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Submission + - The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet!

Submitted by NobleSavage on Sunday August 04, 2013 @01:08PM

NobleSavage writes: We all new it was just a matter of time. With the rush to put more and more appliances on-line Japanese toilet maker Satis, one of Japan's largest commode companies, has finally networked the toilet.

Just as you would have predicted, the information security company Trustwave Holdings has published an advisory regarding Satis-brand toilets. According to Trustwave, every Satis toilet has the same hard-coded Bluetooth PIN, which means any person using the 'My Satis' [Android] application can control any Satis toilet.

Submission + - Google Street View backpack is now available to volunteers.

Submitted by NobleSavage on Sunday June 30, 2013 @08:08AM

NobleSavage writes: Be the next Trekker

If you’re a tourism board, non-profit, university, research organization or other third party who can gain access and help collect imagery of hard to reach places, you can apply to borrow the Trekker and help map the world.

Submission + - Samurai-Sword Maker May Cool Nuclear Revival

Submitted by NobleSavage on Thursday March 13, 2008 @03:50PM

NobleSavage writes: Bloomberg reports that Japan Steel Works Ltd. controls the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance. There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak. Utilities that won't need the equipment for years are making $100 million down payments now on components Japan Steel makes from 600-ton ingots. Each year the Tokyo-based company can turn out just four of the steel forgings that contain the radioactivity in a nuclear reactor. Even after it doubles capacity in the next two years, there won't be enough production to meet building plans.

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