Now that AT&T has lost all our social security numbers in a data breach, this is a great time for regulators to NOT ask what they should have done to secure it better, but why the phone company needed your SSN in the first place.
Matt Linton
142 posts
- Whoever hacked the @internetarchive needs to know that you've done the equivalent of pulling off a bank heist at a public library. Nobody expected them to be high security, you haven't impressed anyone, and you're a jerk for messing with a public good.
- I have a folder on my desktop named "Old Desktop" Inside which is a bunch of stuff and a folder named "Old Desktop" Inside which is still more stuff and a folder named "Old Desktop" I don't even know how many layers deep it goes at this point.
- Boy: I LOVE YOU Girl: I HAVE A BOYFRIEND Boy: SUDO I LOVE YOU Girl: BOY IS NOT IN THE SUDOERS FILE. THIS INCIDENT WILL BE REPORTED.
- I didn't "Become a manager", I "Was given a pay raise in exchange for agreeing to never write code again"
- Time and time again, after we are told by police that they need surveillance and drones and encryption backdoors and facial recognition to keep us safe, a major event will happen that it turns out the police had specific, credible warnings about and just didn't act.Nashville bomber's girlfriend warned police last year he was making explosives, reports show hill.cm/f2bcCYR
- Every once in a while I'm reminded that dnsmasq, a lightweight DNS and DHCP server that's bundled into *almost every IOT thing and Linux distro*, is a hobby project maintained by one guy in the UK named Simon. Nobody pays him and he doesn't get near the thanks he deserves.
- OK What scam is this? It's an AirBNB listing that asks me to sign this "Rental agreement" outside of the @Airbnb platform. The rental agreement appears to be... incorporating me as a temporary company for the purposes of marketing the home for sale???
- Vendor: "Please have your DNS provider contact us." Me: "I'm my DNS provider." V: "No, the people who run the nameservers." Me: "I run my nameserver." V: "No not the data entry part, the people who actually provide the DNS service." Me: "I do it. On a server." V: "No, ...."
- Is it just me or does this thing have either too many wheels on one side or not enough wheels on the other? Is it being designed by Renault?
- What's old is new again
AWS unveils the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a $195 compact computer resembling a Fire TV Cube that's meant for workers to access cloud-based virtual desktops (Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE) siliconangle.com/2023/11/26/aws… techmeme.com/231126/p9#a231… - InfoSec is: Ten percent luck Twenty percent tools Fifteen percent making sense of government rules Five percent python Fifty percent pain And a hundred percent learning how to clearly explain
- Y'all, a vending machine just made me agree to an EULA before purchasing a cupcake.
- Forensics is about to get even more interesting. "Yes those downloads were done by the user account, in their browser and by their session, but they claim the AI did it."Claude just shipped “Computer Use” which allows an LLM to control your computer and do arbitrary things like browse websites, download and run files, and more. A slew of startups doing browser agents feel obsolete overnight. Seriously cool stuff.
