Bertrand Russell Remembers His Face-to-Face Encounter with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
http://www.openculture.com/?p=1076555 https://t.co/zYO7BLeAFI
The UK was about to start regulating Facebook. So #facebook hired the guy writing the regulations.
"Facebook wants regulation that isn’t going to adversely affect their profits too much, so it’s in their interest to recruit people with inside knowledge."
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/facebook-poaches-tony-close-from-ofcom-mdrkv7t2w
Trusted Types are an emerging DOM API specification that attempt to prevent a whole range of attacks resulting from web browsers being tricked into execution of untrusted content, for example XSS.
https://webcookies.org/articles/88/practical-trusted-types-implementation
If you want to play with a viral infection model yourself, open-source Netlogo had this for the last decade or so - click Setup and then Go
I mention this because Washington Post has just published such simulation and everyone is like "OMG it's so innovative"...
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Der Standard covered Nextcloud Talk, Jitsi and Signal as video chat solutions that don't let others listen in!
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000116203521/videochat-ohne-datenspionage-freie-software-macht-es-moeglich
Fairphone and /e/ OS have teamed up to introduce the first privacy conscious and sustainable smartphone on the market. Listen in as we chat to @gael_duval@twitter.com, the founder of /e/ foundation: https://frphn.co/ePzbn
Welcome #Fairphone3 to our range of #deGoogled phones!
This is probably the 1st privacy conscious and sustainable phone, fair for the planet and your personal data.
Preorder your /e/-Fairphone 3 today!
https://e.foundation/e-fp3
@Fairphone @WeAreFairphone #privacy #smartphone #yourdataisyourdata
Let's bring back this absolutely lovely quote from 2014:
The government believes that, even when privacy violations happen, it is not an “active intrusion” because the analyst reading or listening to an individual’s communication will inevitably forget about it anyway.
The best introduction into #Marxism materialist dialectics https://youtu.be/H6GUl7qia_I?t=182
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Joe Sandbox executed the malware and presented me with a lovely report showing that it was a dropper for a second stage download from three other compromised websites. Joe Sandbox then automatically sends the classification to VirusTotal which now has a signature to detect this malware, which I got to test when the shitheads sent a similar phishing email with a variation of the Excel file. INFOSEC folks, please take the time to help classify this stuff and help save some poor target. 2/2
How Patent Abuse Could Hurt the Fight Against the Pandemic
https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/patent-abuse-government-research-coronavirus.html
NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvgwzw/nso-group-employee-abused-pegasus-target-love-interest
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.