Hey hackers out there. There's a kickstarter from @dotmeow for a new .meow tld that you should support.
They have now reached 60k out of 80k - lets push them over the goal line.

The Kickstarter can be found at https://kickstarter.dotmeow.org/

#dotmeow

🎉Collaborative🎉 efforts with @c3gsm:

Kein Plastik. Kein Warten. Neu in GURU3: eSIM Self-Service – QR-Code scannen, Profil installieren, verbunden sein. Hinweis: nur für GURU3-Accounts älter als 90 Tage.

No plastic. No waiting. New in GURU3: eSIM self-service — scan the QR code, install the profile, get connected. Note: only for GURU3 accounts older than 90 days.

Use the following link: https://guru3.eventphone.de/user.cgi/esim

#eSIM #c3gsm #AmazingTimeToMarket #39c3

This is insane! A few researchers from UCSD and UMCP scanned bunch of satellite links, found much of the traffic is not encrypted, and went on to decode them. It's amazing what came out.

- T-Mobile backhaul: Users' SMS, voice call contents and internet traffic content in plain text.
- AT&T Mexico cellular backhaul: Raw user internet traffic
- TelMex VOIP on satellite backhaul: Plaintext voice calls
- U.S. military: SIP traffic exposing ship names
- Mexico government and military: Unencrypted intra-government traffic
- Walmart Mexico: Unencrypted corporate emails, plaintext credentials to inventory management systems, inventory records transferred and updated using FTP

While it is important to work on futuristic threats such as Quantum cryptanalysis, backdoors in standardized cryptographic protocols, etc. - the unfortunate reality is that the vast majority of real-world attacks happen because basic protection is not enabled. Lets not take our eyes off the basics.

Great work, Wenyi Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin, Nadia Heninger and Aaron Schulman!

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf

What every programmer should know about how CPUs work [video]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HNpim5x-IE
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44458896

Poland's clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time

Link: https://www.ft.com/content/ae920241-597e-49d9-a4b9-bfdfa9deabb6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488072