The security researcher niels hofmans has demonstrated how vulnerabilities in apple’s t2 secure chip can be exploited in practice. First, he uses a well-known luck to attack the boot process. Then he bypasses an apple-integrated security routine, which actually acknowledges precooling attempts in the device firmware update mode (dfu) with a crash of the operating system (sepos) of the chip. He managed to get full root access including kernel execution rights.

That apple’s safe chip t2, which is in all current macs and, among other things, ensures ssd hardware shutters, with security, is already known. These are therefore problematic, therefore, because they do not simply migrate from the manufacturer by updating – the included os is poured into hardware. The processor is based on apple’s a10, which is already on duration jailbreaks.

Safe chip improves the user

Although hofmans could not directly crack this type apple filevault 2 cap. However, he succeeded in placing a keylogger directly in the t2 chip, as it is stated for the control of the keyboard for safety limits for the control of the keyboard. So it was possible to simply steal the password – even that of the firmware of the mac.

In addition, hofmans succeeded, according to their own statements, to remove various apple security functions with their exploit. This is what mobile device management (mdm), which use many companies, as well as the anti-theft function "find my mac". After all, the shady code is not persistent because it runs only in memory; sepos itself is read-only. Hofmans estimates that attackers were able to use a manipulated usb device to get access to the mac – the necessary hardware fits with a plug in a plug.

Not out of the distance

However, as is relevant to the attack in practice, however, remains controversial. As far as foreseeable, there is no possibility to exploit the leach from afar. An attacker requires physical access to the machine to be crunched, simply exploits to be used does not exist so far. In addition, several security swags are combined with each other, which complicates the imitation of the process. Data forums were allowed to pursue the methodology but certainly with gross attention.

Hofmans has already contacted apple, but so far nothing has been heard. Normal users remains to be recommended not to leave their mac unattended – and usb-c accessories are not easy to blind.

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39.358 public charging points are currently listed in the charging station register of the german association of energy and water industries (bdew); one seventh of these are dc fast chargers. This means that the number of charging points has increased by around 15,000 compared to december 2019.000, and by 3,800 in the last three months alone.

There has also been a significant increase in the expansion of private charging infrastructure, the bdew reported . According to the federal ministry of transport, since the start of the request program for private wallboxes at the end of november 2020, requests for more than 300,000 wallboxes have been submitted.000 wallboxes have been requested. This is significant, as more than 9 out of 10 charging processes have so far taken place at home or at work.

"It is more than questionable whether we need a million charging points by 2030, because that would be a scenario based on now outdated premises: 900.000 standard charging points of 11 kw", said kerstin andreae, chairwoman of the bdew board of directors. More and more vehicles were already able to charge faster. This dynamic, as well as the type of (also) electrically powered vehicles, had to be taken into account when expanding the charging infrastructure.

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The dismissal of a political editor of a local austrian newspaper continues to cause a stir. The dismissal was "the first political victim of a shift to the right in austria", said the head of the austrian journalists’ union on friday. Fear of an attempt to bring the media into line ran through austrian newsrooms. The controversy then took a bizarre turn with jorg haider’s appearance on the n-tv program "talk in berlin". There he said that he wanted to campaign for the reinstatement of the expert journalist gerhard marschall.

The german public was able to see for itself in this broadcast, which has since come to be seen as the "peak of embarrassment" the german public was able to get a picture of haider as a manipulator of public opinion. For in the exchange of blows with freimut duve – one of the few on the program who at least tried to stand up to him – the next turn immediately followed. The condition for haider’s commitment, haider said, was that the sdp media expert and osce representative would in return support the addition of nationwide terrestrial private television in austria. No wonder haider considered the talk show a success. "He was able to say what he wanted to say, he rejoiced" today according to spiegel online.

