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  1. How about those backdoors on An Interview With Hacking Team's CEO · · Score: 1

    Exploits that were watermarked to the client that your sold them to.

    These are not tools that should ever be in police hands. Requiring that outside firms do this sort of thing and thus need to keep the paper trail of warrants that allowed each and every event. Require that they be audited and a special prosecutor look into any apparent/potential breaches of law and prosecute them to the full extent (no plea deals). Require that all security vulnerabilities be disclosed to the public in 30-90 days. Tighten up these warrants in the first place and full public disclosure of the same after a reasonable investigatory period say 90 days.

    The NSA etc should have these tools and a very big firewall between them and law enforcement.

  2. Re:tip of the iceburg on Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.4 Million Autos To Fix Remote Hack · · Score: 1

    Oh we know how, it requires time and thought.

    Now the ECM should be able to send things to the BCM and Infotainment gear. The reverse should be very limited, pretty much remote start and that should be thoroughly checked for sanity. Old school would be serial in one direction yea there are some hardware hacks but not that problematic.

  3. Re:It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permiss on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    Drones don't take birdshot well and it's safe downrange. Beanbag rounds and similar crowd control should be fine and something cops would already have.

  4. Re:Umm on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 1

    2 of those should not be on the road.

  5. Re:H1B visa reform on IT Workers Training Their Foreign Replacements 'Troubling,' Says White House · · Score: 1

    H1B Visa reform is easy cancel the program. There is not an issue getting IT talent there is getting cheap IT talent.

  6. Re:a thought on Massachusetts Examining Disability Access For Uber, Lyft · · Score: 1

    Yes they are in business they have to abide by the ADA there are no exceptions.

    Brought to you by Big G

  7. Cheap fission power today on Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Make it happen.

    Actually EV are one of the few loads that could work well with pv and wind, they are nearly all smart as in have significant computing power. So getting them to start/stop charging as directed by the utility companies and still be charged in time is feasible. Reversing the process is also rather interesting, as in allowing full battery to drain 10-20% back into the grid to avoid firing up peaking plants and recharge that before it's expected to be needed again.

    The legal hurdles are pretty big, insuring that the data is not accessible by anybody ever for starters.

  8. Re:Feels weird agreeing with scientologists on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 1

    It was early pre caffeine.

  9. Re:Feels weird agreeing with scientologists on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 2, Funny

    Religious == mentally ill, they believe some omnipotent father figure the realy bad ones claim it spoke to them etc etc.

  10. Re:Still don't trust SSDs on OCZ Toshiba Breaks 40 Cent Per GB Barrier With New Trion 100 Series SSD · · Score: 1

    They have, don't buy cheap junk and look into over provisioning..

  11. Re:what? on The IT Containers That Went To War · · Score: 4, Informative

    A secure reliable network is not something they have so you need computing resources that are more local. Sure a sat uplink is nice, the latency sucks and the bandwidth is pretty limited.

  12. So paying more in the long run is better? on Leased LEDs and Energy Service Contracts can Cut Electric Bills (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Was this some sort of lease to own scheme? Municipalities tend to pay very little for cash less than a leasing company. Are we surrounded by idiots with no impulse control or long term thinking to think leasing is cheaper?

  13. Re:Penalty for obvious false claims on Rumblefish Claims It Owns 'America the Beautiful' By United States Navy Band · · Score: 1

    To easy to be gamed, just put a flat fee to process a DMCA claim to the web site owner. That will stop the robotic spam and general harassment.

  14. Re: Routing around on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 1

    If I have the option I always pick 2 actual providers and stipulate the divergent fiber paths in the contracts.

    Mind you if I have my druthers I'm getting dark fiber so I can run my own C/DWDM over it in a metro setting.

    L1 Protected circuits are nice and all but the CPE box that binds them make it no longer fully redundant. So you still need two of them to let you L2/L3 redundant gear work properly.

  15. Re:Security and IPv6 on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 2

    No that broke the internet 20 years ago, lets not go back. Major firewalls have no ability to NAT ipv6.

  16. Re:It's the end of the world as we know it! on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    You realize that those old legacy spaces do not fall under that agreement?

  17. Re:It won't work that way on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Because ARIN/ICANN has about 0 authority over these old blocks, they were assigned well before all this you do not own they we can take them back to companies with enough lawyers to litigate them into oblivion (well into having to up the ICANN fee's so much people will look for an alternative like hey GE want to leave me a block).

  18. Re:Profit over safety on How the Next US Nuclear Accident Might Happen · · Score: 1

    Operating or not you still have a radioactive pile, you still have things that have been exposed to a lot of radioactive steam.

  19. Re:Routing around on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 1

    That costs money, A basic requirement of N+1 redundancy where N is any shared hardware or physical path or capacity. It's pretty trivial to technically to route around this sort of thing it's a significant cost to install diverse routes, buy redundant gear etc etc.

    I just turned up a pair of divergent 10ge metro e links. The vendor terminated both of them on the same CPE gear. So with divergent entrances etc etc etc they literally hopped the fiber from entrance A telco room to entrance B telco room to reuse the CPE switch. Telcos are great at trying to save a buck (the CPE gear is probably a month maybe two MRC) while failing to make things reliable.

  20. Re:Profit over safety on How the Next US Nuclear Accident Might Happen · · Score: 1

    Or you could just fsking engineer them so you do not need to shutdown the plant to do normal maintenance.

  21. Re:Dogfights?! What year is it?! on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    Consider by weight that one gunpod with a fraction of a second of ammo weights as much as 8 or so aim-120D's. It's also far cheaper to shoot than 10+ million in air to air missiles.

    Now by mission a gun is more versatile it can fire in ground support what that missile is worthless in that role.

  22. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    But the pork all that pork, see it well be the one thing for everybody don't design/build 4 planes spend 10x on one.

  23. Re:So what? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    You have obviously never worked with your average big corp windows admin.

  24. Re:Configuration management on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    Shellshock took less than 4 hours to fix across 20k hardware boxes and many many vm's. Most of that was testing the puppet manifest.

  25. Re:diluting the market on Aiming To Beat Tesla's "3", Chevy Tests and Teases a Cheaper 200-Mile Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Yes but to my knowledge the one button onstar interface does not support this.