User: javispedro

Re:He's got his talking points

On: Apple CEO Tim Cook: "Microsoft Surface Book Tries Too Hard To Do Too Much" (hothardware.com)

The fun thing is that MS is not forcing you to Windows 10. My Surface Pro, for example, runs Gentoo without a problem.
On the other hand, Apple is forcing you to run their spyware, iOS.

Not a backdoor

On: Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives

This is not a backdoor.

• It is not undocumented. It uses Arago, an actually open GNU/Linux distribution as firmware (so it is more open source than your average android device!), and the ability to root it via telnet has been available since day 1, with a widely known password.
• It is not remote, since to access it you need to join the NAS WLAN, and for that you need to passphrase created by the user. If you've managed to guess the passphrase/break that layer, then you've already crossed the airtight hatchway: at that point you can already view all the files on the disk, install adware, viruses, etc.
• This was being used by plenty of people to install custom Linux distributions such as Debian or Arch on relatively inexpensive hardware. There's even a user focused distribution for the device

Basically, another group of security ``researchers'' (use of quotes intentional) manage to force a company making a relatively open embedded product to close it down for tinkerers, while not improving the security of the product at all.

I hate this world.

Re:Does it have a Daliclock mode?

On: Ars Technica Goes Close Up With the Pebble Smartwatch

Np, it does not have an e-ink display.