For years I've been telling close friends who share my motorsports passion that we're going to start seeing cars getting hacked. I believe this to be especially true once cars are online and communicating with the "smart highway" system we're slowly approaching.Well, we're now starting to see the beginning of such hacks. Some research was uncovered earlier this year on how a car's ECU (electronic control unit) can be manipulated ...
Continue Reading...Google has provided us with yet another reason to keep our home wireless networks secure. Speaking of that, in case you're wondering where things stand, here's a great tool for finding out just how vulnerable your wireless network utilizing WEP and WPA-PSK can be.Our society's continued privacy invasion never ceases to amaze me. And we, by and large (especially with Google), just blow it off and move on....
Continue Reading...No need for us to think any more. Here's a great excerpt from a WSJ piece that underscores the issue:"In our world of infinite wants but finite resources, there are only two ways to allocate any good or service: either through prices and the choices of millions of individuals, or through central government planning and political discretion."You hear me say a lot that those in control of information security have ...
Continue Reading...Frederic Bastiat once said "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." In the same spirit, I want to send out a sincere and heartfelt Thanks! to all my fellow Americans who voted for "Hope" and "Change" putting a Marxist-loving ...
Continue Reading...Researchers at Duke University have found out how to use the basic features of cell phones to determine specific traits of the "space" you're in. Big Brother tracking at its finest. Once mainstream, it'll be at this point when I stop using a cell phone....
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