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on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:29PM
from the in-Soviet-Russia-products-threaten-you dept.
from the in-Soviet-Russia-products-threaten-you dept.
It follows a product recall from the Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou after its web cameras were used in a massive web attack last week.
The attack knocked out sites such as Reddit, Twitter, Paypal and Spotify.
The Chinese government blamed customers for not changing their passwords.
Its legal warning was added to an online statement from the company Xiongmai, in which the firm said that it would recall products, mainly webcams, following the attack but denied that its devices made up the majority of the botnet used to launch it.
You will like Chinese products, or else.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by DonkeyChan on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:37PM
These things don't even have passwords and the way they're compromised has to do with the lack of security in their firmware.
Using hardcoded passwords (you know, unchangeable)
Open obfuscated SSH ports
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @05:16PM
A back door, just like Comey wanted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:11PM
Um, we're talking China here. Yes it's possible that said backdoors where ordered there by a state party, but it certainly wasn't Comey. Don't give him or wild conspiracies any more credit than due.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tibman on Thursday October 27 2016, @06:23PM
Small misunderstanding here i think. Comey has said he wants backdoors: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/08/fbi-chief-backdoor-access-encryption-isis [theguardian.com]
AC's point is that this is what happens when there is a backdoor.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:29PM
"Wild conspiracies?" There is no such thing anymore. What we know for a fact, as in real and actually done, are beyond what conspiracy theorists feared in 2004.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday October 27 2016, @09:27PM
Absotutely fracking 'A'!
Truth is stranger than fiction (and Hillary is Moby Dick!!!!!)
About the only conspiracy not proven correct is.... wait for it....... wait for it.......
....yeah.....
Do not go in there!!! Wheeeeewww!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @01:24AM
Just because some conspiracies are true doesn't make all conspiracy theories true.
This one does not pass the laugh test because its so egregious. We know how the NSA likes to backdoor hardware and they certainly don't do it like this. These are the guys who deliberately weakened a random number generator algorithm to make it feasible to crack encryption that happens to use that RNG. That's subtle. This? Leaving hardcoded passwords for any dumbfuck to find? That's just the result of ultra-thin margins.