physorg.com— The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using Windows. According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May 2007.
Mar 9, 2010View in Crawl 4
if I need my charger, I take it with me. 120V plugs are available everywhere. If I am some place w/o them, more than likely, I probably don't need to be charging my batteries anyway.And I do take a power strip w/ me just to make sure I have enough plugs too.
If it even matters... For example, last year when I went on a cruise throughout Asia we did a lot of flying, driving on buses, etc... I have iPods, cameras, laptops, netbooks, portable DVD players, video cameras, a lot of those have accessories, blah blah blah and a lot of the times you've only got a laptop/netbook with a full charge. It would be really nice to have the ability to charge my camera when I'm driving to my next destination so I don't miss some shots just because my batteries ran out. I'm not entirely sure why you're arguing this, all I can say beyond what I've already said is that I really do promise that some of us have times that a USB port is the only energy source we have to charge batteries for our devices. It sounds like you don't have that need, but some of us do. People are different. Period.
>Not that macs crash less or are less vulnerable to trojans (no one cares to write them)Um, Macs do crash much less. And people have cared to write trojans for Mac for many years. You are obviously a recent switcher or you'd might know that back before Mac OS 10 was built upon UNIX, there were trojans and even viruses in the wild for Mac.The marketshare is higher now and there are less security threats in the wild. It's because of UNIX.Welcome to Apple. How many times has your Mac crashed? Zero times? Exactly.
You don't even know. I realize that Foxconn is headquartered in Taiwan, but they're registered in China... from Wikipedia:The Foxconn Technology Group (traditional Chinese: 富士康科技集團; simplified Chinese: 富士康科技集团; ) is a multinational business group anchored by the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (traditional Chinese: 鴻海精密工業股份有限公司; LSE: HHPD), a Republic of China-registered corporation headquartered in Tucheng, Taiwan. Foxconn is the largest manufacturer of electronics and computer components worldwide, and mainly manufactures on contract to other companies. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod, the iPad, and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard; motherboards for UK computer manufacturer Zoostorm; the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 for Sony; the Wii for Nintendo; the Xbox 360 for Microsoft, cell phones for Motorola, the Amazon Kindle, and Cisco equipment.I shat bricks when I realized the Wii, 360 and PS3 were all actually built and assembled by the same company.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn</a>
3the3dude3Mar 10, 2010
Rarely do I actually laugh at a Digg comment. Thank you, Skippy. /Still laughing.
nanohaMar 10, 2010
Wait until the us goes to war with them. Then their retail marketwill crumble then.
rblancarteMar 12, 2010
if I need my charger, I take it with me. 120V plugs are available everywhere. If I am some place w/o them, more than likely, I probably don't need to be charging my batteries anyway.And I do take a power strip w/ me just to make sure I have enough plugs too.
fugeesnfunionsMar 12, 2010
If it even matters... For example, last year when I went on a cruise throughout Asia we did a lot of flying, driving on buses, etc... I have iPods, cameras, laptops, netbooks, portable DVD players, video cameras, a lot of those have accessories, blah blah blah and a lot of the times you've only got a laptop/netbook with a full charge. It would be really nice to have the ability to charge my camera when I'm driving to my next destination so I don't miss some shots just because my batteries ran out. I'm not entirely sure why you're arguing this, all I can say beyond what I've already said is that I really do promise that some of us have times that a USB port is the only energy source we have to charge batteries for our devices. It sounds like you don't have that need, but some of us do. People are different. Period.
thumbmaster021Mar 14, 2010
She never did tell him where the damn remote was.
johnnysoftwareMar 15, 2010
Why aren't you digging him up more? It is a very good question he is asking.
worldofsmutMar 19, 2010
Energiser. It keeps on owning and owning and owning and owning.....
alienmushroomMar 22, 2010
Still laughing.
explodingzebrasMar 27, 2010
i really want to see a ski writer, he writes your messages on the pisten :D
cowicideMar 28, 2010
>Not that macs crash less or are less vulnerable to trojans (no one cares to write them)Um, Macs do crash much less. And people have cared to write trojans for Mac for many years. You are obviously a recent switcher or you'd might know that back before Mac OS 10 was built upon UNIX, there were trojans and even viruses in the wild for Mac.The marketshare is higher now and there are less security threats in the wild. It's because of UNIX.Welcome to Apple. How many times has your Mac crashed? Zero times? Exactly.
glitch82May 7, 2010
You don't even know. I realize that Foxconn is headquartered in Taiwan, but they're registered in China... from Wikipedia:The Foxconn Technology Group (traditional Chinese: 富士康科技集團; simplified Chinese: 富士康科技集团; ) is a multinational business group anchored by the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (traditional Chinese: 鴻海精密工業股份有限公司; LSE: HHPD), a Republic of China-registered corporation headquartered in Tucheng, Taiwan. Foxconn is the largest manufacturer of electronics and computer components worldwide, and mainly manufactures on contract to other companies. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod, the iPad, and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard; motherboards for UK computer manufacturer Zoostorm; the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 for Sony; the Wii for Nintendo; the Xbox 360 for Microsoft, cell phones for Motorola, the Amazon Kindle, and Cisco equipment.I shat bricks when I realized the Wii, 360 and PS3 were all actually built and assembled by the same company.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn</a>