Non-IT News Thread

A covert "transitional" channel used for communicating with sources that Central Intelligence Agency handlers couldn't reach directly was exposed and infiltrated by Iranian intelligence in 2009. The breakdown in operational security—which apparently relied heavily on security through obscurity—was the result of Iranian intelligence officials simply using Google to locate the websites used as the communications channel after a double-agent exposed the method used by the CIA, according to a report from Yahoo News' Zach Dorfman and Jenna McLaughlin.

Once a double agent presented information about a website the agent had been directed to in order to communicate with the CIA, Iranian intelligence apparently used aspects of the URL to search for other, similar websites. Iranian officials were reportedly able to rapidly identify a number of other such sites, which were set up as temporary communications systems for new, unvetted sources by the CIA. As a result, Iran's intelligence was able to quickly identify the Iranians communicating through those sites. The breach led to the roundup in 2011 of 30 people identified by Iran as CIA spies.

Further digging into these compromised sites may have exposed the identity of CIA personnel as well. During the same timeframe, Iranian intelligence officials were also directly approaching US CIA officers, trying to recruit them to be double agents.....

mlnews

Musk: New Tesla summon feature will “follow you like a pet”

"Car will drive to your phone location" thanks to a forthcoming software update.

DustinB3403

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Musk: New Tesla summon feature will “follow you like a pet”

"Car will drive to your phone location" thanks to a forthcoming software update.

Oh great. . . So now not only my phone is stolen, but my car is missing too!!

scottalanmiller

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Dashrender

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Musk: New Tesla summon feature will “follow you like a pet”

"Car will drive to your phone location" thanks to a forthcoming software update.

Didn't Batman do this in the early 90's?

coliver

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Musk: New Tesla summon feature will “follow you like a pet”

"Car will drive to your phone location" thanks to a forthcoming software update.

Didn't Batman do this in the early 90's?

And James Bond IIRC

DustinB3403

@Dashrender and @coliver I thought the cars were being remotely driven in those movies.

Not magically following your GPS location around like a lost dog.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender and @coliver I thought the cars were being remotely driven in those movies.

Not magically following your GPS location around like a lost dog.

I've definitely seen movies with a "follow me" car feature.

coliver

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender and @coliver I thought the cars were being remotely driven in those movies.

Not magically following your GPS location around like a lost dog.

That's true. Forgot about that.

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender and @coliver I thought the cars were being remotely driven in those movies.

Not magically following your GPS location around like a lost dog.

In reality of course it was being driven, but "in the movie" the first Micheal Keaton Batman movie, batman uses a radio like handheld to call the batmobile to him, then he tells it to stop before stepping out in front of it - which today would just be stupid - but meh, tech of 1989.

mlnews

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/11/03/the-social-costs-of-ride-hailing-may-be-larger-than-previously-thought

The convenience of ride hailing might be adding congestion by replacing foot and other non-car options.