I'm building ourrhythm.de, a privacy first intimacy tracker spawned from a drunken thought: people buy those erotic advent calendars with 24 toys — do they actually keep up with all 24 rounds? It turned into a site idea.
While yes, these devices are cool and I use them in a couple of projects (mostly centered around home automation), I think there is no good way to count people that way (other than placing them above ingress and egress points).
I think the original use case is not to know whether a dining hall is occupied at all but about how occupied it is (and if he should go to lunch now or wait another 20 minutes).
Those articles by both Jake and his wive are so well written and I would love to read them fully but I can't.
It's gut wrenching that I am just a CT scan away to being in the same (somewhat comparable) situation.
I shouldn't compare fates and still my mind wanders around the topic every time.
The facts they both present in a scientific manner (like remission rates) scare me to my bone. I cannot fathom what he and his loved ones are going through and that makes it even clearer what I have burdened on my wife, children and family.
I know this comment is ultimately me shouting "please let us both live" with many words and maybe this is me being a self serving asshole, maybe it is that. I don't know anymore.
I would love to offer the promise that everything is going to be alright but I cannot. I am just scared as hell and somehow I needed to get this out.
I am with you - while this might seem excessive there are enough people that have the cash and the threat model to go with it.
From what I could find the 2009 Protection version (then called high security) was more around 400k-450k€. A standard model 7 runs from ~115k up to ~145k€.
Yes, I must say that I love BMW's approach. Everyone else just takes a frame and hangs off of it all the protection — just a massive increase in redundant weight and decrease in performance.
Far better to take BMW's approach, upgrade the materials so that the protection is structural; each component serves both purposes.
Interesting read on the BMW 7 series Protection vehicle. Here's a tidbit from the field: I've heard, through the grapevine, about a team responsible for the safety of a certain high-profile individual (no names mentioned, of course ). About a year ago, they made a strategic shift away from BMWs as protection vehicles. Why? Because in emergency escape scenarios, it's crucial to be able to move the car even with the doors not fully closed / deliberately open. But with the BMW, if the doors aren't fully closed, the car won't budge. It's a fascinating look at how design features in luxury vehicles can intersect with real-world security needs in unexpected ways.
Disclaimer: I don't have primary knowledge of this, and it's second-hand information from someone I trust personally. As with all such information, grain of salt recommended.
But, knowing it's a BMW, it probably can be disabled. And it actually still works when you have your seatbelt on (as proof of being in control of the vehicle).
Mine is a few years old hybrid but you can move it with the door opoen. I only know because occasiionally I've cracked the door to physically watch the rear wheel during a tight manouver. I haven't tried any high speed James Bond stuff though.
This seems surprising to me. This is the sort of feature that I could easily see being controlled by the dealer, via 'coding' (effectively just changing config settings via the OBD2 port). It's a fairly easy process that anyone can do at home with a specialty phone app and a bluetooth OBD2 adapter. Though working with BMW as a third party might be troublesome if they didn't make this a configurable setting.
This is the sort of feature that I could easily see being controlled by splicing some wires together. I guess it depends on if it's just a switch or a more intelligent proximity sensor, but surely there's some way to jerry rig it.
There are other 'convenience' features that become problematic in a highly adversarial environment, such as unlocking all the doors when you shift into park, or unlocking the doors and shutting off the fuel supply when an accident is detected. In an emergency situation you may have to ram through a vehicle blockade- I would hate for the car to then suddenly shut down in that case...
A solution for a major retailer for sportswear where I designed a compact Certificate Authority module for our product that can be used to easily generate TLS Certificate for internal services.
The main benefits for the customer is physical security, the device is built to be savely stored in a safe or at a bank vault when not in use.
It is built in a way which give total control over the keys to the customer so that our support teams managing the services never have to touch a private key and is easy enough to be used by a non-technical employee of our customers.
For the same audience I'm working on replacing the traditional multi-hub-and-spoke VPN we've built over the last few years (around 500 Hubs in Germany + Spokes) with a true End to end encrypted Mesh system with around 2000 wireguard nodes.
Lastly this is something I hope to do in the near future, building out the first cloud strategy, team, infrastucture and procedures for said sports retailer.
Oh I built a Powershell Wrapper around some parts of the Dynect API and a mostly complete wrapper around the tailscale API which is not widely used but made an impacton a handful of people.
At the start of the pandemic I ran a couple of Jitsi Meet instances for people to connect with their close-ones which was used by a low five figur number of people.
I started a project where we 3d printed a few thousand earsavers for wearing A FFP2 mask for for our local school. I think we at least got two school fully supplied and about a thousand pieces where donated to the hospital that saved my life.
Ah, so Apple is linking the feature of finding _my_ phone with reporting on lots of others? That explains why people turn it on, but I find that creepy.
The technology is also built so that the location is encrypted for the device owner - so Apple doesn't have a database of the location of every Apple Find My enabled device in the world, which for me makes it not creepy - my devices can find my devices.
It's really useful for locating lost headphones, laptops, etc. -- whether stolen, left on public transport/taxi, or left at a friend's house.
Is there any independent analysis of this end to end encryption of location data, that confirms that Apple can not really access the location even if they want to?
I am not sure if this is sarcasm or not but in case it is Not:
No it's not a solution, Netflix already heavily uses IPv6 and most sane v6 endpoints will not be NATed. Maybe they could use v6 Subnets as an Identifier but this would be wonky at best.
This would be a support ticket pandemonium since there are more than enough providers with dynamic IP adressing on v4 and v6.
But to be honest I think they might not need all that, more likely is they use some sort of device ID the modern Smart TVs already have Baked in or build some hash of their own with some device specific identifier (size, resolution, manufactuter, User Agent).
The article and information out there seems to imply they're primarily targeting TVs and devices that are used with TVs (SetTopBoxes, AppleTV, Firetv, Roku et al). So it makes no sense to use a device type unspecific Identifier like the IP in any way
I'm building ourrhythm.de, a privacy first intimacy tracker spawned from a drunken thought: people buy those erotic advent calendars with 24 toys — do they actually keep up with all 24 rounds? It turned into a site idea.