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ccnafr··on Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
Probably because it's 40-pages long.

There's even a better summary of the entire research in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1112064046369591296

Research is pretty smart, but highly impractical for real world attacks.

It's also been patched since 2017, with additional patches in 2018. So, it's also impractical because it doesn't work anymore.

ccnafr··on Doctors Wired a Prosthetic Hand Directly into a Woman’s Nerves
On background, this was how prosthetics were always intended to run. Previous attempts were all disasters, as connection points tended to get infected and kills nerves in hands for good.
ccnafr··on Man Plans to Retire to Holiday Inn Instead of Nursing Home Because It’s Cheaper
As someone who's facing this with his parents. Sadly, it's true. Nursing homes prices have tripled over the last five years.
ccnafr··on Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show
This article appears to be blog spam after an interview ZDNet had with the researchers, which seems to include a lot more info on this.

Appears Intel is trying too underpin this as unexploitable (shocker!!!), citing a patch from last year. Researchers say that there are multiple ways to turn this debug mode on besides those.

ccnafr··on New LTE vulnerabilities discovered by KAIST [pdf]
From my read, the research was carried out inside a test network provided by the telcos that agreed to help.
ccnafr··on New LTE vulnerabilities discovered by KAIST [pdf]
If you're looking for a good summary, this is the only article I was able to find: https://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-find-36-new-securi...
ccnafr··on Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
Twitter has done this for years.
ccnafr··on Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/computer-geek-nickname...

Sophos is just re-hashing the DM report. I hate blog spam.

ccnafr··on Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds
No offense, but nothing you have theoreticized here can be proven to be true.

It seems to me that you've created your own conspiracy theory about the AV industry.

I don't see how this study can be disproven. "Security apps" detected themselves as malware. I'd say calling them "fraudulent" is quite accurate.

Just because you wrote along comment that doesn't make it right or accurate. You're way off base.

ccnafr··on Blackmail Should Be Illegal
Spoiler alert: it already is!
ccnafr··on A startup says used tissues are safer than vaccinations. Should you trust it?
This is one of the dumbest ideas I've heard in a while. Won't those tissues spread more than one disease?

Vaccines have been developed for a reason.

ccnafr··on Keith Flint, Prodigy front man, dead at 49
RIP Loved this guy and his band
ccnafr··on Front Page of Hacker News in 5 Easy Steps (2016)
lol
ccnafr··on Alleged Coinomi exploit shows how easy it is to have Bitcoin stolen
It's not an exploit. It's a vulnerability baked in the wallet app source code. There's a difference.

The article seems to have been written by someone who has a poor grasp on security terms.

I'd recommend reading the researcher's write-up and avoid getting the wrong idea of what's happening there: https://www.avoid-coinomi.com/

ccnafr··on California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it
Than why is it keeping it in the first place?
ccnafr··on Intuit Notice of Unauthorized Access to Tax Returns [pdf]
Even if one account is compromised, they have to send that notification. So I wouldn't be so worried about it. Some credentials stuffing attack gained access to a few accounts protected by a password like 123456. TurboTax has 2FA support.
ccnafr··on Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers
Actually that's the API feature that current ad blockers were using.
ccnafr··on Why CISA Issued Our First Emergency Directive
tl, dr: Because Iranian hackers were hijacking DNS records for government sites.
ccnafr··on Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers
What are you talking about when you say "they never said they wanted to limit this"?

This whole scandal was because the DeclarativeNetRequest API was limiting request access. That's the MAIN REASON the uBlock Origin author complained about.

ccnafr··on Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed
The researcher should share this database with some human rights orgs. This way they can prove people were alive up to some points before disappearing into thin air.
ccnafr··on Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues
I knew this comment was coming :)))
ccnafr··on Russia considers 'unplugging' from internet
Source, Russian: https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/08/02/2019/5c5c51069...
ccnafr··on Russian islands declare emergency after mass invasion of polar bears
I never knew polar bears ran in packs. That's odd.
ccnafr··on Russia considers 'unplugging' from internet
BBC coverage links to ZDNet article: https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-to-disconnect-from-the-...
ccnafr··on Ask HN: How bad is freelancing?
I agree. Freelancing has started to mean "I work for cheap rates and you can swindle me by not paying" for the last few years.
ccnafr··on Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account
Find a non-profit and sue Google in Europe. You'll be surprised how quickly they'll reinstate your account. Happened to a friend.
ccnafr··on New Tonga island 'now home to flowers and owls'
That was fast
ccnafr··on New Tonga island 'now home to flowers and owls'
First one to plant a flag in it. As always.
ccnafr··on New Tonga island 'now home to flowers and owls'
I wonder how much time until the ocean dumps some plastic waste on those beaches
ccnafr··on The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser
Quite a lot, actually. Most of the modern HTML5 is geared towards web and mobile apps, really. You can build most sites with old HTML4. Unless peeps are using a big-name CMS, most sites are still running on old HTML standards.
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