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This may interest you: http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf

I think we have to wait a little longer to make that call. The "correction" seems to be correcting itself now:)

I don't doubt the EFF, but I am automatically skeptical of anyone who tries to get me to take action without bothering to post the bill or even relevant excerpts.

Well, you could use a site like this: https://localbitcoins.com/ but then again doing hundreds of these cash transactions in person seems like it would be stressful.

HIPAA means a little more than that. I spent years as a pharmacy technician and can attest to all the shredding, blacking out of names, etc. Disclosing PHI (Personal Health Informa…

I think the HIPAA comment is likely referring to users being able to talk to healthcare professionals. I very much doubt that line was talking about surgeons, etc. asking for advic…

I usually enjoy Schneier's postings but this is a little bit silly. There's no evidence that "government monitoring" had anything to do with this incident. Someone noticed the twee…

I found that portion a little shocking. Is that at all common?

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html HotBits already has implemented the idea

Make a hardware RNG that's truly random by detecting the interval between decay events :)

It seems likely that the seized funds were taken from SR's escrow accounts. It matches up roughly with the amount of money said in the FBI complaint to be stored in escrow. I can o…

I notice it's stated that around 3.6 million USD worth of bitcoins were seized in the arrest, taken from Silk Road's wallets. Am I correct in assuming that because it came from SR'…

Well he certainly won't go down for murder, seeing as how there's no evidence that the "victim" ever existed in the first place.

No, they can't keep the whole 20 billion as profit. They still have to pay for administration, marketing, etc.

I believe the 80% figure refers to 80% of the insurance company's annual revenue, not 80% of the premiums you specifically have paid to them.