Lucas B. Cohen 🍇

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Systems admin at a modest scale. I've always been fascinated with IT security stories and software. Fond reader of The Register. Also an aspiring translator. 41 y.o.Franco-American.

@JenMorency @sarahjamielewis Hi,

I'm really baffled by that one too. However I'm unsure whether “Mozilla services” encompasses Firefox itself or only things (webservices) like Mozilla VPN and Firefox Sync. Do you have knowledge to that effect?

Not that this would be so much better. “Content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence” basically covers the catalogs of most bookstores, most libraries, most encyclopedias, all streaming services... And yes, comedy spoken and written (“graphic” arguably doesn't just mean pictures, it stems from “graphein”, the Greek word meaning both “draw” and “write”.) Syncing my Netflix password or a bookmark to your blog through Firefox Sync sure seems like a way of “granting access” to their content. The whole thing is stupefying.

@LiquidParasyte I'm really baffled by that one too. However I'm unsure whether “Mozilla services” encompasses Firefox itself or only things like Mozilla VPN and Firefox Sync.

Not that this would be much better. “Content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence” basically covers the catalogs of most bookstores, most libraries, most encyclopedias, all streaming services...

@defensivecomputing Looks like a last-resort attempt at name resolution by gethostbyaddr(): https://community.fortinet.com/t5/Support-Forum/UDP-137-Traffic-to-Microsoft-during-Windows-Update/m-p/71041

This machine might be experiencing transient issues with talking to DNS servers.

UDP 137 Traffic to Microsoft during Windows Update

Was working on a Windows 7 Pro x64 laptop. Was having trouble using the Dell Client Update so I enabled a real-time traffic monitor in my FAZ. A little while later I was prompted to apply 13 Windows Updates, almost all related to .NET 4 Client. I started noticing UDP 137 calls to the following IPs: ...

@cienmilojos Gnome 42 features a Miracast client, I believe it's called gnome-network-displays (at least in Debian and Ubuntu)
@Popehat Tragic, yet I'm hardly surprised that a guy named 'King' would feel so entitled.
@dangillmor Interesting observation. In France I tend to deplore the opposite: journalists overlook the conservative component of what they lazily label “the right-wing”—fully ignoring the existence of a politically liberal and progressive strain of thought on the right.
Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more Canada: there's a hockey stick in this beaver dam.

Carmakers fail privacy test, give owners little or no control on personal data they collect

#boston #privacy

https://qz.com/carmakers-fail-privacy-test-give-owners-little-or-no-c-1850807171

Carmakers fail privacy test, give owners little or no control on personal data they collect

Cars are getting an “F” in data privacy

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@Mikegrunwald Just started following you after I found your handle on that "Journalists on Mastodon and Fediverse" spreadsheet. (I'm glad I kept that tab open for the past 10 months.) I appreciate your in-depth reporting.
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