Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer
Not much of an article, it happened so they dropped him.
That’s not really correct…
Yes some phones only support frequencies, but modern phones pretty much support everything. You need to validate the carrier and phone you choose are compatible, but odds are they will be. It’s not a region lock, it’s just a limit on the radio frequencies they support.
This is carrier locking, not region locking. A phone bought on a discount from carrier X will be locked so you can’t stop paying them and just move to carrier Y.
This is done at the play store / apple store level for specifics apps that are banned or not available in a location. The code for this is not on your device, and you can sideload to get around it.
Tldr: make sure the phone supports the frequency of the carrier that you plan to use, and that its not been carrier locked. If it is, you can probably buy an unlock code online. Then you’re golden.
5 seconds on Google answered your question though op. New phones from Samsung are region locked until you make a 5 minute phone call in the source country. That way people can’t buy phones in cheap countries and mail them out. This seems fairly new, I’d never heard of it until now and I’ve imported phones in the past.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/eighteen
It’s Eighteen, not Eight Teen.
For sure, most of the good discussion was on hacker news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373327 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373612
Megazone is one of the F5 security people and posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39374312
After reading more into this, the dev sounds like he’s being a twat.
Nginx had some security bugs in alpha code. F5 issued cve’s for it, the dev didn’t want them to because it wasn’t code in a stable release. That’s the entire story from what I can tell.
I don’t feel like f5 was in the wrong here, and running off to raise a stink seems like an excessive response here.
No, it’s a standard called TOTP
https://rublon.com/blog/what-is-totp/ seems like a good explanation
You scan it once, then your computer has the key to generate codes forever.
Actual report from 2012: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-07/cp120094en.pdf
I bet it’s a ton of fun to drive. A friend had a recumbent trike with a beefy ebike motor on it, was a total blast to drift it around trails.