luv-talk June 2018

luv-talk@luv.asn.au

7 participants
5 discussions

Fwd: Intel's Management Technology is indeed vulnerable

by Douglas Ray

Firmware remote vulnerability in Intel business products -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Intel's Management Technology is indeed vulnerable Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 19:49:54 +0200 (CEST) From: I love OpenBSD <lampshade(a)poczta.fm> To: misc(a)openbsd.org INTEL-SA-00075 There is an escalation of privilege vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM), and Intel® Small Business Technology versions firmware versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x 9.x, 10.x, 11.0, 11.5, and 11.6 that can allow an unprivileged attacker to gain control of the manageability features provided by these products. Can I preview a bitlink before clicking on it? https://support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/articles/230650447-Can-I-preview-a-bitli… Arstechnica: http://bit.ly/2qyHCQn Semiaccurate: http://bit.ly/2pB2MjO Intel's PDF: http://intel.ly/2qAK4G0

2 years, 11 months

Take action: Don’t send 267 people back to offshore detention

by Peter Ross

http://bit.ly/1R3MiYB Maybe Australians can avoid another "Sorry" fifty years later this time. Thanks Peter

3 years, 11 months

Maximum optical-fibre data transfer rates was Re: NBN Cabling responsibilities and CSG

by Rohan McLeod

Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote: > > My biggest rant is as follows: > "Originally the plan was for a government INVESTMENT of $26.9 billion; > with monies coming back as a return on investment upon eventual sale of > the network. Now we have the real white elephant version at a cost of > $60+ billion and there won't be many suiters willing to buy it unless > they can pick it up for a song. Hence, we'll lose a very significant > amount (if not every cent), that is spent on this far inferior version > that is Turncoat's mess." It seems to me part of the problem has been that optical-fibre has always been compared with; alternatives like ADSL over copper, cell-phone wireless on the basis of current data transfer rates, which are good, but not 'disruptive' ie around 100Mb/s. The message which NBN failed to convey, was that fibre has vastly more potential. They should have been marketing that potential, so that politicians like Malcom Turnbull, who regardless of his financial prowess is a technology, dumb-cluck; got the message. For example it took me little time to find : "Earlier this year, global telecoms company Alcatel-Lucent claims to have set a new fibre optic world record with an impressive 31 Tbit/s data transfer over a single fibre cable, overtaking the previous record of 26 Tbit/s set by The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in May 2011, by a team of German, UK and Swiss scientists." at :https://www.warwicknet.com/blog/how-fast-can-fibre-optic-go Now this seems to be a more modern fibre-optic cable from that the NBN is laying, but we should have heard about potential data-tranfere rates (DTR) for the cable the NBN is laying, if they had any imagination. Just off the top of my head I would expect cell-phone DTR to be tied to the frequency of the carrier wave but the frequency of that wave sets the cell size. So to double the cell-phone DTR you need a technology that doubles the frequency and in consequence halves the cell size and quadruples the number of towers. Where as for NBN fibre (up to some limit), the DTR can be increased by orders of magnitude; without costs other than the sending and recieving technology. regards Rohan McLeod

4 years, 2 months

ZTE, Huawei, Samsung, privacy and national security

by Rohan McLeod

Assembled cognoscenti; in the context of the current national security concerns, regarding ZTE and Huawei. 1/ Does anyone know whether these relate to software eg OS or hardware ? 2/ To what extent do these also affect privacy and personal security ? Given the hardware issues (previous thread) discovered in Samsung Galaxy hardware, by Lineage developers; not to mention the proprietary issues with Android "spyware for Google"; might it not be useful to encourage ZTE and Huawei to start a campaign, advertising privacy and security issues in the hardware and software of mobile phones, from non-chinese companies ? regards Rohan McLeod

4 years, 3 months

IPv6

by Russell Coker

egrep -i "^[a-folstq]{4}$" /usr/share/dict/british-english-large You really should be using IPv6 if possible. The above command can help you find good IPv6 addresses. egrep -i "^[a-folstq]{4}$" /usr/share/dict/british-english-large|tr [A-Z] [a- z]|tr [olstq] [01579] The above command does the same but converts letters above F to 1ee7 speak equivalents. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

4 years, 3 months

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