The goal is to "engineer software-based radios that transmit data faster than a competitor using identical hardware".

The goal isn't to develop fancy new hardware, or to use an overwhelming amount of power. The goal is to develop fancy new software.

With frequency-hopping and time-hopping techniques, if you can intelligently adapt to the local interference, and transmit in the time and frequency gaps where the interference doesn't occur, then you can transmit more data for the same amount of power. That's the goal.

This tool extracts the keys from RAM dumps. There are free tools that do this too, of course.

But isn't it difficult to get a RAM dump, you say? Not really:

• Hibernating a computer writes this data to disk. Starting in Windows 8, "shutdown" actually writes some hibernate data by default.
• VMs also have their own suspend functionality that does a RAM dump, as well as non-SAN VM migration.
• Firewire ports actually allow devices to scan RAM of the machine they're connected to.
• Obviously, if you have access to a live machine, you can get the keys directly from RAM.

Interesting fact — There's an 85% fatality rate for the speed record for any boat. This sport is extremely dangerous.

The sailing speed record is 80% slower than the overall boat record, so the sailing record is a little safer. Nonetheless, one of the SailRocket crashes led to the pilot having a broken helmet.

Netflix runs fine on ChromeOS on x86, which is Linux-based too.

The Teensy is a little too wide, and has the wrong USB connector, to fit in a flash-drive shell. Here is a list of others that DO fit within a flash-drive shell. Ones that definitely fit include:

AVR-Stick, by Reusch Elektronik
Maximus AVRUSB
VGCRepairs PIC18F4550
OpenKubus

"DCS is commonly used to handle operations on a single locale, while SCADA is preferred for applications that are spread over a wide geographic location."

The term "SCADA" is specifically used for industrial processes that have to be connected by long-distance networking.

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If I saw a Madagascar button in a datacenter with a sign on it that said "DO NOT PRESS THIS! It will SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!", I would probably remove that key from the keyboard.

It may not really be open source. The author says it's available under the GPLv3. But the author also says something completely contradictory:

A license has to be purchased for using TLD in a commercial project. The licencing is managed by the IP owner, the University of Surrey and the fee is subject to negotiation.

Wrong, wrong. A default password means you ARE vulnerable. It's such a problem that ISPs are willing to do questionable things to fix it.

(it's a slight variant of your #2, though "compromising" in this case doesn't mean a full compromise, it means mildly abusing the DNS spec to work around XSS restrictions)

This isn't a chicken-and-egg problem. Scavengers existed before humans evolved.

If you're at all intellectually honest, you'll have to admit that there's a rather substantial difference between HIV/AIDS and religion.

Only a matter of degree. Compare it to the common cold instead. For most people, it drains their energy that could be used elsewhere, but they otherwise live fine. In its most virulent form, it does kill a few people (inter-religious violence, anti-medicine beliefs, etc).

And if the cops ask you to delete photos, play along, because recovering the deleted photographs is trivial compared to what can happen when arguing with a cop.

After the cop leaves, swap out the memory card for another. Make sure you set the card aside and don't take any more pictures on it, because taking new pictures could potentially overwrite some of the deleted data. When you get home, download and run PhotoRec (it's GPL/open source, available on multiple platforms, and runs almost without regard to what the underlying filesystem is).

Tattoos are (nearly) eternal, so you you want to choose a tattoo that will keep its meaning and significance for a long time. Physics equations are ideal because, not only are they unlikely to change, but they've been in effect long before they were discovered by humans. They're older than diamonds -- something else that people like to adorn themselves with because they're important and "timeless".

It's not necessarily the wrong way to do it. If you work at a military/defense company, where they have separate classified and unclassified networks, this is the solution they use.

But you're right, it does have notable downsides -- mainly, that when employees log into banking/finance sites, there's one box on your network that sees ALL of their passwords. If that one box were ever to be compromised, you have serious issues on your hands.