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Turned this week's rant about ongoing sloppy security at Experian into a blog post. Thanks to everyone here who helped with the research.
It's Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian
In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. I know that because my account at Experian was recently hijacked, and the only way I could recover access was by recreating the account.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/11/its-still-easy-for-anyone-to-become-you-at-experian/
Some people claim that they can use dark magics to force Linux to do what they want.
But that's just sudoscience
I *really* dislike the use of "hallucination" as a way to describe the behavior of LLMs. Not because it anthropomorphizes them, but because hallucinations are disorders of sensory perception. They don't make you spew out plausibly-sounding bullshit.
If you need a familiar term, "confabulation" is probably a better pick.
BREAKING: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed multiple felony charges against 16 people in connection with the Michigan “false electors” scheme. Nessel, a Democrat, announced the charges — including election law forgery — on Tuesday afternoon. Nessel highlighted other election fraud cases brought by her office, then noted that she “could not possibly justify” such prosecutions if she ignored that circumstances alleged here, which she described as “an organized effort to circumvent the lawfully cast ballots of millions of Michigan voters” in the presidential 2020 election. “A failure to act in the face of such evidence would constitute malfeasance of the greatest magnitude,” Nessel said. The felony counts, per Nessel, are: one count of conspiracy to commit forgery, two counts of forgery, one count of conspiracy to commit uttering and publishing, one count of uttering and publishing, one count of conspiracy to commit election law forgery, and two counts of election law forgery. All 16 individuals face all eight charges, per Nessel.
thinking today about how much I love Shellcheck's explainer pages for its linter failures https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2173
every page has:
- problematic code
- correct code
- rationale
- exceptions
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