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  1. Re:not the real question on Chris Roberts Is the Least Important Part of the Airplane Hacking Story · · Score: 1

    Please tell, where can one find one of these things which accurately simulates in flight entertainment systems, flight control systems and the interconnection between them? I mean, apart from being an airline or aircraft manufacturer employee.

  2. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    Why don't you simply read the search warrant? The aircraft he was on for the Denver-Chicago leg flew one more leg, to Philadelphia, where it was searched.

    You apparently don't understand how this works. They built a case for "probable cause" to get a search warrant, and the damaged/tampered box was only one part of that. He had previously claimed to have tampered and accessed the plane's network on flights, had made a tweet which implied that he was connected during this flight, and had the necessary equipment in his possession. They believe that the results of the search may be able to prove that he did in fact access the SEB. The burden is much less to obtain a warrant than to convict.

  3. Re:So, we're going to get Toyota clones? on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 1

    "it wasn't Windows, that sparked the Clone market, it was Good old DOS."

    No, it was the availability of a clean room reverse-engineered BIOS (and that there were no limiting hardware patents on the IBM PC). First in-house by PC companies such as Columbia Data Products and Compaq, but later made available to all comers by companies like Award.

    Clones did not depend on MS-DOS, since PC-DOS was readily available for use, along with CPM/86 and others. MS-DOS became popular because it was much cheaper for clone manufacturers to license it from Microsoft than to purchase PC-DOS from IBM at retail, but it was not required to make a clone.

  4. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    First, you argue a point which depends on the FBI following their policy. When you're informed that the policy is exactly the opposite, you change to arguing that the FBI isn't following their policy.

    Come back when you have some hard facts.

  5. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    Makes no difference. The policy to record interviews was in effect when he was interviewed. You claimed they had a policy against recording interviews, when the fact is that their policy was exactly the opposite. Now you're trying to argue a red herring.

  6. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 2

    He was in seat 3A, which is in 1st Class on a 737. He had previously claimed to have done it 15 to 20 times. And, of course, he's only under reasonable suspicion of tampering with it on that specific flight, which is why they sought a search warrant.

  7. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 2
  8. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    "PEBKAC"

    AKA "there's a nut loose behind the keyboard."

  9. Re:Affirmative Action on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    Aha! But the only legitimate argument for such racial discrimination is based on diversity, not reparation.

    Why such racial diversity contributes to academia is left as an exercise for the reader. It seems to me to be a claim that different races think differently. Perhaps Harvard considers itself a social, and not an academic, institution.

  10. Yep. Sounds like his lawyer has told him that lying to law enforcement is obstruction of justice, so he's being careful about up what he's claiming.

    If he did the work on a "simulated system," he'd be able to describe it fully - where is this full In Flight Entertainment / Flight Control system, who has it, and where/how did he access it? My thought is only an aircraft manufacturer or perhaps an airline would have such, and it's pretty clear he doesn't have that kind of relationship with either.

  11. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if he ACTUALLY did any such thing the FAA would have issued a notice requiring aircraft WiFi

    You obviously didn't read the search warrant.

    First, it states that in previous interviews (in Feb, and I'll bet the FBI has audio records to support that), he had described connecting to the network using Ethernet connected to a "Seat Electronic Box" ("SEB") which is mounted under the seats. So, WiFi has nothing to do with it. In the same interview, he said he understood the legal ramifications and would not access airplane networks.

    The warrant goes on to state that the FBI inspected the SEBs around the seat he occupied on his 4/15 Denver to Chicago leg, and found signs of damage and tampering.

    That, along with his history and the tweet regarding being on the flight and suggesting he could tamper with the flight systems seems to me to be reasonable grounds for a warrant.

    And, I hope he's prosecuted. Also in the Feb. interview, he admitted actually tampering with flight control systems. It's one thing to find a vulnerability and try to get it addressed. It's quite another to actually make use of that vulnerability during a flight, placing the public at risk.

  12. Re:Seriously...what about net neutrality? on European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google · · Score: 1

    timothy can think? Now, that would be news for nerds!

  13. Re:Seems tempting, but terrible. on European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google · · Score: 3, Informative

    " this almost requires them to play MITM with certs, inspect your traffic, etc."

    Not necessarily. One fairly effective ad blocker on Android works entirely by using the hosts file to point ad sites to loopback. Requires root, though. But for an ISP to simply break DNS for ad sites would be pretty simple. No cert treachery or DPI required, and phones typically don't give the user any control over which DNS servers they use.

  14. Re:USA in good company... on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    Time to cue up the "what if he turns out to be innocent?" cruft.

  15. Re:Starlight Glimmer 2016 on House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data · · Score: 1

    Does Starlight promise blackjack and hookers?

  16. Short answer... on Ask Slashdot: Security Certification For an Old Grad? · · Score: 1

    the security and the kqueue functionality; not to mention the rest of the virtual clients crash that I have tried. I figure that trying to sell the service idea, even if I can't get a job, when they ask what qualifies me to have such ideas, I can say I have the credentials. I just got issued the patent this year. What would you do in this situation to be a viable candidate for employment?

    Take some English classes.

  17. Re:Slashdot Poll?!? on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    So, you don't consider the Nobel prize winner for physics and Director Emeritus of Fermilab who gave it that name, Leon Lederman, to be a physicist? Or perhaps you've simply never heard of him.

  18. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 1

    "It is A criterion"

    No, it isn't. I've already provided a link elsewhere here which spells out the requirements to be an FSA eligible institution. The rate of default is immaterial.

  19. Re:Slashdot Poll?!? on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    So, all the physicists who call the Higgs bosun "the God Particle" are magical thinkers?

  20. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 1

    If the loan delinquency rate is the criteria, there are over 600 FSA qualified institutions with worse rates than ITT, including a lot of public community colleges.

  21. Re:Slashdot Poll?!? on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    "So, to some ... "god" is the laws of physics? Why assign the nature of existence a personality,"

    Try to follow along. That's exactly what "Mother Nature" is.

  22. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 1

    "The loans don't exist because school is prohibitively expensive. I finished school"

    They apparently didn't teach reading comprehension or logic.

  23. Re:Slashdot Poll?!? on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Whoosh. To some, "god" is not some intelligent deity, but the explanation for why things are. What makes 1+1=2? Why are the laws of physics what they are? Why did the big bang (if you believe that theory) happen?

    In exactly what way is trying to describe physical reality with mathematics not "magical thinking?" Have you ever seen or felt a quark, or do you simply have faith that a mathematical system with some arbitrary level of self-consistency actually describes reality? Didn't Godel demonstrate that even math requires faith in the unprovable?

  24. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "A better question may be, why do "federally-guaranteed loans" need to exist in the first place..."

    Exactly. If the question is "Why is higher education so expensive," that is the answer.

  25. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 2

    If student loans are available for other privately run schools, such as Stanford, MIT and Yale, why should ITT be any different?

    I'm guessing your question wasn't real, but a political comment. Here's the real answer, anyway, which was found using a simple Google search. Yes, there are standards for Federal student aid programs.