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Backdoor Found In TP-Link Routers

New submitter NuclearCat writes "Polish security researchers have found a backdoor in TP-Link routers, allowing an attacker to not only gain root access to the local network, but also to knock down the router via a CSRF attack remotely. (Further informationGoogle translation of Russian original). According to the researchers, TP-Link hasn't yet responded to give an answer about issue. The good news: Users who replaced their TP-Link firmware with Open/DD-WRT firmware can sleep well."

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  1. Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With every government in the world wanting their own backdoors to everything these days, designing firmware for modern routers must be akin to being a carpenter tasked with building a house to satisfy 300 different feuding owners.

    1. Re:Et tu, China? by DigiShaman · · Score: 1

      Actually, there are a lot of TP-Link routers in China. Which means that there could be a lot internal Chinese to Chinese hacking and DOS attacks going on. I think the local ISPs use ZTE branded devices, but again, TP-Link are the cheapies found all over the place and thus easy to get.

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    2. Re:Et tu, China? by stevegee58 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The last time I posted a comment about Chinese products containing malware I was voted down as flamebait and accused of being a racist.

    3. Re:Et tu, China? by the_B0fh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      That is because you are a fucking idiot.

      The issue isn't whether some chinese or some american branded piece of equipment and thus chinese are hackers or americans are hackers.

      You do realize even Microsoft had shipped CDs with a virus on them before. This is either a lack of QC/procedures, allowing something to get in to the image, or a malicious act.

      Country of origin is irrelevant. If you still feel it is, remember, StuxNet came from the US government.

    4. Re:Et tu, China? by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's nothing! I've tried, on numerNEVER BEFORE to post about bugs in produce coming from China, and every tiCHINESE GOODS ARE MADE TO HIGHEST QUALITYerent in some way. I tried to warn my boss away from buying that "too cheap" Cisco gear from eBay (the lettering was weird, too), but he wouHONOURABLE MANAGER MAKES SENSIBLE PURCHASING DECISION.

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    5. Re:Et tu, China? by stevegee58 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Good gracious! This place is getting as bad as 4chan.

    6. Re:Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But if all 300 owners are asking for the same door at the back of their home, what's the issue?

    7. Re:Et tu, China? by carlhaagen · · Score: 1

      Been there, too.

    8. Re:Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      StuxNet came from Israel. One of their generals even admitted this to the press.

      Country of origin is quite relevant - all Chinese telecom and networking gear can be safely assumed to be backdoored.

    9. Re:Et tu, China? by Jawnn · · Score: 1

      Country of origin is irrelevant. If you still feel it is, remember, StuxNet came from the US government.

      Yes, it did, which rather proves that state-sponsored cyber attacks are very, very real. Given that, the notion that routers manufactured in the PRC might come with back doors as standard equipment (we're looking at you, Huawei) is hardly a stretch.

    10. Re:Et tu, China? by AK+Marc · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Sony has shipped backdoors. Cisco has shipped backdoors. HP, Microsoft, and probably everyone else (they just might not all get press - I know personally of the HP case because I worked there for that one, apparently someone let the imaging machine get infected to where the HP recovery media had a virus rootkit on them, burned and shipped). Everyone on the planet is looking at "China" closer than anyone else, and the discovery rate is lower than US rate, but one company, TP-Link, has one issue, and suddenly, it's a coordinated Chinese attack on us. It's that logical disconnect that earns you a racist tag.

    11. Re:Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey dummy, stop using akin wrong. It's a natural relationship by blood. Not a way to compare low IQ analogies to dumb down a software engineer's job to carpentry.

    12. Re:Et tu, China? by Squidlips · · Score: 1

      That is the Chinese Water Army at work. The fascists that run that country are insanely sensitive to criticism....

    13. Re:Et tu, China? by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      If you feel fully justified in calling him a fucking idiot as response to his post, am I justified in calling you out as a reactive foul-mouth apologist for criminal (or criminally negligent) corporate behaviour?

      I do not see how stevegee58 meets your criteria for 'fucking idiot' on the basis of your comment. I can only surmise that you have somehow failed to notice the common patterns in China's behaviour.

      I wouldn't be so quick to sling insults around if I were you.

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    14. Re:Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ut one company, TP-Link, has one issue, and suddenly, it's a coordinated Chinese attack on us.

      This is not the first time a Chinese vendor has been caught doing such things. The parent was making a point that people around here tend to moderate on ideology rather than reality. If you'd bothered to check his post history you'd see he wasn't being racist about it.

      And just FYI, racism is when you are basing your claims on heredity, as opposed to nationality.

    15. Re:Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Country of origin is irrelevant. If you still feel it is, remember, StuxNet came from the US government.

      Yes, it did, which rather proves that state-sponsored cyber attacks are very, very real. Given that, the notion that routers manufactured in the PRC might come with back doors as standard equipment (we're looking at you, Huawei) is hardly a stretch.

      Still no hard evidence of that. One anonymous source with NO evidence is not proof, especially when the reporter who cites this "source" is also hawking a book on a related subject. Yes, the US is a likely candidate, as is Israel, but there's really no reason to rule out several European (and Asian) "friends" of the US either.

      And we are more than aware that state-sponsored attacks are real. But given the sheer incompetence of most Governments in regards to matters of "Cybersecurity" I see no reason to assume that they are the only ones doing such things. Personally, I'd be less than surprised to find out it had more Corporate fingers in it than Government.

    16. Re:Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So the hidden Weezer and Edie Brickell videos in my Win98 cd were a virus?!

      Damn them.

    17. Re:Et tu, China? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      The parent was making a point that people around here tend to moderate on ideology rather than reality.

      People do everything on perception, not reality. How is that newsworthy?

      And just FYI, racism is when you are basing your claims on heredity, as opposed to nationality.

      When heredity and nationality correlate strong enough, there is no functional difference. And in some cases, racism is affected by your first point. People racist against "arabs" are racist against Persians and such because they are "close enough." So, they aren't racist against Persians, but ideology of the racist guy doesn't differentiate.

    18. Re:Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So you're saying that the US government hasn't spent time setting up China as the next enemy, so that nationalist types (a.k.a. patriots) won't have an enemy to feel oppressed by?

    19. Re:Et tu, China? by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      I'm saying that nationalism is a subset of racism where the American Race is pitted against the "other" races. Ever note how we most associate with those who look and talk like us? There was a big push for the US to enter WWI on the German side (and how would the world look today if Germany won WWI and didn't get screwed in the treaty?). But no, we entered on the side of the English speakers.

    20. Re:Et tu, China? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is a non issue. I'd never even heard of TP-LINK until this story. Nobody uses that shit. Everybody uses Cisco/Linksys, Avaya, D-Link, Netgear or Belkin.

    21. Re:Et tu, China? by the_B0fh · · Score: 1

      Right... just like Lotus Notes used to be 40 bits weaker when shipped overseas, much to the chagrin of the various European governments that used it prior to that little discovery.

      And you obviously haven't been following the news about companies like HBGary and all these other defense contractors.

    22. Re:Et tu, China? by the_B0fh · · Score: 1

      He's a fucking idiot because he is trying to equate chinese manufactured products to be virus ladened. Forgetting that, as others have pointed out, various government and corporate bodies, and even private individuals, have sent out tools and products.

      Go read On Trusting Trust again. If Ken Thompson just kept quiet, most of your "appliance" devices would have a builtin backdoor as login.c and the compiler propagated.

      Is Huawei's stuff backdoored? Damned if I know. However, they are willing to provide source code. *IF* the customer can compile the source code, using the customer's own compiler, and install it, and the thing uses bog standard components, then is it *ANY MORE DANGEROUS* than a box from Cisco or an "American" company? Go read up on how stuxnet got into target.

    23. Re:Et tu, China? by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      He's a fucking idiot because he is trying to equate chinese manufactured products to be virus ladened. Forgetting that, as others have pointed out, various government and corporate bodies, and even private individuals, have sent out tools and products.

      There wasn't much in the way of replies when I posted, although I may well have missed them.

      That aside, I didn't read the GP's comment that got him moderated flamebait, but I think it's a reasonable assumption at this point in time that Chinese-designed equipment is likely to be compromised and/or a knockoff. If it makes me a racist to say so then I guess I am whatever the crowd says I am.

      Go read On Trusting Trust again. If Ken Thompson just kept quiet, most of your "appliance" devices would have a builtin backdoor as login.c and the compiler propagated.

      Is Huawei's stuff backdoored? Damned if I know. However, they are willing to provide source code. *IF* the customer can compile the source code, using the customer's own compiler, and install it, and the thing uses bog standard components, then is it *ANY MORE DANGEROUS* than a box from Cisco or an "American" company? Go read up on how stuxnet got into target.

      I don't disagree with any of your points. Who said anything about trusting stuff built 'at home'? I'm talking specifically about distrusting Chinese gear but that is no dichotomy: I assume any new product is rubbish unless proven otherwise, regardless of where it is made.

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    24. Re:Et tu, China? by the_B0fh · · Score: 1

      He's a fucking idiot because he is trying to equate chinese manufactured products to be virus ladened. Forgetting that, as others have pointed out, various government and corporate bodies, and even private individuals, have sent out tools and products.

      There wasn't much in the way of replies when I posted, although I may well have missed them.

      That aside, I didn't read the GP's comment that got him moderated flamebait, but I think it's a reasonable assumption at this point in time that Chinese-designed equipment is likely to be compromised and/or a knockoff. If it makes me a racist to say so then I guess I am whatever the crowd says I am.

      I think they also know - the first time someone finds one of these is when everyone distrusts them so much that they would never gain it back. And unlike the USA, they don't have the goodwill behind them.

      But then again, stupidity knows no bounds, so some low level idiot may feel that they have the power to coerce some companies to do that.

      Go read On Trusting Trust again. If Ken Thompson just kept quiet, most of your "appliance" devices would have a builtin backdoor as login.c and the compiler propagated.

      Is Huawei's stuff backdoored? Damned if I know. However, they are willing to provide source code. *IF* the customer can compile the source code, using the customer's own compiler, and install it, and the thing uses bog standard components, then is it *ANY MORE DANGEROUS* than a box from Cisco or an "American" company? Go read up on how stuxnet got into target.

      I don't disagree with any of your points. Who said anything about trusting stuff built 'at home'? I'm talking specifically about distrusting Chinese gear but that is no dichotomy: I assume any new product is rubbish unless proven otherwise, regardless of where it is made.

      When you only criticize one side, when the issue is much much larger than that one side, you make it appear that that is the only one worth criticizing.

      If any new product is rubbish, but you only make statements that "new chinese products are rubbish", you color yourself as one sided and cannot fault others for thinking you think that way.

    25. Re:Et tu, China? by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      When you only criticize one side, when the issue is much much larger than that one side, you make it appear that that is the only one worth criticizing.

      If any new product is rubbish, but you only make statements that "new chinese products are rubbish", you color yourself as one sided and cannot fault others for thinking you think that way.

      Admittedly I didn't do a very good job of expressing myself so once again I can't fault your argument.

      In all honesty I harbour fear and mistrust for China. I also harbour fear and mistrust for the United States, even though as a Kiwi our nation is considered an ally. I am however much more concerned about China because they seem to be determined to advance their cause regardless of the consequences, much much more so than the States. I'm left with the devil you know and all that.

