[ale] Was Ale Breached

[Beddingfield, Allen]

My experience has been the same.  I do a lot of home/small business stuff when I'm not at my day job, and that involves a lot of Windows, and whatever computer someone picked up at a big box store. Sony is consistently a pain in the rear end when it comes to laptops and desktops.  They always use oddball chipsets for audio, video, and LAN, then they won't release driver updates for any version of Windows that comes out later...sometimes problems introduced with service packs won't get resolved with driver updates.
For desktop/laptop, I always try to steer people toward Dell or HP, and far away from Sony and Toshiba.
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney [jim.kinney at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 9:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [ale] Was Ale Breached


Every Sony device that uses software I've encountered has the same behavior: it works very well until the first software upgrade and it gets a bit "crunchy" is places. By the third upgrade it's nearly a useless device. By upgrade I'm talking about M$ service packs. Linux on Sony is a challenge as there is lots of undocumented and/or proprietary chipset noise on the board. I've never personally used a Sony daily. I was glad when my sister ditched hers and got something else.

On Oct 13, 2014 9:25 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com<mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
I dunno. Sony hates you. Rooting a Sony phone requires, like, exploits and weird software hacks.  Compare HTC's attitude toward custom bootloaders ( http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader ).

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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com<mailto:pbcartwright at gmail.com>> wrote:
On 10/10/2014 03:34 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> So, I just install Avira Android Security and a warning came up about
> ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org> <mailto:ale at ale.org<mailto:ale at ale.org>>, that it was breached by 1 website, I
> can't see anything else, but thought this was weird. I want to share
> just incase someone else was using Avira, to make this was some bs
> message.
I use lookout on my android.. no hits..

I am over the 2 year mark, and was looking to replace my Galaxy S3.
Since my wife has just upgraded from an Iphone 4s, to the new Iphone 6
64GB ( they don't have 32GB anymore..), I thought it was only fair..
there is a new Sony model coming out this month... Sony Z3v..

http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/devices/sony-xperia-z3v.html

I am drooling..

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

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