CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security 466
mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on [a scheduled conference call] along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They [Mythbusters producers] were way, way outgunned and they [lawyers] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it."
Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:5, Funny)
I can't wait until they test my myths! Also, lawyers are the reason we no longer have habeas corpus, so the show should be filmed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Next on Mythbusters... (Score:5, Funny)
News from the future! (Score:5, Funny)
Wildly popular Mythbusters television star Adam Savage resigned suddenly from his position as cohost of Discovery TV's Mythbusters. Said Mr. Savage: "I just want to take a little personal time with my family. I'll be taking some time out for a year or four in Belize."
Mr. Savage has not been seen since, and our repeated calls to his agent go unanswered.
The Discovery Channel has announced through media representative Linsay Patter "We'll miss him and wish him the best. His loss means we won't be able to continue with the show." Discovery will be filling the space with Annie Parkinson's "Crafts for Children".
Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:5, Funny)
I like how this is modded informative..
Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:5, Funny)
Lawyers can smell profit and always pick the correct door in the Monty Hall situation when IEDs lay on the other side of two and $1,000 lays on the other side of one.
The correct door is of course one with an IED behind, they can sue for waaay more than $1000 for the trauma of getting blown up.
Re:I can just see the courtroom in 2010 (Score:5, Funny)
Your honour we are rich smooth talking businessmen, the claimants are poor people, the defence rests.
Judge: I rule in favour of the defence.
Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:5, Funny)
Lawyers can smell profit and always pick the correct door in the Monty Hall situation when IEDs lay on the other side of two and $1,000 lays on the other side of one.
The correct door is of course one with an IED behind, they can sue for waaay more than $1000 for the trauma of getting blown up.
That's lawyer talk! You're one of them!
GET HIM!
With the accompanying /. title: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:News from the future! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, *somebody* has to think of the children.
Re:Yeah, well... (Score:4, Funny)
The average public couldn't spell PBS...
Re:I can just see the courtroom in 2010 (Score:5, Funny)
This reminds me of something...
Judge Hank "The Hangman" BMW: Now prosecutor, why you think he done it?
Prosecutor: 'Kay. Number one your honor, just look at him. And B, we've got all this, like, evidence, of how, like, this guy didn't even pay at the hospital. And I heard that he doesn't even have his tattoo.
[crowd boos]
Prosecutor: I know! And I'm all, 'you've gotta be shittin' me!' But check this out man, judge should be like
[bangs fist on table]
Prosecutor: 'guilty!' Peace.
Re:Yeah, well... (Score:1, Funny)
Sure they can. It's 2-6-enter on the remote.
Re:99% chance (Score:5, Funny)
That this clip is leaked to the Internet where it explodes in popularity.
The Discovery Channel should make sure that the media the episode is stored on is secured by means of RFID security devices to ensure that it is not stolen and leaked.
Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:4, Funny)
Any lawyer can outrun a male grizzly bear in the middle of mating season.
I didn't know lawyers had a mating season! I guess I always assumed they were created in liquid-filled vats somewhere in Canada...
Also... what do the lawyers do when the catch up to the bear?
Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:4, Funny)
Lawyers are like geeks, except they hack laws instead of code
Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, we should sue eachother more. You see, lawyers tend to become politicians, therefore there's enormous societal value in keeping lawyers busy suing people.
It keeps evil out of politics.
So sue eachother ! Sue me ! Maybe Barack, Biden, McCain and Palin will go back to thinking there's more money in lawyering.
It's a feeble, fleeting hope, but what other hope is there ?
Good job (Score:3, Funny)
Just to be safe they should keep this episode locked away in a secure vault out in the middle of nowhere guarded by a lock which requires two RFID keys to open so that it will never see the light of day.
Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, damn elitist lawyers. Oh right, obama grew up poor and without a father.
I mean, we need to vote in people who are likable. Regular people who I can 'have a beer with' as the media says. That's Bush alright, he's a regular guy, not the son of millionares who has never had to fend for himself or work a hard day in his life.
Re:Upcoming Mythbusters Special! (Score:4, Funny)
Without the restraint that it must be syntactically correct and compile! The fact that it doesn't 'compile' can generate work for another lawyer who discovers the errors.
Re:mod parent down (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Delaying the inevitable (Score:4, Funny)
But who would see it?
Its better to post links here than in the article no one reads.
Re:Maybe the law should be open source (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Re:Delaying the inevitable (Score:3, Funny)
I had a friend once that put "I'm not tipping you" on his. If a clerk doesn't mention it, they don't get anything written on the tip line of the receipt.
Re:With the accompanying /. title: (Score:4, Funny)
Better that than "CC Companies French Mythbusters Show On Security".
Re:Delaying the inevitable (Score:3, Funny)
I draw smiley faces or less G rated things on the digital signature pads in stores :).
Re:Delaying the inevitable (Score:3, Funny)
Don't need no steenkin' lawyers. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sometimes it neccesary (Score:2, Funny)
You must be new.
In this country, we paint the hole to look like a window, then have anyone who calls it a hole walk the plank.
Re:Delaying the inevitable (Score:4, Funny)
But who would see it?
Its better to post links here than in the article no one reads.
Great. Now we're gonna have WTFV.
Re:Delaying the inevitable (Score:3, Funny)
if some kid in Australia can gin up a convincing DMCA takedown
... then there's trouble brewing :)
Re:Delaying the inevitable (Score:4, Funny)
Cucumbers listed as birth control at the counter would be the least of our problems.
It sounds like a kinky, but certainly effective, form of birth control to me.
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