Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Flight data recorder in your car's airbag *The Toronto Star* (thestar.com, article by Paul Legall) reported on 25 Jan 2001 that the Ontario Provincial Police can now read the "event data recorder" units that are part of auto air-bags. The information includes speed (as you'd expect), but also braking, whether the driver's seat belt was fastened, if the ignition was turned on after the air bag went off and if there were other impacts before the one that set the airbag off. The speed information was disclosed to a coroner's jury recently. David Collier-Brown, Performance & Engineering Team, Americas Customer Engineering 1-905-415-2849 davecb@canada.sun.com [David Collier-Brown via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 23] 0:00 # G!

Hackers hit U.S., U.K., Australian government sites Attrition.org reports that hackers attacked government sites in the U.S., U.K., and Australia last weekend, one of the "largest, most systematic" defacements of .gov/.mil sites worldwide. Check out http://www.attrition.org/ for details. [Source: David Legard, IDG News Service, 22 Jan 2001; PGN-ed] ["Keith A Rhodes" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 23] 0:00 # G!