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Yesterday we picked up a very worrying article: the implementation of data encryption of TCG Opal in the most po[CENSORED]r SSD in the market is easily vulnerable. In addition, Windows 10 stops using BitLocker to encrypt them as soon as it detects that they have some hardware encryption system. How to activate BitLocker in Windows 10 on your SSD or hard drive even if it has hardware encryption When disabled, any SSD becomes vulnerable because it can not use BitLocker software encryption. This forces users to use additional software such as VeraCrypt, or opt for alternatives such as the one we are going to explain in this article, which forces Windows 10 to use BitLocker even if the SSD has hardware encryption. Microsoft itself has confirmed the existence of failure, and recommends users to use software encryption until the manufacturers release firmware updates to fix the failure. First of all, we have to check if we have activated hardware or software encryption. To do this, we go to Symbol of the system and execute it as administrator. Once we are inside, we write manage-bde.exe -status to show us the encryption that we have activated in our units. If in some of them the hardware protection appears, we will have to activate the software encryption for that unit. It is important that your data is not encrypted before doing so or that BitLocker is already activated, since it will not give an error. To change the type of encryption, go to the Local Group Policy Editor by typing gpedit.msc in the start menu. Once we open it, go to Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components - BitLocker Drive Encryption - Operating System Units. In the panel on the right, we look for the section Configuring the use of hardware-based encryption for operating system drives. We double click, and change its status to Disabled. We click on accept, restart the computer and reactivate BitLocker We can also activate it in different units to where we have installed the operating system If you want to put encryption with BitLocker in other units different from where you have Windows installed, you have to go to Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components - BitLocker Drive Encryption. There we have two folders, where we find fixed data Units and removable data Units. In both sections we have to find the equivalent section of Configuring the use of hardware encryption for removable / fixed data units, where we have to do the same as before and leave them disabled. To manage the encryption with BitLocker in our units we have to write Manage BitLocker in the start menu or go to the corresponding section of the Control Panel called Bitlocker Unit Encryption. There we can Activate or Deactivate BitLocker as we wish.

In case the failures that Windows 10 users were reporting after the last update were not enough, now Microsoft seems to have introduced a new one that is causing problems with the operating system license, or that is even cutting the version that users have installed. . Windows 10 is deactivating for many users This bug is appearing to users who have installed April 2018 Update and October 2018 Update. Some of them have been disabled Windows 10, and can not re-activate it or entering the key again. Others have been automatically downgraded from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Home, which means that your password does not work for that version of Windows, so they can not reactivate it. Apparently most affected users updated from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 during the free period offered by Microsoft when it released the latest version of the operating system (although it can still be activated for free) Microsoft has recognized the failure, which would be present in its activation servers, and say they will try to resolve it in the next two days. Meanwhile, affected users will not be able to use the extra features of having Windows 10 activated. There is nothing that affected users can do at the moment to reactivate Windows, not even through the Troubleshooter. The operating system can be used perfectly, and some users claim that the watermark of not having Windows activated disappears after a reboot, in which the free 30 days that can be used when you do not have a license are activated. Microsoft launches build 18277 with news Beyond this failure, Microsoft has released in the last hours the new build 18277 for the version 19H1 that will arrive next year, and whose main improvement affects the fuzzy sources that appear in some programs and apps when we change the DPI system operative to see it bigger if we use the operating system on a small screen This option was optional until now, but from the next version it will be activated by default. The function is currently in the Configuration - System - Screen - Advanced scale configuration section. It does not fix all the applications and fuzzy programs, since in some cases the developers have to update them accordingly.

Authorities report at least 12 people killed by gunfire in a bar in the town of Thousand Oaks, California, USA. In the United States, on Wednesday night, the Ventura County sheriff's office said, which also reported another dozen injured. Garo Kuredjian, from the sheriff's office, said there were possibly several hundred people in the room, called Borderline Bar and Grill. Thousand Oaks is an exclusive and quiet suburb of Los Angeles, where an event for university students had been organized. According to the Los Angeles Times, the man who opened fire is dead and his body remains inside the building. One witness told the newspaper that someone ran into the bar around midnight and started shooting with what appeared to be a black pistol. "He fired a lot, at least 30 times, I kept hearing shots after everyone left," said the witness. Another person told the local subsidiary of the ABC network that the suspect threw a smoke grenade and attacked a security guard before entering the establishment. Some young people managed to escape from the place by breaking glass from the windows. Others, according to security sources, hid in bathrooms and other points of the bar.

