Trend Micro in a blog post is alleging that Qualcomm's "Snapdragon" family of system on a chip computers are riddled with numerous security vulnerabilities, particularly when paired with Google's Android operating system (archived). The continued plagues of leaky abstraction and faux compartmentalization which require ever larger collections of "teams" to design new chips in the popular style as well as the war on computing suggest that we are going to increasingly see security vulnerabilities baked into silicon. Instead of celebrating the death of Moore's law as occasion to move towards saner architectural decisions, the trend appears to be favoring further insanity and a proliferation of nooks and crannies for culturing security holes organically or placing them deliberately.
Author Archives: Aaron 'BingoBoingo' Rogier
US War On Physicians Escalates
The general war against sanity in the United States is escalating in its front against physicians. The Center for Disease Control, under the the direction of Hussein Bahamas's gang in Washington is proposing radical new guidelines which constrain physician judgement in prescribing pain relieving drugs (archived). Continue reading
Growing Criminal Obeast And Transmayo Problem Pushes New Zealand To Plus Sized Handcuffs
As New Zealand Police struggle to control an increasing undisciplined population of obeasts and transmayo gendered individuals they have been pushed to adapt their equipment to the problem. The New Zealand Herald reports that the country's police are trading in their perfectly serviceable cuffs that work to restrain human sized individuals and getting new cuffs that are big enough to restrain Obeasts that ate themselves to the point they lost visible wrists (archived). A spokesman for national headquarters claims the new cuffs adjust sufficiently to continue being effective on more mobile human sized law enforcement prey, but this remains to be seen.
John Kasich Is America
With the American electoral season heating up and a Clinton threatening to steal the GOP nomination, it is time to lay out the real narrative this campaign season. John Kasich is the United States of America and voters are turning their backs on their country. Continue reading
Miner Problem Pushes BitBet Into Recievership
Following the incident where BitBet ended up paying out the winners of the Jeb Bush nomination bet twice due to probably miner cartel action, BitBet is now seeking a receiver. The full announcement is reproduced below: Continue reading
Counterpoint: Fuck Them All To Death – Complete Mosquito Eradication Overdue
This is a response to a news item by danielpbarron
It is time for the flying syringes to die. Continue reading
Bug In libotr Threatens To Compromise Systems
A memory corruption vulnerability in libotr, a c implementation of off the record encryption commonly used in chat clients, allows for remotely executing code on vulnerable machines and crashing applications using libotr (archived). Large messages sent to libotr can cause an integer overflow which then spills into the heap.
Bharara And Goons Move Artifacts From Unsanctioned To Sanctioned Looters
In a press release federal goons reporting to Preet Bharara announced that through shenanigans surrounding the provenance of two artifacts they created cover for seizing them. This scheme is a common means by which agents of various governments transfer art and relics from unfavored looters to favored looters. Through this magic rare items are able to be auctioned more than once laundering the wealth and creating more opportunities for taxing the transactions.
F-35 Software Requiring Hard Reboots While Airborne
Jane's reports that the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Developed by and for the armed forces of the United States and its allies has a new quirk gathering public attention (archived). Well, several quirks but the most notable is a software glitch that interferes with the aircraft's mission readiness by requiring hard reboots during flight to restore functionality to the radar. So far the F-35's ability to hemorrhage funds printed for the United States Department of Defense has lead to the early end of production for the more capable F-22 fighter, threatened the end of life for the more capable A-10 ground attack aircraft, and ended or hindered an uncountable other number of other things which may have been less embarrassing ends to direct the United States Government's money printing machine than the F-35. Sorry for your loss and peace in our time.
Microsoft Bundles Adware With Security Update
Microsoft has by its own admission bundled adware with a security update for Windows. The update to the Internet Explorer component of Microsoft Windows pulls in another update containing the adware. The adware creates a banner in Internet Explorer badgering users to upgrade their version of Windows to Windows 10. In order to avoid angering their institutional customers who actually pay for software licenses, this new Microsoft adware checks to see if the machine it is installed on is part of a Microsoft domain before badgering the end user. This move suggests that Microsoft itself is surrendering its own overt actions in the Windows ecosystem to match the the rest of the spammers that dominate the space.