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Comment Disabling connectivity in hardware (Score 4, Informative) 54

by sinij (#66246142) Attached to: Are There Cybersecurity Risks in Over-the-Air Tech Used in Autos?
Anyone remotely tech-savvy should be disabling any remote connectivity a modern car has. This means finding the module (DCM, Starlink, On-Star, etc.) and disabling the cell modem. Especially with AI democratizing ability to attack IT systems, your connected car is one TicsTok video away from being someone else's "for the Lulz".

Submission + - How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Journalist for Days Over 'Stolen' Plates (thedrive.com)

Submitted by sinij
sinij writes:

The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM.
Still, he warned me to drive straight home, park the Range Rover, and leave it there. If I were to cross into the neighboring town, I’d probably get flagged again and go through this entire ordeal again with a different set of officers. His parting words were ominous: “You’re lucky we’re in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would’ve come at you with guns drawn.”

Submission + - In 503 New York City schools, majority of students failed both math and reading (freebeacon.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: "These are not schools teetering at the edge of success. They are schools that have been massively failing — persistently, systemically, and at staggering public expense — for years, and in many cases for decades," says the report, titled "By Any Honest Measure: New York City's Long Record of School Failure — and the Price We Keep Paying."

"The cost is enormous. New York City spent $40 billion on public education in 2024 — $36,293 per pupil, double the national average of $17,619," the report says. "The city is now committed to billions more to fund a class-size mandate that the evidence does not support, while propping up hundreds of vacant schools that drain resources at a premium rate with no return."

Particularly haunting is the appendix listing the 503 "double fail" schools, which are failing to get majority pass rates on standardized tests in math and in English. The schools are named after some distinguished Americans—abolitionists Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, Zionist Henrietta Szold, baseball player Roberto Clemente, founding father Benjamin Franklin, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, poets Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes, and physicist Albert Einstein. Or they carry names full of ambition and ideals—"Leaders of Tomorrow," "School of Leadership Development," "Renaissance School of the Arts," and "Brooklyn Democracy Academy."

"Imagine a hospital where more than half of patients died from routine procedures. A fire department that failed to respond to more than half its calls. A municipal water utility that delivered contaminated water to more than half its residents, or air traffic controllers whose lack of oversight regularly resulted in massive casualties," the report says. "No other public institution would be permitted to operate in this way."

Comment Re:Another win for Linux! (Score 1) 69

Would you actually be cheering if he was using Linux and had gotten away with his ransomware spree?

This is wrong framing. I would be cheering if someone else using Linux had gotten away from repressive prosecution elsewhere. You can't be that naive to think this is only (or even mostly) used for good.

Comment Re:The best outcome... (Score 1) 125

by sinij (#66211668) Attached to: Polestar Banned From Selling Cars In US From Model Year 2027
The best possible outcome would be for consumers to be able to buy an EV with no data collection spyware, subscriptions for existing features, and mandatory over the air updates. If this becomes an option due to this Connected Vehicles Rule, then US-based manufacturers may have to stop their anti-consumer practices.

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