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"Owners of certain D-Link VPN routers are being told to replace their devices following the disclosure of a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability."

"Details are not being released given the potential for wide exploitation. The vendor hasn't assigned it a CVE identifier or said much about it other than that it's a buffer overflow that leads to unauthenticated RCE."

The Register · D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identifyVon Connor Jones

My hatred for USB-C cannot be overstated. First, it's not a "universal standard for phones". You get wildly different charging speeds when you start to mix and match cables and chargers from different manufacturers. PD at least ensures every type of phone charges, but then USB PD PPS comes out and once again nothing works correctly unless you buy the same cable and charger from the people who make your phone.

On the computer side, the situation is even more grim. There's no way to tell if a USB-C cable supports high current charging or 4.0 data speeds just by looking at it. It is a mystery known only to the high priests of the USB-C world. Apparently us commoners cannot be trusted with symbols to convey that information.

Users may assume HDMI or Ethernet are supported over a USB-C port if a laptop is missing the regular ports, but that might not be the case. Even more maddening, functionality might only work on specific ports. You might have 4 ports but only one that offers the functions you want.

The only way to have a high-quality experience with USB-C on a laptop is to purchase a $200+ powered dock. This at least ensures everything works, but what a shitty experience.

Everything about the transition to USB-C, from the confusing different standards to Thunderbolt to giving consumers zero goddamn information has been a disaster. It's a lesson in how terrible technology companies are at conveying information that humans can consume.

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