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  1. Is there a CERT for medical devices? on Ransomware Expected To Hit 'Lifesaving' Medical Devices In 2016 (forrester.com) · · Score: 1

    I know there is US-CERT, and then ICS-CERT, anything dedicated to just medical devices?

  2. You still need the ammunition! on Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    I don't see the whole "ban 3D printed guns" when its just an expensive paper weight without ammo. With ammo, you don't even a 3D printed gun, why bother? Just make a zip gun for a fraction of the cost.

  3. Yup, only a matter of time on Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Fines and or jail time for printing items that you don't have a right to the IP is only a few short years away. Unlike downloading music which you can kinda delete and hide, you now have a tangible object. Which is not only harder to get rid of it's easier for a jury to relate to and conceptualize the loss from said activities.

  4. You still need the ammunition on Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    A gun without ammo is just a paper weight. Furthermore, the ammo is worth more than the gun as you can just make a zip gun instead. Why buy a 3D printer, wait awhile for the gun to print, when for a fraction of the cost you can make zip gun? You can make so many zip guns for the cost of a 3D printer.

  5. You can get banned for prescribed meds on Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling · · Score: 1

    I remember this one, he was taking finistride for baldness, had a prescription, the medication provides no athletic enhancement. Strictly cosmetic.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/fashion/thursdaystyles/19skin2.html?_r=0

  6. Great story on this! on Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Montgomery County MD they use traffic camera vans that they drive out and park on the side of the road. Locals obviously know but outsiders do not. Any ways, out in Poolesville, MD they took the plate off of the traffic camera van, put it on a similar van, and sped past many times racking up huge points and fines.

  7. I need material for my PPTs! Especially to copy and paste. MOAR!!!

    I won't dismiss that we need both. But if we turn of their internet then they totally go underground and it'll be a little harder. We need to have them online so when one of the younger/boastful types slips we can catch it.

  8. We want them to use websites on US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That way we can gather intel! If we push them off of the internet and back onto the sneakernet then we will have a much harder time getting information. We'll need to find and infiltrate the cells, gain trust, let some incidents happen as a calculated risk in order to get deeper into the organization, etc.

    At least this way if they post we can determine the time, possible location, IP addresses, we can set up taps to capture PCAPs and further enumerate, the list goes on and on.

  9. With the success of JLENS, should we? on US Navy Is Planning To Launch a Squadron of Underwater Drones By 2020 (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    Or the F-35 or other "research projects" that the DoD seems to be spending money on that go nowhere? That "intelligent" fence along the border that costs millions but only covers 35 miles or something.

    Clearly, their are people who are looking to retire into a C-level position and are kicking these programs off.

  10. More than just UHF on Chinese Researchers Reveal Active Stealthy Material (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a documentary about it. No other flights in the air, clear sky, only the F117 was flying, and they changed the frequency so they could see the F117. They were able to manually track the F117 that way and were able to launch the missile.

  11. Over 70% of the population is white on Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    And, depending who does the counting white can be composed of Caucasian and Hispanic. Or not.

  12. Over 72% of the population is white on Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    It'll take awhile to level that out. So, just rounding to make it easier and assuming 50/50 splits on race we have:

    36% white male
    36% white female
    6.5% black male
    6.5% black female
    4.5% mixed male
    4.5% mixed female
    2.5% asian male
    2.5% asian female

    And then we have a really small amount of Native American/Alaskans/Hawaiins/etc...

    So, when we read these articles on how there is too many white males or whites in general in any job, we have to normalize for the existing populations.

  13. US has protections, its just convoluted on Why the Snowden Situation Shows 'Protected Disclosure' Is Critical (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In regards to Snowden, unless you can find a congressman or senator to help and forge away ahead for you, you have nothing. Plenty of other resources for other branches of the government, even for commercial businesses.

  14. It's more like he read the back cover on Book Review: the Network Security Test Lab: a Step-by-Step Guide · · Score: 1

    And wrote a review on the back cover. One can also get more informative information from Amazon reviews. For a formal book review, I was expecting some C&C.

