Friday Evening Links

said by ThrowDemsOut:

Then throw the ISP CEO's in jail until they comply.

said by ThrowDemsOut:

Then throw the ISP CEO's in jail until they comply.

said by Kearnstd:

Or get rid of what is truthfully a stupid law ment to benefit the corporate overlords.

said by ThrowDemsOut:

I thought the ISP CEO's were the corporate overlords.

Former Alltel customers will receive an offer for a new AT&T handset at no additional cost, and customers will be able to choose a device that is comparable to what they have now."

Additionally, AT&T said, the vast majority of customers will be able to keep their existing rate plans, and none will be required to assume an additional contract term.

said by Simba7:

We demonstrate that an attacker who is able to infiltrate virtually any Electronic Control Unit (ECU) can leverage this ability to completely circumvent a broad array of safety-critical systems. Over a range of experiments, both in the lab and in road tests, we demonstrate the ability to adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input—including disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, stopping the engine, and so on.

We also present composite attacks that leverage individual weaknesses, including an attack that embeds malicious code in a car’s telematics unit and that will completely erase any evidence of its presence after a crash.