@VeroniqueB99 I was entering Zion National Park in Utah the other day, it was a long line. The group of four in front of me were interrogated by the park ranger if they were US residents. They said they weren't. She then pointed at this sign and informed them they'd have to produce $400 to enter the park.
They turned around and left, upset.
This xenophobic garbage started life as a Trump executive order, and has the stench of Stephen Miller all over it.
It’s absurd that American authorities can purchase personal data – that they’re not allowed to gather themselves without a warrant – directly from data brokers. This violates the Fourth Amendment, and it’s time to close the data broker loophole.
Today, the Surveillance Accountability Act was introduced. It requires warrants based on probable cause for all government surveillance and data access.
You can read more about it here: https://www.surveillanceaccountability.com/
Hackers have compromised Docker images, VSCode and Open VSX extensions for the Checkmarx KICS analysis tool to harvest sensitive data from developer environments.
If anyone wants to see the scam that got my mom, here's a video capture of what it does. It plays a computer voice saying fantastic bullshit like "Your computer has the identity theft virus".
I'm pretty sure this was malvertising. Looking at her safari history, she was on a grocery store web site trying to place an order. Then this URL is next in the history. And after that, it's all password change pages and such. I can't imagine she had any reason to click on something other than seeing a fake "security alert."
In the video, this is not fullscreen. But when I clicked that link, it went full screen.
What the hell, Paco, you clicked the damn link? Yeah, not on purpose. I was trying to right click it to copy it, and either TeamViewer misunderstood the click or I fat-fingered it. But, having made the mistake, I decided to shoot some video. I got lucky.
Here's the URL (still live as of about 60 minutes ago):https: / / xdrty-c6e6cjecbve4f9bz,z02,azurefd,net/mhelpxxx/index,html?bcda=1-833-371-8269#%E2%80%99
#identitytheft #malvertising
I have no idea what I'm gonna do if I don't get this coding job. I've applied for 100s of roles, I have a 100% failure rate with all the interviews I have had (even with good feedback).
Being an autistic worker sucks. So few jobs are WfH, even fewer of them actually involve NOT fucking other people up or making society worse.
It feels like I have to forge my own path, but that also has its huge downsides.
I'm done with Democrats that want civil rights and accountability for everyone except the police.
https://calmatters.org/justice/2019/02/xavier-becerra-police-misconduct-records/
RE: https://aus.social/@projectgus/116451450326279473
This is the single best reason to never ever use a stale bot on your project’s issue tracker.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/116451636478913529
Has the #Mosstodon crowd seen this beauty yet? 🥹
Welp, my mom had a good run. She fell for a scammer the first time ever today at age 93. I'm proud of her for lasting as long as she did.
Anyways, that's my evening and probably my weekend. If folks have recommendations for software, web sites, or methods for finding and eradicating malware, I'm looking for recs. Apparently the person had her on Teamviewer for several hours today. They had her change banking passwords, possibly installed malware. God only knows. My sister works at a bank and she was the "first responder" as they say. Banking is all cleaned up. We're not sure what else they might have done and that's my job.
The specs: Some ancient iMac (Intel CPU, probably 2017-2019 vintage). Very little software installed. Web browsers, Teamviewer (I use it with her), maybe one little recipe app or something.
I plan to buy her a new computer and manually move all her stuff from the old to the new. But what else should I check/do? Web pointers welcome.
She started using computers back in 2000 and she was doing video conferencing with me in 2002 using janky stuff like iVisit. She's been really good about not clicking on stuff, not opening attachments, etc. I've been really pleased. I'm trying to make sure she feels good about herself. She wasn't gonna beat these guys. She's done great to get this far without ever falling for it.
Stacey Campbell
Mullvad VPN
BleepingComputer
Paco Hope
Bloo (they/she) 🍓 🏳️⚧️ 🍉
mekka okereke 
I love this, so I
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