Posts by BlackPhi 4 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Mar 2015
The sentence which struck me in the article was "The problem is that Trend Micro's driver is insecure by design, making it a perfect candidate for abuse by malicious actors around the world." Am I misunderstand what this is saying, or is there a seemingly deliberate backdoor in their products? If so, for whose benefit?
Oh dear! It's always hard to be sure on El Reg, but I have a horrible feeling you mean it seriously.
Meatbag: A derogatory name for humans or other biological beings used by non-biological beings (i.e. robots). From the Urban Dictionary, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Meat%20Bag. Attributed to the robot Bender and the killer droid HK-47.
So a highly appropriate term in the context of a crash caused by a human being overriding the judgement of a machine. I would offer Garth Corfield a pint (of oil, naturally), but the icon might get confusing.
Another link for the DNS checker program is https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/dns-check.
This has, for me, two advantages over the one in the article: firstly it is explicitly on the F-Secure domain; and secondly the F-Secure certificate is owned by F-Secure and verified by Verizon, whereas the ismydnshijacked.com certificate is owned anonymously and verified by GoDaddy. It's a comfort thing.
I actually had a customer whose router had been hacked to do just this last year. Fortunately it was done crudely so it was easy to spot, but a tool which checks subtler hijacks looks like a useful addition to the toolbox.
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