grheavyroller

grheavyroller , 5 days ago to random

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 #MECFS and #LongCovid .

These roundups are free and always worthy of support:

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grheavyroller , 2 months ago to random

@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 , 3 months ago to random

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 , 3 months ago to random

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 #enshittification 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 , 3 months ago to random

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

#covidisntover #maskup

grheavyroller , 3 months ago to random

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.

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#cybersecurity

grheavyroller , 4 months ago to random

@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 , 4 months ago to random

" ... 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/

grheavyroller , 5 months ago to random

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

grheavyroller , 5 months ago to random

"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