If Jack Dorsey & Elon Musk (who are friends) merely wanted to run a MAGA site full of fascists, they could have just bought Parler & saved themselves approx 43.999 billion dollars.
What they wanted was to cripple the sad remnants of investigative journalism, and the political left, which successfully used Twitter for political organizing, activism & messaging throughout the Trump regime.
Why would anyone who cares about either of these things go to Jack's #Bluesky project.
OLD THREAD REPOST In 1758, Benjamin Franklin published an instructional manual containing matters "more immediately useful to us Americans." The book contained advice on all sorts of topics including writing, bookkeeping, arithmetic... and a recipe for inducing abortion.
I have been *dying* to talk about this and finally can.
Remember that 0-click Outlook vulnerability with a custom sound leading to NTLM theft? The one that MSFT themselves stated it originated and was being actively used by Russian actors?
@nachoskrnl found a way to bypass the patch to it. By adding one singular slash.
Write-up 👇
https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/important-outlook-vulnerability-bypass-windows-api
I saw 11 ants scurrying around my kitchen for a couple of days. They looked lost as though they couldn’t find their way back to their nest. One morning I went into the kitchen and accidentally trod on one, killing it.
I felt so bad I used a box to make the survivors a little house to live in. Now times are hard I’ve started to charge them rent.
They’re my tenants.
New in our iOS SSH terminal: Network monitor visualization, multi windows on iPad, drag and drop to upload and more.
It is live now on the AppStore.
Seems like the biggest impact here is for users. Hackers can pour over the code looking for vulnerabilities. And it’s not like Twitter has enough staff left to be proactive about it.
Oh well. At least it’s not happening in a time where Twitter is nuking TFA to save a few bucks.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/27/23657928/twitter-source-code-leak-github
Parts of Twitter’s source code were recently leaked online on GitHub, but were taken down after the social media platform filed a DMCA request. The request notes that the leaked information included “proprietary source code.”