In the meantime, the announcement of the editor gerhard marschall drew further circles in austria. Publisher rudolf a. Cuturi and editor-in-chief hans koppl denied today in a statement in the oberosterreichische nachrichten that the dismissal was politically motivated. "The reason for this lies rather in the style of editor marschall’s contributions, which repeatedly, and increasingly in recent months, lack the non-partisanship, distance and objectivity that we, as an independent medium, expect from our staff", they wrote. Marshall’s style has been the cause of subscription cancellations by readers, the editor was quoted as saying in other contexts.

But even that is probably not an objective reason for termination in austria’s provinces. For as the salzburger nachrichten reported today:

"The protest of a few hundred subscribers against a certain critical journalist could also be organized by auben. In salzburg, too, we have already experienced that the understanding of democracy of some liberal functionaries is exhausted by the call for a boycott of an inconvenient newspaper."

The f party, however, denied any influence in connection with the announcement of the editor. The result of another editorial meeting today at oberosterreichische nachrichten is not to make any further statements pending the reaction of the person concerned, der standard reported.

Nothing has yet become known about concrete steps taken by jorg haider to democratically support a journalist who is critical of him. He focused today on the announcement of the intention to sue ex-chancellor kilma for political treason for inciting eu politicians to boycott austria. The charm offensive in the german speaking countries is obviously ahead.

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Around 90 percent of children and adolescents in germany are looking to a survey daily moving picture on television or internet. This is evident from a study presented by the arbeitsgemeinschaft agf video research on monday in frankfurt (main). The value refers to the 3- to 17-year-old. The agf has been measuring the tv quotas for local tv channels for decades, which are agf shareholders.

In the representative study, more than 5,000 children between 3 and 17 years or their parents were interviewed in february and marz. Comparative figures for early years are not available, the agf study is the first in this form. To the questions in the survey paid: "which shipments or videos do you like best?" and "you have already given much information about the offers you use. Is there for you in these offers or figures you think, maybe even role models?"

Ever old, the less tv

More results: the significant majority of children and adolescents consumes moving picture in a mix of both classic tv and platforms such as media library and portals like youtube. The age the children are, the lower the proportion of those who see the television program. For the 3- to 6-year-old, which is at least occasionally moving picture, this value was 8 percent, according to the survey, in the 14- to 17-year-olds it was only 3 percent.

Free video portals are the survey with increasing age more important. While 29 percent of 3- to 6-year-year-old benefits, there are already 37 percent of 14 to 17-year-old. If, on the other hand, there are paid portals, the values are almost equal (3-6 years: 26 percent, 14-17 years: 25 percent). In the age groups in between, the value drops to 19 percent. At the favorite app was consistently in the age groups "youtube" perennial.

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Half a trillion euros of additional new corona debt to be repaid through contributions to eu budget

Following a video meeting, french president emmanuel macron and german chancellor angela merkel yesterday announced an agreement on a half-trillion-euro european corona reconstruction fund to supplement the 540 billion euros in borrowing agreed so far. The money is to be raised through jointly contracted public debt, which will be paid from the eu budget over the next 20 years. German taxpayers will contribute the largest net share to this eu budget.

Merkel justified this yesterday by citing what she called the most "the most serious crisis the eu has ever faced in its history" and that a "the unique effort required by the" required. Macron, who had been promoting eurobonds long before the corona crisis, spoke of a significant "important stage" and said, "an agreement between germany and france [was not yet] an agreement among the 27 member states", but there is "no agreement between the 27 if germany and france have not agreed first".

Conte for, kurz against

The fact that the new quasi-eurobonds must be agreed unanimously is due to their linkage to the eu budget framework on the one hand and the increase in the own resources ceiling required for this on the other. In the other 25 eu member states, whose finance ministers are holding video negotiations today with their counterparts from germany and france, there are differing views on merkel’s and macron’s plan.

Italian prime minister giuseppe conte (who would likely be the main beneficiary of the quasi-eurobonds due to his country’s legacy debt and particular exposure to covid-19) praised the plan, while austrian chancellor sebastian kurz tweeted that while they would like to "continue to show solidarity and support countries most affected by the corona crisis" – but this must be done "through loans and not through grants". He agreed with the governments of denmark, sweden and the netherlands.

