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Internal messages show how the new head of one of the world’s oldest universities organized a citation cartel

For years, Professor Juan Manuel Corchado demanded that his collaborators include up to 20 references to his own work in their papers. On Friday he took office as the new rector of Salamanca University in Spain

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#Samsung tablet sending me "Link your phone to your PC" notifications that cannot be disabled.

I've disabled all notifications for the "Link to Windows" application but it's not possible to disable notifications for the "Link to Windows Service" system application. I believe the notifications might be coming from this system app. There's a notification category called "Proximity Channel" that is always on.

I use #Linux, not #Microsoft #Windows, and this is an #Android tablet. Why in the world am I forced to receive this rubbish? 

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@overholt I wonder if there are, or anyone is working on, bioweapons capable of targeting someone using their DNA; or targeting the entire family... get the grandchild's DNA to off the granny.

@pmdj That might be an answer to the issue @mterhar raised earlier.

https://bfd.so/@mterhar/109620704925979134

It's kind of what I had in mind as well with the Internet Archive itself being the signature service.

mterhar (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] How does one avoid repudiation of your saved artifacts? If they're on archive.org, we acknowledge that archive folks wouldn't modify them. If they're saved on your computer, I'm not going to trust that you didn't take liberties with the content. We don't have good "distributed chain of custody" tools for this stuff that I know of.

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@HoffmanLabs @briankrebs I hadn't heard of Apple's Live Text before. I imagine they're applying OCR to these images. It's a useful feature but only works when links are visible in the image.

In web pages we may have links where the URL and the link text are different (think "Home" vs "infosec.exchange/home") or the link is incomplete / shortened (like the Apple link you posted). In this case OCR'ing a screenshot doesn't work because the link information is lost.

SingleFile allows clicking (or copying) these links like we do on normal web pages. It's one of the reasons I like the extension.

@mterhar That's a good point. 🤔

Perhaps the Internet Archive could be part of this chain of custody by allowing to download a signed-version of a saved webpage for local storage.

@briankrebs

archive.today/archive.ph can suffer from the same issues as archive.org if they don't already. I wouldn't trust them for long-term storage.

When saving something into the Internet Archive that must really be available in the future I think a good policy is to save it locally.

SingleFile is a Firefox extension that saves the entire webpage locally in a single HTML file. Screenshots are also good, but we can't click links on those.

@realDannyDorko Easier access to their credentials once they're gone.