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Comment Re: Illuminates objects 12 meters ahead (Score 1) 192

Also, the smaller the distance, the less you will have decelerated before the car behind you hits you, making the impact less severe!

(Note: I'm not defending tailgaters -- I would rather do without any collision, large or small -- but someone following a safe distance and not paying attention is a bigger risk, because you will have slowed significantly more before they rear end you.)

Comment Re:No! (Score 3, Interesting) 227

You've never worked in an actual SCIF then. There are no cameras, or devices with cameras, or recording features, allowed in those facilities.

And yes, people bring them in all the time anyway, either accidentally or intentionally.

It's sort of an arbitrary rule, since there are a plethora of methods to exfiltrate information, and in some of those facilities, the people who work there are, in fact, trained to extract information.

Comment Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a (Score 2) 173

First, the nuclear option is a real-world test with unknowing participants -- the other drivers on the road -- which they did. A parking lot would have worked just as well.

Second, they disabled the transmission. Aside from the fact that acceleration is sometimes necessary to avoid accidents, any significant slowdown below normal speeds on a freeway increases the risk of a collision. Keep in mind that he had music blaring full blast and windshield wipers and fluid obscuring his view at the same time, and no exit strategy since he was on a bridge with no shoulder. That was incredibly irresponsible to put him in that situation.

Comment Re:Valasek and Miller are assholes and should be a (Score 4, Insightful) 173

You can't quantify the level of risk by losing control of a vehicle, because you don't have the data. Neither do they. But there IS a level of risk by simply being on a public road with other cars, and that risk DOES rise with distractions, let alone malfunctions affecting braking, acceleration, or steering. Moreover, they were trying to demonstrate how dangerous the hack can be, so on the one hand, they're implicitly admitting that they put the author and the public at risk, but on the other side of their mouth, they're trying to say there was nothing life-threatening? Sorry, I don't buy it. That was willful negligence. It was irresponsible and reckless, and the "only way to get attention" argument doesn't stick when you fail to escalate in a responsible and methodical manner and skip right to the nuclear option. That was the problem with Snowden, and that's the problem with these characters.

Comment Re:Vigilantes of Morality (Score 1) 446

You're not a troll, just an ordinary self-righteous individual rationalizing how two wrongs make a right.

On an unrelated note, I think it's wrong thing to leak the data, but if it does get leaked, I can't wait to find out the demographic information! Do women cheat as often as men? More? What age ranges? Does it vary by city? Profession? There's a goldmine of social data there to help understand something that's very difficult to study.

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