Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
That’s not true though.
I packed in so much, and for 3 outlets at that – for my column I interviewed the gentleman who keeps both Maserati and Ferrari polished, my blog of course, then ended the day filming a few segments with Motoring TV.
I’ll tell you all about it soon, but Friday’s is ‘deadline day’ as you know, plus my brain is mush, and that is never a mind to be posting things online.
Instead I’m off to my neighbours for a beer, I’ll cheers you TTYT
200 km + 2 events + haircut + a massive interview for my column = 11:30pm I’m home.
Tomorrow is the actual auto show day, so have to cut this short since I have to be back downtown and camera ready pretty early.
Driving some of those kilometres.
Okay first stop is the 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Spider unveiling.
Which I had to leave before the cloth came off. to make it to my interview on time. I didn’t document the boardroom, it didn’t seem appropriate but kinda regretting it now, a photo would go good here.
ingenie, coming soon to Canada – plug the device into your OBDII port, and get performance-based insurance discounts by using a safe driving style. I secured one of the few interviews about it, and they’re putting together a review unit for me try, too; neat eh.
Okay interview done, now off to the 2015 Nissan Titan reveal.
Designed by two Canadians!
Best part about these events are always the people.
The auto journalist crowd is genuinely hilarious, and I never have to dumb-down my vocabulary which is refreshing. Plus they always give me a hard time in the best way, “quick Keri, get this up on your blooooooog.”
You know those guys, Team Autonet! David Miller on the left, and Dan Barron on the right.
I’ll take more photos at the show tomorrow… probably. Whipping out your camera to document a moment completely kills it, so I err on the side of nope.
Arty rearview mirror shot.
And now it’s passed midnight, and I just realized I left a bunch of stuff freezing in the back seat so going to get that then fall on my face, TTYT
Hat tip to BMW – they may be one of the first automakers to publicly admit to a security flaw in their vehicles.
The potential breach was found in BMW’s ConnectedDrive infotainment system.
In Germany, the ADAC (their CAA) discovered a potential security gap during data transmission.
It would have allowed an attacker to use ConnectedDrive to remotely unlock the car’s doors, then potentially access the SIM card to control some of the vehicle’s functions (not critical ones though, like steering or braking.)
They promptly sent out a mass software patch to over 2.2 million vehicles, switched to using HTTPS (like a bank) to encrypt traffic between their servers and the vehicles, and then even posted a press release about it, here.
It’s not the first time an automaker has experienced some sort of potential security breach.
What’s different is how they handled it – swiftly, and openly talked about it, something which often only happens when the manufacturer is publicly shamed.
Eliminates guessing at which direction also has a stop sign. Clever eh.
It’s like, the one thing that province gets right.
Just kidding.
Poutine.
So there will be no big blog update.
Tuesday’s are my news slot at the paper, then I had to deal with all the Life Admin that’d piled up (Life Admin – the stuff you must maintain to keep a life running smoothing, such as paying bills, managing relationships, errands, and my hair’s not actually blonde eh.)
So much of today was spent on the phone. Love the phone. Like how I loop my headset around my ears?
On a day like this it’s tough to flip seamlessly to writing brain, especially if it’s technical and requires deep focus, topics like the technical differences between Static VS Variable AWD, or the math behind having a 25-character password.
Then I got real pre-occupied with this:
BSides Vancouver
is a 2-day, high-end gathering for information security professionals, hackers, coders and the greater tech community, coming up in March.
I’m currently at 80% yes. The speech just like, flew of my fingers, and the slide presentation deck began to piece itself together WAIT, I’m going to do a word count on it hang on…. 1,141… 15 sub-topics… increase that to 85%.
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That would mean my first ever speaking engagement is in front of 250 people, that are really smart like, the security crowd is discerning… got nervous just typing that.
Going to sleep on it, I always do on big decisions…. to debut in front of 250 people, plus video lives forever online…
Disappearing back into daydream-plotting mind, TTYT
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