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Judge Rules In Favor of Volkswagen and Silences Scientist
sl4shd0rk writes "Samsung-is-not-as-cool-as-Apple Judge Colin Birss, rules in favor of Volkswagon to ban Flavio Garcia, a computer scientist, from revealing details about 'Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobiliser' at USENIX in August. Volkswagen says the flaw could allow someone to 'break the security and steal a car' so it is justifiable grounds for blocking Flavio's paper. No word yet on how soon Volkswagen will have a patch."
That guy should totally come to the USA. Then he'd have the full protection of the U.S. Constitution, guaranteed by Eric Holder and Barak Obama themselves!!!
I'm going out on a limb, disclosing this publicly and all. But all vehicles on the roads today are vulnerable to a nefarious flat bed truck with a winch. Said driver pulls up to the vehicle, lowers the ramp, attaches the winch, and pulls the target vehicle onto the truck. Once vehicle is secured to the truck, they drive away. I've not contacted any manufacturers on this vulnerability, but I feel that disclosing it publicly may keep the public informed.
do we fire a bad judge?
Out of a cannon?
Ahh...but you are forgetting a few things:
1) You have to double the estimate of your Software Engineer. In MBA school they taught us to always double the software guy's estimate.
2) You haven't included any quality assurance!?! At least another $120k for a good QA team, plus the tools necessary for automated testing.
3) You've got 3 people on the team now, so you should include a PM. That's another $240k at least.
4) And you'll need a business analyst. Luckily, it should be easy to find one who isn't so "morality constrained". Say another $180k for them.
Just to be on the safe side, you should overestimate everything by 50% (yes, I know we already doubled the dev estimate, but this is what Joe's MBA School of Mastering Business Administration and Cheap Web Hosting taught me).
So overall, the cost is:
Software Engineer: 240K
Elecrical Engineer: 120K
QA: 120K
PM: 240K
BA: 180K
Subtotal: 900K
Total (add 50% for good luck): 1.3 Million.
Now you should add 15-20% per year for support/maintenance, etc. So it's 1.3 Million capital outlay, plus $260,000 per year.
Pretty pricy, but still....it's cheaper than SAP.
Now you should add 15-20% per year for support/maintenance, etc. So it's 1.3 Million capital outlay, plus $260,000 per year.
Ugh... that's way too expensive; you need to lay someone off.
Lay off one software engineer to save 40K
Cut everyone else's Salaries by 60%. Give the CEO a 500K bonus.
New cost tally:
Software Engineering: Outsourced to China: 10K
Elecrical Engineer: 48K
QA: 48K
PM: 96K
BA: 72K
Bonus for CEO: 500K
Discount due to cooking books: -200K
Subtotal: 574K
Total Money saved: 726K (56% cost reduction)