Posts by slinkywizard

Video encoders using Huawei chips have backdoors and bad bugs – and Chinese giant says it's not to blame

In other news - Intel to blame for all Windows bugs

As Flocke Kroes said - RTFA before you start blaming Huawei for bugs in software that a manufacturer chooses to write/run on a CPU.

Would Intel even get a mention if a security researcher found bugs/vulnerabilities in an encoder that ran on Intel x86 or Atom chips, but happened to run Windows embedded as it's main OS?

GCHQ's cyber arm report on Huawei said to be burning hole through UK.gov desks

Well it certainly works better than the alternative ECI kit at least!

Not so G.fast: Hybrid fibre 'under review' as Openreach remembers it's all about FTTP now

G.Fast is a dead technology anyway, so this has to be a good thing. I can see my G.Fast enabled cabinet from my house, but apparently I'm outside the 300m line range for BT to provide it!

Plusnet broadband outage: Customers fume as TITSUP* continues

FTTC down in rural Somerset seems fine as well

Facebook ‘glitch’ that deleted the Philando Castile shooting vid: It was the police – sources

Re: Guns don't kill people....

Except that was Manic Street Preachers, not REM...

Samsung S6 Edge has 11 nasties, says Google Project Zero team

My experience with Samsung since coming back to them (ironically with an S6 Edge) has been nothing short of brilliant on the patch front. I've had an update every month within a few days of the start of the month.

If Google released a competing Nexus 5 though, I would be back that way without a second thought...

Now VW air-pollution cheatware 'found in Audis and Porsches'

Not seen any Japanese manufacturers implicated yet. My motorway oil-burner is a Mazda 2.2 Skyactive diesel, and you can see instantly when that is doing all it's emission/EGR stuff - as the fuel economy on a motorway run drops from the usual 50mpg, down to around 30mpg. It's the only diesel I've driven where it's that obvious what it is doing...

Slacker vendors' one-fix-a-year effort leaves 88% of Androids vulnerable

S6 Edge

Samsung seem to be keeping to the new Google patch cycle, at least on my Open firmware S6 Edge; I get an update at least once a month from them now.

As to SIM Free vs Network provided phones. Yes, in general buying a SIM free phone is normally cheaper in the long run; however, if your current operator offers you a stupid upgrade deal (in my case, an S6 Edge 128GB for free, with 4GB data/Unlimited Text+Minutes for £35 a month) you really can't lose...

Major London rail station reveals system passwords during TV documentary

Move along now, nothing to see here...

If only this was real news...

The app shown on the screens is simply a real-time display of the approaches to Waterloo. It is on a completely isolated intranet with no external connectivity other than inbound feeds from various Network Rail systems. It has no control over any signalling or train movements.

Also, the problem yesterday was a dislodged conductor rail on the Southern network into Victoria - completely unrelated to SWT, which goes into Waterloo.

Sadly, knowing the username and password won't do you any good unless you happen to work for SWT and have access to their Intranet.

Nice try though :)