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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: 1, Troll) by gnuman on Friday October 28 2016, @06:26AM
Bullshit. If you want to change the password, you can change the password. If your excuse is a poor troll of laziness and covert bigotry, then well, that's what it is.