Everybody things biometric ("fingerprint") security is everything! A fingerprint is one of the easiest thing for an attacker to obtain -- we leave them on everything we touch. It's a trivial matter to reproduce to the degree required by those cheap sensors. (Mythbusters did this years ago with a simple thumb scanner door lock. I've done the same with the optical scanner on many laptops -- without having to lick the paper, even.)
That connected to where? A toilet isn't a magical device that makes poo disappear; that stuff goes somewhere. In a motorhome, that's a grey/black water tank that has to be emptied. (hint: there's nowhere on a Google campus to dump your RV waste tanks.) It's also something far too big to drive around town. A delivery truck isn't all that out-of-place in the corner of a parking lot, an RV sure as hell is.
New motorhomes are expensive. Likewise, leasing a new truck would cost more than buying a used one.
He needs a Smart Car for getting around, instead of playing delivery boy with his 20ft truck. A solar panel on the roof would certainly provide what little battery power he needs for lights and phone charging.
The problem with a self-storage type arrangement is the difficulty in securing them. For example, cutting through the sheet metal wall between units is simple, and there's no one there to (a) notice, or (b) try to stop you. Most storage units are filled with moderately useless junk, so no one bothers to break into them. When you have thousands of dollars worth of servers (and priceless data) in there, thieves will take notice.
(This isn't new, either. Unattended DC's have been broken into many times. Rarely making the national news, however.)
Nah. It just means the NSA is more secretive about it. (read: they already "have their ways"... waterboarding, spies, backdoors, weakened protocols, etc.)
If it has the keys (i.e. is one of the SSL endpoints), SURE. A random SSL connection between two nodes... not a fucking chance. (null certificate + man-in-the-middle don't count as that makes the firewall an endpoint)
Then why do I have a meter on my house? And office? And data center within that office? The "too cheap to meter" myth is complete bullshit. Meters are cheap. Power plants are REALLY expensive.
I remember that story. He was REPEATEDLY told to not do that. (plus, he was known to charge his car there when he had no business even being there.)
They've done for years in Europe. There's no reason US entities cannot install metered charging stations. (other than the obvious gimmick)
The instant the plug is removed from the car, the charging session is done, thus you cannot mooch by moving the plug. Also, the charger knows the identity of the device being charged.
Your definition of "frequently" is flawed. Toyota/Lexus guarantee the battery pack for 10 years. They've stated (possibly a lie) they've never had to replace a pack under warranty.
25mpg is a shit car. Try 35-40mpg with an efficient modern car. The math then comes out about even -- depending on the exact price of gas and power. Depending on the choice of car, the cost there will be about even.
The only real difference: range and refueling time. EV's are shit on both. If you drive short distances and have hours to charge in between, an EV might be a good choice. But the instant you need to go more than ~100 miles, you are just SOL.
Right, because electricity generation isn't a multi-billion dollar infrastructure. (based mostly on non-renewable resources -- coal, natural gas, uranium.) Yes, there are renewable sources (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, etc.), those are a very small portion of the grid, and they are exceedingly expensive. Take your house, and smug EV, off the grid and tell me how cheap electricity is.
Do you understand how a DDoS works? If they can find your server IP, they can flood it with more traffic than you can imagine. Very few bother with "request spam" type resource attacks -- because they are "trivial" to deal with. (spin up more VMs, offload to CDNs, etc.)
While true, the issue is one of ease of generating a (meaningful) input that matches the hash. That is, given a hash, one cannot instantly provide a plain text to generate it. (this can only be done today with rainbow tables -- i.e. try everything until there's a match, which is far from "quick".) Nor can one start with a given plaintext and alter it while not altering the hash. (an example of such exists for MD5, thus it's "broken", however, in reality, it is merely "week" as it's very difficult to do. No such example exists for SHA.)
Because chlorine is corrosive. In the concentrations one should be maintaining, it's not so bad. But prolonged exposure, even at the "correct" levels will cause corrosion. If you doubt this, take your finest stainless steel butter knife and drop it in the bottle of chlorine bleach; over time, it will rust. Just like a swimsuit will slowly fade (and degenerate) over a summer of being dunked in pool water every day.
So, what exactly do they think they'll find on their electronics that they could not have already transmitted across the internet to machines in the US? This is just fucking stupid. This isn't the 30's; we don't smuggle data in physical form like it's microfilm.
When you get tired of driving, get out of the driver's seat so someone else can drive. This is a few minute stop, not an hour or more. Refueling with gas (or diesel) takes minutes, not hours. Sure, you can stop for dinner, but I generally don't do that every 2 hours.
*I* rarely drive that far, but I know several people who drive much further several times a year. (family all over the country. flying is too expensive.) Pretty much my entire family is within 300mi.
That's a "transmission". Directly driving the wheels from the electric motor runs into a patent some idiot holds. (I recall Toyota being sued over it years ago. The Lexus AWD design has electric real wheels.)
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Diesel isn't flammable or explosive. (without other work, or agents in the mix.) However, it is a "hazardous material" when spilled.
