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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.
Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.
Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).
Using VPNs set to different locations.
Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.
Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.
If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.
Ok, fellow hackers, I propose a pact: That new EU age verification app thingy ... do NOT help improve it.
Don't publish findings. Don't responsibly disclose insecurities. Don't facilitate them making it bulletproof.
If personal data is directly at risk, by all means, slam their asses into the ground. GDPR them into oblivion.
But on its core functionality this needs to be, to become, and to stay, the most insecure, the most easily circumventable piece of shit code on the planet.
After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...
Have a good Friday everyone!
This story is wild, and goes to prove that ICE can’t be trusted, and Cops can’t be trusted, frankly nobody in the goddamn “public safety” sector who gets a gun, can be trusted.
TLDR:; During WW2, a French girl and an American GI fell in love. They were separated and went their own ways. In their 80s, they found one another again, and she moved to the US to marry her wartime love. So sweet, right?
He later dies, and then his son, who is a cop, forwards all the mail so she can’t get official documents, reports her to #ICE, where they do him a favor and drag an 86 year old woman into the cold in her nightgown in the dark of morning, shackle and handcuff her, and throw her in prison, where she’s been for weeks.
French government was finally able to secure her release. She was shipped out of this country in filthy rags, unable to even get her clothes.
I wish the Fates and Furies upon Tony and Gary #Ross. May they never know peace in this lifetime.
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, and Bob Dylan have never hesitated to acknowledge his influence.
Are the kids all right?
Of course not; they're entirely aware that COVID does them harm, that the policy decision was that "the economy" (maintaining a high rate of profit…) was more important than not doing unknown damage to all of them, that public policy is to fight wars to guarantee fossil carbon extraction increases (which means the world they'll have to live in is being made uninhabitable), and that they'll never have any say in anything.
Infantilizing youth goes with plans to hurt them.
TIL: in Chrome, if you encounter any cert error, you can just type `thisisunsafe` while on the error page and blammo! you're on the insecure page.
This even works for HSTS preloaded domains:
Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.
“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-income households,”
he wrote earlier this year.
His concerns echoed those of fast-food franchise owners, one of whom told Fortunein 2024 that higher wages would be unsustainable for smaller chains with slim margins.
But nearly two years after the law’s passage, economists are seeing very different results than what was initially feared.
A working paper from University of California at Berkeley released this month found the policy increased average weekly wages for eligible workers by 11% and did not reduce employment.
Prices increased modestly, about 1.5%, or the equivalent of about six cents for a $4 item.
“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,”
Michael Reich, the study author and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, told Fortune
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html?guccounter=1
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