Comment True story (Score 1) 337
I find that I'm more reckless on my horse after playing Red Dead Redemption.
Comment Zigbee (Score 1) 224
A lot of these smart meters utilize 802.15.4 (2.4Ghz) radios running a Zigbee stack. 802.15.4 is DSSS like 802.11. The same vulnerabilities exist in both topologies.
There are two pieces to this system. The utility area network and the home area network. They are generally required to be separate bands. For instance, A Zigbee HAN and a cellular backhaul. The architecture of the 'system' would limit a hacker to individual homes. Replay attacks I understand are particularly successful but they don't allow you to propagate back to the utility to shut down entire neighborhoods.
It's just as dangerous as having a wifi router in your home.
Comment Re:Turn someones power off. No way! (Score 1) 224
This is not necessarily true. A lot of homes will not have remote disconnect, but it's absolutely available on meters today. Especially smart meters.
Comment Physicists? (Score 5, Insightful) 466
I don't disagree that mathematicians make great software engineers, but I think most of the great software engineers in the past were physicists and electrical engineers.
Journal Journal: Setting up a Windows Time Server
The latest Windows operating systems from Microsoft have a time synchronization service installed by default called 'Windows Time'. The time service allows a Windows network to provide time synchronization of all machines within a domain. This article introduces how to set up the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 operating systems to operate as a NTP time server. The article describes how to modify registry entries to configure the Windows Time Service.
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deblau writes "NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of individual molecules in their atmospheres. The landmark achievement is a significant step toward being able to detect possible life on rocky exoplanets and comes years before astronomers had anticipated."
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