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Josh Mitchell's Defcon presentation analyzes the security of five popular brands of police bodycams (Vievu, Patrol Eyes, Fire Cam, Digital Ally, and CeeSc) and reveals that they are universally terrible, though the Digital Ally models are the least bad of the batch, as Wired's Lily Hay Newman reports.
All the devices use predictable network addresses that can be used to remotely sense and identify the cameras when they switch on. Attackers could pinpoint intense police activity by watching for groups of cameras that all switch on at the same place and time.
None of the devices use code-signing, making them typical of garbagey Internet of Shit devices. That means that attackers can slip arbitrary code into them. And none of them cryptographically sign the video they take, which would be a relatively strong way of detecting tampering by police officers, their departments, or criminals.
Source: Boing Boing
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @04:21PM (9 children)
Can someone clue me in--what does this mean/represent?
from the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ dept.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 17 2018, @04:26PM
Shrug or "shruggie"
https://emojipedia.org/shrug/ [emojipedia.org]
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-best-way-to-type-__/371351/ [theatlantic.com]
https://www.theawl.com/2014/05/the-life-and-times-of-¯_ツ_¯/ [theawl.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday August 17 2018, @06:03PM (7 children)
You are no doubt familiar with the Smiley characters :-)
This is formed by three characters: colon-dash-rightParen
The hands up shrug: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
is formed with a unicode character: ツ
Unicode has characters from other languages. That way you could have text, or a domain name in Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, etc.
Unicode also has characters for mathematics, musical notation, and many other things.
You could say Foobar is © 2018, and Frobulator™ will soon have a ® registered tirademark. Or it is 127° outside today.
More recently, Emoji characters were added to unicode. This allows emojis to actually be written into text. For example, a cat face emoji could appear directly in text, for example:
Trump says
The primary motivation which drove the Unicode group's decision to add emojis to Unicode was so that Windows 2019 Server could use emoji host names. That way a server name could be 2 cat faces and one dog face, and a birthday cake symbol. 😹😹🐶🎂 Only a 4 character host name. And other Windows PCs could see it on the network, with that 4 emoji character name.
I'm still waiting for Unicode to add characters for Vorlon, Shadow, Centuari, Narn, Minbari, Klingon, Romulan, Vulcan, Kardassian, Dwarvish, Elvish, and a few more. That will make it possible to have better domain names in your URL. Instead of birthdaycake.com, you could have 🎂.com, which is much easier to type on a keyboard with five thousand keys.
Hope that helps.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 17 2018, @06:07PM
also, some unicode characters happen to resemble upside down english characters.
˙sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ɥsılƃuǝ uʍop ǝpısdn ǝlqɯǝsǝɹ oʇ uǝddɐɥ sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝpoɔıun ǝɯos 'oslɐ
http://www.revfad.com/flip.html [revfad.com]
An example of how to use upside down text . . .
Q. A jackass of all tirades, and the master of none?
A. dɯnɹʇ
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @07:01PM (3 children)
> You are no doubt familiar with the Smiley characters :-)
:-)
Thanks to all for the detailed attempts at explanation, but you've missed something that seems crucial(?) The original smiley and variations require a 90 deg left/CCW tilt of the head to make the "image" upright. While these may hurt*, I figured them out long ago, back in Usenet days. (*I often have a painful neck ache--likely from too many motorcycle accidents in my youth).
My confusion about this "hands up shrug" should now be clear -- it is viewed in original orientation. In fact, head-tilting turns it into, perhaps, some kind of modern dance pose? Or an Egyptian hieroglyph?
Don't get me started on emojis. Short version, text communication is no substitute for f-2-f meeting, or a phone call--and emojis are a very poor substitute for real-time-communication. While my engineering business relies heavily on email, I make it a point to phone customers on a regular basis to make sure we stay on the same page.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday August 17 2018, @07:31PM (2 children)
The irony. Or, to put it your way: "Can someone clue me in--what does f-2-f mean/represent?"
(OGHIHA - Oh, God, how I hate acronyms)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @08:10PM (1 child)
In case you were serious, I apologize: f-2-f = face to face.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday August 17 2018, @09:02PM
Thanks for clarification. People might think it has something to do with two female connectors needing some sort of gender changing dongle.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Friday August 17 2018, @07:24PM (1 child)
👍
FTFY 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday August 17 2018, @10:59PM
Elvish looks like it is still on the roadmap (called Tengwar): https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/ [unicode.org]
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