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by kw71 12y ago
I have to say that I find the artificial shortening of life of otherwise durable hardware to be disgusting. We have enough trash in our world.
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by kw71 12y ago
> The only other explanation I can think of is that Harris has deals with various telcos to get the encryption keys beforehand, which would be worth obscuring. I was thinking today about how countermeasures could be developed. A 'G
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by kw71 12y ago
I agree with you that a typical 3mm/5mm LED will not be effective. There are some very high power LEDs nowadays, and I've just tried a 2003-vintage IR spotlight, made from four large LEDs, against the cheap cameras around the hou
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by kw71 12y ago
According to the datasheet [1] the transceiver outputs -5dBm. (This is 5dB less than 1 mW.) This specific device is not analyzed enough to reveal whether or not there is an additional amplifier, which "could" be made from a singl
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by kw71 12y ago
It works fine and this is commonly their connectivity arrangement. This one is remarkable because it has some UHF radio hardware. They don't need to have a network of transponders: one will work just fine if the victim regularly come
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by kw71 12y ago
I think you shouldn't point the leds at your face, but away from it, so that the light has a chance to shine directly into the camera sensor.
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by kw71 12y ago
Where I live, you can be fined $1000 and confined for 1 year for misdemeanors, including many driving offenses such as exceeding 85mph or 20mph above the speed limit. These punishments can be dealt by the District Court, which is not a cou
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by kw71 12y ago
I wonder if there is anything in statute or precedent that prevents this from being applied in the United States. There should, of course, be a minimum fine because it is possible to live without "income." For instance, driving 1
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by kw71 12y ago
This is why prosecutors and police have to respect the rule of law. When they don't, criminals go unpunished.
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by kw71 12y ago
Without knowing your locale, it's tough to give you specific direction, but it's likely the county/city/state has a way to provide these services. You know what? I live in a state that has closed most of its mental hos
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by kw71 12y ago
Yes, I have no degrees, no certs, and before becoming self-employed, I worked at two megacorps (an insurance company and a telecom equipment manufacturer) for a total of ten years, and had 'Engineer' on my business cards.
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by kw71 12y ago
Uh oh. I might be in trouble for finding out the entire list of people in the local jail by looking up Mr. %
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by kw71 12y ago
At our hackerspace, the washroom situation was terrible. I found out there are some fuel cells that react to hydrogen sulfide! We thought about displaying whether or not it was safe to enter on an LED scrolling-message sign.
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by kw71 12y ago
Maybe it would be better to have a choice about what your marketing channels are. I'm selling software on eBay! For just a little over 10% I get to be super lazy and not develop a marketing website. eBay queues up requests for pre an
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by kw71 12y ago
> What were they smoking to come up with 3MHz 8bit computer when market moved on to 16/32 bit? I think the A500 cost more than 8-bit money, and back then a barebones 386 from a computer shopper ad cost about the same. Add VGA, moni
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by kw71 12y ago
Usually a booting PC will issue several identify commands and try a SMART health check, and if there is a RAID option ROM then specific series of READ will be issued. If it would really disclose itself with simple RESET, READ interrogation
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by kw71 12y ago
> if you don't boot from it The malware might remain quiescent unless the examination techniques mimic a computer that is booting. I might prefer to use an analyzer to monitor the disk channel of a machine that is booting and runnin
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by kw71 12y ago
Hard disk firmwares are already under attack from anyone who develops tools for data recovery. I have personally added new functionality to binary libraries on wintel, and in embedded firmware for instance communications devices. Just jump
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by kw71 12y ago
If you are going to modify a BIOS, then the BIOS can apply the microcode update. No need to tamper with OS then.
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by kw71 12y ago
Yes IBM. But if you are considering reading this book I would suggest that it might be a waste of time, unless you are a true disbeliever or are doing research on the topic. Mr Black is angry at IBM and does not try to hide it in his writi
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by kw71 12y ago
My first guess is that, for customer liability (incorrect field repair could feasibly cause fire; the uncontrolled nature of field repairs may have affects on reliability later) and employee safety (careless tech could burn himself on batte
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by kw71 12y ago
Lots of third parties have sprung up offering services for situations where official support is too expensive or not available on a legacy product. Probably more visible and known to most of us are the people who carry out repairs on mobil
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by kw71 12y ago
I tend to buy two reams A4 for each ten reams Letter, but each time availability and pricing varies. OfficeMax used to have Boise A4 paper around $8 a ream, but now they are selling a Hammermill paper for $11. Never in the stores of cours
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by kw71 12y ago
You can make it a good value if you are a diehard car hobbyist, but I concede that this is not most people. I am still holding onto a 21 year old mid-luxury BMW. I have spent countless hours working on it and probably have $2000 in parts i
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by kw71 12y ago
> opened the decibel meter on my iPhone. Really? What's the effective dynamic range of the iPhone mic?
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by kw71 12y ago
I happened to be reading a transcript of a Bill Gates interview last night. [1] Interesting that he predicted the exponential growth and realized it at Microsoft too. [1] http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm
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by kw71 12y ago
The real loss is radio shack extended distribution of these into settings like smalltown strip malls. I live in an area that can be characterized as a giant suburb of 1 million+ people with no big city around it. There's one store in
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by kw71 12y ago
I think they really did not count on tools like NFS to find their way into the de facto 'public domain.' However when CAS was designed, they knew (or should have known) that somehow all the manufacturing-side tools were getting o
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by kw71 12y ago
I was puzzled by this too, and surprised at how simple it was. Remember during the 90's we had ISO7816 cards that were a lot more difficult to attack (for instance, payphone cards permuted a challenge from the phone with a shared secr
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by kw71 12y ago
This is possible with the RFID transponders used in ignition keys by most carmakers. However, BMW had the foresight to prevent this. Maybe the downmarket carmakers have gotten smarter, but for a long time BMW stood out as the one that did

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