Lagarde and von der leyen praise

Christine lagarde, head of the european central bank (ecb) and eu commission president ursula von der leyen, on the other hand, welcomed the quasi-eurobonds as a "welcome" and "constructive". Von der leyen wants to give the 27. May, the eu parliament will present its own package of measures, for which it has already received a package of demands amounting to two trillion euros (cf. Eu parliament wants two-trillion-euro "reconstruction and transformation fund"). Also these 2.000 billion is to be "through the iance of long-term reconstruction bonds guaranteed by the eu budget" that is, debts for which the member countries are indirectly jointly liable.

Merkel, macron, von der leyen and the politicians in the eu parliament can hope that the european public will accept this more easily during the corona crisis than at a time when eu debt was a separate ie. As early as 2007, naomi klein explained in her book the shock strategy how politicians and economists use crisis situations to implement projects that might otherwise not have had a majority among the population (cf. Of sports palace speeches, hijacked terms and social buffer overflows). The examples she cites of this are primarily privatizations and deregulations that policymakers and the media have been pushing for in the last two decades of the 20. And the first decade of the 21. Century dominated. But the underlying mechanism can also be used for other projects (cf. Juncker and schulz use naomi klein strategy).

For other purposes, money can potentially be used, the borrowing of which is approved with the corona aid argument. That this could happen to a certain extent was hinted at by merkel herself yesterday when, in connection with the quasi-eurobonds, she spoke of investments in digitization and a "green deal" spoke. The goals formulated in the eu package also include concerns such as a requirement of the "digital transformation".

Eu commission president ursula von der leyen also admitted that she wanted to use the corona crisis to implement other projects such as reducing co2 emissions. "Sooner or later", the cdu politician said, scientists and researchers were "scientists and researchers would find a vaccine against the coronavirus", which it "against climate change" will not exist. Therefore, according to her words, only an unspecified "of the money" will be used to revive the economy and expand health care. With the rest, she wants to expand her investeu lending program and make "strategic investments" active.

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Koln, 21. August 2007 – volvo shows on the iaa from 13. Until 23. September 2007 the c30 efficiency. According to the manufacturer, the particularly economical version of the 105-hp 1.6-liter diesel gets by on less than 4.5 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers. The engine thus undercuts the normal 1.6d by 0.4 liters. Translated into co2 emissions, this means a reduction of around seven percent from 129 to less than 120 grams per kilometer. In sweden, buyers of a conventional car below this limit benefit from a state premium of the equivalent of around 1080 euros. At under 4.5 liters of diesel, the oko-volvo doesn’t do too badly. The value is exactly the same as the new vw golf bluemotion, which also has 105 hp, but requires 1.9 liters of displacement. The same consumption value is also achieved by the bmw 118d with its 143 hp – but only with complex technology.

Fine-tuning at four points

Analogous to the bluemotion models from vw and the "tdi e" variants from audi, the reduction in consumption has been achieved through fine-tuning. Firstly, the aerodynamics have been improved – by lowering the body, a roof spoiler, a modified rear bumper, underbody panelling, a modified cooling system and optimized 16-inch rims. Secondly, friction-optimized tires reduce rolling resistance. The third problem is the increased number of gearbox changes in third to fifth gear.

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Niantic works on one "pikmin"-game with ar elements. The title should like "pokemon go" in collaboration with nintendo and is developed by the tokyo department of niantic. This tokyo studio was founded in 2018, pikmin is its first video game.

The envision of the "pikmin"-playing does not give many details price. Niantic writes only, the game should encourage the encouragement to run and contain game mechanics that should make this activity spabig. That sounds quite similar to the previous niantic games ""pokemon go" and "harry potter: wizards unite". The ar game in "pikmin"-universe is to come 2021 on the market.

Pokemon, harry potter, pikmin

"Pikmin" is compared to "pokemon" and "harry potter" a significantly smaller brand: it is about small plant resources who have to get ratsel loose and adversaries. The "pikmin"-title play as a mixture of strategy game, platformer and puzzle game and let the players mostly explore an open world. So far, there are only four main games in the "pikmin"-series, which were partially reied several times.

