Product Demo of the Day: To put potential customers’ minds at ease, the president and CEO of Texas Armoring Corporation demonstrates the efficacy of his company’s bullet-resistant glass by literally putting himself behind it.
[reddit.]
Now the only thing you really need is a jealous brother who is sick enough to swap the glass with a normal one ;D
Confidential lost & found tags help protect users’ things
It used to be that protecting one’s stuff meant putting a name or phone number on it somewhere. Today, however, many consumers would rather not expose such potentially sensitive information. As a result, there’s TurlyTag, a system of hard tags and stickers that lets users label their things without giving out personal details. READ MORE…via springwise:
That’s a pretty cool idea but I will not stick anything onto my sensation.
Source: springwise
Hackers can do a lot of damage via broadband power lines
Hackers showed they have a very long reach at the Defcon hacker conference this week. They can turn off your power or hack your home automation systems through internet-connected power lines.
Independent security researchers David “Rel1k” Kennedy and Rob “Kc57″ Simon told the audience that they were releasing free tools that will let hackers break into home automation, business automation, and security systems that operate over the electrical wires of a building. It’s one more example of how hackers can pretty much break into any computerized technology available.
“We have to bring more exposure to this attack vector,” Kennedy said in his talk, which drew a big crowd at Defcon.
» via VentureBeat
via infoneer-pulse:
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Busted Security Myth of the Day: Mythbusters’ Adam Savage talks about the time he went through a TSA checkpoint with something esoteric in his carry-on bag.
(Starts @ 1:07.)
[gizmodo.]
you obviously need a regular size penis for tsa check to work.
