RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Tuesday 25 Jun 2024 Volume 34 : Issue 33

ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
Peter G. Neumann, founder and still moderator

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Contents:
Titan Disaster Forces Global Rethinking of Deep Sea Exploration
(William J. Broad)
Dead Tesla Traps Toddler In Hot Car, Raises Concerns About Electric Doors
(CarScoops)
Nuclear power Senate Vote (BackgroundBriefing)
Musk calls for elimination of electronic voting machines, full hand count of
all ballots (Politico)
Dash to Ditch Paper Money in Sweden Created a Playground for Criminals
(Bloomberg)
A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records (WiReD)
Antivirus Shuffle over Kaspersky (TechMonitor)
Passwords Weakened by Advancements in Computing Processing
(Sead Fadilpasic)
Hacker Accesses Internal Tile Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops
(494 Media)
Ozone Hole Mk. II (NCBI)
California plans to enlist AI to translate healthcare information (LA Times)
In AI we trust, part II: Wherein AI adjudicates every Supreme Court case
(adamunikowsky)
Incoming *WashPost* editor tied to self-described thief who claimed role in
his reporting (Monty Solomon)
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train
Passengers (WiReD)
Bacon ice cream and nugget overload sees misfiring McDonald's AI withdrawn
(BBC)
More productive AI => Self-Poisoned Training = GIGO (Henry Baker)
Mass.'s "911 system" crashes... (danny burstein)
Mass. 911 system back online after outage (Monty Solomon)
AWS MFA/2FA Changes (Cliff kilby)
Hacker selling AMD data breach dated June 2024. Europol involved (Presale1)
Even Doctors Like Me Are Falling Into This Medical Bill Trap (NYTimes)
How Crypto Money Is Poised to Influence the Election (NYTimes)
NYC Congestion Pricing paused; but its LPR tracking not paused
Passwords Weakened by Advancements in Computing Processing
Firefox and Cancer? (The Register)
Re: How a New Jersey man was wrongly arrested through facial
Re: Re: Generative AI and the law (LW, RISKS-34.32)
Re: Generative AI and the law (Levine, RISKS-34.33)
Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks)

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:15:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: Titan Disaster Forces Global Rethinking of Deep Sea Exploration
(William J. Broad)

William J. Broadl, *The New York Times*. 18 Jun 2024

A pair of robotic vehicles will be sent to the resting place of the Titanic
to recover artifacts, about a year after the June 18, 2023, implosion of the
Titan submersible that killed five people, The July expedition is being
organized by RMS Titanic. While proponents of human-piloted submersibles are
pushing for regulation, the RMS Titanic expedition shows that some are
rethinking deep sea exploration, with a shift toward robots as a safer
alternative.

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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:38:09 -0700
From: geoff goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com>
Subject: Dead Tesla Traps Toddler In Hot Car, Raises Concerns About Electric
Doors (CarScoops)

Adults can use manual door releases from inside dead electric vehicles but
younger ones can't.

- A Tesla in Arizona died and in the process trapped a toddler in the
hot car.
- Firefighters had to break the window of the vehicle to get the child
out as quickly as possible.
- The incident highlights the danger to those who own vehicles with
electronic door releases.

Automotive technology continues to advance across the entire industry.
Electronic door releases are one part of that wave and, in some cases, can
increase safety. At the same time, they pose a significant danger to young
ones when the battery of the car in question dies. One Tesla owner in
Arizona just found that out while narrowly avoiding catastrophe.

Renee Sanchez was about to take her 20-month-old granddaughter to the
Phoenix Zoo. After safely strapping her into her car seat, Sanchez went to
get into her Tesla but then realized the EV was dead. Her granddaughter was
now trapped inside of the car with no way to easily get out.

Tesla, and most other automakers with electronic door releases, have manual
releases that owners can use from inside the cabin. At the same time,
several owners don't know about the manual releases that come on vehicles
with electronic door latches.

