Re: Not really useful
Then check the link in my first post above ;)
Posts by petur
1046 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Dec 2009
A Terabyte in my HOUSE? Got more than that in my POCKET
Apple 'fesses up: Rejected from the App Store, dev? THIS is why
Google flushes out users of old browsers by serving up CLUNKY, AGED version of search
Apple promises to lift Curse of the Drained iPhone 5 Battery
I’ve never paid for it in my life... we are talking Wi-Fi, right?
RealVNC distances itself from factories, power plants, PCs hooked up to password-less VNC
Top Gun display for your CAR: Heads-up fighter pilot tech
Detroit losing millions because it buys cheap batteries – report
Brit infosec firm lets hackers think they've stolen something
Google leaves STUPID vuln on Nest devices
Russia, China could ban western tech if they want to live in the PAST
Tiny steps: HTTP 2.0 WG looks for consensus
Synology and the NAS-ty malware-flingers: What can be learned
Tuesday 5th August 2014 14:04 GMT
Re: Remember it's not just Synology
I think he was listing brands with security issues, couldn't find an article on a QNAP security cockup (other than OpenSSL which everyone suffered).
Not that they will be without issues, and I bet they will be doing even more audits and tests in the light of current news...
Windows Registry-infecting malware has no files, survives reboots
Retailers shot up by PoS scraping brute force cannon
Friday 1st August 2014 06:44 GMT
Payment terminals
Over here most shops just have a payment terminal that is connected to the PoS via serial or network, and the software just tells the terminal what amount the customer has to pay.
No way for crooks to steal any data, the worst they could do is send it incorrect amounts. Money always goes from customer to shop bank account.
Say goodbye to landfill Android: Top 10 cheap 'n' cheerful smartphones
NUDE SNAPS AGENCY: NSA bods love 'showing off your saucy selfies'
Friday 18th July 2014 08:01 GMT
Re: Why am I not surprised by this?
I surely wasn't...
Some 20 years ago, when the digital age was still in front of us, I did contract work on the network and computer equipment at a very large picture print company (for the young ones: a company that develops your negatives and prints them).
Their staff had lots of picture books with nude pics in them: All pictures passed by quality assurance people who marked badly developed pics, to be redone, and if it contained nude, it was marked as well, and the discarded pic was then recovered from the bin.
There will always be people with access to this stuff that will not mind taking a private copy. The only solution is not to give them access.
Seagate chances ARM with NAS boxes for the SOHO crowd
Microsoft's anti-bug breakthrough: Wire devs to BRAIN SCANNERS
Child diagnosed as allergic to iPad
El Reg nips down IKEA's 'I've Got A Screw Loose Street'
'The writing is TOO SMALL': MPs row over Parliamentary move to Office 365
'Apple is terrified of women’s bodies and women’s pleasure' – fresh tech sex storm
What the world needs now is... a Bluetooth-enabled baby's dummy
Wednesday 9th July 2014 10:48 GMT 
No wireless near my baby
Call me paranoid, but I never let any wireless device near my babies when they were young. Even the monitor was in the opposite corner of the room.
So kudos for sticking a transmitter in their mouth at that young age. I'd not take the risk, whatever low power they claim to use.
Weaponised Flash flaw can pinch just about anything from anywhere
App permissions? Pah! Rogue Android soft can 'place phone calls at will'
Google de-listing of BBC article 'broke UK and Euro public interest laws' - So WHY do it?
iPhone user shamegasm: 'I beg of you', delete sex app from my purchase list
We need to talk about SPEAKERS: Sorry, 'audiophiles', only IT will break the sound barrier
Wednesday 2nd July 2014 14:02 GMT
@ Zog The Undeniable
it's not because the frequency response of the ear isn't flat, that the reproduction of sound shouldn't.
In ideal circumstances, you'd want both the microphones and speakers to have a flat frequency response so that the original sound reaches your ears the way it was. Your ears will do the non-flat bit anyway.
'I don't want to go on the cart' ... OpenSSL revived with survival roadmap
Wednesday 2nd July 2014 10:32 GMT
Re: Still, forking the code is good
I don't see where the body of your post supports its title.
IMHO forking should be the last solution, the FOSS community is littered with forked and parallel produced code. In many cases they end up all having some kind of issue, and picking an implementation is choosing a tradeoff.
If possible, people should try to contribute to the existing project, and that's where the problem with OpenSSL lies: many users but not many contributors. Theo can have a big mouth and fork it, but that only shows nobody really cared or contributed, because the fork was because of the code, not the community.
There are cases where forking is good, because it is a nice defense mechanism to guarantee continuation of the code. Like the OpenOffice -> LibreOffice fork.
Microsoft's anti-malware crusade knackers '4 MILLION' No-IP users
Google: Glass goggles are a 'fairly lousy surveillance device'
Freeze, Glasshole! Stop spying on me at the ATM
Who needs a ride-on mower when a ROBOT will cut your grass
Tuesday 24th June 2014 08:42 GMT
I have some issues with these things
- they are way too expensive for what they are and do
- more intelligence is needed, there's already a model that detects its perimeter with a sensor and not a wire though.
- same basic problem as robo vacuum cleaners: can't deal with stuff lying around
Solve these and then we can talk ;)
Traffic lights, fridges and how they've all got it in for us
Monday 23rd June 2014 11:13 GMT 
Don't connect them to the internet directly
I've been experimenting a bit with simple things, and found it easiest (at least for peace of mind) to have some kind of hub (my NAS in this case), and write a bit of interface code to interact with them. Much easier to secure and no need to worry about gaping security holes that will never get fixed.
And remember, once a hacker is inside one of these things, he can use it as relay to attack the rest of your network from the inside.
VMware seeks patent for IM chats between servers and sysadmins
Code Spaces goes titsup FOREVER after attacker NUKES its Amazon-hosted data
Greenpeace rejoices after getting huge renewable powerplant cancelled
Thursday 12th June 2014 09:04 GMT 
Renewable is OK but...
Not when you go destroying some VERY nice parts of nature to do so.
Same goes for the idiots who are planning the hydroelectric projects in Iceland. All nice on paper with their zero emissions, until you visit the place where they will build this and see what rare piece of nature has to go for this.
I normally don't agree very much with Greenpeace, but in this case, I fully understand them. This one's for nature!
207 thousand lights-out boxes are STILL hackable
Facebook's new self-destructing pic app SELF-DESTRUCTS
Jellybean dominates Play, still seated atop rising KitKat
Friday 6th June 2014 13:10 GMT
Fragmentation
The way 'fragmentation' is stressed in an article shows the bias of the writer.
The truth is that the story is much more nuanced: many, if not most apps will run on an older Android version, and if an app doesn't, half the time it's because the developer used a higher API version than was needed. The number of apps that actually need the latest features are much lower.
What the figures DO say, is the sorry state of affairs when it comes to upgrades. How hard can it be to separate HAL from OS, so that OS upgrades are 'easy' on mobile devices?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
