"Students from the University of Texas [Hook 'em Horns! - MEM] successfully piloted an $80m superyacht sailing 30 miles offshore in the Mediterranean Sea by overriding the ship's GPS signals without any alarms being raised.

The team, led by assistant professor Todd Humphreys from UT Austin's department of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics, took a GPS spoofing device the size of a briefcase up to the upper deck of the White Rose of Drachs, a 65 meter luxury yacht owned by British property magnate Michael Evans, while it was in international waters en route from Monaco to Rhodes, Greece."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/29/...

excelente. gracias

I saw that story, too!

Made me wonder if the next captain of a beached oil tanker, couldn't simply claim that he lost control to someone across the globe....

Here is an excerpt from his book, "Panic 2012."
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/15/an-excerp...

Was Hastings murdered? Possibly. I read various online reports about how modern cars’ computerized systems can be hacked into remotely.

If I buy a modern car (one with computerized ignition, ect.) I will have a mechanical kill-switch panic button installed that will cut all power—battery AND generator/alternator if need be.

INSLAW -- While investigating elements of this story, journalist Danny Casolaro died in what was twice ruled a suicide. Prior to his death, Casolaro had warned friends if they were ever told he had committed suicide not to believe it, and to know he had been murdered.[39] Many have argued that his death was suspicious, deserving closer scrutiny; some have argued further, believing his death was a murder, committed to hide whatever Casolaro had uncovered.[7] "I believe he was murdered," wrote former Attorney General Elliot Richardson in the New York Times, "but even if that is no more than a possibility, it is a possibility with such sinister implications as to demand a serious effort to discover the truth."[15] Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith discuss this in their book, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro[nb 15] Writing on behalf of a majority opinion in House Report 102-857, Committee Chairman, Jack Brooks (D-TX) wrote, "As long as the possibility exists that Danny Casolaro died as a result of his investigation into the INSLAW matter, it is imperative that further investigation be conducted."

Inslaw, Inc. is a small, Washington, D.C.-based, information technology company. ... During ensuing investigations, the Department of Justice was accused of deliberately attempting to drive Inslaw into Chapter 7 liquidation; and of distributing and selling stolen software for covert intelligence operations of foreign governments such as Canada, Israel, Singapore, Iraq, Egypt, and Jordan; and of becoming directly involved in murder."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw

Don Bolles (July 10, 1928 – June 13, 1976) was an American investigative reporter whose murder in a bombing is linked to the Mafia.[1]... The exact motive for the crime remains a mystery, but many speculate the Mafia holds responsibility, as a large concentration of Bolles' work involved organized crime, even going as far as to run a story naming over 200 known mafia members operating in the state of Arizona. Some suspected that Kemper Marley, a man who made millions in the liquor distribution business in Arizona in a partnership with Cindy McCain's father and fraternal uncle, was behind the Bolles murder, but Phoenix police could find no evidence linking him with the crime, and he continued conducting business in Arizona until meeting his own death, cancer-related, on June 25, 1990 in La Jolla, California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bolles

I had just read college project where they steered a ship

nerd, you made the newsletter! congrats! you'll be busy for awhile...

Hacking a car here (but note the real world limitations):
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/07/...


(Smile when you say "nerd.")

This took some time, but I had to read all of it.

There was a recent TV show where two nerds demonstrated how they could override a car's computer using a laptop, and take control of every facet of the car. They steered it any direction they wanted, and the driver couldn't correct it,

I'm not a conspiracy fan, but I do question Hastings' death...given the crowd that he was 'tweaking'.

I suspect he fled in a paranoia from some real or imagined surveillance. If people in the gov't with access to gov't surveillance resources were out to get him, they could have used drug laws against him-- to discredit him and to give him criminal charges to focus on.

I find the notion that someone in the gov't murdered him far-fetched but possible.

"If Dick Cheney and President Obama are on the same side in this, that isn’t bipartisanship, that’s the political end times." -- Victoria Brownsworth "The Battle of Hastings"
http://www.germantownnewspapers.com/The_...