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Boomer into #cycling, sysadmin from the halcyon days, hardcore Dan fan. #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

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In @violetblue 's Cybersecurity Roundup, the first OpenSSH vuln discovered in almost 20 years, a look inside a violent gang's crypto-theft home invasion spree, an Australian man was busted and charged for ‘Evil Twin’ wifi airline attacks, the new Cyberpunk Rhapsody album, and advanced notice of an upcoming livestream with Physics Girl (Dianna Cowern) who suffers from and .

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pluralistic , to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they'll make security a priority; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/14/patch-tuesday/

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A frame from a Peanuts animation, depicting Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown, who is somersaulting through the sky. It has been altered. Lucy's head has been replaced with Microsoft's Clippy. Charlie Brown's head has been replaced with a 19th century caricature of a grinning Uncle Sam. The sky has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
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    @pluralistic Microsoft has been blowing smoke about this stuff since 2002 with Gate's "Trustworthy Computing" email ( https://www.itprotoday.com/it-management/complete-text-of-the-bill-gates-trustworthy-computing-memo)

    grheavyroller , to random
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    @pluralistic today: Boeing "has filled our skies with at least 420 airplanes with defective, red-painted parts that were locked up in the MRSA cage, then snuck out and fitted to an airplane that you or someone you love could fly on the next time you take your family on vacation or fly somewhere for work."

    Defective by design:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/#mrsa

    grheavyroller , to random
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    ASCII art breaks chatbots, Apple's broken chips break user's crypto keys, Google's AI breaks search results, Russian malware breaks satellite modems, and more in this week's Cybersecurity Roundup by @violetblue

    Get Keanu to say "Whoa!" whenever you want.

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-26-101088576

    grheavyroller , to random
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    I want one of these.

    @pluralistic -- "We all deserve dark corners where we stand a chance of finding well-managed communities that can deliver the value that keeps us stuck to our decaying giant platforms. Eventually, the will chase every user off these platforms – not just kids or sex-workers or political radicals. When that happens, it sure would be nice if everyone could set up in a dark corner of their own."

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/23/evacuate-the-platforms/#let-the-platforms-burn

    grheavyroller , to random
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    Through no fault of hers, @violetblue 's Pandemic Roundup this week was delayed, but it's never late -- the truth is always there before the gaslighters want to admit to it:

    -Vaccination cuts heart failure, blood clot risk for 6 months
    -Covid can linger over 1 year post-Infection
    -Brain fog: Blood-brain barrier “can break down” during infection
    -Scenes from Long Covid Awareness Day around the world

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-100819438

    grheavyroller , to random
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    The AHA rejects calls to mandate cybersecurity requirements after a breach effecting the nation's hospitals, a slave labor camp of sex workers was broken up, a prestigious US university is hacked, a master People Hacker is profiled, and more in @violetblue 's Cybersecurity Roundup this week, including the Oxford Comma's use in providing clarity to lists about Rudy Giuliani.

    "Please like and share this post"

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/100650617

    grheavyroller , to random
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    @pluralistic -- "Companies have 'near total managerial discretion' to lump business units together and group their profits and losses in bloated, undifferentiated balance-sheet items ... The SEC lets Amazon – and other gigantic companies – get away with a degree of secrecy that should disqualify it from offering stock to the public."

    One set of rules, enforced for the little guy, ignored for the behemoth. As George Carlin said, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it."

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/01/managerial-discretion/#junk-fees

    grheavyroller , to random
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    " ... if you read a book you love, tell other people about it."

    Absolutely: Red Team Blues by @pluralistic feeds my computer geek brain and my whodunit gut. Go get it.

    https://craphound.com/novels/redteamblues/2023/03/26/red-team-blues/

    luckytran , to random
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    My comments to TIME on the potential change in CDC guidance: “a reckless anti-public-health policy that goes against science, encourages disease spread, and puts everyone at risk. The bare minimum we should have learned from this devastating pandemic is that we should stay home when sick.”

    https://time.com/6695102/covid-19-isolation-guidelines-experts/

    Not all experts are as optimistic. Lucky Tran, a science communicator at Columbia University, called the potential end of five-day isolation periods “a reckless anti-public-health policy that goes against science, encourages disease spread, and puts everyone at risk. The bare minimum we should have learned from this devastating pandemic that has killed and disabled millions is that we should stay home when sick.” The rumored adjustment “would completely ignore the continued suffering” of people who are immunocompromised, chronically ill, disabled, or otherwise at heightened risk of severe COVID-19, Tran adds.
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    @luckytran Thank you. The Vertlartnic suggested they now drop the second C and just be The Centers for Disease.

    rbreich , to random
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    "We found out today that the Supreme Court is not at all serious about its own Ethical Code.

    Ginni Thomas was directly involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 election. The same plot that got Trump kicked off the ballot in Colorado.

    Clarence Thomas is hearing the case. Hello?"

    grheavyroller ,
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    @rbreich "A court which is final and unreviewable needs more careful scrutiny than any other. Unreviewable power is the most likely to self-indulge itself and the least likely to engage in dispassionate self-analysis … In a country like ours, no public institution, or the people who operate it, can be above public debate." Warren E. Burger, 1968

    pluralistic , to random
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    That shard tho

    grheavyroller ,
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    @pluralistic London pre-jackpot

    grheavyroller , to random
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    I submit that this phrase by @pluralistic should be above the fold in Mark Zuckerberg's epitaph:

    "Facebook is a company that was founded to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads, and it only got worse after that."

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel

    balqhaq , to random
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    An evening with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic at the Otherworld bookstore in Berlin Kreuzberg. Great to see you again and hear you read. Always an inspiration.

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    grheavyroller ,
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    @pluralistic @balqhaq Can't tell you how great it is to see a public person masking consistently and acknowledging that the pandemic is not over 😷👍🏻

    grheavyroller , to random
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    "Enter monopolization. ... From Boeing to Facebook, Cigna to InBev, Warner to Microsoft, it has been a catastrophe. The American corporate landscape is dominated by vast, crumbling, ghastly companies whose bad products and worse corporate conduct are locked in a race to see who can attain the most depraved enshittification quickest."

    But @pluralistic says the long-dormant watchdogs are finally waking up:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/26/noclar-war/#millionaire-on-billionaire-violence

    #enshittification

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