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The mission of Wirecutter is to recommend truly important things. Every year, we independently test and review thousands of products to help you find the one you need. Our goal is to save you time and eliminate shopping pressure, whether you are looking for daily necessities or gifts for loved ones. We strive to become the most trusted product recommendation service, and our work is completely independent of editors. We will not publish recommendations unless our authors and editors have rigorously reported and tested what they believe to be the best. Wirecutter was founded in September 2011 and was acquired by The New York Times Company in October 2016. We make money through subscriptions and various affiliate marketing plans. This means that we may receive commissions for purchasing products through our retailer website links. However, we will recommend products based on our independent research, analysis, interviews, and testing. We don't have the motivation to choose inferior products or respond to pressure from manufacturers - in fact, quite the opposite. If readers return the product due to dissatisfaction or poor recommendations, we do not charge any membership commission. We believe this is a very fair system, and we are committed to serving our readers first. Of course, the decisions we make about the products on our website are always driven by editorial and product testing standards, rather than alliance transactions or advertising relationships. Our review requires weeks or months of research and years of experience. In addition to relying on our own professional knowledge, we also collect interviews and data from the best sources around us, including engineers, scientists, designers, and countless subject matter experts, from hairdressers to cat caf é staff (and residents) to corn hole champions. We carefully study customer reviews to identify what is important for real people who already own and use what we are evaluating. In a world where top models with high prices and junk features are often considered the gold standard, our goal is to recommend high-quality things that guarantee their prices and do not introduce additional features that you rarely use In February 2020, we reviewed the performance of more than 40 pairs of chopsticks in various foods, including Potsticker, Rice noodles, cabbage, soft tofu, and of course Qiduo. Photo: Sarah Kobos Our process is usually fascinating and fun (for example, imagine creating an obstacle training ground for a robot vacuum cleaner, or lighting a room to test a fire safe). We apply our tireless methods and higher-level research skills to over 1000 product categories, including washing machines, televisions, artificial Christmas trees, bath towels, non stick pans, soundbars, storage boxes, office chairs, headlights, sewing machines, mattresses, wine glasses, air purifiers, space heaters, treadmills, iPhone cases, Wi Fi routers, suitcases, cloth masks, and of course, real wire cutters. In everything we do, we strive to find the best things - and know which ones are not worth buying - quickly, simply, and transparently so that you can continue living your life. These are things we choose for ourselves and recommend to our family and friends. If we suggest that you spend your hard-earned money on something, we will take it seriously, as if our own money has already gone online. The most important thing for us is reader trust. If we recommend something due to bias or laziness, readers will not support our work. We also invite readers to conduct fact checking on our articles, which carefully outline the time, logic, and effort we have invested in researching, interviewing experts, and testing equipment. Usually, this takes tens - sometimes even hundreds - of hours. Each guide clearly lists all the evidence we have chosen for you to judge for yourself.

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PoisonTap - A Hacker Tool (Usage and Prevention)

The working principle of PoisonTap PoisonTap generates a cascading effect of information leakage, network access, and installation of semi permanent backdoors by leveraging existing trust in various mechanisms of machines and networks, including USB/SSH, DHCP, DNS, and HTTP. PoisonTap is built for the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero and has no other components except for a micro USB cable and microSD card. It can work on any Raspberry Pi (1/2/3) with Ethernet to USB/Thunderbolt dongles, or on other devices that can simulate USB gadgets such as USB Armory and LAN Turtle. When PoisonTap (Raspberry Pi Zero&Node.js) is inserted into a locked/password protected computer, it: Simulate Ethernet devices through USB (or Thunderbolt) Hijacking all Internet traffic from the machine (although it is low priority/unknown network interface) Extract and store HTTP cookies and sessions from web browsers of the top 1000000 Alexa ranked websites Expose the internal router to attackers, allowing them to rebind remote access through outbound WebSocket and DNS (thank you to Matt Austin for the idea of rebinding!) Install a persistent web-based backdoor in HTTP cache for hundreds of thousands of domains and common Javascript CDN URLs, all of which can access users' cookies through cache poisoning Allow attackers to remotely force users to send HTTP requests and proxy responses (GET and POST) using any user cookie on the backdoor domain No need for machine unlocking Even after the device is removed and the attacker leaves, backdoors and remote access still exist PoisonTap circumvents the following security mechanisms: Password protected lock screen Routing table priority and network interface service order Same origin strategy X Framework Options HttpOnly Cookie SameSite cookie properties Two factor/multi factor authentication (2FA/MFA) DNS fixed Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) HTTPS cookie protection when security cookie flag and HSTS are not enabled Preventing PoisonTap Server side security If you are running a web server, protecting PoisonTap is simple: Only use HTTPS, at least for authentication and authenticated content To be honest, you should specifically use HTTPS and always redirect HTTP content to HTTPS to prevent users from being deceived into providing credentials or other PII through HTTP Ensure that security flags are enabled on cookies to prevent HTTPS cookies from leaking through HTTP When loading remote Javascript resources, use the Subresource Integrity script to mark properties Using HSTS to prevent HTTPS downgrade attacks Desktop Security Adding cement to your USB and Thunderbolt ports will be very effective Closing the browser every time you leave the machine is fine, but it's completely impractical Disabling USB/Thunderbolt ports is also effective, but not practical Locking your computer has no impact as the network and USB stack run when the computer is locked. However, entering encrypted sleep mode that requires a key to decrypt memory (such as FileVault2+deep sleep) can solve most problems as your browser will no longer make requests, even if awakened

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