You thought paying for your seat was annoying? If Meta's "Pay or Okay" approach is legitimised by the EDPB, paying an extra fee for your privacy will become a standard for other services as well.
⏩ https://noyb.eu/en/28-ngos-urge-eu-dpas-reject-pay-or-okay-meta
For OpenNews Source, I wrote about advice for sharing security advice.
Tl;dr: it might sound obvious but we want to address two questions that are important for security guidance in particular:
1) How are you learning what to prioritize for your audience’s needs? (Research? Hanging out at all the same meetups? What works for them?)
2) What are your plans for how future audiences will receive this advice? (e.g., how will you let them know if the guidance is up to date?)
https://source.opennews.org/articles/advice-sharing-security-advice/
A busy ~this week in security~ just went out, featuring:
• DOJ takes down Russian malware, booters
• MSI code-signing keys leaked, no easy way to revoke
• Capita slated as Britain's "largest hack"
• Twitter's badly-encrypted DMs roll out
• Department of Transportation tells lawmakers it was hacked
• EU says spyware should be banned
• Toyota Japan vehicle locations exposed for a decade
• A very cute cyber cat, and more
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Read online: https://mailchi.mp/zackwhittaker/this-week-in-security-may-14-2023-edition
truthfully, and a little bit flippantly
a lot of career advice often ends up a bit "i won the lottery, let me tell you about the hard work i did to get there"
if you want good career advice, it'll often come from people who've been on a PIP
they'll be able to tell you their mistakes, the ones to avoid—rather than a list of things that just worked out for them
Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.
Not the case.
It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.
Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.
By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.
So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.
New: If you bought knock-off designer goods or apparel from these online stores, you might want to get yourself a new credit card.
A database of 330,000 unencrypted customer credit card numbers and cardholder information exposed, thanks to no password.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/apparel-designer-goods-credit-cards-exposed/
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