College students from the University of Texas gave us one other motive to not mess with the Lone Star state: they’re going to hack your yacht. In cooperation with a luxury boat’s homeowners, the Longhorns manipulated their $80 million vessel’s nav system, covertly guiding it off-course — all without the crew ever suspecting foul play. By transmitting spoofed global positioning system signals toward the craft, the students tricked its drivers into correcting a non-existent, three-diploma course deviation, thus leading them off track. With their work accomplished, the Texans imagine this exhibits precisely how easy it’s to exploit civil-band GPS alerts. College kids might have conned the helm this time, but it surely is not too far-fetched to suppose pirates might do the identical. Our timbers are shivering just excited about it.

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OCAP (OpenCable Application Platform) and OpenCable Host Machine Specs had been developed by CableLabs to permit cable corporations to push each their «look and feel» and their features to client electronics gadgets. If a company like TiVo hopes to add their own look and feel (together with their very own features) to an OpenCable set-prime field, they should apply for certification. Throughout this process, they should persuade CableLabs that their safety story is tight and that they’ve happy the various different necessities. To say that CableLabs has been reluctant to expedite this certification process is an understatement.