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Comment Re:Why no radio kill switch? (Score 1) 173

There is a kill switch. If you watch the video you'll see that the Charlie and Chris told the driver that he could turn off the car and turn it back on in order to reset everything.

A simple radio kill switch will stop any future instructions from coming in but it won't do anything to get rid of any persistent effects that the hackers have set. How are you then going to turn down the radio? How are you going to tell the brakes to stop bleeding? How will legitimate remote technicians help you to regain control of your cars systems? Turning the car off and then on completely reboots the system to load from firmware. The only way persistent effects will last through that is if manufacturers haven't guarded against remote firmware changes.

It's mildly dangerous but it's far better than rolling the dice by just turning off the radio. Having a way for people to recover from an ongoing attack is necessary but, OEMs need to do a better job of isolating critical systems from this kind of attack to begin with.

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Journal Journal: Mr Jones proves once again...Windows is more secure 1

Strategy Director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit, Mr Jeff Jones once again comes up with the vulnerability list. According to him Windows is the most secure of the lot. Wait a minute do number of fixed vulnerability tell that a particular OS is more secure? I dont know what other slashdotters think.

Comment Re:I just tested it! (Score 1) 190

With your hand in the handshake position, you won't be able to move the mouse with your fingers, and won't get the same fine-grained control as you would with fingers.


Too bad these vertical mice don't have a resolution adjustment. I've had the 3m ergonomic stick mouse for over a year (my wife has tennis and golf elbow) and I haven't been able to get used to it because I invariably overshoot just about everything. A quick resolution selector like on some of the gaming mice and perhaps a thumb scroll wheel would make it more friendly.

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