I am a little nervous about this, but...

I'm ready to open up DataPipe for beta testing. DataPipe is a service that will send data from your behavioral experiments to the OSF, for free.

https://pipe.jspsych.org

Don't use this for critical data collection yet. It might have unexpected outages during this final round of pre-release development. But, if this is something you might be interested in using once it is ready for stable use, please try it out and let me know what can be better.

Notified Experian on Dec. 23 that their site was allowing anyone to see the credit report for, well, basically anyone, completely bypassing their lame 4-5 multiple guess questions and other security.

Or even in cases (like mine) where trying to get your credit report generates an error saying you have 3 other options for getting your free report from them (calling, mailing, or chat w/ rep). The site said Experian didn't have enough info to validate my identity, but when I changed the url slightly, it showed me my entire report. Glad I checked, too, because the info in there is so completely wrong I don't even know where to start.

So it's Dec. 27, and I still haven't heard anything from Experian. All you needed was the person's name, address, SSN and DOB. This info has been exposed on pretty much most Americans for many years now.

BTW, I checked this with several friends who volunteered to check their own reports, and they were able to fully replicate what I did.

It's bad enough that we can't stop companies like Experian from making $2B a quarter collecting and selling our info, but there has to be some real accountability. And as we saw with the Equifax settlement, class-actions and more laughable "credit monitoring" services aren't going to cut it.

Experian has shown this year especially that it gives exactly zero fscks about securing access to the data that drives its entire business.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/class-action-targets-experian-over-account-security/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/experian-you-have-some-explaining-to-do/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experian-api-exposed-credit-scores-of-most-americans/

This is the PsychoPy team's #introduction to Mastodon.

PsychoPy is an #opensource package to build and run experiments in #python and #js

PsychoPy is a widely used tool for the behavioural sciences like #psychology #linguistics #economics #neuroscience

This account will also tweet about other parts of the ecosystem like #pavlovia (it's like GitHub for behavioural science) and #PsychoJS

Looking forward to chatting with you here! 🥰😁

For the past few weeks I've been working on building a service that connects online experiments to the OSF, so that data are automatically sent to the OSF and you don't need a server to run experiments.

It's almost ready, and I'm looking for a few people who would be willing to try it out for real and provide feedback. Volunteers must be willing to tolerate bugs and such. If this goes smoothly then it should be ready for a wider launch in January.

If you're interested get in touch!

#jsPsych