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  • Free Parking: Black Hat conference attacks electronic parking meters

    Free Parking: Black Hat conference attacks electronic parking meters

    black hat free parkingAs we move farther and farther into the digital age, we begin to see some serious problems with an all-digital lifestyle. Take parking meters, for example. As much as a pain as it is to root under your car seat looking for loose change to feed the meter, there aren't too many ways to avoid actually putting money into a traditional meter. (Or maybe there are. I haven't bothered to investigate, since I don't currently own a vehicle.) Newer electronic parking meters, though, can be pretty easily subverted, as demonstrated at the Black Hat conference this week.

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  • AP’s rights management DRM explained

    AP’s rights management DRM explained

    There has been some talk about the Associated Press’ new system, called hNews for some reason, for protecting its precious copywritten materials from bloggers, pirates and pederasts. The system will include a DRM system that will make sure you can’t cut and paste data from a browser to a blog post, thereby ensuring that no [...]

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