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I would only do this if you either know the police will help retrieve your car if you have the location, or if you are ready to engage the robbers yourself. Otherwise it's useless to know where it is. I have experience trying to get the cops to help in Oakland and San Jose and they really didn't want to.
This is ridiculous. Wtf are cops good for, then?
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Don't do drugs (including marijuana), don't get blackout drunk, don't talk about your work, don't need psychiatric help... For the last sentence...Trump had all sorts of clearance when he clearly should not have. But he was in an important position.
Putting aside the politics of it for a second, all clearence stems from the executive branch which stems from the president. Saying the president shouldn't have clearance doesn't make a lot of sense, he's the one who authorized it. He's the one who decides who gets it. Anyone who thinks differently is arguing for a shadow gov, i.e. unelected bureaucrats who answer to no one and can make decisions unilaterally without…
Lots of countries have an establishment "civil service" comprised of those "unelected bureaucrats" that you mention, and it actually works out quite well for them.
That said, they aren't unaccountable: they answer to departmental heads, MPs, committees, etc. A big advantage of the system is to prevent mad-swings in policy just because the head-of-government changed.
For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Service_(United_Kingdom)
that opening line of needing a million dollar budget LOL if anyone follows @_MG_ you'll know that this has been a very long project thats really not been that expensive the dude dropped a load around defcon then hak5 came in and said hey we can charge and arm and a leg for these...
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exactly, what prevents anyone from doing anything, really? haha!
I think this is a big problem for liberalism in the future. When we have 20 billion people and technology is more powerful and ubiquitous, big consequences could happen from individual bad actors remotely. Even if only the tiniest fraction of people wanted to do bad things, there would still be quite a few of them and they'll have more access as everything is more networked together.
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> To make this harder Or, y'know, open it up and solder the connecter together (or remove the connector and solder the cable wires directly).
My anecdote was a bit old and I’m certain some of those devices had soldered cables, meaning that a sheared wire couldn’t be handled by buying a new chord or combining parts of two mice. Because I specifically looked for that a few times with no luck. But they’re right, these days when you crack open things you often find a connector soldered to the motherboard and the cable is merely plugged in. I think it’s just ea…
Well, if you're stealing them, you only need parts from one mouse: cut the cable close to the mouse, untangle it from whatever crap it's locked to, take mouse and cable home with you, disassemble mouse, feed cable back though (I think it's called) grommet, strip cable, pick out wires, solder wires to approriate mouse internals, reassemble mouse, done. You have a working mouse with only slightly shorter cable than before.
The point of using soldered cables for security is that setting up a soldering iron near a computer is conspicuous, so you get caught if try to install a attiny85 inside the mouse that way. You can still steal stuff just fine.
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Are they really breaking into your car just to steal your USB cable or is there other stuff you leave in plain sight?
My car was broken into 3pm in the afternooon in Austin last summer. Nothing visible. They emptied the console and glovebox. They stole: * cheap sunglasses * tire pressure gauge * box of bandaids * my car's USER MANUAL, ffs * charging cable They left: * small envelope with $80 cash tucked under the removable console coin holder. * all the coins. So very confused.
All the stuff you mentioned was immediately visible (so no complex problem solving to find it) and would probably look "definitely probably valuable" to a hyped up 5 year old.
Aaaaand thennnn whoever did the stealing probably just sold it all to someone else in _exactly the same condition_ (high on whatever) who also considered it valuable enough to make a fair trade to swap it all for $amount of $thing.
I'm not sure what the balance is, but it's part-hilarious and part-sad that, if this theory is correct, there's an utterly illogical commodity market being sustained by tweaked-out squirrels with half the attention span of a goldfish, leaves people scratching their heads in its wake, and is so confusingly successful people just don't park in certain places.
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The "USB condoms" I know are USB2/3 only which means there isn't any form of PD negotiation anyway, and the oldschool Qualcomm Quickcharge and Apple's negotiation won't work either as these depend on D+/D-. A decent USB-C condom would also have to cut not just the USB2 D+/D- line, but also the USB3 SS and SBU lines... the really interesting thing is the CC wires, since without these you can't have reversible connecto…
You don't need orientation handling if you've cut all the other signals, so... Power negotiation is also not a big problem. Just use a correct resistor on the CC pin and you can make the phone use up to 5V/3A, which is plenty for any smartphone. You'd have to make sure to use a 5V/15W capable power source, though.
... which precisely is something I cannot make sure on a device where I'm tempted to use a USB condom, and it won't be useful at all for laptops.
Can someone explain what this is? Is it a hardware keylogger?
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When I was frequently using things like this on coworkers in red teaming (back when being in an office was a thing) putting my own desktop in a steel cage with a good lock proved effective against retaliation. Then we moved on to attacking the firmware in each others keyboards.
Since this has generated some discussion on locks and picking, there's been some interesting developments on "unpickable locks" that sidestep the tolerance problem by decoupling setting the pins from testing them. I.e. pins are tested all at once after they are physically decoupled from the key & keyway, eliminating state space reduction attacks (aka picking one pin at a time) leaving only brute force. One such effor…