      That doesn't make me right by any means but with the number of stories about Chinese tomfoolery posted even to /., the debate has been done to death. As I understand it, any major company in China is obliged to be in bed with the government to a far greater degree than in the western world. Why shouldn't I be suspicious over and above the way we do things in the West? One doesn't have to be squeaky-clean to be able to recognise a fellow citizen in need of a bath after all.

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  2. English news article by hweimer · · Score: 5, Informative
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  3. I have to wonder why they bother... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Given the relatively dismal reputation of vendor firmware on most routers, and the distinctly limited opportunities for software-differentiation in the 'well, it sits there and makes the internet wireless, right?' networking market, I honestly have to wonder why most vendor firmware isn't just thinly-skinned Open or DD WRT out of the box...

    1. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      For a lot of routers the chipset manufacturers aren't as friendly towards open source as they could be (eg broadcom), which is largely the reason why many popular routers are unsupported or work-in-progress for openwrt/dd-wrt etc.

    2. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by tlambert · · Score: 0

      For a lot of routers the chipset manufacturers aren't as friendly towards open source as they could be (eg broadcom), which is largely the reason why many popular routers are unsupported or work-in-progress for openwrt/dd-wrt etc.

      Open Source is not to friendly to Broadcom chipsets keeping their software interfaces secret to prevent clone vendors from leveraging the effort Broadcom put into writing the drivers for its chips by just making chips that could work with the Broadcom drivers.

      Either you leave the Broadcom drivers out of Windows itself (disadvantaging Broadcom in the market place), or you include them, and if they use a documented interface, you disadvantage Broadcom in the marketplace, since they had to pay for the drivers to be developed, and then amortized those costs over their per untit prices, whereas the clone venders don't have that cost.

    3. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      Bullshit.

      Broadcom does not even need to pay to make drivers. Open source the documentation and let others make the drivers.

      Broadcom is trying to avoid the fact that they make a commodity product. If they would acknowledge that they do, they could benefit from drivers that were compatible with multiple vendors chipsets.

    4. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by neokushan · · Score: 5, Informative

      As far as I know, that's more or less what Asus does. I have an RT-N66U and it's an absolute dream box. It's based on one of the open source firmwares (I can't remember which one though, DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato), Asus releases the source code to the firmware and you don't have to do anything fancy to install a custom variant of it, just upgrade your firmware manually like you would on any other router except pick the custom firmware file.

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    5. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Hatta · · Score: 1

      Open Source is not to friendly to Broadcom chipsets keeping their software interfaces secret to prevent clone vendors from leveraging the effort Broadcom put into writing the drivers for its chips by just making chips that could work with the Broadcom drivers.

      Any vendor, Broadcom or competitor, that wants free drivers can just publish specs and the community will build the drivers. There's no competetive disadvantage if everyone gets free drivers.

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    6. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by DigiShaman · · Score: 1

      Because said vendors are the one that have to provide post sales support. I suppose they could fork Open or DDWRT (if even possible, I haven't checked) and go their own way. It's basically the same argument for why you don't see Linux desktops on the show room floor at your local B&M store.

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    7. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by DigiShaman · · Score: 1

      For most Chinese, that's an expensive router! $160 bucks vs a TP-Link cheapie going for 20$ these days? If there's one thing I've learned about people in general: There's what you ought to do vs. what's the cheapest damn thing I can buy to get me up and running.

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    8. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by LWATCDR · · Score: 2

      "Broadcom does not even need to pay to make drivers. Open source the documentation and let others make the drivers."
      Doesn't happen with complex devices AMD proved that. AMD has released the documentation for their GPUs and they OpenSource drivers lag the closed source and AMD has to pay programers to work on the OpenSource drivers same as Intel does for their GPUs. And the next statement will be that of course the closed source drivers are ahead of the FOSS drivers because they have had a head start and then you will get to what most people in the FOSS community wants. They want companies to open the driver source code and then maintain it.

      The Broadcom chips may be simple enough that they will get support but the "open the specs and someone will write the drivers for free" just doesn't work once you get into complex devices.

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    9. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by macieklen · · Score: 1

      I don't know about Asus, but my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH does exactly that. Buffalo makes their proprietary firmware, and also pays for having a custom DD-WRT build made. I ended up installing OpenWRT on it, though, due to some stability issues.

    10. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by neokushan · · Score: 1

      That's great, but the OP was asking about why most vendors don't do this. He wasn't talking about people in china.

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    11. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by LWATCDR · · Score: 1

      ummm... You do realize that a lot of the routers already run Linux just with a different skin.

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    12. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Asus uses a customized version of OpenWRT.

      I have an rtn53, it has a a few known issues that Asus refuse to fix. Alternative firmware is hard to find and the few that do exist break neat features like dual band.

    13. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by LWATCDR · · Score: 2

      Not as big if an issue as you would think for the manufactures. The drivers would just be loadable and not statically linked to the kernel. The reason for not using Open-DRT is that the UI is terrible Luci is not great but the standard out of box UI is just a command line. Oh yes I use a TP-Link TR-3220 as a media extender. It is really cool that they have it and I will probably get a few more TP-Link routers for other projects but Open-DRT is not friendly at all.
      DD and Tomato do not work on as many devices so I have not had a chance to play with them.

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    14. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by neokushan · · Score: 1

      From some googling, this seems to be an issue specific to the RT-N53, lots of people having issues even on the stock firmware. Some have had success, though - http://www.thedartboard.net/forum/showthread.php?t=957
      I'm not really sure where the blame lies for this, though. Is it Asus? Their own firmware seems fine. Is it the 3rd party firmwares? They're the ones with the issue but then again is it due to what they have to work with?

      I can't speak for the 53, but my own 66 has had no issues at all and there's more than a few firmwares out there. I'm guessing it's just a more popular router in general.

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    15. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Because said vendors are the one that have to provide post sales support. I suppose they could fork Open or DDWRT (if even possible, I haven't checked) and go their own way. It's basically the same argument for why you don't see Linux desktops on the show room floor at your local B&M store.

      That's actually the weird thing: If you wanted to extend the router analogy to PCs, you would see Linux desktops on the show floor at the local store; but they would all be running deeply dysfunctional bespoke distros, mostly out of date and broken in various ways, some built from scratch, some based off an elderly version of Redhat, along with the low end machines all running FreeDOS with a bundled program designed to resemble a KDE desktop. You would be justified in asking 'Why the hell didn't they just install debian?'

      I'm not imagining that retail routers would be running open-wrt-SVN-Bleeding-edge-UNSTABLE, or ship without some drool-proof web interface that the support guys have a manual for. I just don't understand why(in the presence of free, solid, easily available 3rd party firmware) vendors keep spending on developing in-house or licenced firmware that has all kinds of nasty personality issues, time after time.

    16. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      Wireless chips are not that complex.

      AMD can't even make their own decent driver, not even the closed one, maybe the hardware just sucks.

    17. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by jimicus · · Score: 1

      The great majority of these routers are running Linux.

      It seems to be a dirty little secret of the router world: they're all running Linux (GPLv2), many have ADSL chips and support PPPoE and PPPoA.

      Yet the mainline kernel has practically zero support for ADSL chips - none of the drivers have been open-sourced. The documentation for the chips themselves is released to the router manufacturers under NDA, and quite often the manufacturers also get a reference driver (a Linux kernel module).

      This means the router manufacturer cannot comply with both the NDA and the GPL. Usually they comply with the NDA and either ignore the GPL or release source that's missing ADSL drivers. So we have the mildly absurd case that OpenWRT and DD-WRT have abysmal ADSL support.

    18. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by LordLimecat · · Score: 1

      Apparently there is, or nVidia, Broadcom, and a whole host of others would be doing just that.

    19. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Hatta · · Score: 1

      Only if you assume businesses make rational decisions. In reality, they are as driven by fear as the people that comprise them.

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    20. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Zalbik · · Score: 1

      I just don't understand why(in the presence of free, solid, easily available 3rd party firmware) vendors keep spending on developing in-house or licenced firmware that has all kinds of nasty personality issues, time after time.

      My guess? Cause most managers don't have a real firm grasp on software development, and the smart software developers convince their managers to keep development in-house (job security).

    21. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      RT-N66U is indeed a dream box.
      Comes with 256MB of RAM and even includes a microSD card slot on its motherboard.

      As for alternative firmwares - asuswrt-merlin and Tomato Shibi are available

    22. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1

      I honestly have to wonder why most vendor firmware isn't just thinly-skinned Open or DD WRT out of the box

      They think:
      1) we can save a nickel on RAM if we don't use linux
      2) we sell tens of millions of devices
      3) that's millions of dollars of savings

      and if they contract out the firmware to the lowest bidder and don't actually provide any support, maybe they're right. What I find surprising is that the linux-based routers didn't take over years ago at a $10 premium for their good reputation. Then again, I've never seen any marketing for any of these devices other than Cisco's rebranded Linksys stuff.

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    23. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by FireFury03 · · Score: 1

      Not as big if an issue as you would think for the manufactures. The drivers would just be loadable and not statically linked to the kernel. The reason for not using Open-DRT is that the UI is terrible Luci is not great but the standard out of box UI is just a command line. Oh yes I use a TP-Link TR-3220 as a media extender. It is really cool that they have it and I will probably get a few more TP-Link routers for other projects but Open-DRT is not friendly at all.
      DD and Tomato do not work on as many devices so I have not had a chance to play with them.

      I have a TD8816 ADSL 2+ router running in modem mode (plain PPPoE stream that's terminated on a separate machine). I was initially impressed at the fairly extensive featureset, given that it was dirt cheap. Unfortunately, that's where my impressedness ended: when running in ADSL2+ mode it syncs to a nice high speed during the day... then at night the SNR on the line drops. Unfortunately, the modem doesn't ever bother to resync as the SNR gets worse - eventually *all* the packets are arriving as CRC errors and it still keeps trying to run at the speed it originally synced at. Rebooting it causes it to sync at a lower speed due to the lower SNR.

      Obviously I thought this was a bug, so I contacted TP-Link... they got back to me and said it was the "expected behaviour"... It seems that their firmware doesn't resync unless the router's PPP daemon has to restart the connection, and of course with a PPPoE configuration, the router's PPP daemon isn't ever running so it never has to restart the connection so the router never resyncs...

      Its running ok in ADSL1 mode for now... at some point I'll get around to binning it and installing an FTTC connection.

    24. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe the hardware "just sucks"?

      Maybe you're a fanboi troll with no electronics background.

    25. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      Yeah, I am so anti-AMD that my current desktop is a 955 Black.

      AMD video cards have both bad closed and open source drivers. If no one can make a good driver for the hardware, that hints at other problems.

    26. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Grishnakh · · Score: 1

      Bullshit; the b43 drivers were reverse-engineered by the community and are better than Broadcom's own drivers. Granted, WiFi drivers are a little more complex than a serial port driver, but they're nowhere near as hard as GPU drivers.

    27. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I use IPCOP running as a virtual machine using a free version of ESX as my router. Works great. It uses minimal power above and beyond what the ESX is already using running other virtual machines (two Windows 7 machines two Unbuntu server instances). The host machine is a HP D7700 desktop that businesses have been getting rid of for years. I added 2 additional low profile NICs to it. It is extremely quiet and just sits there and runs.

