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Daily Archives: October 20, 2015
Hackers Can Use Radio Waves to Hijack Androids and iPhones via Siri and Google Now
This rig is able to send radio waves at an iPhone or Android with its headphones still plugged in, using the headphone cable as a receiver that picks up the radio signals and relays them to the operating system’s voice recognition software.
Source: Hackers Can Use Radio Waves to Hijack Androids and iPhones via Siri and Google Now
Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA
When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic tests, privacy advocates warned about the creation of giant genetic databases that might one day be used against participants by law enforcement.
Source: Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA
So, people are surprised that they are mistakenly used as suspects? And how surprised will they be when they find out that insurance companies have been dipping into these databases to find genetic defects?
Lockheed fires green lasers from business jets
Lockheed Martin claims to have overcome a major obstacle to shooting high-power laser weapons from high-speed aircraft, saying it has successfully completed 60 Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control (ABC) laser turret flight tests over the past year. The turret uses a green, low-power laser to measure the system’s effectiveness at jet cruise speeds and at different angles off the aircraft. Lockheed says one of the greatest obstacles to fielding a powerful airborne fibre laser weapon to shoot down enemy
Source: Lockheed touts ABC laser turret as testbed completes 60 flights