Posts by emdeedee

US states join watchdog probing CenturyLink's Xmas data center outage that screwed 911 system

Telecoms Digest

http://telecom2018.csail.mit.edu/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/latest-issue.html

Heathrow's air traffic radio set for shiny digital upgrade from Northrop

I hope they don't skimp on the security analysis

Otherwise this is exactly the situation the phrase "an accident waiting to happen" was designed for.

Four in five Android devices inherit Linux snooping flaw

At this point, not a 'snooping' flaw

I know it is serious, but the vulnerability allows the attacker to disrupt and degrade a connection between two hosts, and potentially inject traffic.

This isn't snooping. I think if we want the public to respond appropriately to issues we need to moderate the hyperbole and not go straight for "every Linux based thing in your life is now lethal" etc

Samsung PC, laptop owner? Better update the update tool

SWUpdate download page isn't even on a secure connection!

Just went to download the latest version from their support site. Neither the page itself or the download package is from a secure site so the whole thing can be spoofed!

Shheesh

Oracle blurts Google's Android secrets in court: You made $22bn using Java, punk

It doesn't feel right without groklaw.net

I can't believe we are back watching this case.... without http://groklaw.net/ All those years PJ put into tracking and de-bunking this case.

:Sigh: