Alejandro 

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Security enthusiast. Privacy advocate. FOSS contributor.
Software developer & sysadmin. Ssr. Python developer at @Globant.

PGP: 0xa0ccd8315eb93887

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

The TikTok ban is "a sweeping ban on free expression that triggers the most exacting scrutiny under the First Amendment."

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/government-has-extremely-heavy-burden-justify-tiktok-ban-eff-tells-appeals-court

Government Has Extremely Heavy Burden to Justify TikTok Ban, EFF Tells Appeals Court

SAN FRANCISCO — The federal ban on TikTok must be put under the finest judicial microscope to determine its constitutionality, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and others argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The amicus...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
SQL is undefeated

You open a ticket because an IPv6 allocation provided by the telco is not being distributed _anywhere_ on the planet.

You document this with ample (public) looking glass screenshots of BGP tables.

You add multiple traceroute examples from the (public) looking glass servers because you want the Level 1 techie to see that you've done the work for them.

They close the ticket and reply "works for us".

Well, I am glad they can route at least within their own bloody network.

I was going to write something about IGP vs. EGP and suggest that their tests were inconclusive.

I decided instead to email the salesperson to cancel the contract saying that I'd be pleased to have the lawyers discuss this ticket as the reason why.

The routing was fixed within 10 minutes.

“Gang leader says £50,000 can be made in half an hour by watching a user enter a pin and then stealing their device.”

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/jun/25/criminal-gangs-who-shoulder-surf-pin-numbers-steal-20-smartphones-a-day

Here’s how to protect yourself: https://proton.me/blog/shoulder-surfing

Criminal gangs who ‘shoulder-surf’ pin numbers steal ‘20 smartphones a day’

Gang leader says £50,000 can be made in half an hour by watching a user enter a pin and then stealing their device

The Guardian

@nielsk

My rule of thumb is: if it's Microsoft, don't use it.

Court documents reveal how more than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims across 4 states to coerce them to hand over access to cryptocurrency. Likely the worst crypto-focused physical extortion crime spree ever in the US.

https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-home-invasion-crime-ring/

Inside a Violent Gang's Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree

More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.

WIRED
Statement | Trust Center | TeamViewer

TeamViewer

RMM software developer TeamViewer says a Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Midnight Blizzard is believed to be behind a breach of their corporate network this week.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teamviewer-links-corporate-cyberattack-to-russian-state-hackers/

TeamViewer links corporate cyberattack to Russian state hackers

RMM software developer TeamViewer says a Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Midnight Blizzard is believed to be behind a breach of their corporate network this week.

BleepingComputer