The youngest "pikmin"-title, "pikmin 3 deluxe", appeared 2020 for the nintendo switch. It is a remake of the third part, which was published in 2013 for nintendo’s game console wii u.

According to press release, nintendo and niantic go with the development of the "pikmin"-ar game a long-term partnership in which further ar titles should be created with topics from the nintendo universe. The partnership is given the massive success of "pokemon go" nearby: according to the analysts of sensortower, the ar game has meanwhile implemented four billion us dollars for mobile devices.

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To make a long story short: a "scribing" by lucia fabiani on the itaforum 2011

How voluntarism becomes a community of constraints

More than 80 percent of facebook users have given their real names. Mark zuckerberg knows why: they like to share their information. Almost a christian act, among brothers and sisters. They are not afraid of losing their privacy? Or do they even feel a pleasure in the personal exposure in the choir of the church? Most of them know the business model of facebook in general, but do not care in detail about the interconnections and bundles of data paths that run past them while they are feeding in. They know it, but they do it anyway. The veil of opacity of web2.0 filters their concerns. They say: we can’t do anything about it anyway.

How does this traumatized attitude come about?? Surely not just by zuckerberg, the boy next door, saying: "they trust me, these idiots." why do you make a mistake on the web, only to make a mistake again as soon as you have repented (of the time)?? The social philosopher adorno has already for the 20th century. Century defined communication negatively: everybody talks, but not with each other. An indifferent noise. In the compression to a ubiquitous space-time, which makes us placeless, loneliness is only to be endured by non-stop talking, the old fear consciousness. Is there who? It is the self-arance, if not the self-absorption of narcis, who in the mirror of the water and in the echo of his words does not recognize that his counterpart is himself.

On the net we can do everything ourselves: we edit our texts and photographs, form ourselves into riots and overthrow regimes. We are allowed to empower ourselves. But just as the ancient narcissist lacked companionship, social media are replacing something that has long been "talking to each other" is embossed: the family. Psychoanalysis calls this process ego ideal substitution. Old impotences are exchanged for stronger ones. Everyone is allowed to participate in everything in the unleashed horde of brothers and sisters. We live in a free web country. We. This is the corporate sound.

It’s like in kafka’s "kafka’s castle". The desire to be part of it, demands horror. One desires entrance by a click and is already recognized as a repeat offender, now also by photo. And is there any better marketing than the recommendation by our friends, who are the "like-my"-view button?1 who are our friends? According to a study, for every 130 facebook friends, there are 6.6 real friends. But who is our best friend? We ourselves, see above. We are in the forecourt of advertising, where, as vance packard2 found out decades ago, the questions are answered in a roundabout, amusing and seemingly value-free way: who am i? Who do i want to be? How do i want to be loved? By whom? What can i do?

At a conference on iuk technologies organized by the ministry of research, karin frick suggested that instead of calling the gross data collectors "big brother" it would be better to speak of "big mother" to speak. We get advice on the net when we are sick and when we want to shop. We are cared for and nurtured. Frick added that the subliminal theme of careful care and gifting is the most important gateway of advertising, which appeals to us in a general human way. But: "you are not the customer in this (social web) network, the customer is the advertising industry. You yourself are the product."3

It is often said that "human interface" spoken. The real interface, however, as opposed to that of the transition from reality to virtuality, is the transformation of social relations into things that become manageable. Be it that we are connected to the network of things in the ubiquitous city, be it that our thinking becomes the circuit function of the collective world memory. What do neuronal researchers actually look for in the human brain?? You should search above. Konrad zuse already suspected: "the danger that the computer will become like man is not as great as the danger that man will become like the computer.

How it all began: the first computer built by konrad zuse (1938). Underneath the hardware: vacuum cleaner motors and foliage work. Image: private archive horst zuse

Does it help to identify ourselves as participants in the "gated web community" by adopting a fake identity?? Data protection officer marit hansen points out that such users, lulling themselves into a sense of security, become all the more careless when surfing the web. They are manipulated simply by believing that they cannot be manipulated. Restrictions of facebook’s functions to smaller communication spaces in order to maintain privacy must first be worked out by the user in the jungle of regulations, because they are not in the spirit of the inventor.

