nothacking

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[โ€“] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

TLDR:

They found debugging commands that can be used to access the memory of the device over USB. This is as much a backdoor as any device that runs unsigned firmware

Unless you store secret files on your Bluetooth dongle, you shouldn't have to worry about this.

[โ€“] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Cartels have boats, but no one's shipping drugs up to Canada just to smuggle them south: They just get shipped directly to the US

Trump is just making up an excuse to justify cutting off trade with Canada.

Really, the whole fentanyl thing seems like scaremongering: People do overdose on it, but you won't die from touching it or inhaling trace quantity. It's not even the most potent opioid known, not even close to it.