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Daily News Stuff 9 February 2025

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  • Speaking of DeepSeek the iOS app sends unencrypted data back to Chinese servers.  (Ars Technica)

    Chinese servers controlled by ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok.

    This is on top of the previously reported logging servers at DeepSeek that were open to the entire internet.

    So basically not only can DeepSeek and its Chinese partners see everything you do, but so can everyone else.


  • A massive brute force attack against insecure commercial VPN devices is under way, using insecure consumer routers in an enormous botnet.  (Bleeping Computer)

    2.8 million devices have been compromised - notably 1.1 million in Brazil where Mikrotik routers are popular, but extending to many other countries and devices from Cisco, ZTE, Huawei, and others.

    All trying to guess the passwords to corporate VPN devices that are also insecure, though not quite as much.  The software is smart enough to block repeated failed logins from a single source, but can't figure things out when it's under attack from 2.8 million directions at once.


  • VSCode's remote development agent is an unsecured remote access tool.  (Fly.io)

    This is usually considered a bad thing.


  • If you need a not too expensive docking station with a ton of ports, this is one.  (Notebook Check)

    It has two DisplayPort ports, HDMI, and VGA, Ethernet - though only gigabit, eight USB ports at various speeds, SD and microSD slots, three audio jacks, and a volume knob.

    You can't run all four video ports at 4K, but that's true of pretty much all docks.  USB4 and Thunderbolt can only deliver two 4K streams in, so a dock without its own graphics hardware can only deliver two 4K streams out.

    The lack of at least 2.5Gb Ethernet made me curious how cheap docks with that feature are these days, and you can find them for less than $50 on Amazon US.

    On Amazon AU, somehow, you can get one for $16.  I just ordered two.  It's a basic model with only one video output, but that's ridiculously cheap.


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Disclaimer: You killed my hostage!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:31 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 I would really be surprised if DeepSeek mentioned that wuhan fever was probably a PRC weapons project. But, basically, we cannot afford for the mother fuckers to be censoring anything about biological warfare, and also there are probably zero details about that which can be a real safety issue. If you want to make bioweapons you go to graduate school in certain fields, the end. None of America's tertiary schools has any real sort of controls in place for access to dangerous information by unstable people, so they can go frustrate themselves when it comes to imposing weapons access or information access restrictions on the public.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, February 10 2025 05:52 AM (rcPLc)

2 If you press it, it will start to discuss Tiananmen Square, and then abruptly crash.

They just have different priorities for what is not permitted.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, February 10 2025 06:14 AM (PiXy!)

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