But this kind of freedom of choice is at the same time a useful argument for facebook. When privacy advocates object to the transfer of data to third parties, facebook counters that it was, after all, the users themselves who uploaded the data and provided them with the relevant disclosure clauses. The burden of proof is reversed: "it’s your own fault!" the global (web) players slip through the cracks between overtaxed data protection experts and a shirt-sleeved interior minister. There is circumstantial evidence for the shirtlessness. The minister does not seem to be unhappy about the practices of commercial data collection and dissemination, because the security authorities are "behind it". This is the next dilemma: is the state the adequate guarantor of a data protection that it itself is inclined to violate when it comes to its own surveillance purposes?? "State trojan" – the word is as apart as the code is long.

From cough to tsunami

The "big dater" attach themselves – with the help of cookies – to the traces of our web journeys, and the accumulation of data gradually builds up into a personal dossier. This also involves non-members of facebook, but the effectiveness of the method lies in targeting user groups whose emotional surfing motive is a hybrid of self-absorption and sickness. However, who can claim to be completely free of this?? Accordingly, it would be the potential majority, which in turn voluntarily contributes to the creation of their respective social and psychological profiles. What others spread about one on the net gradually overlays what one makes known about oneself, until one has unconsciously adopted the image of others. To be is to be perceived. The online image dominates the offline image. The image swallows up reality.

It’s then too late for a facebook exit under one’s own steam. 80 years ago, the sociologist alfred schutz outlined a social behavior pattern of the individual that anticipated the web age: i present myself in the way i think others see me. But, had to be connected, in the result there is the one and the other no more. All are "generalized others" become. All speak the same world language, the jargon of the "generalized other". Already on the occasion of the first transatlantic telegraph cables, which love to bring the old world together with the new world by accelerating the transmission to the global village, h.D. Thoreau: "perhaps, however, the first news that trickles into the coarse american lop ear is: princess adelheid has the whooping cough."4 has the whole world the cough today?

The big brother award, the oscar for data octopuses, went to facebook in 2011 in the communications category; another to apple. Bild: thorsten moller / foebud

"Facebook against any injustice" banners of the "facebook-revolution" in the arab countries. The social web provided the democratic platform. But not the political content, but "the medium is the message", according to marshall mcluhan. The digital tsunamis that drove the masses to action on the streets are no different in form from campaigns in the age of the "mass customization", ernuchterung on "day after" included. Product campaigns are best run when they are underfed and managed with people-to-people campaigns. At this point conspiracy theories emerged. Is the cia behind it?? Hardly, but conspiracy theories confirm themselves in each case. They are the supposed revelation of a cloak. But the revelation, in turn, succumbs to the aura of seduction: the unmasked "altbose enemy" (with luther the devil) remains mystical and powerful, all the more threatening.

And what if the cia itself had spread the rumor of its involvement, so that it would be denied?? The informational offerings of the web are sucked into an inextricable spiral fog of exposure and disinformation. It is like the race between hare and hedgehog. The exchange is faster. The originators or sources of news become unrecognizable as claims are made from somewhere and confirmed by repetition or imitation. This scheme is well known from prejudice research. The sword of the arab protest was finally directed against the mass movement itself. Every facebook demonstrator was allowed to feel part of the whole, but the whole turned out to be one thing: the state with its organs of surveillance and repression, which traced the digital footprints of the mass movement to the "to the masterminds" to the masterminds. In verhor their friends were already known to the interrogators. The friends-find game.

