Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-19 Thread John Washburn
ED] X-Orig-To: Adam Shostack Cc: John Kelsey; Shawn K. Quinn; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver > Just wait 'till they integrate GPS, and GPRS or 802.11. Transmitter is easy to find. Receiver is easy to jam with a micropower jammer. Sometimes

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-19 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, jburnes wrote: Why go to all that trouble. Just take it out of circuit. Cut the printed circuit board leads and disable it or if its in an inaccessible black box, cut the leads to the box. Easy enough. Works v

RE: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-19 Thread Trei, Peter
Googling on ("event data recorders" automobiles) will give a lot of hits. For example: http://wpoplin.com/EventDataRecordersAutomotiveBlackBoxes.pdf These devices are a byproduct of the introduction of airbags - the airbag processor stores the data which led it to deploy the bag. This can inclu

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-19 Thread Riad S. Wahby
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Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Works very nicely. :) > > Problem: leaves evidence, and takes time. The main advantage of electric > shock is that the fried chip looks for the naked eye exactly the same way > as a non-fried chip. The only difference could be found with a scanning > e

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, jburnes wrote: > Why go to all that trouble. Just take it out of circuit. Cut the > printed circuit > board leads and disable it or if its in an inaccessible black box, cut > the > leads to the box. > > Easy enough. Works very nicely. :) Problem: leaves evidence, and takes

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread jburnes
Why go to all that trouble. Just take it out of circuit. Cut the printed circuit board leads and disable it or if its in an inaccessible black box, cut the leads to the box. Easy enough. On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 04:11 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Tim May wrote: Unl

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Adam Shostack
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:11:58AM -0700, Tim May wrote: | On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 05:17 AM, Adam Shostack wrote: | > | >I wasn't arguing, I was quipping. | > | >I find the many meanings of the word privacy to be fascinating. So | >when someone commented that the car's tattle-box is or is

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Tim May wrote: > Unlikely. Getting juice into the innards of a box in a way so as to > overwrite data is not nearly so simply as applying sparky things to the > outside of the box. Lots of reasons for this. The idea wasn't about overwriting the data. The idea was about frying

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 05:17 AM, Adam Shostack wrote: I wasn't arguing, I was quipping. I find the many meanings of the word privacy to be fascinating. So when someone commented that the car's tattle-box is or isn't a privacy invasion, I thought I'd offer up a definition under which it

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Steve Schear wrote: > Indeed 'privacy' and 'secrecy' are often confused and their meanings > overlap in many a mind. I think that most, at least in the West, accept > that privacy "..is based on rules and trust," for example, records kept on > us by our doctors. Because e

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 08:17 2003-06-18 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: | It never makes sense to argue about a "right to lie" or a "right to | tell the truth." One man's lie is another man's truth. And even | _asking_ for a true response is usually an overstepping, as it presumes | the asker knows what is true and what i

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Adam Shostack wrote: > I wasn't arguing, I was quipping. > > I find the many meanings of the word privacy to be fascinating. So > when someone commented that the car's tattle-box is or isn't a privacy > invasion, I thought I'd offer up a definition under which it is. > Its a

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Adam Shostack
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:30:35PM -0700, Tim May wrote: | On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 03:48 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: | > | >>Adam | >> | >>PS: Bob Blakely once defined privacy as the right to lie and get away | >>with it, which fits into some of what many people mean by privacy. | > | >Anothe

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-18 Thread Adam Shostack
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:58:56AM -0400, John Kelsey wrote: | At 06:29 AM 6/17/03 +0159, Anonymous wrote: | >Adam Shostack wrote: | > | >> PS: Bob Blakely once defined privacy as the right to lie and get away | >> with it, which fits into some of what many people mean by privacy. | > | >So privacy

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-17 Thread John Kelsey
At 06:29 AM 6/17/03 +0159, Anonymous wrote: Adam Shostack wrote: > PS: Bob Blakely once defined privacy as the right to lie and get away > with it, which fits into some of what many people mean by privacy. So privacy is only of value to the dishonest? I don't think so! I post anonymously, but not

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-17 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 03:48 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Steve Schear wrote: Seems like a market for "open source" EDRs could be a good one. A user accessible reset button could come in handy. Could a stun gun help? Unlikely. Getting juice into the innards of a box i

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-17 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Steve Schear wrote: > Seems like a market for "open source" EDRs could be a good one. A user > accessible reset button could come in handy. Could a stun gun help?

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-16 Thread Anonymous
Adam Shostack wrote: > PS: Bob Blakely once defined privacy as the right to lie and get away > with it, which fits into some of what many people mean by privacy. So privacy is only of value to the dishonest? I don't think so! I post anonymously, but not to lie.

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-16 Thread A.Melon
> Now, I don't know how subpeoned phone or other > electronic records are handled ---has anyone ever > questioned Telco's or paging company recordkeeping? > Any readers know more? I work as a programmer at a company that writes software to handle switch functions and bill cellular and gsm custome

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:16 AM 6/16/03 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >On Monday June 16 2003 09:59, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: >> (ok, from slashdot..) >> http://www.newhouse.com/archive/jensen061203.html > >I personally find the privacy implications of EDRs rather unsettling. >This story doesn't change that one bit.

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-16 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Monday June 16 2003 09:59, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > (ok, from slashdot..) > http://www.newhouse.com/archive/jensen061203.html I personally find the privacy implications of EDRs rather unsettling. This story doesn't change that one bit. However, in this particular case, I don't think what

[Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

2003-06-16 Thread Major Variola (ret.)
(ok, from slashdot..) http://www.newhouse.com/archive/jensen061203.html