At times, they even panic before learning that all they had to do to get out
was to pull a manual lever inches from their own hand. In addition, those
manual releases don't help if the only person in the car is a toddler or
infant as was the case for Sanchez.

Understanding the severity of the situation, she called 911. When the fire
department arrived, they told her that they couldn't get into the car. As
reported by AZ Family, she gave them the go-ahead to break in at all costs.
Sure enough, they had to smash a window to retrieve the child as quickly as
possible. Notably, Tesla does have a procedure to get into the car but it
requires several steps and a battery charger. [...]

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/06/dead-tesla-traps-toddler-in-hot-car-raises-concerns-about-electric-doors/

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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:29:53 -0700
From: "Jim" <jgeissman@socal.rr.com>
Subject: Nuclear power Senate Vote (BackgroundBriefing)

https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/ June 19th

The Senate Votes 88 to 2 to Boost Nuclear Power Based on "New" Reactor
Technology That is Old and Less Safe

Then finally we examine the 88 to 2 vote in the Senate for a bill to boost
nuclear power based on the false promises of a new technology that is both
old and less safe than the current aging power reactors which have been
plagued with near-disasters and massive cost overruns. Joining us is
<https://www.ucsusa.org/about/people/edwin-lyman> Edwin Lyman, Director of
Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an
internationally recognized expert on nuclear proliferation and nuclear
terrorism as well as nuclear power safety and security. He is a member of
the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management and has testified numerous
times before Congress and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He co-authored
the critically acclaimed book,

Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
<https://www.google.com/search?q=Fukushima%3A+The+Story+of+a+Nuclear+Disaste
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:18:23 -0700
From: Barbara Simons <barbara.b.simons@gmail.com>
Subject: Musk calls for elimination of electronic voting machines,
Su full hand count of all ballots (Politico)

<https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-cybersecurity/2024/06/17/rage-against-the-voting-machine-00163612#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20Tech%20mogul%20Elon%20Musk%20ignited,to%20hand%20counting%20paper%20ballots.>:

*Rage against the voting machine*
JOSEPH GEDEON  06/17/2024 10:00 AM EDT
With help from Maggie Miller and John Sakellariadis

VOTING WARS — Elon Musk set the Xverse ablaze this weekend with a
viral post calling to “eliminate electronic voting machines” due to
hacking risks, racking up over 75,000 reposts. It came after
independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seized on
voting irregularities in Puerto Rico’s recent primary to demand a
return to hand-marked paper ballots nationwide.

The pro-hand-count movement has been gaining steam, with at least
eight states introducing legislation in 2023 to ditch voting machines
altogether. But election security experts are pushing back hard.

“Flip the claim that there’s ‘no evidence of widespread fraud.’ We
have evidence of sound elections,” said Pamela Smith, president of the
nonpartisan Verified Voting, which promotes the responsible use of
technology in elections.

Understand the problem: Smith argues that while tiny jurisdictions can
feasibly hand count ballots, moving to full manual counts in larger
locales would be a logistical nightmare -— delaying results for weeks
or months and costing counties millions to hire enough workers. Not to
mention studies showing machines tend to tally votes more accurately
than humans do.

* “There is no evidence whatsoever that ‘irregularities’ have ever
been significant enough to change the results of an election,”
Seattle’s former CISO Mike Hamilton tells Morning Cyber.

* All hands on deck: Yet the hand count crowd clearly remains vocally
skeptical of voting tech, however small the hacking risk. So what’s
an election official to do?

The answer: Robust audits.

Verified Voting and other election watchdogs recommend pairing machine
counts with rigorous post-election audits that hand tally a portion of
ballots to verify results, correct any errors and assure the public of the
system’s integrity.

“Banks audit themselves regularly, and with elections you should audit every
one,” Smith said. “That’s a best practice for ensuring there were no
unnoticed errors or tampering.”