The world’s first nerd? Horst zuse, now a computer science professor, plays on his father’s z4 calculator in 1949. Image: horst zuse private archive

Finally, social networks offer three achievements that go beyond civil society and formal democracy:

1. Overcoming shame and embarrassment. In the chat room, the user has the feeling of not getting into embarrassing situations so quickly. Nobody needs to be embarrassed. Unabashed voyeurism also launched zuckerberg’s career (facemash). The consequences are unforeseeable, since norbert elias has identified shame, embarrassment and the intimacy of personal space as the very characteristics of the emergence of our civilization.
2. The general availability. Knowledge, including knowledge about others, is immediately at hand and serves self-affirmation through control over the actions of community members. The technology inspires the imagination until it seems to be omnipotent. It is a fantasy of immortality. Even if all falls in old age are reported to the central office by sensors, the real process of increasing loneliness, called dying, will not be made easier by the virtualization of life. The aging of the facebook generation is becoming a trauma, the virtuality is suddenly taking hold.
3. The mach mit society. The offers of participation are mostly structured in such a way that what is desired by the provider comes out, and the user also playfully gives his data to the best. A high point of the interacting loves itself a rough meatball roaster: "build your burger and become famous." as bertolt brecht wrote? "Only the most stupid calves build their own burger." or something like that.

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Anne frank, born in frankfurt am main in 1929, moved with her jewish family to the netherlands in 1934. When the nazis invaded and ordered the deportation of jews, she hid in a back house in amsterdam. In 1944 she was betrayed and sent to auschwitz and later to bergen-belsen, where she died of typhus in march 1945. What survived was her diary, which has become world literature and is read in many schools..

This is not appreciated by all parents: currently, the american mother gail horalek is making headlines with the demand to put the book under parental permission reservation, because it is harmful to young people.

Specifically, the woman from northville in the u.S. State of michigan has in mind the passages in which the adolescent anne frank writes how the perception of her body has changed: that as a child she did not know that there were inner labia as well. That she believed the urine stream came from the clitoris. And that she could not imagine how a penis or a child could fit through the tiny opening, into which a finger could hardly penetrate.

Before 1986 there was a version of the diary censored by anne frank’s father otto, in which the reflections on the body were not included. According to horalek, the passages reinserted in more recent editions disturbed her daughter, who concluded that the work was unsuitable for seventh-graders and filed an official complaint with the school authorities. In the complaint, she demanded that the school not only be responsible for films, but also for books with obscene content "obscene" must obtain written parental consent before making them available to a child.

Examples from other u.S. Schools show that horalek has a realistic chance of getting away with it: in the culpeper district in the u.S. State of virginia, the uncensored version of anne frank’s diary was replaced by the censored version three years ago following complaints from parents. In massachusetts, a catholic school banned the harry potter series of novels for trivializing witchcraft; in new hampshire, william shakespeare’s twelfth night was removed from the curriculum because it featured a girl dressed as a boy; in california, a district banned margaret mitchell’s gone with the wind from classrooms because of its portrayal of slaves; and in culver city, a version of little red riding hood was removed from the recommendation list for first-graders because the grandmother drank from the wine she brought to school.

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Baystents, 17. May 2010 – with 344,2 km / h in a mtm rs6 avant stop the tuner already the world record for serial combo. Now the rs6 should reach a peak of 350 km / h in a "club sports variant".

Performance weight: 2.65 kg / hp

The mtm rs6 clubsport got more power, on the other he became easier. The result: 730 hp, around 860 nm and weight just under 2 tons. In 3.6 s, the funfliter-biturbo-v10 in combination with a six-speed tiptronic should speed up the limousine to tempo 100. The 200 km / h brand should be achieved after eleven seconds.

Variable lowering

In order to achieve the 730 hp, the tuner has modified, among other things, the control unit. There are also an mtm stainless steel exhaust system with four tailpipes and flap control and changing the gear switch points. With a high adjustable mtm springs set, the rs6 club sports can be lowered between 10 to 45 mm. Alloy wheels are offered in 20 or 21 inches.

Closed

In the body modifications, the tuner with a carbon diffuser and a subtle carbon front spoiler lip. Who open the driver’s company, but sees that sportiness in the interior has replaced other serial comfort. Particularly striking: the catige for body reinforcement and the lack of resist seat. There are reca-peel seats and six-point straps.

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