    28. Re:I have to wonder why they bother... by sjames · · Score: 1

      That's utter and complete crap. The fact is, most chips with similar function have a similar INTERFACE anyway. Knowing the details reveals little about the all-important internal implementation. A clone maker will happily shave the package off and find out every last detail of the chip using an electron microscope anyway.

      That's not to say that management paranoia coupled with the delusion that their product is totally unique and revolutionary doesn't convince them of that utter and complete crap.

      In some cases they want it to be a secret so they don't reveal the many bugs in the hardware and that half the bullet points they claim for it are actually implemented in the driver. That was quite common in low end 'RAID' controllers.

  4. Cutest name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    TP-Link is the cutest name. Toilet Paper Link... It wipes the competition, literally.

    1. Re:Cutest name by hack++slash · · Score: 4, Funny

      And "bunghole" could be a euphamism for "internet", which would explain why Beavis said "I need teepee for my bunghole", he just wanted to go online...

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    2. Re:Cutest name by poofmeisterp · · Score: 1

      TP-Link is the cutest name. Toilet Paper Link... It wipes the competition, literally.

      Link.. TP.. Legend of Zelda Toilet Paper... I like where this is going.

    3. Re:Cutest name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      cornhoolio?

  5. A company of the PRC does it again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Color me surprised!

  6. What about OpenWRT? :) by pntkl · · Score: 0
    1. Re:What about OpenWRT? :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      From the summary:

      The good news: Users who replaced their TP-Link firmware with Open/DD-WRT firmware can sleep well."

      (emphasis mine)

    2. Re:What about OpenWRT? :) by pntkl · · Score: 1

      At least one person wasn't simply glancing at the article... Thank you.

    3. Re:What about OpenWRT? :) by Down_in_the_Park · · Score: 1

      Yeah great, first thing to do when you get a new router. But you do realize that you are on slashdot and neither my father nor my kids or any of my friends know slashdot or would dare to flash a new router... In other words 99% of the population do know everything about facebook and angry birds, but nothing about router systems, security, backdoors or anything closely related that isn't an icon they can click or touch...

      --
      "People who are willing to sacrifice essential freedoms for security deserve neither freedom nor security."

      B F
  7. Hardware check yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Found the software leak? For programing the chips there should be a hardware door, anyon checked for those unknown entry routes there yet?

  8. Only worked from LAN side by indy_bob_twobears · · Score: 2

    So, this is not important to me, I am not worried about intrusion from my users. Unless someone writes a Linux virus to set up a tftp server and send the request URL.

    1. Re:Only worked from LAN side by wvmarle · · Score: 2

      Can you trust your visitors?

      Including uninviteted, secretive visitors?

      I'm sure a determined attacker will just social-engineer their way in, and after the visit there is a second backdoor but now one that's accessible from the outside as well.

    2. Re:Only worked from LAN side by mjr167 · · Score: 1

      If they have physical access you have bigger problems...

    3. Re:Only worked from LAN side by wvmarle · · Score: 1

      OK, those uninvited notwithstanding, it is normal for companies to have visitors.

      People coming for business discussions, people coming to do building maintenance (various contractors), etc. Getting through the door is pretty easy. Getting on their LAN (wireless) is pretty easy (may not even have to get through the door for that). Getting on their LAN (wired) is a little harder - but a little social engineering and say pretending to be a network maintenance guy will usually get you really far, especially in larger companies where not everybody knows everybody.

    4. Re:Only worked from LAN side by mjr167 · · Score: 1

      That is why you need good escort policies... Don't let your visitors run around unattended.

    5. Re:Only worked from LAN side by wvmarle · · Score: 1

      Of course. But then there are policies, and then there is the real world.

      "Don't leave your visitor unattended!"

      "But I'm just fetching him a cup of coffee..."

      And when said "network maintenance" guy is there, even if someone is keeping a watchful eye on him, that someone likely doesn't know what the network maintenance guy is doing (or they could have done it by themselves).

  9. "gain root access to the local network" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    WTF is that? Editors, you all windows using lusers or something? Please.

    1. Re:"gain root access to the local network" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can not give answer about issue.

  10. TP by DaMattster · · Score: 2

    So I guess the router is about worth toilet paper, huh?

    1. Re:TP by jones_supa · · Score: 2

      Well, toilet paper works every time.

    2. Re:TP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, toilet paper works every time.

      Sure it does, but some varieties leave a lot of dingle, or cause friction burns, or result in poo-finger, or end up clogging the pipes so bad that your business ends up all over the floor.

    3. Re:TP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Except it doesn't protect your backdoor from intruders.

      Not that there's anything wrong with that.

    4. Re:TP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As a rule, I only require each piece of toilet paper to work the fist time.

  11. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...each morning TP found on backdoor of you.

  12. Looks like the firmware upgrade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    LAN side only, seems to be the firmware upgrade app since it requires the sending computer to be on the LAN, and providing a TFTP connection.

    "Update2: to works on WAN port if http admin is open WAN"

    Well there's a gaping hole, most of the routers I've owned, you can enable the admin on the LAN or the LAN+WIFI, I've never seen one you can open the admin page to the WAN.

    Still, not quite the hyperbole in the Slashdot summary though!

    1. Re:Looks like the firmware upgrade by ledow · · Score: 5, Informative

      Should be fixed, yes. Critical to your network security? Not really.

      It requires someone to convince a local user to click a link which not only executes an HTTP request against the router but also somehow starts up a TFTP service on the machine that executes that request, with some crafted files served from it to compromise the router when it asks for them.

      It's a home router (and "routers" in the headline is accurate but misleading - precisely two are listed as vulnerable), so to be honest, I'm not at all surprised that this is possible. Hell, UPnP is more a security threat than this backdoor and that's enabled by default in a lot of places.

      However, if TP-Link (whose products I quite like, especially their wireless repeaters) had just issued an update that stopped this happening, I'd not have even cared about it one jot and it would disappear into the void of things that have been patched already. It's the non-response that gets me. Someone at TP-Link couldn't even be bothered to say "We're looking into it"?

    2. Re:Looks like the firmware upgrade by ls671 · · Score: 1

      "Update2: to works on WAN port if http admin is open WAN"

      Well there's a gaping hole, most of the routers I've owned, you can enable the admin on the LAN or the LAN+WIFI, I've never seen one you can open the admin page to the WAN.

      Still, not quite the hyperbole in the Slashdot summary though!

      I have seen many, here is 2 examples

      TP-LINK:
      54M Wireless Router
      Model No. TL-WR340G/TL-WR340GD

      D-LINK:
        Product Page: DIR-615
              Hardware Version: E3 Firmware Version: 5.10

      --
      Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
  13. A deliberate action? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    TP-Link headquarters are in China, so one wonders if the backdoor was installed deliberately in the first place...

    1. Re:A deliberate action? by MightyYar · · Score: 1

      Yes, then TP-Link sends a Chinese hacker/technician to your house to exploit this LAN-only security problem.

      --
      W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
    2. Re:A deliberate action? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "From the article:

      After the following HTTP request is sent:

      http://192.168.0.1/userRpmNatDebugRpm26525557/start_art.html
      the router downloads a file (nart.out) from the host which has issed the http request and executes is as root
      "
      How is that LAN only problem?

    3. Re:A deliberate action? by MightyYar · · Score: 1

      192.168.xxx.xxx is LAN-only.

      --
      W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
    4. Re:A deliberate action? by Skiron · · Score: 1

      I have TP-Link - I wondered why the laundry man kept turning up...

  14. TFTP by ls671 · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the vonage PAP2 case where you could unlock the PAP2 device by intercepting the tftp connection the device made to vonage the first time it got plugged in after you bought it from the store. You would redirect the connection to your own tftp server and basically tell the device to unlock itself.

    The device was worth 70$ and vonage sold it for 10$ locked.

    Some devices can easily be told to reconfigure themselves by simply telling them to download a configuration file through tftp, All you need is a running tftp server and sometimes IP/ports redirection and/or fake DNS entries really...

    --
    Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
    1. Re:TFTP by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      This reminds me of the vonage PAP2 case where you could unlock the PAP2 device by intercepting the tftp connection the device made to vonage the first time it got plugged in after you bought it from the store. You would redirect the connection to your own tftp server and basically tell the device to unlock itself.

      Amusingly (to me) I'm working on that now. I'm currently stuck because I got the downgrade firmware on there but it's not requesting the XML file. It's getting an address via DHCP and then just sitting there like a turd.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  15. delete submission by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hi everyone! do you know how to delete a submission???? I've found nowhere the answer, so I'm asking here anyone! Please help!

    1. Re:delete submission by philip.paradis · · Score: 1

      You can't.

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      Write failed: Broken pipe
    2. Re:delete submission by MightyYar · · Score: 1

      You are off to a good start by using the <tt> tag. Now post this question on every article for a week and your submission will go away.

      --
      W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
  16. Yep, it's the Easy Setup Assistent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yep, a quick check, they have an 'EASYSETUP Assistent' you run it LAN side from your computer and it creates a UDP port which I assume is for TFTP. I think that's what this interface is for, but I don't have a TP-Link router to hand.

    Look for the app TL-WDR4300_V1.0_EasySetupAssistant

  17. "sleep well"? Really? by mark-t · · Score: 1

    If I keep hearing Linux is no more inherently secure than OSX or Windows, then why should one presume that there's some reason that OpenDD or OpenWRT should inherently be any more secure than standard router firmware?

  18. I got my first TP-Link Router last night by jader3rd · · Score: 1

    I got my first TP-Link Router last night. Turns out I'm not going to use it because my ISP (Frontier) doesn't support configuring the crappy router they provided, into bridge mode, which would allow me to make use of it.

    1. Re:I got my first TP-Link Router last night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Configuring a router is not dependent on the ISP

    2. Re:I got my first TP-Link Router last night by dugancent · · Score: 1

      It is when they (Frontier) require you to rent their modem/router combo device.

      --
      SJWs are the new boogeyman. -Me
    3. Re:I got my first TP-Link Router last night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      but configuring theirs is...

      My friend has the same problem. They will not bridge their router at all to his (he even offered them cash to do it). Major ISPs do not dink around with this sort of thing. But I have noticed some of the smaller ones want to control 'the whole value chain'. They will not let you on the network unless it is on their terms. They want to make sure they can upsell you to a much more expensive tier (think 500+ per month) to have an unlocked router.

      So where as with someone like TW or comcast you can just punch a hole in your firewall if you want to say run a torrent or a game. You can not do it with these sorts of networks. They are meant for Web and Email only, no 'servers'.

    4. Re:I got my first TP-Link Router last night by jader3rd · · Score: 1

      Configuring a router is not dependent on the ISP

      I can configure the router, and I don't need the help of the ISP to do it. What happened was I followed the existing instructions on how to configure that particular router to be in bridge mode, and then I lost my internet connection. I called up the ISP and asked for help on how to fix it and the support person said that they don't support customers with routers in bridge mode. So the "suggested" way to use my new router, would be to have it be a client of the ISP supported router; which defeats the purposed of why I got the newer router. Again, not supported, but works mostly; even though it's a horrible network design to have the double hop of routers plugged together like that.

      In the end it doesn't matter if I configure my router to how I want it to be, if when I do my ISP doesn't assign me an IP Address. I kind of need my end to be configured in a way that ISP will support/honor.