Everybody things biometric ("fingerprint") security is everything! A fingerprint is one of the easiest thing for an attacker to obtain -- we leave them on everything we touch. It's a trivial matter to reproduce to the degree required by those cheap sensors. (Mythbusters did this years ago with a simple thumb scanner door lock. I've done the same with the optical scanner on many laptops -- without having to lick the paper, even.)
And you cannot "root" it either... because you don't know how, doesn't mean someone else hasn't figured it out.
That connected to where? A toilet isn't a magical device that makes poo disappear; that stuff goes somewhere. In a motorhome, that's a grey/black water tank that has to be emptied. (hint: there's nowhere on a Google campus to dump your RV waste tanks.) It's also something far too big to drive around town. A delivery truck isn't all that out-of-place in the corner of a parking lot, an RV sure as hell is.
New motorhomes are expensive. Likewise, leasing a new truck would cost more than buying a used one.
He needs a Smart Car for getting around, instead of playing delivery boy with his 20ft truck. A solar panel on the roof would certainly provide what little battery power he needs for lights and phone charging.
The problem with a self-storage type arrangement is the difficulty in securing them. For example, cutting through the sheet metal wall between units is simple, and there's no one there to (a) notice, or (b) try to stop you. Most storage units are filled with moderately useless junk, so no one bothers to break into them. When you have thousands of dollars worth of servers (and priceless data) in there, thieves will take notice.
(This isn't new, either. Unattended DC's have been broken into many times. Rarely making the national news, however.)
No they aren't.
Nah. It just means the NSA is more secretive about it. (read: they already "have their ways"... waterboarding, spies, backdoors, weakened protocols, etc.)
If it has the keys (i.e. is one of the SSL endpoints), SURE. A random SSL connection between two nodes... not a fucking chance. (null certificate + man-in-the-middle don't count as that makes the firewall an endpoint)
I guess nobody remembers "load control"? (devices CP&L actually REMOVED almost a decade ago around here -- because it cost them too much money.)
Then why do I have a meter on my house? And office? And data center within that office? The "too cheap to meter" myth is complete bullshit. Meters are cheap. Power plants are REALLY expensive.
I remember that story. He was REPEATEDLY told to not do that. (plus, he was known to charge his car there when he had no business even being there.)
They've done for years in Europe. There's no reason US entities cannot install metered charging stations. (other than the obvious gimmick)
The instant the plug is removed from the car, the charging session is done, thus you cannot mooch by moving the plug. Also, the charger knows the identity of the device being charged.
Your definition of "frequently" is flawed. Toyota/Lexus guarantee the battery pack for 10 years. They've stated (possibly a lie) they've never had to replace a pack under warranty.
25mpg is a shit car. Try 35-40mpg with an efficient modern car. The math then comes out about even -- depending on the exact price of gas and power. Depending on the choice of car, the cost there will be about even.
The only real difference: range and refueling time. EV's are shit on both. If you drive short distances and have hours to charge in between, an EV might be a good choice. But the instant you need to go more than ~100 miles, you are just SOL.
Right, because electricity generation isn't a multi-billion dollar infrastructure. (based mostly on non-renewable resources -- coal, natural gas, uranium.) Yes, there are renewable sources (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, etc.), those are a very small portion of the grid, and they are exceedingly expensive. Take your house, and smug EV, off the grid and tell me how cheap electricity is.
LATELY??? It's been a festering pile of fail from day one.
Do you understand how a DDoS works? If they can find your server IP, they can flood it with more traffic than you can imagine. Very few bother with "request spam" type resource attacks -- because they are "trivial" to deal with. (spin up more VMs, offload to CDNs, etc.)
While true, the issue is one of ease of generating a (meaningful) input that matches the hash. That is, given a hash, one cannot instantly provide a plain text to generate it. (this can only be done today with rainbow tables -- i.e. try everything until there's a match, which is far from "quick".) Nor can one start with a given plaintext and alter it while not altering the hash. (an example of such exists for MD5, thus it's "broken", however, in reality, it is merely "week" as it's very difficult to do. No such example exists for SHA.)
Translation: the 911 call center software is complete shit. (much like the UI of every major android phone)
Because chlorine is corrosive. In the concentrations one should be maintaining, it's not so bad. But prolonged exposure, even at the "correct" levels will cause corrosion. If you doubt this, take your finest stainless steel butter knife and drop it in the bottle of chlorine bleach; over time, it will rust. Just like a swimsuit will slowly fade (and degenerate) over a summer of being dunked in pool water every day.
Translation: more than enough to damage the equipment.
(plus, it's an added cost, both in time and materials.)
So, what exactly do they think they'll find on their electronics that they could not have already transmitted across the internet to machines in the US? This is just fucking stupid. This isn't the 30's; we don't smuggle data in physical form like it's microfilm.
When you get tired of driving, get out of the driver's seat so someone else can drive. This is a few minute stop, not an hour or more. Refueling with gas (or diesel) takes minutes, not hours. Sure, you can stop for dinner, but I generally don't do that every 2 hours.
*I* rarely drive that far, but I know several people who drive much further several times a year. (family all over the country. flying is too expensive.) Pretty much my entire family is within 300mi.
That's a "transmission". Directly driving the wheels from the electric motor runs into a patent some idiot holds. (I recall Toyota being sued over it years ago. The Lexus AWD design has electric real wheels.)