My Alma Mater hits me up for donations constantly, with hype about how $SPORT team performed last year and the need for a new stadium. Oh, and some random feelgood BS about diversity and student culture and did I know they have classes, in the footnotes?

And I patiently respond to every such solicitation the same way, which boils down to "fuck $SPORT, I'll donate when you promise to put it toward actual academic endeavors". I don't think I alone feel that way, either (hell, just about everyone I associate with has told me they feel similarly). So here, you have a chance to make people like me put up or shut up.

TLDR: If I got a letter from my Uni asking for money for this project, you'd have a check on your desk by the end of the week.

Translation:

Much like houses, cars have gotten fancier as opposed to cheaper. We could make a beetle analog with modern technology and have it be extremely cheap, but instead people have decided that they prefer buying more car.

Keep it quiet, we don't want the dealers to know that Tesla already has a way around their strategy.

How's your own medicine taste now?

PS: DIAF.

No offense to you or your coworker, but is there any reason to accept your theory just on your say so?

(And your sig is accurate, btw)

Quit.

I'm sure she's in a financial position where she didn't have to have the income, and if she had any integrity, she would walk. Further, when questioned by the press, she wouldn't give the 'spend more time with my family' canned response, she would be truthful.

She wasn't placed in a position. She sought out the position. As do all politicians.

He's too busy to learn to computer because he's busy playing with the boys?

We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing

No, you don't, because I unplugged the GPS antenna (since I don't actually have a nav system), leaving your hardwired spyware trapped uselessly deep inside in a big Faraday cage.

/ Not actually a Ford, but if you don't think the same applies to any new car, I have a bridge to sell you.

Funny, I got my password from xkcd. UNCRACKABLE

Nonono, you can't just use that one, you need to roll your own using a random number generator!

And without giving too much away, I know mine counts as secure, because it starts with a "4"!


/ Actually, I kinda wonder how many real-world accounts out there have "correct horse battery staple" as the password.
// Probably enough to make Randall cry.

Can't we do both?

I am so sick of the word "snooping." Snooping is what you do when you're twelve years old and you peek in mom and dad's closet to see what you're getting for Christmas. What the government does is called "spying," or "gaining illegal access" or "hax0ring ur boxen." It is not "oh you little scamp, doing your snooping tee hee!" It's FUCKING SPYING.

That is, just, just glorious.

Wouldn't that be great. "Pee in this cup, Senator. Yes, I have to watch you do it. Can't have you voting while you're high on smack."

knee-jerk reactions are the norm not the exception to security disclosure, and I doubt he has some leeto 0-day to destroy the world with.

This. A discussion about viable "cyberwar" doesn't depend on knowing the latest and greatest weakness in Flash player. It depends on well-documented systemic weaknesses in commonly used PLCs, in protocols like ModBus; and where a practical attacker cares about "consumer" OSs, they care about exploiting the 30 year old unpatched packet drivers for NE2000 compatible cards running under MS-DOS 6.2 (it would amaze you how many "embedded" devices run DOS).

And the focus of such a serious discussion has nothing to do with glory or PII or money, but rather, "crippling infrastructure 101: Electric, water, and traffic control systems 101".

The only reason to censor this as a "threat" comes from the underlying mindset of looking for subtle systemic weaknesses rather than trying to find the digital version of "fly a plane into a building". Think how subtly Israel fucked Iran's nuclear program with Stuxnet, and you have the right idea.

That's why I asked him to specify criteria when he answered. IMNSHO, the answer is almost entirely dependent on the criteria, as evidenced by the poster above who mentioned the FNFAL, etc.