    5. Re:I got my first TP-Link Router last night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have frontier DSL and the way I got around that was purchase my own DSL modem. I still have to pay to rent their shitty modem/router deal but at least I can control my connection.

  19. TP-Link hasn't yet responded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "TP-Link hasn't yet responded" - maybe that's because someone knocked their network down using this attack? :-)

    1. Re:TP-Link hasn't yet responded by jones_supa · · Score: 1

      Man, it would be so refreshing if more often the case was "${company_name} responded immediately and is working on a security fix"...

      Where's the pride behind the products?

  20. It is kinda sloppy of them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Sloppy to hard code the request. But then again, suppose they forced you to enter the password for the router, you wouldn't be able to reconfigure it if you've forgotten the password. That 'easysetup app' of theirs would be worth anything.

    "I'd not have even cared about it one jot and it would disappear into the void of things that have been patched already. It's the non-response that gets me"

    I bet the TPLINK guy didn't even know why they would do that. He'll just be a PR guy who doesn't know squat and doesn't want to say anything that might get him into trouble. So the non-answer doesn't bother me.

    The polish guys other bug looks more interesting, since that is something that should never have been. Now I can imagine wanting to share files from a drive across the WAN using FTP, so an FTP share open to WAN is a likely situation. Yet they haven't check for path traversal on the FTP directory and it can access everything (even writable). Now that is sloppy without a redeeming feature.

  21. "root access to the local network" by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 2

    ..gain root access to the local network..

    That's really troubling too, because after I read this, I went to change my network's root password and I couldn't find where to do that!

    After RTFA it's clear they mean root access to that router, which is the same thing that anyone would have inferred from the mere mention of "back door" anyway. So why add the confusing phrase about the network?

    The world is already stupid enough. There's no need to go to extra trouble to make it stupider. That's wasted effort.

    --
    "Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
    1. Re:"root access to the local network" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hanlon's razor. And thus utter failure by submitter AND editors.

  22. update by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Today, we got some feedback from TP-Link Poland:

    1) Apologies for their earlier lack of contact
    2) Confirmation of the vulnerability on WAN site (ie. if you have your web admin put on WAN - you are affected).
    3) Info about imminent press release
    4) Offer to have some other models of the TP-Link devices - for security tests

    -- ms, sekurak.pl team

  23. Who uses that? by slashmydots · · Score: 2

    I've used one TP-Link device ever and it was a DSL modem since AT&T's price was absurd. Also the responsiveness and hardware specs weren't bad for the price. If you want the mother of all routers for fairly cheap, the ASUS RT-N12 (B1) is the king. It uses all Realtek wireless chips. It intercepts initial webpage requests and logs in password-less for initial configuration via its control panel so no typing in IPs. It adapts its IP structure automatically (increments it to 2) around AT&T's modems that purposely use 192.168.1.1 to screw with people. It can be set as a repeater or an access point too so you can drop 4 wired ethernet ports wirelessly on the other side of your house without actual wires. If a machete severs your cable to the modem, it intercepts web requests and pops up and tells you specifically that the link cable between the modem and router was disconnected. I use it at my shop and I've never had to reboot it even after 100+ wireless and wired clients. And this router runs about $40. Take that, TP-Link.

    1. Re:Who uses that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Gigabit? Nope.

    2. Re:Who uses that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Umm http://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_RT-N12_rev_B1. It uses a broadcom chipset.

    3. Re:Who uses that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      who the hell uses 192.168.x.x for anything but mickey mouse bullshit?

      10.x.x.x all the way.

    4. Re:Who uses that? by pv2b · · Score: 1

      Fuck that noise. 172.16.0.0/12 baby.

    5. Re:Who uses that? by evilviper · · Score: 1

      If you want the mother of all routers for fairly cheap, the ASUS RT-N12 (B1) is the king.

      No way. The D-Link DOR-632 sells for $35 from Amazon.com (free shipping) right now. It's trivial to upgrade it to DD-WRT. Once you do that, it can act as a wireless bridge, wireless repeater, WDS, AP, etc. Hell, it can act as 10 different APs, if you want... make your own guest WiFi DMZ.

      Hardware-wise, it has a maximum-legal power 20dB radio. 8 ethernet switch ports. And a built-in USB port, which can be connected to a thumb drive, hard drive, printer (as a print queue), sound card, RS-232 adapters, or (with a USB hub) all of the above at the same time. There's also an on-board RS-232 header, so for a little extra, you can wire up a real serial port, too.

      Only downside is that the WiFi is only 2.4GHz (no 5GHz radio), and the numerous ethernet ports are only 100Mbps, not GigE.

      The ASUS APs I looked at have to have stripped-down firmware lacking some features, because they only have half as much Flash storage and RAM to work with.

      --
      Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
  24. Re:"sleep well"? Really? by Down_in_the_Park · · Score: 1

    a) from whom are you hearing this no more secure...? b) in this very special case the mentioned Open/DD-WRT system doesn't have this security hole?

    --
    "People who are willing to sacrifice essential freedoms for security deserve neither freedom nor security."

    B F
  25. Use DD-WRT by andreyv · · Score: 1

    I just upgraded a WR841ND v7 from the official firmware to DD-WRT today. Seems to work fine, the configuration interface is friendly, and there's no more occasional lag when playing computer games online.

  26. Re:"sleep well"? Really? by jones_supa · · Score: 1

    If I keep hearing Linux is no more inherently secure than OSX or Windows, then why should one presume that there's some reason that OpenDD or OpenWRT should inherently be any more secure than standard router firmware?

    I don't know how the comparison to Mac/Win makes applies here, but anyway, here's my theory... OpenWRT is developed by a larger, open community which also wants to offer long-term support for older devices. A manufacturer stock firmware of a router (even if Linux-based) can be slapped together quite sloppily and the manufacturer moves on to next projects, leaving security holes and router-crashing bugs behind.

  27. Defense Distributed by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

    Yeah, where are these guys? Why aren't they printing out secure routers and other hardware? In fact, why isn't anybody? That will really scare the tyrants...

    --
    “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
  28. What is "root access to a network?" by EmagGeek · · Score: 2

    I'm having trouble wrapping my feeble mind around that one.

  29. useful tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    at last. proper tplink root level access. thanks.

  30. Local network only by FuzzNugget · · Score: 0

    If you actually read TFA (and, seriously, this should have been in TFS), you'll find that this possible on a local network only, not "zomgs!! chaneeeze haxors r gonna sploit ma router!!!"

    They can maybe knock it offline, but that's the maximum potency of a remote attack.

  31. openwrt? dd-wrt? More secure?! by Blymie · · Score: 1

    Users who replaced their TP-Link firmware with Open/DD-WRT firmware can sleep well.

    On what basis?

    On the basis of the security updates that occur, every single time a kernel or userland vulnerability is discovered?

    I have yet to see a security release for DD-WRT. I see updates, randomly, which have nothing to do with security issues. Certainly the stable branches of both projects releases rarely.

    Note, I'm not faulting these guys -- these are nice firmwares. However, to think that they are somehow more secure, when they fall prey to the same problem -- THAT IS, NO UPDATES DUE TO SECURITY ISSUES, is strange. These firmwares are just as insecure as stock firmwares.... in fact, likely MORE insecure, because what stock firmware has SSH exposed? Or other userland tools exposed?

    Stock firmwares seldom have fluff modz, whereas one of the strengths of DD-WRT and others is to expose these services on user request.

    If I look at .. say, Debian, and compare the number of security updates to the kernel, to tools like ssh, or dropbear, or apache, or whatever userland tools these routers are using.. I see *no updates*. None. Nada. Hell, the last month has seen likely 40 updates to the kernel for security issues, some of them serious remote DDoS. I've seen lots of updates to tools that DD-WRT incorporates in its userland, too. Again, severe security updates.

    Where were the automatic, day-of-announcement updates for DD-WRT? OpenWRT? Until these tools incorporate Debian (or other copycat distros) updates with tools like apt-get, these things are WORSE than standard router firmwares.

    What we need is to standardize these router firmwares on something like Debian.

  32. CS students no longer take economics classes? by tlambert · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bullshit.

    Broadcom does not even need to pay to make drivers. Open source the documentation and let others make the drivers.

    Broadcom is trying to avoid the fact that they make a commodity product. If they would acknowledge that they do, they could benefit from drivers that were compatible with multiple vendors chipsets.

    CS students no longer take economics classes?

    Their product is NOT commodity; their functionality IS commodity. This is an INTENTIONAL line in the sand they are drawing to keep the products legal in the US, since you are not permitted to license an SDR in the US except as the aggregate of both the hardware for the SDR and the firmware which gets loaded into the hardware, and the driver which drives the hardware. This is an FCC regulation intended to keep people from easily eavesdropping or interfering with Military, Police, Fire, and other emergency services bands. It also makes it more difficult to turn a cheap SDR into a scanner by running it in receive-promiscuous mode, which would let you hear cell phone and other end-pointed transmissions, as well as allowing you to fake the IMEI for the device in order to clone other people's phones.

    They DO NOT WANT an open source driver that documents their hardware interfaces so someone can clone their chip registers, since documenting the operation and order of operations on their chip registers represents disclosure of Trade Secret information not protectable by patents.

    They would prefer that this never happen, since it means that if they have a large chunk of the market, they can keep other people from entering the market by making them work to get parity with their closed source drivers shipping in a third party OS, like Windows. Buy Windows? Broadcom just works, buy someone else's chips? Good luck, since you will have to fight to get your drivers signed, and fight Microsoft with getting them to ship your drivers with their OS so that your competing chipset also "just works".

    It's an intentional non-monopoly anticompetitive practice (and therefore this side of the legal line) which raises costs for your competitors to the same levels as your costs, since you already have sunk costs that you need to recover. Making it so some clone factory can take advantage of all your sunk costs, and no matter what you do, they will undercut your pricing in the market.

    This is EXACTLY the same reason the old Adaptec SCSI controllers went to the HIM architecture, and EXACTLY why the Diamond Viper video cards required a matched driver for the PAL coding matching the BIOS with the card, which made them a bitch to use without thunking down to INT 10. Both companies were preventing their cards being cheaply cloned and being used with the drivers they wrote. John Hamm, who made the decision on the HIM layer at Adaptec was later the CEO of one of the startups I worked at.

    Note that the video driver stuff is not the same; the 3D engine uses patented processes in software, so they can't Open Source those without granting the license to use their patents, royalty free, so long as the code is licensed under similar terms.

    Hardware accelerated decode for H.264 and MPEG would require licensing the Sorenson patents on a per chip basis. By pushing the cost of licensing off to the OS vendor as part of the licensing of the OS, they make it someone else's problem, which brings down the unit cost on the GPUs, so long as they are not used for that purpose, and you end up with bulk licensing applying across multiple GPUs when it comes from the OS vendor, which spreads the pain around to your competitors. So even though the decode could be fully done in hardware, there's always a software loopback part that requires the license, since the hardware won't do it on its own without the loopback.

    1. Re:CS students no longer take economics classes? by tibit · · Score: 1

      Good luck, since you will have to fight to get your drivers signed

      Lolwut? Your "fight", then, is as follows: Forking over around $250 for a certificate, downloading a cross certificate and running signtool on the driver files.

      Wakeup call: you sign the drivers yourself. Having the drivers pass WHQL testing is another matter and fairly optional.

