Wrote this piece for the @PressHerald where the cyber policy guy steps out of his lane and into urban planning because stepping off the curb has become so dangerous.
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Despite the two hour drive from Portland, our largest city, to the nearest service center in Peabody, MA, there are 2,100 Teslas registered in the state; over a third (800) are from counties that are 2+ hours from Peabody.
@elonmusk I don't want to do it but I think I need to sell my @Tesla because I just can't drive two hours each way to Massachusetts to get my vehicle serviced (second time this year)
I live in Maine, a state with 1M cars, 1.3M people, and a well built out charging network just waiting for my more BEVs (26 BEVs per 1 DC charger vs. 60 in CT)
@FidiumFiber I can’t believe I am doing this but I just signed back up with @GetSpectrum because your tech support is so terrible; on Monday, I swapped a plug and play router — why you require a phone call and a verbal confirmation of the new MAC address is beyond me
Are others hearing that insurance companies in the US are starting to exclude ransom payments? Have not heard or seen that directly but was just told that through a long game of telephone...
@CarpeDiemCyber never let a crisis go to waste... TSA had long taken the position that regulation was not necessary. Clearly it is, if only because absent regulation government only finds out whether security is poor when something bad happens.