  15. Kinda short review for 480 pages on Book Review: the Network Security Test Lab: a Step-by-Step Guide · · Score: 2

    I mean, did he read past page 100? This short of a review may have worked when I was in elementary school for a kids book but I think for a book with 480 pages and is supposed to be used to gain knowledge in the field of cyber security, we need more. This is more like an ad copy than anything.

    All these books list the common tools like nmap, wireshark, kali, and use virtualization for the lab, which book doesn't?

    What makes this first edition book of an already well covered topic worth my time and money?

  16. I'm worried about two things: entanglement and ESD on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    It already happened with entanglement where the tether took down some power lines. I could see it damaging houses and other tall structures like a water tower if it encounters is.

    ESD: I know aircraft build up static charge while flying so that worries me. If someone or something conductive were to touch the tether it could discharge and really hurt/kill a person or damage property.

  17. My guess is that it was for radar and other interrogative technologies and all communications was through the umbilical to the ground. However, it should have a GPS for timing and for positional accuracy in relation to the radar and what the radar sees when and where.

  18. Copper or FO cable? on Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Is anyone using any transcontinental copper any more? I would also assume that if it is possible to tap deep-sea FO cable, that they have done the same already.

    I'd like for someone who lays down FO for commercial work to chime in on the feasibility of either a passive or active tap of such deep-sea cable.

  19. Don't see the significance here... on Dutch Researchers Show Connected Cars Can Be Cheaply Tracked (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    “You can build a real-time tracking system using off-the-shelf devices with minimum sophistication,” says Petit.
    "However, there is nothing to stop anyone else from also tuning in to the messages using a wireless ‘sniffing station’."


    Yeah, we all pretty much knew this. Also, maybe the guy should try three stations instead of two, which is basically what people found out what worked best eons ago. Yawn.

  20. Yup, I concur on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    It was a ploy and I even stated so to others and they were aghast that I would insinuate such a thing. Low and behold, I was right. This country needs a social media holiday for like a week, maybe some critical thinking will reappear.

  21. I agree... on The Polymath: Lowell Wood Is America's New Top Inventor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's radically different to take something from a PPT into the real world. Even for something that some might consider to be "simple". When you have to make it from the ground up, certain things come into play that you never knew.

    It's like running a business. You think it's easy until you do.

  22. But, *has* he contributed to humanity? on The Polymath: Lowell Wood Is America's New Top Inventor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    I mean, looking at this company, they have a bunch of people making up ideas, goes to a staff of engineers and patent attorneys, and then they file. I wonder if they support the patent throughout the entire life of 22 years. Or, start with a provisional patent, test the waters before going forward, and then pay for the effort.

    In a way this is kinda of an abuse of the patent system.

  23. They did sell the Phateon here on Volkswagen Seeks To Repair Its Image By Focusing On Electric (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    But, it's a miserable vehicle. Good luck if you can find a used one as they all literally broke down after time and became unusable. In less than 5 years or something absurd.

  24. Not brute force on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 1

    None of the fun lab equipment is used. Well, maybe there is some brute force. But he's basically flashed the dongle to inject packets into the WLAN and take over via priority. This suppressed the other devices from transmitting so it's a little more elegant than jamming. If the attacker was in WLAN proximity, did not use an amplifier, then it would be hard to detect without packet inspection.

  25. It's not just brute force jamming on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 2

    Brute force is easy. From the article, he flashed the $15 dongle to take priority over the WLAN and prevents others from TX'ing. He's not just raising the noise floor. This makes it a little harder to detect. I guess if you had a spectrum analyzer or were looking at the RSSI you would see an abnormally strong signal. If you were paying attention to your WLAN, you'd see a device that -potentially- wasn't part of the WLAN broadcasting and supressing everyone else. I'm at work so I can't read more of it, but, I'd like to know if these were open networks with no type of WEP or WPA2 or MAC filtering versus ones that had that utilized. Be interesting if a rogue device could inject packets into the WLAN without seeing any data but just taking priority.

    "During his recent presentation at BruCON, Vanhoef explained that by modifying the dongle's firmware he was able to force the target networks to always give priority to the device's transmissions. If the device is made to transmit continuously, it means that all other devices won't be able to, making the channel effectively unusable.

    His attempts at selective jamming (blocking specific packets) have been less successful, and he concluded that 100% reliable selective jamming is not possible."