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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: 2) by RedGreen on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:40PM
All I can say is the first time I logged into the shitty router my ISP gave me before I replaced it with my own it forced me to set a new password other than the default before I could do anything else. So the chinese can sell that crock of shit to someone who is buying it and I don't think that will be a lot of people, they sold garbage that was not secured now they pay the price in bad publicity.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday October 27 2016, @11:36PM
That doesn't sound like an IOT appliance to me. Perhaps one of us misunderstands something.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.