LED bulbs for $30 or less here. It's just these fancy RGB Color-changing bulbs that are expensive.
Comment Re:Board hardware is closed/proprietary! (Score 1) 140
But the software, HDL, and schematic is open. Don't forget about those.
Comment Re:Closed up a hole on our DVR (Score 1) 157
From what I saw while poking around the system, it looks like telnet is just a leftover from development that should have been removed. If it really were malicious, I would expect it to be more well hidden.
Comment Re:Closed up a hole on our DVR (Score 1) 157
passwd
It didn't break anything. It looks like the telnet is just a leftover from development.
It didn't break anything. It looks like the telnet is just a leftover from development.
Comment Closed up a hole on our DVR (Score 4, Interesting) 157
We bought a 24 channel q-see brand DVR. When it went to boot up, during disk initialization, it specifically mentioned '/dev/sda' and such, so I knew it ran some embedded Linux. I decided to check it out via nmap to see if there was anything interesting running. Port 23 was open. I telnet-ed into the damn thing and was able to log into root with no password. Needless to say, that was fixed.
Comment There's no deal with Facebook (Score 1) 358
I don't know where all of this Facebook employment stuff came from but the option of selling out to them has sure as hell not been put on the table.
Submission + - FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot (muktware.com)
sfcrazy writes: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published a whitepaper recommending free operating systems how to deal with UEFI secure boot. In the whitepaper, the foundation has criticized the approach Canonical/Ubuntu has taken to deal with the problem.
"Ubuntu has chosen a path which explicitly allows Restricted Boot."
"Ubuntu has chosen a path which explicitly allows Restricted Boot."
