If I can call OnStar when my Engine light is flashing and they can tell me that my gas cap is loose, and be right, then the system is hackable. Remember, I'm not talking about rooting the car, I'm just talking about getting somewhere you aren't supposed to be.
But that is only valid for HDTV that is over the air. Satellite or Cable consumers - or those not watching HDTV - don't have access to the Broadcast Flag. Check it out at Slate. There is an interesting note at the bottom about buying an HDTV card for your PC before the boom lowers, too.....
Of course the hope is that the car jackers (muscle-between-the-ear types that ply their trade via fear) and crackers (script kiddies that are afraid of their own shadow) don't get together to make this kind of arrangement a reality. But it always seems that this does happen somehow when the almighty buck is concerned.
Phil Agre from UCLA has an article about this at http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/car.html. As he puts it: 'Imagine the consequences as your car goes on the Internet. We're used to viruses in our desktop computers and we've heard about viruses in our palmtops. Next we'll have viruses in our cars, and then we'll have them in our pacemakers. Wireless communications is especially asking for it, and a public-spirited lawyer once mailed me a package of documents from a California Air Resources Board plan to equip all new cars with a device that would upload the car's identification number and emissions equipment status in plaintext whenever it was pinged by a roadside transponder. Wrong!'
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I actually got a blue CyberTool 41 from my father. How kewl is That!!!
Actually, that was my headline, not theirs. It should have been UI, you're right. I submitted to the pressures of Marketing. I thought the term Web would have more pull, and that would make up for it's inaccuracy.
And it might have worked! You read it well enough to know that it wasn't quite accurate!
That's exactly why. I agree that there are no rules, but there have been expectations built over the years - I've been writing web since 1990, and they sure FEEL like rules.
There are no rules ar/. either, but a person sure gets flamed if they don't meet the invisible expectations! That's true of the internet as a whole, I believe, and those invisible expectations are changing somewhat.
and we'll be listening to completely digitally generated music on the FM dial. Just mix in a little Mandelbrot Music with the words of this fine program, and we are good to go.
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If I can call OnStar when my Engine light is flashing and they can tell me that my gas cap is loose, and be right, then the system is hackable. Remember, I'm not talking about rooting the car, I'm just talking about getting somewhere you aren't supposed to be.
But that is only valid for HDTV that is over the air. Satellite or Cable consumers - or those not watching HDTV - don't have access to the Broadcast Flag. Check it out at Slate. There is an interesting note at the bottom about buying an HDTV card for your PC before the boom lowers, too .....
Could be worse, we could be talking about a package to upgrade Linux to Windows 2003.
Of course the hope is that the car jackers (muscle-between-the-ear types that ply their trade via fear) and crackers (script kiddies that are afraid of their own shadow) don't get together to make this kind of arrangement a reality. But it always seems that this does happen somehow when the almighty buck is concerned.
Phil Agre from UCLA has an article about this at http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/car.html. As he puts it: 'Imagine the consequences as your car goes on the Internet. We're used to viruses in our desktop computers and we've heard about viruses in our palmtops. Next we'll have viruses in our cars, and then we'll have them in our pacemakers. Wireless communications is especially asking for it, and a public-spirited lawyer once mailed me a package of documents from a California Air Resources Board plan to equip all new cars with a device that would upload the car's identification number and emissions equipment status in plaintext whenever it was pinged by a roadside transponder. Wrong!'
I actually got a blue CyberTool 41 from my father. How kewl is That!!!
Actually, that was my headline, not theirs. It should have been UI, you're right. I submitted to the pressures of Marketing. I thought the term Web would have more pull, and that would make up for it's inaccuracy.
And it might have worked! You read it well enough to know that it wasn't quite accurate!
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That's exactly why. I agree that there are no rules, but there have been expectations built over the years - I've been writing web since 1990, and they sure FEEL like rules.
/. either, but a person sure gets flamed if they don't meet the invisible expectations! That's true of the internet as a whole, I believe, and those invisible expectations are changing somewhat.
There are no rules ar
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and we'll be listening to completely digitally generated music on the FM dial. Just mix in a little Mandelbrot Music with the words of this fine program, and we are good to go.