Google chromecast media player h2g2-42
The United States' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), working with security vendor Symantec, has found an extremely sophisticated network attack tool that can invisibly create backdoors, has been plausibly linked to Chinese actors, and may have been in use since 2013. "Your clever nerd humor will not be lost on us!" ® "We see what you did there, Google," they write. The Chromecast's model number, as reported by iFixit: H2G2-42. In May, Google filed paperwork with the US Federal Communications Commission for a media device with a model number of "H2G2-42".Īt the time, we mused, "We can only assume that designation is a reference both to Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise – which already has been immortalized at – and to the number 42, which Adams' books hailed as 'the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything'." "There's just nothing in it to repair."Īs uneventful as the teardown was, it did clear up one mystery that we've been wondering about. "We've decided not to assign a repairability score to the Chromecast," they write. iFixit normally rates the ease of repair for the devices it tears apart, but for the Chromecast they've made an exception.