In a big win for privacy, the US Supreme court ruled that authorities must have a warrant to access a person's location information from their cell phone. The ruling was 5-4, so it definitely had people against it, but I do feel this is good to protect citizens from abuse by law enforcement and others. People may think this could make finding terrorists take longer, but I disagree, as if the authorities have proof or probable cause, they can surely get a warrant withing a couple of hours.
This is an interesting bit of information that I found that was posted this previous wednesday and I thought it was very intriguing. While most of the articles I read are less hardware and more software/firmware focused it was a nice change of pace to see an article focused on a hardware issue that has arisen. According to the article, computer scientists have discovered that " ...sonic and ultrasonic signals (inaudible to human) can be used to cause physical damage to hard drives just by playing ultrasonic sounds through a target computer's own built-in speaker or by exploiting a speaker near the targeted device. " This is an interesting development as it wasn't something that I had thought could happen. Hard drives normally have protection features against outside interference such as vibrations, but according to the article, " To prevent a head crash from acoustic resonance, modern HDDs use shock sensor-driven feedforward controllers that detect such m...
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