      All it'd take to get rid of this problem in the civilized world would be to make the PCI and USB VID/PID combination subject to trademark law. A knockoff product couldn't use the same PID/VID as the brand name, and brand name drivers would ignore it. You could of course tweak it in the driver's .inf file, but that breaks the signature and Windows rightfully bitches about it. A blurb of code in the driver can check if the signature verification for the driver as a whole had passed, as well as checking the VID/PID and "disabling" itself if things are broken. Sure people can hack around it, but it requires extra effort. A proper way of "disabling" is to make things crash often, not an outright failure to initialize the driver, of course :)

      For enforcement, it would not be hard at all to have a small handheld "scanner" that can read the VID/PID from any relevant device you throw at it (PCI, PCIe, USB) and looks up the VID/PID on a database on an SD card, giving you the legitimate manufacturer that is entitled to use that VID/PID. It'd make it easy for the customs enforcement and incoming inspections at the entry into the distribution chain.

      --
      A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
  33. Vulnerable even if no admin access on WAN side by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I've got a TP Link router, and if I try to visit the backdoor URL, the router shuts off its wireless. An attacking webpage would just need to put that URL in an img tag for example to trigger my browser to open it.

    I'm currently in Shanghai and the router is a unique chinese model, so I have no idea if it's compatible with OpenWRT / DD-WRT.

  34. I think this is not such a big issue after all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If I understand correctly this is SW issue and not HW.
    Easily correctable via alternative firmware (WRT based)

    Or you can disable http admin that is opened to the WAN
            http admin to WAN is a bad practice anyway regardless of the router model by my opinion
            minimum is https if you must open admin to WAN
            better still is that there is nothing opend to WAN, or only SSH (secured by a digital certificate)
            you can allways get to http admina via VPN and then access it via LAN

    Andrej

  35. No surprise by ickleberry · · Score: 1

    TP-Link is really the cheapest of the most low end Chinese own-brand Junk. Hopefully open-source hardware will become more common making this kind of backdoor harder to go unnoticed for so loon

  36. Re:"sleep well"? Really? by markhahn · · Score: 1

    TP-link deliberately introduced a backdoor. you can do that on OSX or Windows, too, and it's no harder.

    the real issue here is that if TP-link shipped Open-WRT with a TP-link skin and some kind of mostly-automatic updating, they'd be far better off. vendors don't seem to understand that open-source isn't just a shortcut, but a better way to support their systems.

  37. Re:"sleep well"? Really? by mark-t · · Score: 1

    Right here on slashdot, actually. The argument typically given is that the *only* real reason Linux doesn't have any major problems with viruses is because its desktop share is too small, not because the operating system is somehow proofed against such types of attacks.

  38. TP-Link Routers are rubbish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I've had a customer that used a TP-Link router, and their software required MSSQL port to be forwarded from the internet to their desktop (for motel software - updating reservations, etc).
    I wanted to firewall the Windows machine to only allow a subnet in from their supplier, who agreed all other incoming traffic on mssql port should be blocked. Unfortunately when I port forwarded it from the TP-Link router, the router also SNAT the traffic coming in so all requests on the mssql port were coming from the router and not the source.

    Who does that?

    I've gotten rid of any TP-Link devices I've seen at customers since.

    1. Re:TP-Link Routers are rubbish by Stormthirst · · Score: 1

      I suspect you had the wrong product for your customer. These are cheap home grade devices - I've seen a few in people's homes. I would never use them in a business.

  39. You're a hypocrite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Took ya since 2/10/2013 to "eat yer words" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3417867&cid=42756893 eh after this here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 ? Hahahaha.

    On being foul-mouthed? Please: Give us a break!

    That last link above, of your last post before today no less due to your new "diet" of eating your words, merely shows you're full of it and a pot calling a kettle black hypocrite too (what with you calling others rude names in projecting your OWN FAULTS onto others, for YOUR own blatant failure). As per your usual, You FAIL yet again, failure.

    1. Re:You're a hypocrite by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      You accused me of abusing you as an AC, which I did not. You then began abusing me as an AC, in your usual style, whilst claiming not to be APK.

      You accused me of sockpuppeting as an AC, which I did not. You then began sockpuppeting support for your posts, in your usual style, whilst claiming not to be APK.

      You accused me of stalking unrelated comments and abusing you as an AC, which I did not. You then began abusing me as an AC - yes, in your style again - whilst claiming not to be APK.

      What was that about hypocrisy? I think it only correct that I defer to your experience on the matter.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    2. Re:You're a hypocrite by the_B0fh · · Score: 1

      You and whoever the hell AC is, can both go have your own private little war somewhere else, kthanks.

    3. Re:You're a hypocrite by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      You and whoever the hell AC is, can both go have your own private little war somewhere else, kthanks.

      You're quite right and I apologise.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  40. Re:openwrt? dd-wrt? More secure?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Note, I'm not faulting these guys -- these are nice firmwares. However, to think that they are somehow more secure, when they fall prey to the same problem -- THAT IS, NO UPDATES DUE TO SECURITY ISSUES

    I thought the problem was the backdoor being talked about in the summary.

  41. Saw your post history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ya stalked apk for weeks. Who're ya trying to bs? Yerself? Obviously, since you're not fooling anyone else since your post history gives that much away. What a hypocritical bullshit artist you are and such a simpleton that you think your crap fools us, only to have your own post history do you in yet again. You fail.

    Ya also didn't answer the question either, troll: How'd yer words taste here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3417867&cid=42756893 ?

    Answer = Bad enough to make ya shout profanities (ya foul-mouthed hypocrite and yet you gave others guff on that note here in this exchange? Give us a break!).

    1. Re:Saw your post history by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      You call me a simpleton yet you cannot distinguish between a simple response thread and being stalked.

      You then call me a hypocrite as you proceed to stalk my posts. Somehow the irony escapes you.

      You are the most childish 50-year old man I've ever encountered.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    2. Re:Saw your post history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fact: Ya hadda 'eat yer words' here, lmao http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3417867&cid=42756893 n' especially after opening yer big mouth n' having 250 other slashdotters opinions shut it for you easily in response via their opinions that not only outnumbered yours, but blew you away for your trolling crap (to which you began tossing profanities galore and your entire post history shows anyone that much as you stalked apk constantly, hypocrite).

    3. Re:Saw your post history by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Keep banging on, idiot. You've no more understanding of fact than you do of logic.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  42. 250++:1 ratio against you = good logic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject + you "eatin yer words" here: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 so "argue with the numbers" (hahaha, especially since all ya have vs. those facts in the link above's yer illogical name tossing tantrums in effete invalid ad hominem attacks).

    1. Re:250++:1 ratio against you = good logic by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      You have no understanding of statistics. Your argument is obvious and transparent false logic that any schoolkid could see through, yet you remain resolutely clueless as to why your list is laughable, irrelevant and pathetically childish.

      You'll have to do better than that if you want to prove anything, apk.

      Go on - post it again, please. Every time your idiot list comes up you merely confirm that you do not understand why it is irrelevant.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    2. Re:250++:1 ratio against you = good logic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      250++:1 against ya's better stats than you have http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 on the note of statistics. There's an actual sampleset of proof that tossed yer crap right into the shitter where it belongs as to what ya stated there in that link above with yer fellow slashdot peers doing the talking by uprating his posts against yer crap ya spewed quoted there, and you know it. What sampleset to speak of do you have? None. So please: Don't tell us you even begin to understand statistics since you lack a fundamentally crucial element they require in samplesets. Have you even taken them formally in an accredited collegiate academic environment? I doubt it since you don't realize that much. Keep on "eating your words" fool.

    3. Re:250++:1 ratio against you = good logic by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      250++:1 against ya's better stats than you have

      What is this? Is this even English?

      Don't tell us you even begin to understand statistics since you lack a fundamentally crucial element they require in samplesets. Have you even taken them formally in an accredited collegiate academic environment? I doubt it since you don't realize that much. Keep on "eating your words" fool.

      Perhaps then you can quote the section in the textbooks where it describes the correct use of cherry-picked data to back up an argument?

      You clearly don't understand the most basic premise of the topic at hand or you wouldn't make such laughable claims.

      Have you even taken them formally in an accredited collegiate academic environment?

      Once again you demonstrate your fallacious logic. By your thinking you'd never know if your car had broken down unless you were a qualified mechanic. You'd never be able to tell if the kettle had boiled without being an expert in thermodynamics.

      Your position is utter poppycock and very childish for a man of your age. You'll have to do better, apk.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  43. Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Math shows ya beaten by 250++:1 n' not a "cherry picked" set fool. Just 250 of your fellow /. forums members who liked apk's posts vs. your drivel here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 You fail and had your big mouth slapped shut by your own peers on this forums.

    1. Re:Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Math shows ya beaten by 250++:1 n' not a "cherry picked" set fool. Just 250 of your fellow /. forums members who liked apk's posts vs. your drivel here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 You fail and had your big mouth slapped shut by your own peers on this forums.

      So, you don't think your data is cherry-picked? My incompetent friend, your behaviour defines the term! What else do you think it refers to? Childishly denying the (blindingly obvious) truth is an apk hallmark it would seem.

      There's really little point arguing with someone who is wilfully ignorant such as yourself. I guess it's not surprising that an arrogant, self-important fool like you is prepared to squirm and lie to any extent to 'save face'.

      I know I've upset you because after accusing me of stalking your comments, posting AC to support my argument and posting AC pretending to be someone else, you yourself have gone on to do exactly that. You're even posting this as if you were an unrelated AC to support poor old apk. How pathetic ARE you, manchild apk?

      These are the tactics of a tantrummy teenager who hasn't the skills to defend himself, not a fifty-something-year-old man who should have grown up by now.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    2. Re:Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Denial is the last refuge of the utterly defeated. Who are these 'peers' of mine that 'slapped my mouth shut' then? All I've seen are AC posts by you pretending to be someone else. Where are the others that agree with you? They do seem a little thin on the ground.

      Go check out the comments made by other Slashdotters about you after this post by one of your groupies. Now try to tell me you're a well-liked part of the /. community! HAHAHAHAhahahaha!

      Give me a break - you're the laughing stock of Slashdot!

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    3. Re:Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      250 of your /. peers > than yer failed 1. No denying it. Ya failed http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

    4. Re:Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Denying yer fail here @ 250++:1 vs. ya fool http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 ? Show us yer the one posting those constantly downmodded trolling posts of yers to apk that everyone on slashdot downmods instantly too? Talk about givin yerself away that yer doin those troll posts. Ya fail again as usual. Ya won't even answer a simple question in the subject (and yea, 250 opinions that put yours into the crapper is greater than your 1 trolling one).

    5. Re:Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Denying yer fail here @ 250++:1 vs. ya fool http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 ? Show us yer the one posting those constantly downmodded trolling posts of yers to apk that everyone on slashdot downmods instantly too? Talk about givin yerself away that yer doin those troll posts. Ya fail again as usual. Ya won't even answer a simple question in the subject (and yea, 250 opinions that put yours into the crapper is greater than your 1 trolling one).

      So now you're accusing me again of pretending to be someone else and stalking you as an AC? My delusional friend, this is the behaviour that you yourself have been reduced to. I however have never shied away from calling you out on your puerile behaviour from the honest position of my own handle. I am so far ahead of you in rationality, reasoned debate, general intelligence, articulation and even humility that I simply have no need to stoop to your level.

