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Comment Dealers aren't any safer (Score 1) 305

Consider that updates are done via firmware that is downloaded and stored on computers at local dealerships (They aren't downloading the updates for every single car they update).

How difficult would it be for any moderately skilled hacker to compromise those machines to side load along with the updates?

So the idea that the dealer is somehow safer, is purely insane.

Comment Depends, really. (Score 1) 421

We bought two pair for our company to play with. I have one and my business partner has another.

The only real use we have had for them is taking videos and pictures of our kids. Don't get me wrong, they are FANTASTIC for that.

But both of us really can't find the use for them, other than a cool method of capturing video. Not $1500 worthy, wait for the commercial version.

Comment We are constantly under attack (Score 1) 61

We are a healthcare startup and we get the usual metasploit attacks, but more important we are phished like crazy.

The information is valuable and because it is, healthcare firm staff will be easy pickings for being targets.

They simply don't know what they are doing (for instance, there is a 90% chance your doctor is using SMS/MMS to communicate about patients)

Comment INFOSEC in medicine is a joke (Score 1) 76

Medical devices are huge threats. "Hey lets slap WiFi on this heart rate monitor and give it to a hospital" - how about an insulin pump?

Recall the story of using bluetooth to kill someone with a pacemaker?

Simple fact is people have no idea what they are doing security wise and are designing this stuff to be web enabled.

Comment Re:Linkedin is now utterly worthless (Score 2) 70

The worst part to me is the useless shit spam recruiting emails. No, I don't want your shitty job with a shitty description - nor will I do your job and recommend a friend.

Strangest of all is LinkedIn has an amazing social graph on you, yet they show you the most mundane and useless articles - which you'd have no interest in.

Comment Fucks everyone else on AWS too (Score 5, Insightful) 213

Even bigger issue is, if you are hosting your infrastructure on AWS, your customers will get slower service.

In the end, I am unsure how the FCC lets this occur. I pay GOOD money to my shitbag carrier to get access to my content. If I pay for 50MBPS download, I don't give a fuck what content it is, I want 50MBPS.

Comment Re:No, it isn't (Score 1) 961

My guess is from having a high performance car, that the car hold old tires on it, that were also cold. Anyone that owns any kind of hipo car knows, or should know, tires over 2 years old on a hipo car turn to hockey pucks and provide no traction. they apparently just bought the car, so my assumption is they hadn't swapped out the rubber. (Sort of goes along with "there were no skidmarks")

no traction in this car, at high speeds, was a death wish. Sadly it took their lives.

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