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Today we bring you the analysis of the Orange Premium WiFi Repeater. This repeater was announced last April, and is designed to work in harmony with the Livebox Fiber or Livebox + that both Orange and Jazztel use. The key to this repeater is that it has smart WiFi, so it integrates with our WiFi network so that it is our device that automatically changes access points without having to do anything. And it works whether you're an Orange customer or a Jazztel customer. Technical characteristics of the Orange Premium WiFi Repeater The Orange Premium WiFi Repeater offers speeds up to 1700 Mbps via WiFi 802.11 ac (WiFi 5), with six internal antennas. The complete hardware features are: QT3860B CPU with 16MB of Flash Memory and 256MB of RAM. 2 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) RJ45 ports. Wi-Fi 802.11ac 4 × 4 1700 Mbps (5 GHz). Wi-Fi 802.11n 2 × 2 300 Mbps (2.4 GHz). 6 internal Wi-Fi antennas. 5 Status LEDs (Power, Signal, WPS, Mode, Internet). 2 buttons (WPS, Reset) and a LED Luminosity Selector. Power supply 12V 1.5A. ITU-T K21 + protection. RJ45 Ethernet cable category CAT5e. Dimensions and weight: 176 x 133 x 69 mm, 375 grams Unboxing and external analysis The box shows in broad strokes the main characteristics of the repeater and a view of all sides of it. When we open it we find the instruction manual, the repeater, a Cat.5e Ethernet cable and the power cable. The repeater is quite thin, and the fact that we can place it vertically gives us a greater versatility so that it occupies less space and we can place it on a shelf where it looks like another book (yes, with two lights always on). On the front of the repeater we find 4 LED indicators and the WPS button, which in descending order represent: Power (on or off) Quality of the connection between the repeater and the router WPS status Mode: repeater, access point or client In the back we find: Reset button Two Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports The turn on and turn off button Power connector On the side of the router we also have an orange LED. We can adjust the lighting in Normal, Reduced or Only Front, in which the side light is completely turned off. In the lower part we find the configuration label, with the WiFi password of the repeater, the local IP address to access it, the MAC address, etc. We also see the Arcadyan logo. As confirmed by Orange, the repeater currently only works with the Liveboxes manufactured by Arcadyan. If we have it from another manufacturer we will have to wait a bit to make it compatible, or ask the operator before buying it. WiFi Repeater Mode The configuration process is really simple, regardless of whether we do it to put the repeater in WiFi amplifier mode, or if we are using it as an extender. To pair it with WiFi we have to have the router and the repeater in the same room. After waiting for a few minutes to start, the Mode LED will remain fixed. The lights will be Power in green, Sign in red and Mode in orange. At that moment, we press the WPS button for one second, and the orange light will start blinking. There, we press the WPS button of the router and the Wi-Fi light will also start blinking. Both will be synchronized and the router will restart. From there it will work correctly in repeater mode and we can take it to the part we want from home. The signal LED will be orange if it receives little WiFi signal, and red if it is not connected. In this mode we can also connect an Ethernet cable to the repeater, although the signal will continue to go through WiFi between the repeater and the router. In case you are only going to use the Ethernet mode, you can deactivate the WiFi replay by pressing the WPS button for 15 seconds. To activate it, it is necessary to press the reset button. WiFi extender mode (or access point) The second option that we have at our disposal is to use the WiFi Premium Repeater as WiFi extender. For this, we have to take an Ethernet cable from the router to the room where we want to place it. We connect it, and the configuration process will be done automatically. When the Access Point mode is activated, the blue light will turn on. From there, we can plug another device via Ethernet to the second connector of the repeater as if we were connecting directly to the router, in addition to enjoying all the power of a WiFi connection without any loss. In both the repeater mode and the extender mode we have the option of creating an independent WiFi network, or integrate it into the intelligent WiFi of the Livebox Fiber. Thanks to this, the WiFi device that we connect will automatically change network when we are closer to the router or the repeater (as is the case of a smartphone). In the case of wanting to make any adjustment of the repeater, we have to access the IP address http://192.168.250.250. Once we have paired it with the router, access will be through 192.168.1.1 on the router panel, or it may also be assigned a new local IP address that can be consulted on the same router. In this repeater panel we can consult data about the network and know what devices are connected to it. In any case, through WiFi smart WiFi network will be the same in the eyes of the device we connect, with the same SSID and the same password. Speed tests In access point mode, with Ethernet cable, the speed given by the repeater is the promised, reaching speeds of up to 1 Gigabit if we transfer files locally. In the case of the speed of the optical fiber, the speed it offers is exactly the same as if we connect it directly to the router, as we can see in the next two images with the 600 Mbps symmetric without any kind of problem in both cases. In the case of WiFi, the values already vary more and depend on the quality of the card that your computer, laptop, tablet or any other device has. The speed values are identical to those offered by the Livebox Fiber in the same distance. The ones we have obtained have been the following: WiFi on the mobile next to the router: 216 Mbps download / 150 Mbps upload WiFi in the mobile in the room next to the repeater with a partition in the middle: 190 Mbps downlink / 112 Mbps upstream WiFi on the laptop next to the router: 286 Mbps download / 447 Mbps upload WiFi in the laptop in the room next to the repeater with a partition in the middle: 283 Mbps download / 206 Mbps upload The best extender offered by an operator in Spain? When buying a WiFi repeater, you must take into account where you want to place it, what use you are going to give it, and if it can be integrated directly with your router. The repeaters that Spanish operators sell for their routers are as complete as we can find, since they offer everything we need. In the case of Orange's Premium WiFi Repeater, it is completely adapted to the needs of Livebox Fiber users, as is my case. In a house with four floors, the router is in the second, so the WiFi is quite attenuated to the fourth floor, where I have an Ethernet for the computer. It is that Ethernet cable that I have connected to the repeater, and in turn allows me to take another Ethernet cable to the PC, also having WiFi at maximum speed in the room. And all under a single WiFi network. One of the few drawbacks that we find is that sometimes the Wi-Fi network does not change automatically when we change floors, although as a rule this is not usually the case. It may not be hooked to the other when we change plants immediately, but after a few minutes the change is usually made automatically without having to turn off and turn on the mobile's WiFi or having to select the network we want to connect to.