      You are genuinely deluded if you think your cherry-picked 'sample set' of upmods proves anything other than your own pathetic obsessive-compulsive lunacy. What kind of retard takes the time to compile lists like that? What kind retard does so thinking the list can prove their points for them?

      APK, it is you who is that kind of retard, as demonstrated by your own actions. I really don't need to do anything to help because you make my own arguments for me time and time again.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    6. Re:Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      250 of your /. peers > than yer failed 1. No denying it. Ya failed http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

      No denying it? Mate, from the senseless knee-jerk posts I see from you I'd say you are the one in denial, not me.

      Yet again I see no attempt at rational rebuttal of my argument that your list is another dishonest attempt to twist the truth. You even tried to suggest that I couldn't call you out on your stupidity because I'm not endowed with a degree in statistics!

      APK, I've met nine-year-olds with better reasoning skills than you demonstrate. You, a fifty-year-old man. So act your age: man up and admit to yourself that you are in need of some professional help for your broken, broken brain.

      That might be your first real act of bravery, it might mark the beginning of your transition from a filthy, slithering coward who tells lies and runs from rationality to someone actually worthy of debate.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    7. Re:Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Math shows ya beaten by 250++:1 n' not a "cherry picked" set fool.

      No, buddy, what you are using is meth, not math. Nobody here on /. would recognise what your irrational wailings as math, however drug use would go a long way to explaining your ridiculous behaviour.

      What we have here in APK is delusion, probably schizophrenic in nature or as the result of chemical abuse. Either way, get yourself some help man.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    8. Re:Is 250 greater than 1? Answer that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You didn't answer a question: Is 250 > 1? 250 slashdotter opinions vs yours here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 . Pretty simple.

  44. You did a far worse job here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    'Expressing Yourself' when ya had to "eat your words" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

    1. Re:You did a far worse job here by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      'Expressing Yourself' when ya had to "eat your words" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

      Keep stalking me apk and keep pretending to be someone else; it's all you've got.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    2. Re:You did a far worse job here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ya stalked apk off topic 4 weeks in yer post history. Ya failed http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 in that link when 250 opinions of yer slashdot peers totally trashed ya too! Ya obviously can't stand it but there's no denying math or yer post history showin ya stalkin apk for weeks. Ya fail again. I love it. Hahahaha.

    3. Re:You did a far worse job here by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Ya stalked apk off topic 4 weeks in yer post history. Ya failed http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 in that link when 250 opinions of yer slashdot peers totally trashed ya too! Ya obviously can't stand it but there's no denying math or yer post history showin ya stalkin apk for weeks. Ya fail again. I love it. Hahahaha.

      No, I didn't stalk you. I replied to your whine "Everyone is wrong wrong WRONG for downmodding me" with reasoned argument. I must have hit a nerve (how DARE anyone challenge the great APK) because you then proceeded to publicly demonstrate the insertion of a large, spiny bug into your anus for all to see.

      Since then you have displayed a repetitive pattern of attack; you accusing me of a deed, then obviously itching and scratching at yourself until you can't help it any longer before finding yourself compelled to do that very same thing against myself.

      It's farcical, it's laughable, and it's FUCKING OFF TOPIC.

      So please, start acting your age - you're over fifty after all - and cease your off-topic, childish commentary on my unrelated posts.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    4. Re:You did a far worse job here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funny ya end up eatin yer words here then Sardaukar86 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 after stalking apk like ya did off topic for weeks. Served ya right.

  45. Denying 250 /.er's upmods = greater than 1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A 9 yr. old can answer a math question (250 /.'ers > 1) http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 as to which is greater that's in my subject, and yet you slither away from answering in the subject here troll? Your the one that opened your trolling mouth and you had to eat your words at the end of that link's enumerated facts above since you said nobody liked apk's posts after your post history shows you trolled apk for weeks (when the 250 or so upward moderations of apk's posts shows clearly otherwise vs. your off topic trollery too) hahahaha. There's nothing dishonest about 250 being greater than your trollish off topic 1 there in that link above. It's just fact.

    1. Re:Denying 250 /.er's upmods = greater than 1? by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Since you're still having trouble with this basic concept, allow me to assist:

      1. You know damn well I wasn't comparing the number 250 to the number 1. That is your invention and another example of your intellectual dishonesty.

      2. I am not a troll, I am merely responding to your snivelling posts. Speaking the truth does not make me a troll, but your reactions do make you a loser.

      3. You like to claim that people have to eat their words yet you say this quite independently of the fact that you have no argument and have managed to achieve absolutely nothing substantive with all your wailing.

      4. Were I suffering from you mental problems, I could very well come up with a list far greater than the pathetic 250 up-mods you've accumulated in your eight years of snivelling. The reason I do not is that I have a life, friends and a balanced brain, all of which mean that I have no need for obsessive-compulsive list-making behaviour such as yours.

      5. You know all this to be true but are too childish to face facts, so you run away from the issue by claiming you've forced people to 'eat their words' and hiding behind your nonsensical list.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    2. Re:Denying 250 /.er's upmods = greater than 1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Basic concept ya have trouble with's ya had to eat yer words http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and my speaking the truth of it is backed up in that link, and yes yer a troll that can't come up with a greater number than that upmod list and ya had to eat yer words for it. Ya can't face up to that which shows ya have mental problems and yer being childish about it.

    3. Re:Denying 250 /.er's upmods = greater than 1? by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Basic concept ya have trouble with's ya had to eat yer words http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and my speaking the truth of it is backed up in that link, and yes yer a troll that can't come up with a greater number than that upmod list and ya had to eat yer words for it. Ya can't face up to that which shows ya have mental problems and yer being childish about it.

      Slinging my own analysis of YOUR pathetic behaviour back at me? Really? Resorting to further spineless tactics when I thought you couldn't possible get any slimier is, I must admit, something of an achievement. You best argument amounts to 'I know you are I said you are but what am I', winning you the prize for gifted morons over the age of fifty.

      So, Mr. Arrogance Personified, explain how 'I can't face up to it' when you are the one running (run, Forrest, run, as you might say) from logical argument and responding with little more than childish whining.

      You like to say things that you think score you points. You're in your own world, so you don't notice that everyone is well aware that your arguments are coming straight out of your arsehole. Amazingly, you actually seem to believe your own shit. You are delusional at best and/or a meth-head.

      Here's a hint: try addressing my point, or, better yet - fuck off and stop stalking my posts, you feeble old manchild.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    4. Re:Denying 250 /.er's upmods = greater than 1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, just slinging ya "eatin yer words" back @ ya http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 where math & logic show that 250 of your fellow /.'ers disagreed with what's quoted from you there. It's no secret that ya FAILED troll when ya tried speaking for everyone, and had to "eat yer words" spiced with yer foot in yer mouth n' "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" too! There's no arrogance in telling truths either. So please, DO tell us: How'd eatin yer words taste? ROTFLMAO!

    5. Re:Denying 250 /.er's upmods = greater than 1? by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      It's no secret that ya FAILED troll when ya tried speaking for everyone, and had to "eat yer words" spiced with yer foot in yer mouth n' "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" too!

      Very poetic, and also very wrong, as usual. I don't claim to speak for everyone, I'm simply a lot more observant than you and can see that the only value you have here is in making other people laugh at your stupidity

      There's no arrogance in telling truths either.

      Truth? You wouldn't know the truth if it kicked you right between the eyes, liar-man.

      Arrogance, however: you certainly have plenty of that, I agree.

      So please, DO tell us: How'd eatin yer words taste? ROTFLMAO!

      You're delusional again. You wouldn't recognise victory if you saw it because the only victories you've ever had were entirely in your own head, whilst you were screaming and throwing another fifty-year-old-mature-man tantrum.

      There's no need to get upset though, I understand it's not easy when you get walked over by everyone but you'd do a lot better if you simply took the advice you've been offered by multiple people over the years.

      However advice doesn't work for you, because you are convinced of your own perfection, sure that you are 100% correct and that you are utterly flawless in all regards. What's it like to live a small, sweaty little existence like yours then?

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    6. Re:Denying 250 /.er's upmods = greater than 1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ya said apk's posts suck: 250 /.'ers up mod ratings show otherwise http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 about apk's posts. That's simply demonstratable counter proof truth. Truth that made you have to eat your words against it. lol. There's nothing arrogant about stating a fact that 250 is greater than yer off topic trolling 1 in that link above. No arrogance involved either. Only fact, and fact is, Ya fail. Ya got played. Ya played yerself and had to "eat yer words" right off the bat in that link. Projecting yer own pitiful existence's state in yer reply's endings another expected predictable 'classic' from ya too along with yer hypocritical startup here of giving others a tough time about tossing names, but you're shown right afterwards doing it yerself constantly http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 , hypocrite.

  46. APK: The Liar by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    Funny ya end up eatin yer words here then Sardaukar86 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 after stalking apk like ya did off topic for weeks. Served ya right.

    You pathetic man-child, still pretending to be someone else. Grow up!

    It's a shame for you that at your level of intelligence you are incapable of distinguishing between a serious answer to your (grizzling, feeble) question and a campaign of stalking.

    You really should know by now, given the effort you've put into same against me, hypocrite.

    Don't get upset at me, you''ve only got yourself to blame for this situation.

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    1. Re:APK: The Liar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's no lie /.'ers saw ya "eat yer words" & judged for themselves http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 where yer quoted words became yer "new diet" (lol, eatin yer words != 'good nutrition' fool) + it shows ya outnumbered roughly 250++:1 by yer slashdot peers' opinions of apk's posts by upmodding them, showing the opposite of yer off-topic stalking "opinion" quoted there, troll. Ya did it to yerself. So tell us: How'd yer words taste? (Now that ya had to EAT 'em? Lmao!).

    2. Re:APK: The Liar by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      It's no lie

      That's rich coming from you, a man with no integrity whatsoever, who tells whatever lies suit his purpose at the time.

      /.'ers saw ya "eat yer words" & judged for themselves http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

      I do see why you keep posting your list: it's because you've spent so much time up-modding yourself with sockpuppet accounts and compiling the details you couldn't bear to leave it behind, no matter how tattered and irrelevant it is.

      where yer quoted words became yer "new diet" (lol, eatin yer words != 'good nutrition' fool) + it shows ya outnumbered roughly 250++:1 by yer slashdot peers' opinions of apk's posts by upmodding them

      No, retard, we've already been through this enough times now. Your list is disingenuous in the way you use it, your figures do not say what you think they say and above all you're too stupid to see any of this. Priceless!

      showing the opposite of yer off-topic stalking "opinion" quoted there, troll. Ya did it to yerself. So tell us: How'd yer words taste? (Now that ya had to EAT 'em? Lmao!).

      Why do you cling to this lie when you know damn well I simply replied to ONE of your posts; this thread has been the result, because you can't bear to be proven utterly and completely wrong. Face it, idiot, you haven't got a leg to stand on.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    3. Re:APK: The Liar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Quit bitchin! So yer stomach's upset after "eatin yer words" here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 - you failed. Accept it. That first quote o yers being cut to shreds by 250 of yer fellow slashdotters was perfect by that poster apk. Bent ya all outta shape too, lmao! After that any 'integrity' you may have had (none) is gone after that, for certain. It's no lie to point out that 250 opinions that shot yours to hell in that link above is fact. So much of a fact you're tossing names again like you did here before hypocrite http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 even though you gave others a hard time about it, you are a pot calling a kettle black.

