Chaos Communication Congress is such a cool event… 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Last year, they hacked a train to prove that the manufacturing company wrote code that fully locks the train when it arrives at rival repair shops.
Tech bros really never got the idea that cyberpunk is a genre of dystopian fiction.
You’re confusing the people who wrote the code with the product (business) team that decided they could monetize it. Engineers in large companies have zero creative control, and the people who do look more like wall street finance bros than the guys on silicon valley. Not that they don’t also suck, but please get why they suck.
Tech bros refers to a misogynistic behavior within tech circles and especially software development tied to traditional ideas that women can’t be technical because their vaginas get in the way. As a secondary bonus this leads to women trying to crush other women.
No. No it does not.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tech-bro
Because I see you skipped the first search result I’ll put this here for you https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer
Here is the third https://yourstory.com/2024/05/tech-bro-mindset-culture-decoded
You’re blaming the toxic worker for the differently toxic management decisions.
I just watched the video. It is again a great and understandable talk, even for someone who has little technical knowledge. They also subtitle all their videos in English. I recommend it to everyone.
Video-Link with English dub: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-volksdaten-von-volkswagen#l=eng
Isn’t this very illegal in the EU?
Can we please start criminally punishing the execs that signed off on this?
There is an enormous problem with companies just knowingly and willingly breaking the law, taking the fines as cost of business
It’s a well known privacy issue to those who care about privacy. It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security
The good news is that it this information will eventually reach the insurance companies. That should help with terrible car drivers getting some incentives and disincentives to not suck so much.
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies - The New York Times
If you want freedom, you get a bicycle.
Nah, it’ll just make insurance more expensive and allow them to have more excuses to deny claims. Giving insurance companies more data to work with is never a good thing.
Slow!=good, slow is just slow. Driving 25 in a 35 doesn’t make you a better driver.
But lowering the speed limit to 25 and redisigning the street so 25 feels fast does increase safety.
Putting digital GPS governors in all the cars to limit them to the speed limit also increases safety. If e-bikes are dangerous enough to require governors, then cars certainly need them as well.