When we all thought it was no longer possible, Softpedia has discovered a new method that allows us to continue activating Windows 10 with a Windows 7 key. Initially this could be done in a promotional way to encourage users to upgrade to Windows 10, but Microsoft did. It is still possible to upgrade for free from Windows 7 to Windows 10 If you still have Windows 7, and you want to upgrade to Windows 10 (despite the nefariousness of the last update of October 2018 Update), now you can do it. Windows 7 will stop receiving security patches in January 2020, so you will have to have Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 to be protected against vulnerabilities. If you wait for that date, you will surely be wondering why you did not update to Windows 10 when you had the opportunity. There are many reasons not to update, but there are also many others, such as the ones we recently collected. When we all thought it was no longer possible, Softpedia has discovered a new method that allows us to continue activating Windows 10 with a Windows 7 key. Initially this could be done in a promotional way to encourage users to upgrade to Windows 10, but Microsoft did. It is still possible to upgrade for free from Windows 7 to Windows 10 If you still have Windows 7, and you want to upgrade to Windows 10 (despite the nefariousness of the last update of October 2018 Update), now you can do it. Windows 7 will stop receiving security patches in January 2020, so you will have to have Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 to be protected against vulnerabilities. If you wait for that date, you will surely be wondering why you did not update to Windows 10 when you had the opportunity. There are many reasons not to update, but there are also many others, such as the ones we recently collected. Another option is to do it through Command Prompt. We open it as an administrator, and enter the following command. We have put the generic key, but there you will have to put in your place your key. slmgr.vbs -ipk VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T In the case that you have a computer with an original Windows 7 key, but the original label has been deleted or you have had any problem with it, you can recover it using programs like Produkey or ShowKeyPlus. We do not know how long this method will continue to work or how long it will take, but it is clear that Microsoft wants as many users as possible to move from Windows 7 to Windows 10 without having any setbacks, and that is why it tries to make it as easy as possible. , but without shouting it to the four winds. This trick also works for Windows 8.1 keys, so you no longer have an excuse to upgrade to Windows 10.

Ettore Balestrero, who was the representative of the Vatican in Colombia from 2013 to July 2018, is being investigated by the Genoa Prosecutor's Office for having laundered 4 million dollars in favor of his brother, Guido Balestrero and his father, Gerolamo, businessmen dedicated to meat imports. According to the Italian newspaper 'La Stampa', Ettore, at the time he was a nuncio in Bogota, made a donation to his brother, who according to the Italian city prosecutor's office was part of a large meat smuggling operation. As explained, at the end of the 90s, the father and brother Balestrero tried to import Argentine meat into Italy, through Spain, which exceeded the established limits. To achieve this, according to press reports, they would have bribed some officials to obtain licenses. Then, always according to the investigation, they would have created a society in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven, to hide the profits. The beneficiary of these operations was the religious. As part of the investigation, the authorities intercepted telephone communications made from Colombian SIM cards in which the plot would be clarified and revealed the diplomat's concerns in his private conversations. Ettore Balestrero already appeared before the authorities and declared himself ignorant of the operations that could have been done in his name. At 52, Balestrero's career was considered meteoric within the diplomatic organization of the Holy See. In 1996 he entered the diplomatic service and at 37 he was already an advisor to the Nunciature in the State relations section of the State Secretariat. Later he worked with the influential Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, and from there he jumped to the nunciature in Colombia, in 2013, from which he organized the very successful visit of Pope Francisco to Colombia last year. That is why it was remarkable that he had left Colombia in July for Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), an appointment that was interpreted more as a descent or a punishment, according to the Infovaticana website, given the economic, social and political difficulties he is experiencing. the African country. It is not clear if he already had some knowledge of the investigations for money laundering against him.

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