John McAfee: Presidential Alerts Can Be Two Way with E911

Fact Check: Are the ‘Presidential Alerts’ Capable of Accessing Your Phone’s Mic and Camera? “The ‘Presidential alerts,’” McAfee tweeted Wednesday, “they are capable of accessing the E911 chip in your phones – giving them full access to your location, microphone, camera and every function of your phone. This not a rant, this is from me, …

Yoda: The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

Ahhhh, soooo. The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence …

Berto Jongman: Allies Don’t Trust NSA, Force Backdown on Encryption Standards

Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight In interviews and emails seen by Reuters, academic and industry experts from countries including Germany, Japan and Israel worried that the U.S. electronic spy agency was pushing the new techniques not because they were good encryption tools, but because it knew how to …

Antechinus: Smart TV Hack — Vulnerability of Internet of Things

Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal—no access required A proof-of-concept exploit that uses terrestrial TV signals and a low-cost transmitter to hack Smart TVs raises an unsettling prospect—the ability of hackers to take complete control of a large number of sets at once without having physical access to any of them. The …

Mongoose: Is John Deere a Fascist Enemy to Farmers? “Right to Repair” Emerging

Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking. To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America’s heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that’s cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on …