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Submission + - Cutting-edge tech giving Boeing 787 cutting-edge problems (cbsnews.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "Boeing is discovering the problem with using bleeding-edge tech. To improve fuel efficiency the 787 Dreamliner is more reliant on electric systems than any other commercial plane before it. For example, it has replaced its hydraulic systems with electronic ones. All those systems require nearly 1.5 megawatts of electricity. For the first time Boeing is using lithium-ion batteries, which weigh half as much as the nickel-metal hydride ones. So maybe it's no surprise that it has had problems with the electrical system and that one of those batteries caught on fire.

The 787 is also the most outsourced commercial plane in history. Boeing did that in order to speed up assembly and delivery. Not only has it slowed delivery but it likely also resulted in more problems in the assembly process."
Privacy

Submission + - CES panel proves consumers would rather talk than act about online privacy (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "There’s also the fact that they’re on a panel at CES. I am positive all six of these people are smart, thoughtful and pay attention to their online behavior. Who else would you want answering people’s questions? Who else could be less representative of the general population?

Another problem with the panelists’ answers is that they support the oft-repeated claim that privacy is the number one issue for Internet users. That claim is based on a lot of (well-done) interviews. However, here’s the trouble with using opinion surveys on something like this: Behavior doesn’t always match stated opinion. Even when it does the hugely different definitions of what privacy means makes the behavior itself questionable."
Security

Submission + - NYT Twists Imperva Antivirus Study into Utter Nonsense (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan writes: "A recent New York Times story says antivirus programs are useless because they are terrible at detecting threats. But the story is based on a misreading of an Imperva study — which only looks at new the ability to detect new viruses. The story also overlooks the fact that antivirus software can detect older threats that are just as dangerous as new ones,"
Security

Submission + - 'Murder By Internet-Connected Devices' is Dumbest Prediction of 2012, '13 &' (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan writes: "Infosec vendor IID (Internet Identity) probably hopes that by the time 2014 rolls around no one will remember the prediction it just made. That is the year it says we will see the first murder via internet connected device. The ability to do this has been around for quite some time but the company won't say why it hasn't happened yet. Probably because that would have screwed up their fear marketing. CIO blogger challenges them to a $10K bet over their claim."
Security

Submission + - The Only 2013 Cybersecurity Predictions List You Need to Read (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "He read them all so you don't have to. This crack team of a researcher compiled and condensed all the painfully-obvious and self-serving 2013 cybersecurity-threat-prediction lists on the Web into a single tasty nugget. See the mighty experts say things like: 'Organizations must prepare for the unpredictable so they have the resilience to withstand unforeseen, high-impact events.' Ah, the life of the consultant."
Security

Submission + - Now Even Dumb Hackers Can Make Crime Pay (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "The stereotypical hacker, regardless of hat color, is a smart, nerdy, computer wizard. And while many real-life hackers probably fit the bill, not all of them are smart or nerdy. This week ExploitHub, whose motto is “Helping security professionals test MORE vulnerabilities, FASTER,” allowed a group calling itself the "Inj3ct0r Team" to test whether ExploitHub itself was vulnerable. The group quickly determined that it was."
Privacy

Submission + - Why Do Companies Bother to Protect Customer Data? (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "The upside to protecting consumer data is practically nonexistent, and the downside is barely any greater for the bottom line of most companies. Your business could have state-of-the-art protection or you could have the barest of bare bones security, and it wouldn't make any difference in the consumer-choice process. Furthermore the overwhelming majority of consumers could care less about privacy anyway. So why not just protect the stuff that's actually important to your business?"
Security

Submission + - New SCADA Vulnerability Reports are Old News (cio.com)

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "Do any of these videos, reports or warnings make us safer? Slightly, yes. But as several analysts have noted, the cost and scope of securing SCADA systems is astronomical. There is very little chance we can achieve any meaningful level of security for these systems. For now what we really have is détente, because nobody else's systems are much better."
Science

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What do you see looking at an object a color human eye can't see? 4

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Curseyoukhan
Curseyoukhan writes: "I hope this question is not as dumb as it seems: If I am looking at an object A — which is a Long Wavelength or Far Infrared color — that is standing in front of object B — that is in the visible spectrum and is larger than Object A — what do I see? Is it object B? An outline of Object A? Something else? Nothing? A question that doesn't understand the problem?

This is for an SF story I am writing and is kind of important for it. All help appreciated. Thanks."

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