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Understanding Hoonigan. I’ve known about Hoonigan Racing, Ken Block’s motorsport team that competes in FIA World Rallycross as a Ford factory backed team. I even saw them compete at Lydden Hill last month. But I never really understood just Hoonigan, which is separate from Ken and Ford and is based out of Long Beach, California.

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I assumed that Hoonigan was a T- shirt company for Ken Block and the drifters. Every time I see cars destroying their tires, there are people wearing Hoonigan shirts. It made sense.(Editors note: We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special bout of insanity from friend of the site and crapcan racer hero, Bill Caswell, who is taking over for us this weekend.) You would think I might know more about Hoonigan as I went to their launch party back in 2. It was incredible. Hoonigan throws the best parties in the automotive world. The second year we partied at the Global Rallycross Track complete with drifting, burnouts and kegs of PBR: So you could see how I thought Hoonigan just threw parties and sold apparel.

Plus I wasn’t really into drifting. I have huge respect for drift, but I never identified with past Hoonigan drivers like Chris Forsberg and Ryan Teurck.

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They’re outstanding drivers, but I don’t wear skinny jeans, black hats, and my cars aren’t powered by Ferrari. I love it all, I just never identified with their racers other than Block. Then I got a text from Brian Scotto asking if I wanted to come by and work on a car at their shop. I was confused. Hoonigan is building cars? Naturally I said yes. If they’re going to build cars, I want to be a part of it.

I really had no idea all this was going on at Hoonigan. If you’re like me and skip directions, just start watching below. Be careful though. They’ve uploaded a video every day since March and they have their regular series like The Unprofessionals (my personal favorite), Field Trip, and A Beer With as well. It’s only been 5 months and they have put more content online than seasons of traditional car shows. You need to start watching Hoonigan.

So here’s me and the Sh! A $3. 50 E3. 6 that never leaves the parking lot.

Just watch and it will make more sense. Here’s part 2. They left me alone with a camera for few hours and I managed to capture some of my weirdness as I build things.

Like talking to my steel. You have to talk to it before you cut it. That’s Darnell with the Donut Garage hat below. He’s awesome and a proper mechanic/ fabricator. Darnell’s hands are dirty.

He’s worked on tons of different race cars including desert racing trucks and we immediately became friends. He’s also the reason why a lot their cars run. Except Scotto. His cars never run.

So now that you’ve seen the Hoonigan garage, what do you think? I was blown away. I had no idea that a majority of their space was set up for car projects, building, and shooting video. Now let’s walk through the rest of the garage or video series. Daily Transmission. This covers all the unusual stuff around the shop every day. People stop by with 1,0.

There are mini drag races. This is the series I was a part of with the $3.

Sh! t Car. Occasionally they play Dukes of Hazard with a Miata: The Unprofessionals. This is Hert and Rob’s personal little fun house. Watch Tom And Jerry: The Lost Dragon Putlocker. It’s my favorite series of the group but I think Im just a huge fan of Hert and Rob, Aka Chairslayer. Watch the first 3. It opens with a crash! Field Trip. This video series is cool because the Hoonigan’s spend so much time in their garage.

I could care less about the Jay Leno tour episodes, but the last one was about the guys hitting Laguna Seca for a track day. My kind of fun. A Beer With. This is a great concept. Have your friends over to drink beers and tell stories. I had a beer or seven with Hoonigan as well, just waiting on the edit which might take a while because I drank a lot and told a lot of stories.

The camera ran out of battery I told so many stories. See what I mean? Hoonigan isn’t whatever I thought it was. Look at the gasser on the lift behind Farah. Look at the lift! You don’t need that for T shirts.

Something has changed at Hoonigan and its now my favorite You. Tube channel. I occasionally find myself watching the latest episode a few minutes after it comes out. I also bought a Hoonigan t- shirt last month, so maybe the whole things really does work. Their hands are dirty and they’re having fun with their friends while playing with cars. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?

We Asked Five Security Experts If Smart Locks Are Ever Safe. An automatic firmware update broke Lock. State’s internet- enabled “smart locks” for around 5. Airbnb hosts who use the locks to remotely manage rental access.

Customers have to replace their locks or ship them back for repairs. The locks can still be operated with a physical key.)Smart locks, like so many “Internet of Things” devices, are vulnerable to a host of tech issues.

Last year security consultant Anthony Rose revealed huge security flaws in Bluetooth- enabled door locks. Of the 1. 6 locks he tested, Rose managed to break into 1. Smart locks don’t seem any more foolproof than when our sister site Gizmodo explored smart- lock security four years ago. We asked five security experts whether these locks are fundamentally insecure.

None of these experts is ready to entirely write off all smart locks. Like so much of technology, you simply have to decide who to trust and how much to trust them,” says security technologist, author, and Harvard lecturer Bruce Schneier, who testified before Congress last year about the “catastrophic risks” of insecure internet- enabled devices.“There is always a risk that a net- enabled lock will get bricked or hacked,” says MIT professor Stuart Madnick, “most likely due to the actions (or carelessness) of the owner.” But he points out that old- fashioned key- and- lock solutions have their own user- created risks: “One of my popular sayings is: ‘You may buy a stronger lock for your door, but if you still leave the key under the mat, are you really any more secure?’”Madnick compares the trade- off to the increased risks of driving a car instead of a horse.

Are you willing to trade your car in for a horse?”Jeremiah Grossman, Chief of Security Strategy at cybersecurity firm Sentinel. One, compares smart locks to older remote systems like prison security doors and receptionist- controlled buzzers. He says internet- connected locks can sometimes be an appropriate solution: Would I personally entrust the security of my home to such a device?

Not at the moment, but in the future as the devices get better and more secure I might trust them more. Should others use them? Sure, depending on their living situation.

And people might consider using them for doorways where what they’re securing isn’t critically important to them. That’s one hell of a caveat for a $4. Grossman recently tweeted about deeper implications of an insecure smart lock update system: But Grossman says we shouldn’t ask whether smart locks are “fundamentally insecure” but whether they are “secure enough for a given application.”Alan Grau, co- founder of security software provider Icon Labs, puts it similarly: There is no question people are going to use smart locks despite the risks.

I think the questions to be asked are not if these solutions should be used, but rather what are the risks? How do these risks compare to traditional locks? What can [lock makers] do to ensure that a reasonable layer of security is built into these devices? Security reporter Brian Krebs had the harshest words, saying it bothers him that so many people are installing smart locks.

To break through a lock, he says, an attacker has always had to be on- site. With internet- enabled locks, you’ve removed that expensive (and from an attacker’s perspective, risky) cost from the equation.” He still won’t write off the technology entirely. I am not saying there can’t be remotely- enabled locks that are also secure.

But I’d wager on balance that most of those in use today are probably nowhere near as secure as they should be.”With all these caveats, the consensus seems to be that smart locks trade off a lot of expected security for more convenience. Before you buy a smart lock, research its known security issues, and know that new ones could crop up. But remember that if you use it wrong, any lock is insecure.