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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. I think the easiest way to describe it is in talking to different folks who are not familiar with DEF CON, you know, any conference has presentations. And his work certainly made the evening news.

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On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter

John Battelle's Searchblog

Another wonderful example is the Global Positioning System (GPS), once the realm only of the United States military, but now the driver of countless commercial opportunities around the globe (again thanks to decisions made during the Clinton administration). Comcast has no say in the matter ( so far ).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

The actress was also responsible for developing the underlying technology that is present today in Wi Fi and Bluetooth. He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. A short time later, they completed their design and presented it to the US Patent Office.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.

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Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag

Krebs on Security

With Google’s WPS, a wireless device submits a list of nearby Wi-Fi access point BSSIDs and their signal strengths — via an application programming interface (API) request to Google — whose WPS responds with the device’s computed position. UMD Associate Professor David Levin and Ph.D