You fucked with the wrong wrestler

As we read previously, sometimes criminals try picking on old folks thinking they’re easy targets. Then they get their asses kicked.

This continues:

Seated on the passenger’s side, Kemp was closing the door of his 2011 Volkswagen Jetta when the robber, identified as Richard Nowling, 41, stuck a gun in his face.

Thinking of his wife’s safety, the 5-foot-7 Kemp instinctively pushed the gun away. But the robber started to pistol whip Kemp in the head, police said.

“He started to hit me, so I reacted from there,” a bruised but smiling Kemp said Friday. “I got him out into the street and held his arm. I foot-sweeped him down and I was trying to get a hold of the gun. He banged me up a little bit but my main concern was the gun.”

Pulling out more wrestling moves, Kemp maneuvered the suspect into a rear naked choke hold, or “sleeper hold,” a popular submission technique in mixed martial arts.

Mind WIND Mobile stick phones home

I recently purchased a new internet stick from WIND. It’s a Huawei E1691. In addition to improving the device hardware, they also replaced the software.

Instead of a slow Java monstrosity, it’s now a Windows XP-clone written in QT. Ugh. Today I discovered it has a built in auto-updater. Every now and then, it checks in with update-america.huaweidevice.com.

192.168.001.102.62516-077.222.090.003.00080: POST /america/UrlCommand/CheckNewVersion.aspx HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 476 Connection: Keep-Alive Accept-Encoding: gzip Accept-Language: en,* User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Host: update-america.huaweidevice.com:80 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <root> <rule name="DashBoard">21.003.27.06.562</rule> <rule name="DeviceName">E1691</rule> <rule name="FirmWare">11.126.15.02.562</rule> <rule name="HardWare">CD98TCPU</rule> <rule name="IMEI">HEX:434D98558CE2B347B456..</rule> <rule name="IMSI">HEX:A7F1D92A82C8D8FE..</rule> <rule name="Language">English</rule> <rule name="Network">tele.ring</rule> <rule name="OS">MAC</rule> </root> 077.222.090.003.00080-192.168.001.102.62516: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:03:42 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=ac1su3ngww23xc2mouoosxfu; path=/; HttpOnly Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 69 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><root><status>1</status></root>

Checking for software updates is fine. Good, in fact. Apple does it. Google does it. Adobe does. But the software shouldn’t be sending private information such as my IMEI, and it definitely shouldn’t be sending those kind of details in the clear.