The question is: can my Ethical Hackers do the same? (Can we try it
on your VW?)
Volkswagen
owners can use Siri Shortcuts to unlock their car
Obviously it’s a variation of the old “these
are not the droids you are looking for” Jedi mind trick. No
evidence of attack means no budget for defense. Remember, it’s the
President they’re worried about.
Russian
Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One Really Knows Why
After unleashing widespread cyberattacks and
disinformation warfare on the U.S. during the 2016 presidential
election, Russia’s trolls and hackers mostly appeared to have sat
on the sidelines during the campaign ahead of last week’s midterm
elections.
No one is sure why.
Another concern for developers.
… It falls upon lawmakers to create laws that
protect consumers. While the US government is largely absent in this
area of consumer protection, the state of California has recently
stepped
in
and started regulating the Internet of Things, or "IoT"
devices sold in the state and the effects will soon be felt
worldwide.
California's new SB
327 law, which will take effect in January 2020, requires all
"connected devices" to have a "reasonable security
feature." The good news is that the term "connected
devices" is broadly defined to include just about everything
connected to the internet. The not-so-good news is that "reasonable
security" remains defined such that companies trying to avoid
compliance can argue that the law is unenforceable.
Sound familiar?
WhatsApp
overwhelmed by volume of fake news spread in India...
A lack of trust in the mainstream media has led to
dissemination of a large amount of false digital information on
social networks, but in India it appears things have taken a turn for
the worst, according to BBC researchers.
… WhatsApp is having a hard time ending or
controlling disinformation, found
the BBC World Service. The practice is linked to growing Hindu
nationalism and the dropping price of mobile phone data, as well as
strong encryption behind WhatsApp communication. It’s not uncommon
for Indians to put more faith in what an acquaintance says, than in
the traditional media.
… Research leader Dr Santanu Chakrabarti says
the current Indian prime-minister, known for validating Hindu
nationalism, has created the belief that it is their duty to spread
the information through the group-messaging app, as they assume it
has already been checked and confirmed.
“They are effectively looking for validation of
their belief systems,” he said. “On these platforms, then,
validation of identity
trumps verification of the fact.”
The revision of the auto industry or a whole new
ballgame?
Waymo to
Start First Driverless Car Service Next Month
… Waymo, the secretive subsidiary of Google’s
parent company, Alphabet Inc., is planning to launch the world’s
first commercial driverless car service in early December, according
to a person familiar with the plans. It will operate under a new
brand and compete directly with Uber and Lyft.
Waymo is keeping the new name a closely guarded
secret until the formal announcement, said the person, who asked not
to be identified because the plans haven’t been made public.
… When Waymo starts its commercial program,
there will be backup drivers in some cars to help ease customers into
the service and to take over if necessary, according to the person
familiar with the plans. The fleet of heavily modified Chrysler
Pacifica minivans will drive themselves more than 99.9 percent of the
time, based on data from Waymo’s test program submitted to
California regulators.
An interesting (if somewhat comic book formatted)
article to encourage my Architecture students to consider the
difficulties of playing catch-up.
Walmart has
apparently been worried about Amazon for more than 15 years — here
are all of the changes it has made to keep up in the online-shopping
battle
Confusion by over-thinking? Trying to control
every uncontrollable thing?
… Take the global music hit “Despacito”.
This video contains multiple copyrights, ranging from sound
recording to publishing rights. Although YouTube has agreements with
multiple entities to license and pay for the video, some of the
rights holders remain unknown. That uncertainty means we might have
to block videos like this to avoid liability under article 13.
Multiply that risk with the scale of YouTube, where more than 400
hours of video are uploaded every minute, and the potential
liabilities could be so large that no company could take on such a
financial risk.
No longer approximate.
Say Au
Revoir To That Hunk Of Metal In France That Has Defined The Kilogram
… Now, after researchers spent years creating
an elaborate new kind of weighing machine called a Kibble
balance, it's finally the kilogram's turn.
I wonder how many of my students already have this
App.
Cloudflare’s
1.1.1.1 App Makes Your Phone’s Internet Faster and Private
… With 1.1.1.1, Cloudflare is letting your
phone use their 1.1.1.1
DNS resolver to connect to the internet. That’s where the
faster and privacy parts come in. Cloudflare expects you to get a
faster connection to 1.1.1.1, which should lead to faster connections
to websites or apps or whatever your internet connection is trying to
do.
I’ve never heard of such a thing, but I want to
look it over.
The Voice
of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’
Claire Lehmann’s
online magazine, Quillette, prides itself on publishing ‘dangerous’
ideas other outlets won’t touch. How far is it willing to go?
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