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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: 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. Vamosi: Chris Roberts, aka Sidragon1, had reached a tipping point. The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger.