Dave Wilburn 

@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange
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#infosec engineer, #mlsec machine learning, sailor, news junkie, #threatintel consumer, deep statist, #NAFO fella. All opinions are mine.

I'm taking a bit of a social media break.

Y'all be good to each other.

Well, well, well...

"#Allstate ... used data from apps like #GasBuddy, #Routely, and #Life360 to quietly track drivers and adjust or cancel their policies."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/allstate-sued-for-allegedly-tracking-drivers-behavior-through-third-party-apps/
#privacy

Lawsuit: Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to quietly track driving behavior

With connected cars and revenue-hungry apps, insurers are flush with data.

Ars Technica
I spent most of a decade traveling to authoritarian countries and teaching people how to circumvent internet censorship. I am appalled that this is now something I have to do in the US.

@protonprivacy @jonah

Watching what was a well-respected institution like Proton beclown itself in this way is revolting.

Coming onto Mastodon of all places to vomit your rationalizations for supporting a neofascist MAGA movement is a breathtakingly bad decision, especially for an organization that depends so much on its reputation and trust. The last Trump administration tried to abuse the All Writs Act to compel backdoors in technology like yours. They are promising to persecute immigrants, minorities, women of childbearing age, and the LGBT community; the kind of people for whom private communications is literally a life-or-death matter. To align yourself with an explicitly malign incoming Trump administration with a well-established history of abusive pro-surveillance measures is to make yourself untrustworthy in the eyes of the people that need you the most.

I don't know who is operating this social media account, or what possessed you to post this nonsense. Your literal job is to try to build and maintain a positive reputation among your potential customer base, and yet you use your time to shred that reputation in an act of performative self-destruction. You should back away from the keyboard, take a walk, and self-reflect.

Or you could just keep posting through it, as you seem to be doing here.

Just a reminder: Yes, we should celebrate the ceasefire. But no, you absolutely do not have to give Trump credit for the Israel/Gaza ceasefire, if for no other reason than his intentional exclusion and antagonizing of Palestinians with the Abraham Accords helped get us into this mess to begin with.
#uspol

BREAKING: โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire agreement and hostage release deal, potentially ending the 15-month-long war in Gaza, according to Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-ceasefire-appears-close-us-egyptian-leaders-put-focus-coming-hours-2025-01-14/

(Yonhap) -- Investigators detained impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence Wednesday and were taking him away for questioning over his short-lived imposition of martial law. https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250114010156315
(6th LD) Investigators detain Yoon over martial law declaration

SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- Investigators detained impeached President Yoon Suk Y...

Yonhap News Agency
SEC.gov | Elon R. Musk

My crumb is getting better. Higher hydration seems to be helping, as well as final proofing in a baguette pan that can go straight into the oven instead of requiring a fumbly transfer.

Well dang CVE-2025-21298

This bug rates a CVSS 9.8 and allows a remote attacker to execute code on a target system by sending a specially crafted mail to an affected system with Outlook. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of RTF files.

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/1/14/the-january-2025-security-update-review

Zero Day Initiative โ€” The January 2025 Security Update Review

Welcome to the first Patch Tuesday of the new year. Even while preparing for Pwn2Own Automotive , the second Tuesday still brings with it a bevy of security updates from Adobe and Microsoft. Take a break from avoiding your New Yearโ€™s resolutions and join us as we review the details of their latest

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