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Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for systematically downloading academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR....
I firmly believe that the only people who come to work to do cyber security are people in those roles. Everyone else in the organisation has their own role they need to perform - whether in finance, payroll, marketing, management, production etc. The goal of cyber security is to implement measures that work in the background to reduce risk without adversely affecting the ability of people to perform their roles. Yes, people need to be aware of the risks to security and privacy, and to understand the actions they can take. But if someone clicks a phishing email, or buys a gift card, it doesn't mean that they have failed. The failure is in the security measures that are meant to protect the organisation.
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/05/on-fire-drills-and-phishing-tests.html
The destruction of good websites at the hands of private equity & overpaid executives is excruciating.
But at the same time, these know-nothings have been making people's lives miserable for a long time and will soon find that they own nothing at all
https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-coffee-in-keyboards-and-venture-capitalists/
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss coffee in keyboards, OSINT and cybersecurity tools, and what venture capitalists will be left with once they've bought up all the good websites.
Seventy seven #women #BletchleyPark codebreakers from #WWII revealed for the first time.
Many of them took the secret to their graves.
"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe – a #mathematician who worked in #cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock – was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: “Oh, I made the tea.”"
@bruces A use case for blockchain exists before word “blockchain” was invented - it’s git.
And if you ever used `git rebase`, you laugh every time you hear something about private blockchain.
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