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901.
by qb45 11y ago
This, and also it can become a whack-a-mole game with vendors threatened by the FCC, possibly ending up in shit like encrypted firmware. Go ahead and hack that .
902.
by qb45 11y ago
This can be easily "fixed" by making the SoC check RSA signatures on flash contents. It all really depends on how much the FCC will be willing to bother hardware vendors whose products end up as popular hack platforms.
903.
by qb45 11y ago
There is no way to comply with those regulations without prohibiting software updates on current generation of WiFi chips because they don't enforce regulatory constraints in hardware - it's driver's job. I expect all other v
904.
by qb45 11y ago
Does that mean that now if you cut power at the same moment the fail counter increments even if the entered code was correct? Not that it's particularly useful for hackers, I'm just wondering if this can be done "perfectly&qu
905.
by qb45 11y ago
Those who are moving off of MS SQL are "lost customers" and I don't think MS would be spending extra resources on facilitating their transition. More likely they had customers willing to switch to/stay on MS SQL but need
906.
by qb45 11y ago
NVIDIA doesn't actually release precompiled modules, only OS-agnostic blob and Linux-specific source which you are free to build yourself. However, there are other, valid examples like Linksys routers shipping with binary drivers for B
907.
by qb45 11y ago
Most software devs don't have the Hacker Mindset (TM) at all. If you use "sw devs" and "sw hackers" interchangeably, that's the source of your confusion.
908.
by qb45 11y ago
You appear to be advocating troublesome technological solution to a social problem (people going "screw emmisions, I want powerrrr!") which isn't even that widespread.
909.
by qb45 11y ago
I deny them audience. There are few paywalled/anti-adblocked/etc domains I don't even bother clicking links from.
910.
by qb45 11y ago
It's not only about children, even if those particular cases are most widely reported due to their illegality.
911.
by qb45 11y ago
> P.S. found a cool post about rm -rf / in my bookmarks: https://lambdaops.com/rm-rf-remains/ – you can recover a running rm'd Linux machine by using a running shell and /dev/tcp :D Awesome. This
912.
by qb45 11y ago
... and remote filesystems.
913.
by qb45 11y ago
> I literally can't use my headphones without special OEM or Realtek software (forgot which) on Windows, and I can't use them at all on Linux because there's no equivalent. If the problem is no output at all, it may be jus
914.
by qb45 11y ago
Fortunately it cannot connect malicious USB dongles. Yet.
915.
by qb45 11y ago
Reminds me of certain quote attributed to Bjarne Stroustrup. My personal pet peeve is when you concatenate two words to end up with something sounding completely different, say in finite infinite . Just doesn't make sense at all.
916.
by qb45 11y ago
Poor choice of words, I meant general "closedness" of the platform - from undocumented design, through lack of source code up to centralized code signing. The only reasonable way for law enforcement to deal with even a single one
917.
by qb45 11y ago
Well, that's the overhead of selling closed-source devices. If you think about it, consulting vendors is probably a better use of taxpayer money then RE-ing every stupid crypto system on the market. They contacted Apple, did their home
918.
by qb45 11y ago
Though, on second thought, I have to add that we don't know how many back-and-forth mail exchanges happened before they were able to come up with the officially published request. Maybe they were just competent at working around excuse
919.
by qb45 11y ago
That's weird, it looks like they didn't even try something like photorec. I wonder how would they handle full disk encryption.
920.
by qb45 11y ago
The request they submitted to Apple was clearly written by competent people. They knew exactly what and why they wanted to do, how Apple can help and why only Apple can help.
921.
by qb45 11y ago
You are in a maze of gpio pins, all alike, all undocumented, and a few are wired to bombs. Is this theo.c what it appears to be?
922.
by qb45 11y ago
> An ISP modifying/controlling traffic. Dangerous precedent. Some ISPs have already been adding ads. The only precedent here is that those guys are removing them instead. Maybe we will live to see times when ads injected by ISP1
923.
by qb45 11y ago
> I use software from free software ecosystem for the no bullshit, high quality software that it delivers. People like me would benefit from free software being more mainstream. It isn't obvious that you benefit from this, there cer
924.
by qb45 11y ago
> Yes, but if you stored all your bank accounts, credit cards I wouldn't be surprised if Apple Pay was the actual reason behind all this stuff. Malware is bad, but malware which can "authorize" payments is a whole new leve
925.
by qb45 11y ago
Are they client-side encrypted? If this is the case, then simple "I have uploaded illegal files to one unspecified account" should get the whole datacentre destroyed :)
926.
by qb45 11y ago
> So why is TP-Link locking down their firmware even though they aren't required to? You have to ask them. If you read TFA you'll learn that somebody did just that. Adam Longwill 09:26:19 pm Wow. Thank you. I'm impress
927.
by qb45 11y ago
It's quite likely that they would prefer violating the GPL (nothing particularly unusual) or licensing VxWorks/Windows/whatever over risking being banned in the US.
928.
by qb45 11y ago
How do you know? As your link says, they intend to prohibit selling hardware which can be modified to violate FCC regs. Since 3rd party firmware allows such violations, devices get locked down. How else are you going to explain the existenc
929.
by qb45 11y ago
That's something I'm also wondering about. IIRC, the first thing my stock WDR3600 firmware asked me about was which country I am in, which means that frequency locking can be easily bypassed (not power levels, though). To make thi
930.
by qb45 11y ago
> I expect that future models will close this hole, and then I definitely won’t be buying TP-LINK devices in the future. I suppose people will start rooting these devices. It's not like consumer routers have particularly impressive

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