Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Although really, everyday should be backup day. Here, I made a list:
– password manager file (you have one right)
– contacts
– calendar
– bookmarks
– always backup twice – here
– do big backups in chunks – here
– if you’re using the cloud, here’s what your data looks like this
– and if everything goes west, data can still be recovered from this
That title goes to Mercedes-Benz and their 2.0L 4-cylinder turbocharged engine found inside the CLA 45 AMG.
355 hp
332 lb.ft of torque
0-100 km/h in 4.6 seconds
Top speed – 250 km/h
Engine is hand-built, start to finish, by one technician
Starting at $50,600
Sold out in Canada
(pictured above is a CLA 250, but the AMG looks similar enough, with the main difference being the badge on the back)
(non car nerds: AMG is Mercedes’ line of high-performance vehicles, see this chart)
(to be clear – the post title refers to a “production engine found in a consumer vehicle”)
(I did not mean for this post to have so many brackets)
Sounds like a contradiction eh. But it actually exists, my neighbour uses them.
On a clear night there’s about 15 crisp channels to choose from, but on a stormy night we’re stuck watching a PBS documentary go in and out of focus.
It arrived in my Gmail earlier this week. How many clues can you spot?
1 – I didn’t order anything, and if I had, it wouldn’t have been using that email address.
2 – terrible spelling and grammar, FedEx would never
3 – the big red flag – a non-FedEx email
4 – the absence of information, there’s no links, tracking number…
5 – Operation Agent. I like the name though
As far as phishing emails go, this one’s obvious; see the LinkedIn one for a more sophisticated example here.
The attachment made it through Google’s security checks and filters. Nicely done guy.
That’s why never let downloads open automatically – more here.
And see how small it is? 4K, tiny. Doesn’t take much to mess your machine up.
Stay sharp out there.
Blog tag = Phishing
It’s Audi’s Night Vision Assistant. Neat eh. And crisp, look at those buildings.
Below is Bay Street.
See the time? 4:30pm, the sun hasn’t gone down and it still works.
The yellow rectangles are pedestrians. If there’s a risk of collision, the highlighting turns red and an alarm sounds.
It uses a thermal imaging camera, aka an infrared (IR) camera, mounted in the grille.
It can detect pedestrians up to 90m away. Turn the system off via a hard button.
Came up with an idea – a car appears almost all-white when it’s fully loaded with people. Therefore I could use this tech to find 18-wheelers being used for human trafficking, tada.
And that’s me about to get hit.
