Indeed there isnât but you canât expect there to be anything too sophisticated. That would cost too much money for the vehicle manufacturer whoâs trying to pinch every penny they can since at scale that adds up really quickly. Even with encryption, service centers still need the ability to diagnose vehicles. If thereâs encryption, a master key canât be too hard to get.
So⊠rip out the hardware and start again, right?
via Brian Krebs.
So since itâs super Tuesday, my cellphone is blowing up by unsolicited texts, mostly from conservatives. (I suspect someone signed my phone number up maliciously, but itâs possible that someone miskeyed it.) Itâs especially bad today but itâs been a problem for awhile.
For some time, I followed the instructions and replied STOP, but I would rarely get a response and the number of texts didnât seem to abate.
Then, I just blocked the the number, but that doesnât seem to have made much difference, and since I know that they can spoof any number that they like, this doesnât seem to be effective.
Lately, I reply âgo fuck yourself,â before I block the number, and that is satisfying to a certain extent, but I suspect that I am letting them know that they have a valid number.
Iâve set up my phone alerts so that I only get an alert when someone on my contact list sends me anything, but I am tired of the spam.
Despite the hassles related, Iâm considering ditching the phone number and getting a new one.
How do you deal with unsolicited texts?
I think my next step is sending goatse to the causes that ignore stop.
I always instantly reply with stop and block.
Iâve been at the point, lately, of cancelling my cell phone service entirely. My provider catches most of the spam texts and the semi-automatic Google screening thing discourages most of the spam calls.
Yep. Someone mixed up my phone number with my husbandâs (weâre one digit apart) and Iâm forever getting texts from candidates that are addressed to him. Itâs been going on for at least eight years.
I used to reply that they have the wrong number. The volunteer would apologize and then it would happen again in the next election. My guess is that the Democratic Party peeps did this and itâs on a master list that they continue to pass along.
⊠over the last 30 years phone services have gotten better and better until today when theyâre so good people donât talk on the phone at all 
I reply with FĂŒr die Anweisungen in Deutsch oder einer anderen Sprache zu hören, drĂŒcken Sie bitte jetzt 99
I routinely get political texts for my wife, and our numbers arenât even close. I think thereâs something algorithmic going on, because we usually use her number for loyalty cards and such, not mine.
I look at how little the 5 phone lines I pay for get used and wonder. The kids are always chatting on Discord, almost never on an actual phone line. I donât think their grandparents even know the numbers.
An early complaint about PGP e-mail was âyou have to give someone an envelope to send you e-mailâ. 
Sender-specific, one-time or multi-use keys, eh? Iâm starting to like the sound of that, although you would have to build some code around it to make it usable. (Key management is a PITA on the best of days.)
⊠is this all just some kind of natural evolution of human communication?
or did de-regulation in the â90s unleash something so shitty that no one can stand to use it anymore?
âIn recent weeks, we have seen evidence that Midnight Blizzard is using information initially exfiltrated from our corporate email systems to gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorized access,â Fridayâs update said. âThis has included access to some of the companyâs source code repositories and internal systems. To date we have found no evidence that Microsoft-hosted customer-facing systems have been compromised.
So with the source code in motivated hands I suppose Windows users can expect more events like the the zero-day they patched in February that the 
hackers had been exploiting for 6 months. Thatâs if theyâre lucky. If theyâre unlucky, there were some signing keys in that haul.
If you want to stay safe in a war, stay away from the big targets.
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