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throwaway829··on Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect (1978) [video]
These overviews give you just enough knowledge to start debugging a broken household machine. I love it. If anyone's looking for more videos from this series here's a playlist of the complete series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpNQQqdSh8&list=PLByTa5duIo...
throwaway829··on FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]
> STIR/SHAKEN enables phone companies to verify that the caller ID information transmitted with a call matches the caller’s phone number.

Seems to target spoofing. If they can eliminate spoofing it should make tracking down bad actors easier which should ultimately put many of them out of business.

throwaway829··on Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
Any suggestions for other sources?
throwaway829··on Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
That's been available for quite some time: https://www.coronavirus.gov/
throwaway829··on Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Privacy Debate
Looks like a classic example of controlled opposition.
throwaway829··on Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says
Robert Maxwell has been accused of being a Mossad agent. Ghislaine Maxwell was the daughter of Robert Maxwell. Upon his death, six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended his funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized him and stated: “He has done more for Israel than can today be said." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell
throwaway829··on Twitter exec for Middle East is also part-time British army 'psyops' officer
If you're into documentaries, "The Century of the Self" covers this subject excellently: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=century+of+self
throwaway829··on Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
Here's the user guide for Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/Ana...
throwaway829··on Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
Conveniently for them, they only kept 2 weeks of logs (this is a 3 year old bug). I might implement that at my company. Take two weeks to patch and test the security hole, then review my two weeks of logs for any evidence of a breach. Then tell customers we haven't found any evidence of illicit access.
throwaway829··on Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
They only kept 2 weeks worth of logs. So the correct statement is: in 2 of 156 weeks since the bug was accessible no known breach occurred.
throwaway829··on Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
>We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we cannot confirm which users were impacted by this bug.

They only kept two weeks of logs, yet this bug was accessible over a three year window. So out of 156 weeks they can only rule out 2 weeks where data was not accessed. I think that's pretty pathetic for a company that stores your precise location, search history, photos, email, text messages, calendar, social network, date of birth, etc.

This is a very big story. Hence why Google executives sat on it for six months.

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