* Posts by fictiva

4 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2015

$17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address

fictiva

Shenzen?

When I look at their manual (http://www.u8watch.net/U8-usermanual-en.pdf ) and install the 'BT Notification.apk' - connects to: APK Access mode:Downloaded from Web address

IP Address: http://www.chrsz.com which is 116.204.15.137. http://www.chrsz.com/classpro/index/183

a geolocation of that ip shows it to be: Shenzhen, China. which would be Shenzhen Coheretech Co., Ltd.

I wonder if thats where the connections are headed to: http://ipinfo.io/AS17962

You've seen things people wouldn't believe – so tell us your programming horrors

fictiva

I think I've done it all as well. From early shell scripts that _did_ include 'rm -rf' on some $HOME ( that was undefined). And when I ran it ( as root) , I wondered why it was taking so long to complete.

From the head scratching of trying to figure out what the hell I was trying to do in shell, then PHP, then PERL. It wasn't until years later that I had to start commenting my script ( scripts... always have called them scripts - I was never a programmer ). My debugging skills consisted of inserting 'Print' or 'echo' statements every so often to figure out what everything was doing. OH and I always tested my code 'live' to see who had any issues with it. Ahhhh the glorious late 1980's & 90's!

Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

fictiva

Hello?? GCHQ? NSA? - I'm ready for my closeup!

fictiva

Hello? GCHQ? NSA? - I'm ready for my closeup!