Hackers at the Black Hat Technical Security Conference were able to break into Subaru Outback and start the engine via text message. All you Outback owners can relax, these weren’t real criminals, your granola bars and Birkenstocks are safe….for now.
A pair of pros from iSec Partners security firm was able to unlock and start the engine of a Subaru Outback using an Android phone and a process they call war texting. By setting up their own GSM network, they were able to snatch up password authentication messages being sent from server to car, allowing them the option to ride off in a brand new crossover.
The tightest parallel parking measured 26 cm (10.24 in) and was achieved by Ronny Wechselberger a.k.a. “Ronny C-Rock” (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland in Berlin, Germany on 2 April 2011.
There is a new app called free fall high score that challenges you to throw your iPhone off the highest place you can find for a high score! Screw it, why wait for an app? Just go throw your iPhone off a building right now!
A new game for the iPhone challenges you to not only drop your phone, but to do so off of as tall a structure as you can find. It’s called Free Fall High Score, and it is undoubtedly the riskiest mobile game that we’ve seen.
The drought in Texas has gotten so severe municipal water managers have turned to a once untenable idea: recycling sewage water.
“When you talk about toilet-to-(water) tank it makes a lot of people nervous and grossed out,” says Terri Telchik, who works in the city manager’s office in Big Spring, Texas.
Less than 0.1 inches of rain has fallen on West Texas for months. Normally, the region gets more than 7 inches of rain this time of year. This week’s Department of Agriculture Drought Monitor map shows 75 percent of Texas is in “exceptional” drought stages.
Water for the town’s 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to capture treated wastewater for recycling.
