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wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100M Volkswagens

These security issues are not exclusive to computer systems in cars. A valet recently used my physical car key to unlock a different car. (Same make, different model.) He only realized he was in the wrong car when the ignition wouldn't turn.

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Cantor was wrong: there are no infinite sets

has to be

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: The Outsider Artist Who Built His Own Private “Disneyland”

Dismaland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismaland

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Mathematical Notation Is Awful

It might be in Florida. http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/01/468695376/french-s...

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: GitHub was down

But a human sets it in motion.

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: GitHub was down

There's only so far tin can and string will go.

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: GitHub was down

All DOS are because of humans?

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: A Cute Internet Star Flirts. All He Wants Is Your Password

Why would they? What if he comes back to post another video?

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: A Cute Internet Star Flirts. All He Wants Is Your Password

Kids these days.

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Minnesota woman broadcasts police stop and shooting on Facebook Live

fb probably shut it down. It had footage of a shooting. Very sad and grim stuff.

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: JUST EAT delivery robots

Not in Philly, at least.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/hitchhiking-robot-safe-...

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Readsure – Pass a quiz that shows you read an article before commenting

I was reminded of this one, instead. https://xkcd.com/481/

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook

Everything else aside, the first Guardian article linked to under "Miscellaneous" [1] suggests that it will take more than a well reasoned argument to get people to leave facebook.

[1] (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/05/facebook-...)

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Memtype: open source USB password keeper

Wouldn't a 4 digit PIN be really fast to hack? And then all of your passwords are belong to us?

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Stack overflow command line client

From a browser, you can also use bangs to search a specific site from duckduckgo. Stackoverflow is !so.

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: SMS Spoofing with Python for Good and Evil

Is there any similar service in the US?

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Google Teapot

Can it make coffee?

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people you meet

It's a neat idea, and yea, support for adding a photo would be nice.

Is there a way to do self hosting? There's no indication whatsoever about what happens to the data that users might enter, and many would see this as a privacy concern.

Is the source code available somewhere?

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Security Win: Burr-Feinstein Proposal Declared “Dead” for This Year

Let's hope it stays dead.

wckronholm | 9 years ago | on: Google patent: Glue would stick pedestrian to self-driving car after collision

Getting a patent with no real intent of building a product should not be possible.