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CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security
mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on [a scheduled conference call] along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They [Mythbusters producers] were way, way outgunned and they [lawyers] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it."
I can't wait until they test my myths! Also, lawyers are the reason we no longer have habeas corpus, so the show should be filmed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
My work here is dung.
Busting Security Through Obscurity!
Wildly popular Mythbusters television star Adam Savage resigned suddenly from his position as cohost of Discovery TV's Mythbusters. Said Mr. Savage: "I just want to take a little personal time with my family. I'll be taking some time out for a year or four in Belize."
Mr. Savage has not been seen since, and our repeated calls to his agent go unanswered.
The Discovery Channel has announced through media representative Linsay Patter "We'll miss him and wish him the best. His loss means we won't be able to continue with the show." Discovery will be filling the space with Annie Parkinson's "Crafts for Children".
Help stamp out iliturcy.
it works like this:
Your honour we are rich smooth talking businessmen, the claimants are poor people, the defence rests.
Judge: I rule in favour of the defence.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
"CC Companies Irish Mythbusters Show On Security"
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
The average public couldn't spell PBS...
This reminds me of something...
Judge Hank "The Hangman" BMW: Now prosecutor, why you think he done it?
Prosecutor: 'Kay. Number one your honor, just look at him. And B, we've got all this, like, evidence, of how, like, this guy didn't even pay at the hospital. And I heard that he doesn't even have his tattoo.
[crowd boos]
Prosecutor: I know! And I'm all, 'you've gotta be shittin' me!' But check this out man, judge should be like
[bangs fist on table]
Prosecutor: 'guilty!' Peace.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
The average public couldn't spell PBS...
Sure they can. It's 2-6-enter on the remote.
That this clip is leaked to the Internet where it explodes in popularity.
The Discovery Channel should make sure that the media the episode is stored on is secured by means of RFID security devices to ensure that it is not stolen and leaked.
Discovery is doing the right thing.
Just to be safe they should keep this episode locked away in a secure vault out in the middle of nowhere guarded by a lock which requires two RFID keys to open so that it will never see the light of day.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Except lawyers *usually* can be counted on to turn on other lawyers and devour them, just like sharks in a feeding frenzy.
But who would see it?
Its better to post links here than in the article no one reads.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
Yeah, 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
I had a friend once that put "I'm not tipping you" on his. If a clerk doesn't mention it, they don't get anything written on the tip line of the receipt.
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
I draw smiley faces or less G rated things on the digital signature pads in stores :).
For the Mythbusters it's more like shooting fish in a barrel.
My assault rifle guarantees habeas corpus for my friends and family.
You must be new.
In this country, we paint the hole to look like a window, then have anyone who calls it a hole walk the plank.
But who would see it?
Its better to post links here than in the article no one reads.
Great. Now we're gonna have WTFV.
if some kid in Australia can gin up a convincing DMCA takedown
... then there's trouble brewing :)
Cucumbers listed as birth control at the counter would be the least of our problems.
It sounds like a kinky, but certainly effective, form of birth control to me.
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