Huawei: It's not "hacking"...
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·2020-05-05
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hey guys it's time for the tech news and we got some good stuff today so hold on
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to your hats because it's gonna be super good
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you haven't talked about them for a little while they probably haven't been
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up to anything sketchy right wrong if a wall street journal report has anything
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to go by technicians working for huawei and uganda and zambia helped the
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governments of both of those countries spy on their political opponents the
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huawei employees used the company's network and specifically a software
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called pegasus to intercept messages and relay them to the governments the
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practice was apparently done at the request of the country's police after
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they had tried and failed to intercept messages themselves now huawei says that
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this was the work of huawei employees executives in china had no idea was
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going on and the company has never been engaged in hacking activities
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now technically if they're just monitoring their own
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network it's not hacking like if i pick up someone's wallet after they drop it
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on the ground that's not technically stealing yeah it's like finders keepers
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that's my wallet now yeah microsoft has warned of four new vulnerabilities in
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Windows that are wormable which beyond just sounding nasty means
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that they can be used by hackers to make malware jump from one computer to
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another like space because the flaws are so
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similar to the blue key vulnerability that microsoft patched way back in may
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they are collectively being called deja blue demonstrating
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that the only thing worse than security flaws are the dorky names researchers
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come up with to name them i would have named it that's awesome
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who wrote this you did the deja blue flaws are found in the Windows remote
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desktop services which allow users to take control of a remote computer and
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unlike blue keep affect newer versions of Windows including Windows 10 and
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Windows server 2019 researchers are working on patches right
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now and they better hurry up because if they don't fix them soon
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i'll just want to cry do you get it
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and speaking of security snafus researchers from vpn mentors say that a
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database containing 28 million records used for building security around the
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world has been publicly accessible for some time the database used in the
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biostar 2 security system created by south korean company suprema contains
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plain text passwords of course photos of people's faces personal information and
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even fingerprint scans used to gain access to secure buildings the
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researchers found the database during a routine network scan so it's fair to say
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anyone with some tech know-how could have accessed it they also say they were
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able to change data in the database adding their own fingerprints so that
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they could access buildings owned by companies that used biostar 2. the
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database has since been hidden but who knows who stole whose fingerprints
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in the meantime are a bunch of wannabe ethan hunts running around stealing
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AMD is launching a new line of graphics cards and by graphics cards i mean
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pre-built gpus and by new i mean old the
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Radeon 600 series from the bottom end Radeon 610 to the top end rx 640 that's
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that's top end not high end are apparently based off the 28 nanometer
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olan gpus from 2013 and are expected to
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show up in pre-built pcs and locked laptops
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so why are we even talking about this riley
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sounds old yeah old stuff in new stuff is that what we're talking about here
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it's news about old stuff brutal guess what facebook was also paying human
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contractors to listen to recordings of its users duh recordings like voice
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memos sent using facebook messenger were reviewed by humans to ensure accurate
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transcription but the company apparently stopped the practice a week ago
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you know when all the other recording stories were popping up and look if
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gearing up to launch new iphones this fall as they do but the company is
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reportedly switching up their naming scheme again
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come september we'll be looking at the iphone 11 the 11 pro the 11r and the 11
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max why not just take it all the way let's throw an iphone 11 plus uh an
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iphone 11s 10 to x or 10.
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what's not fun is being kicked off your flight because your macbook pro might
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certain 2015 macbook pros because of the
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sad saga continues with the blogging platforms acquisition by automatic the
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company that owns wordpress tumblr's selling price
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the return of lewd photos on the platform
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