Must be either over tired, or going blind in my old age but I cant find the
": More pics of the battery and full technical details after the "Read on" link."
Where is the read on link? Cant find the specs, like the mAh of the battery etc.
Yeah, some people do put backdoors in, but as you say, its crazy...
Like you I have put them in my test code, usually when developing password routines, so I can get in If I screw up, or to bypass logins whilst testing, but they dont stay in code that is released.
Programs can be disasembled, single stepped through, analysed, and backdoors will be found if they exist. Cant imaging any massive large scale apps like the original poster is on about having a backdoor, they would have been looked at thousands of times by people. Custom made apps are more likely to have something in, but only if the dev is mental, as once caught, that company would lose its reputation for trust and security.
The original article may have carried some weight if it actually stated names of these packages that have the unchangeable "backdoors".
All very nice, but lets face it, the big players cant even get browsers to work in a standardised manner for simpler things like CSS and HTML.
God help us with more complex features...
HTML will be here for a long time, new things will come out, and will be used, but html itself wont disapear for a long long time. There are far to many webpages out there that cant be updated, or wont be updated for it to just disapear.
Not everyone will be able to use the newer, more complex features, so in effect, the rich will get richer, and the poor, poorer - as in general the ones with the money will have the ability to hire people to upgrade, or buy tools to do it themselves.
Plus where do they draw the line, its great new features may be on the way, but most people know that software is usually out of date by the time the programmer has nearly finnished writing it.... Does this mean they will keep re-inventing the wheel and forcing people to redo sites each year to keep up with newer gadgets and gizmos? (saying that, thats pretty much the current state of things anyway)
Then there will be all the extra processing power that will be required just to display what should really be a simple page.. I will probably have to upgrade my pc just to view the next gen websites.
Actually, you probably have been hacked, but your employees are too scared to tell you. After all if you fire them for forgetting to change a password each day, they would not be the one who wanted to break bad news to you would they.....
ALL applications DO NOT have built in unchangeable passwords, some may, but most dont. Stating ALL apps have a certain feature is plain crazy - unless you have written every app that exists on the planet.
Well done on getting a mention in slashdot seomoz!
Who would have thought an article on SEO would get this much traffic to your site, maybe you need to put a slashdot part in the article lol:)
ken,
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Sounds like a law that has not been well thought out at all.
There are countless graphics packages out there, that can be used instead of the major players.
There are indefinate supplies of older scanners that are not protected, not to mention digital cameras.
I am pretty sure that the major players who counterfit, will just get cracked versions of software or use alternatives, meaning all this is doing is bloating legitimate users software for no real reason.
The software is provided free, which means it would be relatively easy for a skilled but crooked developer to disable the checks, specially as you would know what you are looking for!
Is it also pushing the price of hardware up, if they have to include extra memory to hold this software, or is it in the scanner software - computer side?
I really dont see this stopping anyone other than a total amatuer from scanning banknotes (and may even cause more problems, as if an amateur cant do a bad copy themselves they may look into more professional means of forging. I would rather they did a bad home copy, tried to use it and got caught - meaning one less idiot on the streets forging money).
Perhaps they would have been better off keeping the whole thing secret, so no one knows about it, and then have the software log all scans of banknotes into a central database, so the police could keep an eye on who is scanning notes. If forgeries appear in the area, they would know who was to blame......
ken
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Must be either over tired, or going blind in my old age but I cant find the ": More pics of the battery and full technical details after the "Read on" link." Where is the read on link? Cant find the specs, like the mAh of the battery etc.
Yeah, some people do put backdoors in, but as you say, its crazy... Like you I have put them in my test code, usually when developing password routines, so I can get in If I screw up, or to bypass logins whilst testing, but they dont stay in code that is released. Programs can be disasembled, single stepped through, analysed, and backdoors will be found if they exist. Cant imaging any massive large scale apps like the original poster is on about having a backdoor, they would have been looked at thousands of times by people. Custom made apps are more likely to have something in, but only if the dev is mental, as once caught, that company would lose its reputation for trust and security. The original article may have carried some weight if it actually stated names of these packages that have the unchangeable "backdoors".
All very nice, but lets face it, the big players cant even get browsers to work in a standardised manner for simpler things like CSS and HTML. God help us with more complex features... HTML will be here for a long time, new things will come out, and will be used, but html itself wont disapear for a long long time. There are far to many webpages out there that cant be updated, or wont be updated for it to just disapear. Not everyone will be able to use the newer, more complex features, so in effect, the rich will get richer, and the poor, poorer - as in general the ones with the money will have the ability to hire people to upgrade, or buy tools to do it themselves. Plus where do they draw the line, its great new features may be on the way, but most people know that software is usually out of date by the time the programmer has nearly finnished writing it.... Does this mean they will keep re-inventing the wheel and forcing people to redo sites each year to keep up with newer gadgets and gizmos? (saying that, thats pretty much the current state of things anyway) Then there will be all the extra processing power that will be required just to display what should really be a simple page.. I will probably have to upgrade my pc just to view the next gen websites.
Actually, you probably have been hacked, but your employees are too scared to tell you. After all if you fire them for forgetting to change a password each day, they would not be the one who wanted to break bad news to you would they.....
ALL applications DO NOT have built in unchangeable passwords, some may, but most dont. Stating ALL apps have a certain feature is plain crazy - unless you have written every app that exists on the planet.
Well done on getting a mention in slashdot seomoz! Who would have thought an article on SEO would get this much traffic to your site, maybe you need to put a slashdot part in the article lol :)
ken,
lsblogs
http://www.lsblogs.com/
There are countless graphics packages out there, that can be used instead of the major players.
There are indefinate supplies of older scanners that are not protected, not to mention digital cameras.
I am pretty sure that the major players who counterfit, will just get cracked versions of software or use alternatives, meaning all this is doing is bloating legitimate users software for no real reason.
The software is provided free, which means it would be relatively easy for a skilled but crooked developer to disable the checks, specially as you would know what you are looking for!
Is it also pushing the price of hardware up, if they have to include extra memory to hold this software, or is it in the scanner software - computer side?
I really dont see this stopping anyone other than a total amatuer from scanning banknotes (and may even cause more problems, as if an amateur cant do a bad copy themselves they may look into more professional means of forging. I would rather they did a bad home copy, tried to use it and got caught - meaning one less idiot on the streets forging money).
Perhaps they would have been better off keeping the whole thing secret, so no one knows about it, and then have the software log all scans of banknotes into a central database, so the police could keep an eye on who is scanning notes. If forgeries appear in the area, they would know who was to blame......
ken
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