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Google Chrome 77 Breaks Login Pages on Netgear Devices:
Google Chrome 77, released yesterday, has broken the login pages on modern Netegar[sic] devices, according to an avalanche of complaints on the company's official forum.
Devices like Nighthawk routers [1, 2, 3], Orbi WiFi meshes/routers, N600 modems, and ReadyNAS network-attached storage (NAS) systems [1, 2] appear to have been impacted.
According to reports, users trying to access their devices' admin page are either being redirected to the password page instead, or seeing an access denied error message.
While most people don't need to access their routers or modems' administration pages on a daily basis, the issue has had a more significant impact on owners of Netgear NAS equipment.
Netgear suggests using Firefox or Edge as a workaround.
Personally, I've never been a fan of automatic updating. Feel free to remind me to check, but it should be my decision to actually perform the check and/or update
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday September 15 2019, @04:34AM (1 child)
Does anyone offer a naked phone where we can just install what we want without dinking around with the existing locks and OS?
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @05:32PM
2 word: firmware drivers. firm-ly in the hands of hardware manufacturers (excluding pretty much only the core CPU).
let's see:
GPS sensor.
camera(s)
microphone + speaker (maybe)
touchscreen
audiochiplet
vibrator
gazillion axis sensor
etc.
they all need some driver-software, and maybe 'cause some genius could reverse the actual transistor layout if the driver software-code is opensource, "someone" would then manufactur that transistor layout cheaper and the original would die a horrible death of bankruptcy *sniff*