Not all stations are open 24h or have 24h video surveillance, so provided there is no visible damage when staff arrive to open up there would be no compulsion to carefully check every pump for cleverly hidden extra devices.

As an example of a similar hack a while back, a team out of Vancouver stole a number of POS card reader units from Petro Canada stations in that city. They took them & fitted wireless MITM hardware, then went on a road trip to Ontario where they operated as a team to distract cashiers & swap out their devices with the hacked ones. Cashiers at first did not notice.

One has to wonder why would you put supposedly unbreakable glass on a commercial vehicle for mass market, as being able to break the glass from the inside to provide an escape route after a collision is important, as quite often the doors will not open because they are designed to jamb closed as a measure to prevent passengers being ejected from the vehicle. So unbreakable glass is not safety glass & is not safe as glass

So are we suggesting that porn sites capture the images of people using them. Would that not mean that if children tried to use the site their image would now be held by a porn vender. I don't know about you but I'm sure someone hosting porn & also hosting a large number of images of children is a bit unsettling or possibly even illegal.

So if the FCC defines SMS as an Information Service then what does that do for telecoms providers charging exorbitant fees per message, especially for "Roaming" SMS?

Isn't this exactly one of the projects Ex Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman has been working on for quite a while, does not that count as prior art. Potentially wilful infringement considering there are videos of them posted on a Google Website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I do, never had a problem, but if there was a question I can show them my locksmith certification.

And even if the tool is evil incarnate, that does not mean possession of it is a crime. Many security researches possess much worse items for the purpose of reverse engineering the hacks so that systems can be patched against the exploits contained. If the FBI perseus litigation against such people I can see no way it would not blow up in their face.

So Brazil has decided to go papertrail-less on voting, how strange, I wonder why. Could it be perhaps that in such systems systematic tampering is impossible to prove after the fact & very unlikely to be detected at the time. No, the Brazilian government are all honest upstanding people who would never stoop to such. https://www.bbc.com/news/world... On the other hand...

As presented this is a colossal opportunity, it could also be a colossally BAD idea. Lets assume we can safely (without release) mine methane clathrates & that we can safely (without releasing CO2) burn same, then why not. But we would still be digging holes into something that has been safely sequestering vast quantities of greenhouse gasses for millennia. Can we be absolutely assured that the act of mining methane clathrates will not result in a destabilization at some point in the distant future that will result in a catastrophic positive feedback reaction that raises the temperature of the earth to levels that extinguishes a significant fraction of life? Even without our interference though there are reports that suggest this is already happening & we should be prepared for the hockey-stick climate curve to go practically vertical. So I say, why risk hastening the very thing most of us (excluding the US and Liberia) are desperately trying to avoid.

This case is similar to the one that MalwareTech (aka Marcus Hutchins) now faces in the U.S. for his role in developing the Kronos trojan Should say: This case is similar to the one that MalwareTech (aka Marcus Hutchins) now faces in the U.S. for his ALLEGED role in developing the Kronos trojan.

So if a judge refuses to take your I forgot the PIN defence and jails you for contempt, excluding a 5th amendment defence what are you to do.

Well this guy now has 180 days to start from 00000 & work to 99999, handing the completed list to the cops with the honest statement, the code is one of the items on this list, now let me out.

I think the Bouffant Buffoon should be made aware that legal privacy protections go both ways in a globalised data market. Why should anyone outside the US be concerned about protecting the privacy of US citizens it they themself will not grant us the same courtesy. What comes of this I cannot say but, one prediction I make is that companies who hold private information will be compelled by the needs of their customers to protect it in ways and places that put it beyond the grasp of law enforcement & intelligence organisations.

If the FBI/CIA/NSA though the world was 'going dark' before they have seen nothing yet.

Just thought I would point that out to any passing FBI operative who thinks that they can go interfering with remote devices without considering international borders.

You may just find yourself falling foul of international treaties initiated by your own government that class this sort of action as cyber-warfare. I just hope the government above the target of your hack is understanding and decides not to retaliate with physical force to your electronic attack.

I for one would find it an interesting exercise in jurisprudence for the FBI to be indicted in a foreign court for cyberwarfare.

I accept a few posters going off the deep end, not reading the copy or just plain not understanding the issues, but practically every post with a score missed the point entirely.

This whole issue is just a boring technical matter. The only reason it is news is that politicians with an axe to grind want to make it so.

ICANN has been running successfully as an international corporation with multinational stakeholders for much more than a decade now. Its one remaining tie to the US is the contract that it has with the Department Of Commerce to manage internet names and numbers. That contract will lapse unless renewed at the end of September and ICANN will then carry on exactly as it has been, except without the theoretical DOC control, the US then becomes a stakeholder like everyone else.

OK, so lets say this is done, and ISP's are required to have the DNS servers IP as their DHCP autoconfig response.

Questions:

1/ Who will own and operate this DNS service?
2/ What will their DNS request logging retention look like?
3/ Who will have access to those records and with what authentication?
4/ Why are you now thinking this is something from George Orwell's 1984?