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Comment Maybe it is for manufacturing? (Score 1) 236

by invisi on Monday April 21, 2014 @09:51PM (#46811835) Attached to: Intentional Backdoor In Consumer Routers Found

If I were to venture a guess, things like turning off and on LEDs remotely sound like something that one would want to do when manufacturing as part of a functional tester. That doesn't mean that the way they are doing it is good, but I bet it is so that they can just plug in a router and connect up to their functional tester to test the system to ensure things are working correctly, such as the LEDs. Seems like if they want a feature like this to support manufacturing that it should be something that is only accessible on one *internal* (non-ISP facing) Ethernet port and only within a certain amount of time since bootup.

Big Data Breaches Give Credit Monitoring Services a Boost 48

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @10:18AM from the glaziers-love-broken-windows dept.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "As attacks like the one on Target have exposed up to 40 million customer payment card accounts and the names, addresses and email addresses of as many as 70 million shoppers, Tiffany Hsu and E. Scott Reckard report in the LA Times that increased activity by data hackers has produced millions of victims but there has been one big winner: credit monitoring businesses. "It's almost a terrible thing to say, but these kinds of situations raise awareness of the need to protect yourself and to be more vigilant in checking your transactions," says Yaron Samid. Meanwhile services with names such as BillGuard and Identity Guard report a surge in sign-ups from people anxious to be protected. For example, the number of AAA Southern California members opting in for the club's identity theft monitoring service — whether for free or for an extra charge — boomed in January, up 58% from December." (More below.)

Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way 517

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @09:31AM from the why-not-just-petition-with-auras? dept.

Barence (1228440) writes with this excerpt from PC Pro: "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has issued a sharp response to petitioners calling for his site to "allow for true scientific discourse" on holistic healing. The petition, currently running on the Change.org site, claims that much of the information on Wikipedia relating to holistic approaches to healing is "biased, misleading, out of date, or just plain wrong". It has attracted almost 8,000 supporters at the time of publication. Wales's response to the petition, posted on the same page, is far from conciliatory: 'No, you have to be kidding me,' he writes. 'Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful. What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'. It isn't.'"

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