Adam Shostack

Tesla put its breathtakingly ugly Cybercab on Austin streets Thursday: it has no steering wheel, no pedals, and no door handles. Tesla published an emergency guide on its website telling first responders the robotaxi can be pushed to clear a lane, but warns that pushing it over 5mph risks overheating the motor and electric shock. The car must be “caged” before interacting with it. And, “not every high voltage component is labeled.” The guide also says first responders should contact the company “via the car’s communications system or phone… If Tesla cannot be reached by phone, the manual advises first responders to use an email address to learn more about how to move the Tesla and warns, ‘This email is not monitored for emergency requests.’” [NBC News]

Nice summary from @violetblue https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts/cybersecurity-8-168939634

@andrewnez this reminds me of your comment about GH stars as a manipulated market.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20678

On Friday, we announced the new edition of Threat Modeling: designing for security in an AI world, and I'm incredibly grateful for all the shares and kind words.

Over the weekend, it climbed to best-seller status on Amazon for "Software design tools." If you think of threat modeling as a security technique, then our choice to put it into that category might seem odd.

One of the biggest lessons of the last ten years is that bolting-on security is so much harder than building it in from the start. And so I wrote this edition to be deeply accessible to software developers, and collaborating with Jim Minatel at Wiley, we decided to categorize it into software books. That's a harder hill to climb: the #1 new release status is a tougher fight. But it's the right arena for the book, the discipline, and long-term impact.

Oh, and it's available for pre-order at Amazon https://amzn.to/4urxcBJ or wherever fine #books are sold.

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