Hacking the self-driving world. (Clear military
application!)
Researchers
Stealthily Manipulate Road Navigation Systems
A
team of researchers from Virginia Tech, the University of Electronic
Science and Technology of China, and Microsoft Research has
discovered a new and stealthy GPS spoofing method that has been
proven to be highly effective against road navigation systems.
GPS
spoofing has been around for many years. This attack method can in
theory be used to trick drivers into going to an arbitrary location,
but in practice the instructions provided by the targeted navigation
system often contradict the physical road (e.g. make a left turn on a
highway), making it less likely to work in a real-world scenario.
Researchers
now claim to have discovered a more efficient method that is less
likely to raise suspicion. Using this technique an attacker could
trick the victim into following an incorrect route (e.g. cause
ambulances and police cars to enter a loop route), deviate a targeted
vehicle to a specific location, or cause the target to enter a
dangerous situation (e.g. enter a highway the wrong way).
For
the attack to work, the attacker needs to know the target’s
approximate destination and the most likely victim of this technique
would be an individual who is not familiar with the area.
Timely course. Not free, but there is a free
trial.
New
Pluralsight Course: The State of GDPR - Common Questions and
Misperceptions
… We wanted to produce this course now –
after GDPR was in action – so that we could have a narrative on
what we're learning since it's come into effect. There's a million
resources telling everyone all the things they should and should not
do (and a good whack of those disagreeing with each other too), this
course is a fresh take on things and is far more focused on what's
actually happening than it is speculating how the regs will be
enforced.
The future for all those transportation services?
How
Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First
Harri Nieminen decided it was time to replace his
car with an app.
He had owned a car in Helsinki for the past nine
years but recently found he’d lost the patience for parking on
crowded city-center streets, especially in snowy months. His
almost-new Opel Astra had been sitting mostly idle, so he decided to
get rid of it. This lifestyle shift came about with the help of an
app offering unlimited rides on public transit, access to city bikes,
cheap short-distance taxis and rental cars—all for one monthly fee.
… The concept that reshaped Nieminen’s
transportation life has an unwieldy name in the industry: mobility as
a service, or MaaS. It may become the biggest revolution in personal
travel since Ford Motor Co.’s Model T popularized private ownership
of motor vehicles a century ago.
The elements of mobility-as-a-service products are
already familiar digital services—trip planning, ride hailing, car
sharing—alongside the seamless booking, ticketing and payment
common to every kind of mobile app. Instead of using one app for
rides and local government apps for public transport, Whim
offers a single app with a single fee. Users get to pick the most
efficient way to get between any two places.
The aim is to eventually make personal cars
obsolete by offering people a superior experience. “Your mobile
operator can get you all your calls and all the mobile data you
need,” said Sampo Hietanen, chief executive officer of MaaS Global
Oy, the company behind Whim. “We’re trying to solve the big
question in transportation: What do we need to offer to compete with
car ownership?”
The cost of cars accounts for as much as 85
percent of personal transportation spending, according to Hietanen,
even though the average car is used only 4 percent of the time. That
implies a great potential for more efficient allocation: fewer cars
shared by a larger group of part-time users.
The roots of privacy are rather tangled. An
interesting read.
What Roe v.
Wade Means for Internet Privacy
Roe v. Wade left
Americans with the idea that privacy is something we can expect as
citizens. But does the SCOTUS consider privacy a constitutional
right?
Trying to legitimize Bitcoins or at least make it
understandable?
IBM Is
Helping Launch a Price-Stable Cryptocurrency Insured By the FDIC
The latest attempt to
create a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar, or "stablecoin,"
combines 21st-century technology with an invention from the Great
Depression.
Announced
Tuesday, a startup called Stronghold is launching USD Anchor, which
will run on the rails of the Stellar blockchain and use its consensus
mechanism to verify transactions. The token will be backed
one-for-one with U.S. dollars held at a Nevada-charted trust company
called Prime Trust, which in turn will deposit the cash at banks
insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
IBM is partnering on
the initiative with Stronghold, and said it will explore various use
cases for the token with its financial institution clients.
Perspective.
Why Bank of
America branches are disappearing
Bank of America (BAC)
announced on Monday that deposits made on mobile devices like
smartphones and tablets are outpacing those made at branches for the
first time.
Customers logged into Bank of America's mobile app
1.4 billion times last quarter.
… Bank of America's vast network of branches
fell to 4,411 at the end of June, compared with 4,542 a year ago.
The company has 1,720 fewer
branches than it did in June 2008. That's a 28%
drop.
Something for my students to play with? Can we do
it right?
FBI Wish
List: An App That Can Recognize the Meaning of Your Tattoos
EFF:
“We’ve long known that the FBI is heavily invested in developing
face recognition technology as a key component in its criminal
investigations. But new
records, obtained by EFF through a Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, show that’s not the only
biometric marker the agency has its eyes on. The FBI’s wish list
also includes image recognition technology and mobile devices to
attempt to use tattoos to
map out people’s relationships and identify their beliefs.
EFF began looking at tattoo
recognition technology in 2015, after discovering that the
National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST), in
collaboration with the FBI, was promoting experiments using tattoo
images gathered involuntarily from prison inmates and arrestees. The
agencies had provided a dataset of thousands of prisoner tattoos to
some 19 outside groups, including companies and academic
institutions, that are developing image recognition and biometric
technology. Government officials instructed the groups to
demonstrate how the technology could be used to identify people by
their tattoos and match tattoos with similar imagery. Our
investigation found that NIST was targeting people who shared
common beliefs, with a heavy emphasis on religious imagery. NIST
researchers, we discovered, had also bypassed basic oversight
measures. Despite rigid requirements designed to protect prisoners
who might be used as subjects in government research, the researchers
failed to seek sign-off from the in-house watchdog before embarking
on the project…”
I might use this when my handouts reach critical
mass. Hardcover, paperback or ebook…
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