Collecting my thoughts about Torus
Worryingly-optimistic communications about CoreOS’ recently-announced distributed storage system. I had similar thoughts, but Jeff Darcy is actually an expert on this stuff so he’s way more worth listening to on the topic ;)
(tags: jeff-darcy distcomp filesystems coreos torus storage)
German Privacy Regulators Fined Adobe, Others Over U.S. Data Transfers
Adobe was fined 8,000 euros, Punica 9,000 euros and Unilever 11,000 euros. The regulator said they had put in place alternative legal mechanisms for transferring data to the United States following the fine. “The fact that the companies have eventually implemented a legal basis for the transfer had to be taken into account in a favorable way for the calculation of the fines,” said Johannes Caspar, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection. “For future infringements, stricter measures have to be applied.”
(tags: data-protection eu fines us privacy safe-harbor)
[dns-operations] Sad news today: systemd-resolved to be deployed in Ubuntu 16.10
systemd needs to stop breaking shit
The Mitsubishi Outlander vulnerability allows trivial remote car alarm unlocking.
Nearly-open wifi (easily-cracked weak WPA PSK), and a 6-byte string to disable the car alarm, discovered via replay attack. Massive fail
(tags: internetofshit mitsubishi fail outlander wpa alarms security replay-attack)