Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data

Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance. Continue reading Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data

Watch: Hackers send explicit messages to riders on hacked e-scooters

By Uzair Amir
Lime believes that hackers somehow managed to swap the audio files on eight of the e-scooters. Lime, a Brisbane-based scooter manufacturer, has been testing its E-Scooters on the streets of Brisbane but sadly, the gadgets are in the news … Continue reading Watch: Hackers send explicit messages to riders on hacked e-scooters

Scooter Companies Split on Giving Real-Time Location Data to Los Angeles

Uber, which is pushing back against the requests for real-time location data of its JUMP scooters, was granted a provisional, month-long permit, while other companies received a full-year license. Continue reading Scooter Companies Split on Giving Real-Time Location Data to Los Angeles

The Problem with Software Defined Radio

There’s a problem with software defined radio. It’s not that everyone needs to re-learn what TEMPEST shielding is, and it’s not that Bluetooth is horribly broken. SDR’s biggest problem is one of bandwidth and processing. With a simple USB TV Tuner, you can listen in on aircraft, grab Landsat images from hundreds of miles up, or sniff the low-power radios used in Internet of Things things. What you can’t do is make your own WiFi adapter, and you can’t create your own LTE wireless network. This is simply a problem of getting bits from the air to a computer for …read more

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