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Comment Re: Hopefully it's improved since 2019 (Score 1) 284

by Z00L00K (#64448680) Attached to: The US Just Mandated Automated Emergency Braking Systems By 2029

I have figured out that some shadows and road patches can trig the braking system.

A side effect of the lane assist is that a lot of the 'feeling' of the road disappears and it makes it harder to find out ice on the road where just subtle changes in the feel of the car indicates bad conditions.

Comment Re: I prefer to be in charge of my vehicle's braki (Score 0) 284

by Z00L00K (#64448666) Attached to: The US Just Mandated Automated Emergency Braking Systems By 2029

I'd say that the automatic braking system is dumb as a brick - it thinks that tree shadows and pavement patches are items worth braking for.

It also makes it harder to enter roundabouts because it can't see that vehicles crossing in front of you will be out of the way in time.

Submission + - Automated Emergency Braking mandated by 2029 (caranddriver.com) 2

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

However, automated emergency braking systems will be a federally mandated standard . . . by 2029. Following the finalization of a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is announcing the new safety standard for all passenger cars and light trucks by September 2029.

This technology requires forward-facing camera, which makes both the price and cost of maintenance and repair more expensive. In my view, it does not pass cost vs. benefit analysis.

Submission + - German police bust Europe's 'largest' scam call center (dw.com)

Submitted by Plumpaquatsch
Plumpaquatsch writes: Investigators teamed up with colleagues from the Balkans and Lebanon in raids set up by months of intense surveillance. Authorities say the operation thwarted over €10 million in damages and led to 21 arrests.

Dubbed "Operation Pandora," the sting began in Germany in December 2023, after a suspicious bank teller contacted police when a 76-year-old customer from Freiburg sought to hurriedly withdraw €120,000 ($128,232) from her savings account to hand over to a fake police officer.

When real police investigators tracked the internet-based telephone number that had been used to lure the woman, they discovered a veritable goldmine.

Rather than shutting down the number, authorities instead went on the offensive, setting up their own call center in which hundreds of officers from Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin and Saxony worked around the clock monitoring some 1.3 million calls in real time, as the number from the initial scam was tied to an entire network of fraud call centers.

Police were able to trace and record data from the calls, as well as warn potential victims of what was in fact happening, in turn winning valuable time to put together the April 18 sting.

Police say their efforts allowed them to thwart some €10 million in damages in roughly 6,000 cases of attempted fraud.

Comment Re:And nothing will happen (Score 2) 174

It's a plausible deniability death.

So now there are two down, one from alleged suicide, one from MRSA.

If there's a third then it's becoming suspicious.

I don't expect that it's the three letter agencies directly - but that doesn't rule out individuals within them that getting money under the table.

After all - a lot of this is about big money.

Submission + - Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (fosspost.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacement called “run0”.

The developer talks about the weaknesses of sudo, and how it has a large possible attack surface. For example, sudo supports network access, LDAP configurations, other types of plugins, and much more. But most importantly, its SUID binary provides a large attack service according to Lennart:

"I personally think that the biggest problem with sudo is the fact it’s a SUID binary though – the big attack surface, the plugins, network access and so on that come after it it just make the key problem worse, but are not in themselves the main issue with sudo. SUID processes are weird concepts: they are invoked by unprivileged code and inherit the execution context intended for and controlled by unprivileged code. By execution context I mean the myriad of properties that a process has on Linux these days, from environment variables, process scheduling properties, cgroup assignments, security contexts, file descriptors passed, and so on and so on."

He’s saying that sudo is a Unix concept from many decades ago, and a better privilege escalation system should be in place for 2024 security standards:

  "So, in my ideal world, we’d have an OS entirely without SUID. Let’s throw out the concept of SUID on the dump of UNIX’ bad ideas. An execution context for privileged code that is half under the control of unprivileged code and that needs careful manual clean-up is just not how security engineering should be done in 2024 anymore."

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