Wrong colour for a Ferrari, supercars should be stupid colours like yellow (original Ferrari) or something luminous like a Lambo

Reminds me of the "You're fired!!" fax from Back to the Future II. I wonder if this is where they got the idea from.

Lambo's can pull off colours that even other supercars can't.

Hmm. Ferrari's racing cars have always been very distinctive red colour. I could probably find the pantone number if necessary. The absolute classic ferrari is a red 50s/60s period convertible with cream leather interior - say a 250GT California spyder. Some good examples of those sell for 10's of millions of dollars.



The idea Ferraris should be a colour other than red is.. bizarre, to anyone who knows their history. There are (IMO) three 'good' colours for Ferraris - red, yellow and black. Just like Aston martins should only ever be silver or British racing green .

I think Chris Evans made most of his look terrible by painting them all white.

And halved the value?

Farari actually made a white Testarossa which looked okay, in my opinion (even though generally I don't like white coloured cars).

Mark

Er, surely they have to prove it did or didn't



I'm hoping there's more to that story cos that's a bit Minority Report



Either that's BS or he's stumbled onto something quite important

Sounds more Call of Duty Multiplayer to me..


If they could crack whatever encryption he was using (my guess would be TrueCrypt, but there's several options), they wouldn't say so in public, because they'd want people to carry on using the encryption they could break. Goes all the way back to Bletchley Park, that one. In fact, them saying they couldn't crack it could be a double bluff . Where's Alec Guinness when you need him...

A version of the RC car was tried over here and was too big for the gate it was supposed to go under. So they threw it over

The fact that he gave up the password and that allowed the authorities to continue investigation does seem to be strange. Couldn't they clone the USB stick and then run a password cracker on the cloned file? If they had cracked it but want the gang to continue to use the software then they could deny cracking it.

That cat's bloody lucky the brakes on my van are so good.

That's not quite how these things usually work. From the story, it sounds like it wasn't an encrypted file, the entire memory stick was encrypted. So if you don't have the passkey, you can't see anything on it at all. You can't even tell if there are any files on it.

Most of the products that do this use pretty strong encryption - generally large bit AES or better. By pure brute force you couldn't crack a strong password on that within the lifetime of anyone involved in the case even if you threw the whole of something like Azure at it. You generally do it by getting the password off someone (for example, by locking them up a until they give it to you, or by cruder methods still). If the security services have cracked that level of encryption, by finding some weakness in the algorithm that allows them to massively cut down the size of the possible key set they have to test, they certainly won't be telling anybody they've done it.

As it turns out his password wasn't particularly strong - it was too short - but they didn't know that when trying to crack it, of course.

Racing yes, however that is down to the nationality of the manufacturer and not the car maker, Alfa, Lambo and Fiat should also all use red
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari#Colour

I wasn't talking about a racing car however, that is a road car
(and purely on the red it's the wrong tone )