[dewayne@warpspeed.com: [Dewayne-Net] No one on the planet will choose this voluntarily]
"self-destruct code for Blue-ray players"? Are they fucking nuts? ----- Forwarded message from Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com> -----
The Blue-Ray is a clever spoof. Another may be: that IDs and biographies of soldiers killed in Iraq are being used to produce false identification papers for sale along the US border and overseas. A variation includes as well the IDs of those killed on 9/11. Lots of information on the 6,000 or so on the Internet: head shots, hometowns, relatives, biographies, exactly what is needed to turn out fakes that would have good chance of clearing watch lists. Each ID could be duplicated, say, thousands of to provide the 6 million and up demanded by the thriving market promoted by counterterrorism.
On Thu, May 18, 2006 11:02, Eugen Leitl wrote:
"self-destruct code for Blue-ray players"? Are they fucking nuts?
Hmmm.... full-time net connection needed, and the players can be told to self-destruct. No, no possibility that the path to the servers will be hacked so that all Blu-Ray players are given the poison packet, right? -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy@rant-central.com "Antelope freeway, one sixty-fourth of a mile." - TFT procmail->CRM114->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com
I was kinda hoping that the set-top boxes would explode and burn some houses down. Cause that leaves the door wide open for lawsuits. ...sheesh On 18/05/06, Roy M. Silvernail <roy@rant-central.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2006 11:02, Eugen Leitl wrote:
"self-destruct code for Blue-ray players"? Are they fucking nuts?
Hmmm.... full-time net connection needed, and the players can be told to self-destruct.
No, no possibility that the path to the servers will be hacked so that all Blu-Ray players are given the poison packet, right? -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy@rant-central.com "Antelope freeway, one sixty-fourth of a mile." - TFT procmail->CRM114->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com
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