Posts by Stuart

Snooping passwords from literally hot keys, China's AK-47 laser, malware, and more

Beware the Therminato

How does this finding differ to what seems on the surface to be exactly the same finding from 2011?

https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/heat-hacking-criminals-can-steal-your-atm-pin-code-heat-your-fingers-leave-behind

I'm sure someone can provide an example earlier than this, I didn't spend much time looking.

We're cutting F-35 costs, honest, insists jet-builder Lockheed Martin

Re: Low, low, low...

"Still think we should have kept a few AV-8B harriers."

UK never had any AV-8B Harriers.

Use Skype if you want to report a crime, say cops

So how exactly are you supposed to Skype them if the reason you need to Skype them is that all your tech devices have been stolen?

Google: Use this tool if you want your search query quashed

Scanned ID eh?

I'm predicting a healthy number of takedown requests will soon have been sent in by someone with some Photoshop skills using the following identities:

Anti Dandruff

Dontworry

FoisGrasCrueltydotCom

Fire Penguin Disco Panda

and not forgetting

Batman Bin Suparman

You thought NFC tags were Not For Consumers? Well, they're in Maplin's

You only have to touch another tag in the default Android configuration. If you are happy to install a custom ROM then there's a modification from XDA-Developers that allows removal detection.

http://www.nfcbrief.com/2013/03/modification-adds-nfc-tag-removal.html

Android dev smacked with £50k fine over premium rate SMS scam

Re: If this is a Ltd company

What loan do you need to roll out malware that you already have?

A quick re-brand at minimal cost and simply re-appear ready to go again.

Aqua marina - exactly, their best bet will be just to claim Connect Ltd is insolvent and re-appear in a month or two as Connekt Ltd. I'll be amazed if anyone gets money back from this.

Not a problem restricted to Android but crappy consumer protection in general.

Mobile banking security bypassed in fiendish malware blag

Re: Actually this is a big problem...

All you are doing here is shifting the point of failure. Telco store staff aren't going to be able to tell fake ID from real and producing convincing fake ID is hardly difficult.

Has your shifty foreign neighbour got 16 mobes?

I'm Screwed!

I've got an old 35mm film cannister in which I keep a number of pay as you go sim cards. One for every country I regularly travel to. Strangely enough I tend to change these on arrival in a new country which means I fish out my box of sim cards in the airport arrivals area while waiting for my checked baggage to appear.

Should I just go and hand myself in now?

Devolo dLAN 200 AVdesk HomePlug AV network adaptor

They work - what more do you want?

@John

What you are describing is a video sender not a ethernet to powerline converter.

Something like what you want exists http://www.onevideo.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=525 don't expect it to be cheap.

When you say you'll "stick to proper ethernet" well that rather defeats the point doesn't it? These devices are designed to allow you to connect ethernet based devices to an ethernet network where there is no direct cat 5 cable connection available. If you had "proper ethernet" available why on Earth do you want to use one of these?

@Everyone else:

I've been using a set of these since December to connect my showcentre 200 and a wireless access point (in the lounge under the TV) to the rest of the network which has most of it's hardware (and broadband access) in the study at the other end of the house. It works flawlessly allowing me to surf wirelessly and watch streamed HD content at the same time.

Out of interest I'm getting between 60 and 65 Mb/s - the house was completely rewired in 2005 which may account for the difference between my results and those of the author.

I can give these devices a big thumbs up. They do work. My only criticism would be that the blue leds are a bit fierce especially when you have one adaptor stuffed down the back of the TV and the lights down low to watch your favourite movie. A bit of cardboard and a roll of bodge tape cures the only flaw in this product very quickly!