rental cars

yuck...

wired thumbs its nose at the dmca

kudos.

chip and pin

now that chip and pin has been proven insecure, does that mean all the cases where people tried to sue their "unhackable" banks for stolen money can have their cases reopened? 

maybe this will prompt a liability shift back to the banks for chip and pin 2.0...

in search of strong infosec candidates (pci qsa)

if you're an infosec badass, know pci inside and out, are good at interfacing with clients, and like to travel... drop me a line.

more on transportation secretary lahood

there he goes again, trying his damndest to stop carmakers from building cars people want to buy. 

oh.. and say the title of this post out loud.

tsa's new genital visualizer (nsfw)

awesome

wired threat level: hackers steal millions in carbon credits

destroying a company

transportation secy ray lahood tells us to stop driving recalled toyotas immediately.  toyota stock plummets in response. 

this sure would reek of impropriety if, say, the government owned a competing car company or two, but that's not even the big issue... i wonder what's really going on that a news story had to be manufactured and a company had to be destroyed just to keep the masses busy and panicked. 

terror defined @merriam-webster.

i can't decide which is funnier

my tablet predictions (if there even is a tablet)

• no home button
• absolutely wild multitouch
• less storage than you might expect
• a push for paid services and storage
  
• who knows, maybe even fingerprint authentication

doh! curbed the front of my koenigsegg door again.

what were they thinking making the doors almost touch the ground when open? i have to park miles away from the curb with this thing!

nuts.

apple vs google

apple mulls switching to microsoft search - this shows you whom they really perceive as a threat.

who will come out on top in the long run?

throttle overrides?!

no more brake boosting for you! 

it's not just the body scanners that can store images

i was wondering how long it would take: cnn and wired threat level reported today that airport body scanners can store & forward pictures of your junk.

what about your bags though? check this out:

If an X-ray screener identifies a bag that requires a secondary manual search, NDS enables the search operator to reconcile the scanned bag image (and highlighted threat objects) with the contents of the actual bag.

so there's an image archive of all our carry-ons...

(edit) 1/11: from pogowasright: epic posts tsa documents on body scanners

reflexes

this president has an impressive patellar reflex.