  47. Is APK still a liar? Yes, yes he is. by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    No, APK. Once again you are lying to support your argument. Do you have absolutely no self-respect at all? How can you face yourself in the mirror when you behave in such an ugly, immature manner?

    We've already established that your evidence-of-lunacy list does not constitute 250 Slashdotter opinions in your favour, they are merely 250 instances of up-moderation of your posts over a very, very long time period. You have no way of proving the uniqueness of any of these up-mods. Given your lack of credibility I suspect many of those up-mods are made by yourself with sock-puppet accounts. Face it, you have publicly demonstrated that you have no integrity, or you wouldn't be the butt of accusations of impropriety and slithery behaviour.

    What IS pretty simple (and that you have gone to great lengths to ignore) is that your list is a cherry-picked, unscientific and laughable source of great amusement when you clumsily try to wield it to support your argument. You say 'no, my list is not cherry-picked, fool' when it's actually yourself that is the fool, unschooled and sullen, unable to understand why you lose time and time again.

    Give up, APK, you are outclassed and STILL off-topic.

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    1. Re:Is APK still a liar? Yes, yes he is. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You deny you had to eat your words here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 where 250 slashdot posters opinions outnumbered you by many orders of magnitude in what's quoted from your mouth there? Last time I checked, 250 is greater than a trolling off topic 1 in yourself only.

  48. APK: dumb as a stump from day one by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    You deny you had to eat your words here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 where 250 slashdot posters opinions outnumbered you by many orders of magnitude in what's quoted from your mouth there? Last time I checked, 250 is greater than a trolling off topic 1 in yourself only.

    Idiot, you haven't the slightest clue how stupid and inept your response to my post makes you look.

    Repeating your illogical stupidities over and over ad nauseam is the best argument for your mental incompetence and you hand the point to me time and time again.

    Keep arguing, please, you're doing my job without me having to lift a finger and you're still providing an endless source of amusement.

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    1. Re:APK: dumb as a stump from day one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Others can read ya "eatin yer words" & can judge for themselves http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

    2. Re:APK: dumb as a stump from day one by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Others can read ya "eatin yer words" & can judge for themselves http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

      I'd say they've already judged for themselves and the outcome is not in your favour, manchild.

      Go ahead and admit defeat by repeating yourself (saying nothing intelligent of course). Send the list again as if we've never seen the URL before.

      Ooh look, it's almost as if I've got control of your actions, you're that shallow and predictable.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    3. Re:APK: dumb as a stump from day one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I see 244++:1 in apk's favor vs. ya 'eatin yer words' here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 How'd they taste? Bad enough for ya to be predictably tossing names again like ya just have and many more times before in this exchange, hypocrite http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 ?? That's what started this exchange in fact: Yer giving others a tough time on name calling, yet ya do it yerself constantly (especially when ya get frustrated at yer own stupidity). Ya failed. Ya got played. Ya played yerself, hahaha.

    4. Re:APK: dumb as a stump from day one by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      I see 244++:1 in apk's favor vs. ya 'eatin yer words' here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 How'd they taste? Bad enough for ya to be predictably tossing names again like ya just have and many more times before in this exchange, hypocrite http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 ?? That's what started this exchange in fact: Yer giving others a tough time on name calling, yet ya do it yerself constantly (especially when ya get frustrated at yer own stupidity). Ya failed. Ya got played. Ya played yerself, hahaha.

      Hahahahhaa, you're like a little puppet on a string, I just need to tweak the line and boom! Up goes the list again.

      Wow, what's that list, APK, I haven't seen that before! Oh look, it's a completely baseless logical fallacy, easily verified by any nine-year-old child, but somehow at age fifty-plus, APK doesn't quite understand where he's going wrong...

      ...so he cries and sobs and trolls and stalks and tells lies and pretends to be other people and on and on...

      Oh, and the reason I asked that poster about his name calling is that he was probably just upset and I expected better from him. I have no such expectations of you. Take a lesson here: you'll note he didn't reply in a hugely butthurt display of childishness in the manner of Alexander Puerile Kowalski.

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  49. APK: Master of Logical Fallacy by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    Ya said apk's posts suck: 250 /.'ers up mod ratings show otherwise http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 about apk's posts. That's simply demonstratable counter proof truth. Truth that made you have to eat your words against it. lol. There's nothing arrogant about stating a fact that 250 is greater than yer off topic trolling 1 in that link above. No arrogance involved either. Only fact, and fact is, Ya fail. Ya got played. Ya played yerself and had to "eat yer words" right off the bat in that link. Projecting yer own pitiful existence's state in yer reply's endings another expected predictable 'classic' from ya too along with yer hypocritical startup here of giving others a tough time about tossing names, but you're shown right afterwards doing it yerself constantly http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 , hypocrite.

    Goodness, you do snivel and whine a lot don't you?

    Explain to me how my reply to your post is an example of my off-topic trolling. Go on, I know with your bunch of bullshit, half-truths and squirming you'll have some half-baked idiocy by way of reply.

    On another note, try as you might you seem quite incapable of understanding a simple concept. I doubt you'll want to understand this, but I'll link to the Wikipedia page concerning cherry picking anyway. Here's a snippet from the first line to get you on your way:

    [cherry picking] is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position

    Sound familiar? It should. Wikipedia provides a very clear and concise definition of the meaning for you: this logical fallacy has been the basis of your entire argument thus far. All of your posts claiming victory because of your list are blowing in the wind, like the useless bits of toilet-paper they are.

    In particular, you may wish to pay special attention to two of the three examples which seem to be written with you in mind:

    For example, the "fallacy of anecdotal evidence" tends to overlook large amounts of data in favor of that known personally, "selective use of evidence" rejects material unfavorable to an argument..

    The world has had to understand and deal with your crawling type long before you slithered into view. You reject anything that doesn't match your myopic little world-view, selectively using evidence to support your piss-weak argument. Are you religious by any chance? You are certainly gullible enough to be.

    Yes APK - this is you being shot down in flames (to use your terminology).

    Eat your words, loser, hahahahahahhahaha!!!!

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  50. APK loses again by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    Quit bitchin! So yer stomach's upset after "eatin yer words" here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 - you failed. Accept it. That first quote o yers being cut to shreds by 250 of yer fellow slashdotters was perfect by that poster apk. Bent ya all outta shape too, lmao! After that any 'integrity' you may have had (none) is gone after that, for certain. It's no lie to point out that 250 opinions that shot yours to hell in that link above is fact. So much of a fact you're tossing names again like you did here before hypocrite http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 even though you gave others a hard time about it, you are a pot calling a kettle black.

    Who are you to accuse anyone of having a lack of integrity? You, the liar, the fraud, the one who hides behind AC and yaps at people like a little dog, the one who has to pretend to be someone else because nobody supports you! How can you possibly say that and go on to accuse me of hypocrisy with a straight face?

    Ah yes, of course, it's because you're delusional and genuinely can't see why your argument is so pitifully weak.

    Face it, you've been schooled. You've lost hands down, you've got nothing. Your logic is a failure, your 'support' is in your imagination and perhaps more tellingly, nobody else has come to your defence. Nobody that isn't you, that is. Your behaviour as you continue to lie about your identity (do you really think you've got us all fooled?) is beyond pathetic.

    Apparently, you really do think we're that stupid compared to your immense intellect, or you wouldn't act like a cry-baby idiot.

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  51. 245++:1 != logical fallacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Especially when ya hadda "eat yer words" Sardaukar86 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

  52. 250 greater than 1 != logical fallacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ya hadda "eat yer words" Sardaukar86 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 flavored with yer foot in yer mouth + "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" (lol) when apk easily outnumbered ya with upward mod ratings his posts got from yer fellow /. peers vs. yer erroneous words quoted there (that ya hadda "eat", lol). There's no logical or mathematical fallacy possible since 250 /.'ers opinions massively outnumber yer 'opinion' bigtime in the link above.

    Face facts and accept it: Ya failed.

    We've seen ya toss names and fail before too, hypocrite http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 which is ironically droll, considering you came in here bitching to posters about the use of profanity (when you use it constantly in off topic illogical failing ad hominem attacks) and especially when you're "on the ropes" failing, so clearly (lmao): Yer an easily manipulated puppet 'dancing on a string' here whose buttons I press with ease, eliciting the frustrated reactions you spout, due to yer being clearly unable to face up to the fact ya hadda "eat yer words" hahahaha. Tell us, won't ya: How'd yer words taste since ya hadda eat 'em? LMAO!

    1. Re:250 greater than 1 != logical fallacy by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Ya hadda "eat yer words" Sardaukar86 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 flavored with yer foot in yer mouth + "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" (lol)

      Do you have that one on a macro key? I guess I probably would if I used the same phrase as often as yourself.

      when apk easily outnumbered ya with upward mod ratings his posts got from yer fellow /. peers vs. yer erroneous words quoted there (that ya hadda "eat", lol)

      Oh? When did you do that? All I saw was a bunch of cherry-picked data that proves nothing but your ignorance (and arrogance, as you continue to use the same flawed argument regardless).

      There's no logical or mathematical fallacy possible since 250 /.'ers opinions massively outnumber yer 'opinion' bigtime in the link above.

      Translation: APK *still* doesn't understand that his list is a cherry-picked sample-set, nor that he is continuing to argue one of the simplest known forms of logical fallacy, despite having it explained several times now.

      You must be religious, perhaps you're a priest? I've met some pretty thick clergymen before and you'd certainly qualify in this regard.

      Face facts and accept it: Ya failed.

      We've seen ya toss names and fail before too, hypocrite http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825

      which is ironically droll, considering you came in here bitching to posters about the use of profanity

      Re-read the post. I have nothing against profanity whatsoever and wasn't calling him up on it at all. No wonder you are so twitchy with appalling reading comprehension like yours. Oh, and seeing you accuse anyone of hypocrisy is always enough to give me a fit of the giggles, thanks! :-)

      (when you use it constantly in off topic illogical failing ad hominem attacks) and especially when you're "on the ropes" failing, so clearly (lmao)

      Off-topic is where you live, my idiot friend. So why is off-topic suddenly a crime to you? You've never let it stop you from stalking my posts.

      Please explain how you think you have succeeded in logically rebutting my argument sufficient to claim that I am 'on the ropes'. As best I can tell you haven't scored with a single one of your points and of course we all know who was using ad hominen attacks long before I said anything to you.

      Yer an easily manipulated puppet 'dancing on a string' here

      Hmm, that's a familiar concept, I wonder.. wait, I get it - you're using the last thing I said about your pitiful behaviour and saying it about me now! Wow, what a superb tactic APK, it's almost as if I've never seen you use this subtle skill of yours before!

      whose buttons I press with ease, eliciting the frustrated reactions you spout, due to yer being clearly unable to face up to the fact ya hadda "eat yer words" hahahaha. Tell us, won't ya: How'd yer words taste since ya hadda eat 'em? LMAO!

      Sure, I'll tell you! My words taste sweet as they figuratively leave my lips, because I know I've addressed all of your points and shown you up as a fool on every occasion. You've had nothing but shrieking insults to say by response for anything I've thrown at you. Best of all, you still genuinely believe you're right, so I can keep goading you into fits of spittle-flinging rage and you still manage to achieve absolutely fuck-all against me.

      You seem quite outraged that I'd dare use your own ad hominen style against you and I rather like this outcome. Especially since you don't seem to realise that it makes up the substance of all your posted doggerel and bitching. I guess this attitude of yours is similar

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  53. Sardaukar86 can't accept 250's greater than 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You fail/apk wins: Accept it - Your delusion = you can't accept 250 /.'ers opinions is greater than your off topic trolling 1 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and you had to "EAT YOUR WORDS", rotflmao!

    1. Re:Sardaukar86 can't accept 250's greater than 1 by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      You fail/apk wins: Accept it - Your delusion = you can't accept 250 /.'ers opinions is greater than your off topic trolling 1 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and you had to "EAT YOUR WORDS", rotflmao!

      Here we have it: APK admits defeat whilst desperately trying to save face.

      You've been utterly dorked by my argument and the only way you can cope with the humiliation is by ignoring my point rather than engaging me.

      Thanks for handing me a clear victory in the midst of all your claims of forcing me to eat my words. It's been fun rolling over the top of you. :-)

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  54. Comparing 255 to 1 IS the logical fallacy by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    Especially when ya hadda "eat yer words" Sardaukar86 http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

    You need to engage your brain before typing, or you end up posting delusional garbage like this.

    Protip: try winning a battle or two before declaring you've won the war

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  55. You're the one that had to "eat his words" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I wouldn't talk about "engaging your brain" after this http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 where you had to "eat your words", lol!

    1. Re:You're the one that had to "eat his words" by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Eat my words? You wish!

      I've handed you your arse and the only thing you can do is lamely post a link to your sad little list again. Yeah, the list that's been proven worthless by good old logic and reason, the list that shows you up as an obsessive-compulsive manchild with the maturity of a schoolkid, the list that you painstakingly put together to defend yourself from your detractors but actually does more for your opponent's arguments than it does you.

      The icing on the cake is that you still don't understand why your stupid list and your idiot argument are bunk! You still really believe you're right!

      BWHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAAA!!!

      Your delusional brain is pure comedy, I love it, keep up the good work!

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  56. You "eating your words" != apk defeat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You defeated yourself and had to "eat your words" here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 , no doubt about it, you failed (lol).

    1. Re:You "eating your words" != apk defeat by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Yeah? You won, did you? How'd you manage that when you can't even respond to my argument? You're so far beyond delusional it makes my sides hurt from laughing!

      We need you APK! You're the best Slashdot Clown we've ever had. I hope you never go away, you keep my day so entertaining!

      I especially enjoy how you've been dorked into the ground by logic and reason, two features of a normal functioning human being that are beyond your grasp, manchild. Crying about it won't make your point, waving your silly list about like a handkerchief won't help either. You're on your own, nobody is here to support you so you might as well pull your pants up and go home, you've been laid bare with your own childishness.

      Sorry mate but little kids who can't even respond to a simple argument don't get to win. Nice to see you graciously handing me the victory after grinding you into the dirt with simple arguments you can't refute. Ever wonder what life would be like if you didn't behave like a spoil little mummy's boy?

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    2. Re:You "eating your words" != apk defeat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yea apk won @245++:1 with Sardaukar86 "eating his words" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and as usual Sardaukar86 projects his own issues in his "FoAmiNg-@-TeH-MouTh" ranting reply in his last response that I'm replying to (giving Sardaukar86 a dose of reality in the link above along with the score here, and there's just no arguing with the numbers (or apk's success in making you eat your words, rotflmao))!

  57. Sardaukar86 "eat his words" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    250++:1 & "Live: Absolutely 'LiVe'" (rotflmao) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

  58. APK the Slashdot Clown does it again! by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    Nicely played, a subtle and insightful response to my argument!

    Oh wait, no, you just posted your sad little list again, oblivious to why every posting of the thing validates my position again and again.

    You can't claim you forced someone to eat their words if you've got no evidence for it. I've shat on your list, I've wiped it over your face and you in your delusional state stand up shouting "See! I'm the best! I'm the one! I'm the best!" while the rest of the world watches you, laughing.

    You're delusional, feeble and the most pathetic cry-baby loser I've ever encountered. Keep it up! :-)

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  59. Sardaukar86 the Slashdot Clown does it again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    'Eats his words' 250++:1 & "Live: Absolutely 'LiVe'" -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

  60. APK the Slashdot Clown is clue-free! by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    Again APK rewards us with another example of his puerility. Having a mind as small and sweaty as APK does come with some disadvantages, namely:

    • - mindlessly repeating back what is said to him
    • - trying to pass himself off as someone else to make it look like he has support
    • - twisting the truth to suit his warped point of view (sorry APK, reality doesn't work your way)
    • - telling lies to prop up his argument
    • - accusing people of stalking then stalking himself
    • - accusing people of sockpuppeting then sockpuppeting himself
    • - accusing people of off-topic trolling then trolling in an off-topic manner himself
    • - best of all: calling other people hypocrites after doing all that
    • - obsessive-compulsive data collection and collation of meaningless results
    • - arrogant, conceited behaviour and a propensity to use words he doesn't fully understand the meaning of, like sample set in a laughable effort to appear intelligent
    • - finally, being incapable of understanding a simple logical argument, repeatedly responding with the same non-answer to every question.

    However, it's not all doom and gloom! The upside is that APK gives us an endless source of entertainment!

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
  61. Oh, poor baby cries! Poor baby by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

    Yea apk won @245++:1 with Sardaukar86 "eating his words" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and as usual Sardaukar86 projects his own issues in his "FoAmiNg-@-TeH-MouTh" ranting reply in his last response that I'm replying to (giving Sardaukar86 a dose of reality in the link above along with the score here, and there's just no arguing with the numbers (or apk's success in making you eat your words, rotflmao))!

    Ha! your attack is as limp as your logic, fool - and your numbers have been proven as worthless as your repeatedly posted drivel, manchild. But there's no arguing with you over the numbers because you're too pig-headed to understand. The only thing you prove by waving that list around is your own ignorance and towering arrogance. In spades.

    "FoAmiNg-@-TeH-MouTh"

    By the way, what's this shit all about? I thought most people had grown out of that sort of uppy-downy writing stupidity.. well, decades ago. Why not you? Too much of a porcine cranium to grow up?

    However, your mental and developmental issues aren't my problem; after all, you're the one getting all wound up trying to insist you've forced me to eat my words. What? With that list? You gotta be kidding. You've spent too long staring lovingly at yourself in the mirror if you think that's any kind of attack. Might as well threaten me with a piece of stiff paper, you feeble old goat.

    You obviously know nothing of the scientific method, rational judgement or even basic logic because if you did you'd be doing better than throwing your utterly shot-to-shit list up in every post and yapping at me like a brainless dog.

    I have publicly and provably destroyed you and no amount of obsessive yammering on your part about 'the eating of words' or the 'flavour of self-defeat' or any of your other over-repeated formulaic nonsense will make any difference. You've been pwned. Everyone saw it. You can't respond to my arguments except by posting the same list again. You couldn't handle the heat and your arse has been unceremoniously tossed out of the kitchen, your arguing skills stink, your reasoning is faulty and you behave like a silly little boy with a bug up his arse.

    Don't forget to post the list again, it's eventually sure to win over this nasty black-magic voodoo 'logic' thing that has you so fucked up!

    --
    ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
    1. Re:Oh, poor baby cries! Poor baby by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Keep raving as you "eat your words" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 when 245 of your slashdot peers upward moderations of apk's posts trashed your off-topic trolling 1 and gave you your new 'diet' of "eating your words". It's also not polite to speak with your mouth full (as you eat your words). Eating your words != 'good nutrition', rotflmao. Why don't you answer the simple question of How'd yer words taste since you had to "eat them" flavored with your FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH and spiced with the 'bitter taste of SELF-defeat? Logic and math both prove 245 is greater than your trolling 1 in the link above, no doubt about it. You fail.

  62. Sardaukar86 the Slashdot Clown is fat-free! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ya reward us with lulz since ya had to "eat your words" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and your new "diet" (lol) where your slashdot peers upward moderations of 245 of apk's posts trashed your off-topic illogical trolling 1. Eating your words != 'good nutrition', rotflmao. It's also not polite to speak with your mouth full (as you eat your words). Then your hypocritical fits of rage at having to 'eat your words' from that 1st link above here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 do the rest, what-with your "cocksucker" so-called 'intelligent' (lol, not) reply there, lmao. Keep "projecting" your own issues too. It's the 1 thing you're good at: Tipping your hand! Logic and math both prove that 245 is greater than your trolling 1, no questions asked.

    1. Re:Sardaukar86 the Slashdot Clown is fat-free! by Sardaukar86 · · Score: 1

      Sardaukar the Slashdot Clow is fat-free!

      - mindlessly repeating back what is said to him

      Ya reward us with lulz since ya had to "eat your words" http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491

      - obsessive-compulsive data collection and collation of meaningless results

      Nice sample set you've got there, professor!

      and your new "diet" (lol) where your slashdot peers upward moderations of 245 of apk's posts trashed your off-topic illogical trolling 1.

      - twisting the truth to suit his warped point of view

      - being incapable of understanding a simple logical argument, repeatedly responding with the same non-answer to every question

      - hypocrisy of the highest order (you have a track record of off-topic trolling and you know it; I however do not)

      Eating your words != 'good nutrition', rotflmao. It's also not polite to speak with your mouth full (as you eat your words).

      Ah, thanks for explaining why my mouth might be full, I'm very grateful for the explanation or I, being as terminally stupid as you no really I am, would never have understood what you mean!

      Oh, and:

      - obsessive, endless claims relating to people's feet and their mouths (perhaps you're a pervert?)

      Then your hypocritical fits of rage at having to 'eat your words' from that 1st link above here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3427183&cid=42849825 do the rest, what-with your "cocksucker"

      How do you think you've forced me to 'eat my words' when you've utterly failed to prove anything? You've run like a coward from the proof of your stupidity without ever attempting to rebut it other than 'roflmao, no lol it isnt cherry-picked rofl lol UpPy-dOwNy'. No, posting the list again doesn't magically make your argument for you APK. This is because you have lost, you are a loser - a sore loser - and you're too stupid and conceited to know when you're beat. Hard.

      so-called 'intelligent' (lol, not) reply there, lmao.

      The difference between us is that I, as an intelligent person, avail myself of the option to behave unintelligently when it suits me. You however lack the option to behave intelligently because you are ill-equipped to do so.

      Keep "projecting" your own issues too. It's the 1 thing you're good at: Tipping your hand!

      Logic and math both prove that 245 is greater than your trolling 1, no questions asked.

      Logic?

      Math?

      Perhaps, O wise logical mathematician, you could explain how your version of Math and Logic work. It's certainly different to the rest of us here on planet Earth. I seem to be missing a piece or two of how things work in your imaginary world, I'll need a little direction from you to understand your insanity a little better.

      Now, when have I trolled you? I simply answered your question and you got all bent out of shape like a three-year-old without their toy. You chose to re-frame this as a troll because you don't have the mental firepower to respond to my argument.

      Meanwhile, I roll right over you again, laughing all the while. You honestly believe the crap you spout, don't you? That's what makes this so delicious!!!

      --
      ..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?