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The tug-of-war between engagement and dysregulation
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Re:'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potenti...
on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @12:34PM (#39541152)
Re:What are the best rolling release Linux distributions?
on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:12PM (#33366733)
https://www.debian.org/devel/testing (tracking-free link)
Re:Google Announces KataOS and Sparrow
on Sunday October 16, 2022 @03:01PM (#33226232)
> Google sucks up a lot of data, and is in a position to do a lot of bad stuff with it, but historically they have never told my spouse about my affair, my government about my accounts in the caymans, or leaked my nude pictures to my grandma. (I don't actually have any of these!)
You've been lucky, then: https://www.gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalke...
"""It's unclear how widespread Barksdale's abuses were, but in at least four cases, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a source close to the incidents. In an incident this[2010] spring involving a 15-year-old boy who he'd befriended, Barksdale tapped into call logs from Google Voice, Google's Internet phone service, after the boy refused to tell him the name of his new girlfriend, according to our source. After accessing the kid's account to retrieve her name and phone number, Barksdale then taunted the boy and threatened to call her. [...]"""
Re:LastPass: Notice of Security Incident
on Friday August 26, 2022 @12:13AM (#32603284)
> As customers downloaded the update, they unwittingly pulled down and installed the backdoor at the same time. The malicious code was itself cleverly designed, would execute commands, and provided remote admin access. The hackers then used that foothold to create and cryptographically sign the necessary security tokens to hoodwink systems into believing subsequent access to other accounts and resources was legitimate.