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technology

UTStarCom F1000

Another great reason to use your WiFi phone behind a reliable firewall, at home, in the dark. The list of vulnerabilities on this baby include open and immutable SNMP settings, open telnet and rlogin access. Ouch!
I guess we won’t be administering this one via SNMP. Here’s the lowdown from securiteam
Here’s a quote:

“UTstarcom F1000 VoIP Wifi Phone rlogin (TCP/513) unauthenticated access:
The phone’s rlogin port TCP/513 is listening by default and requires no authentication. An attacker connecting to the phone via telnet/netcat is dropped into a shell without any login. The shell provides an attacker full access to the Vxworks OS, including debugging, direct memory dumping/injection, read/write device, user and network configuration files, enable/disable/restart services, remote reboot.”

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technology

test your broadband connection’s voip capability

Very nice little applet from talkswitch. We’ve used this a few times and it’s quite reliable.

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Uncategorized

Britain’s sense of national identity

Kieran forwarded this to me earlier. Good send-up cultural homogenisation and all that malarky 😀
Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish Kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows On a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything Foreign.

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philosophy

Serenity

Perhaps too much of a religious statement for some but sage
words that some day I’ll heed.
“God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.”
–Reinhold Niebuhr