In other news today...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Christ on a bike how fucking awful are advertiser's security that they allow breaches like this?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Christ on a bike how fucking awful are advertiser's security that they allow breaches like this?
As I understand there are plenty of ad networks which allow advertisers to provide ads which include javascript. This is hardly the first time I have heard of malicious ads from non-malicious ad networks.
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An interesting story to read:
But the real reason I'm posting the link on this forum:
Mallory arranged to meet with a CIA official [...]. The prosecutors said Mallory wanted to speak with the CIA officials not to impress them with his knowledge but because he wanted to cover his tracks.
[...] He described the way the Chinese had provided him with a secure phone. At this point, he assumed that his text messages would remain encrypted.
But as he spoke, the phone crashed. The messages suddenly appeared on the phone's screen while he was in the room with the FBI, revealing how he had betrayed his country. For a long moment he said nothing. James Hamrock, an engineer who examined the phone for the FBI, says that Mallory was overly trusting of the phone and of the people who gave it to him. Unbeknownst to Mallory, the software had a glitch.
But wait, there is more! That phone, see, was from a well-known brand...
Mallory returned to Leesburg with a Samsung Galaxy phone the Chinese had given him - complete with a chat application by which they communicated with him.
Samsung FTW!
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Fuck right off
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@DogsB
A half-rasher of bacon isn't even enough to decorate a cheesburger
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@DogsB
A half-rasher of bacon isn't even enough to decorate a cheesburgerOr frighten off vegans. :(
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@DogsB The trick is to persuade all the Chinese to become vegan so that we get a rasher ration of several per day in compensation.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Christ on a bike how fucking awful are advertiser's security that they allow breaches like this?
*edit is it just me or does a lot of bullshit come from compromised adverts.
The problem isn’t advertiser’s shitty security but that the state of the web is built such that it even matters. Instead everything should assume that the advertisements aren’t secure and not let them run just about whatever.
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FFS! Is anyone doing anything right?
Does anyone remember when we posted security breaches as threads instead of posts? That's how mundane this shit has got.
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"Department of Securities Leaked Millions of Files"
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@TimeBandit
Meh, that’s just an English feature of using “securities” to describe stock certificates and other investment vehicles. Aka the original cons
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
As I understand it, the cops cannot compel you to tell them your password, but absolutely can compel you to give them access to a location they have a warrant to search. If they have a search warrant to search something, and it's locked, you must unlock it, if you are able. If you're able to unlock it but you refuse, you are obstructing their search.
Sounds to me like a bad ruling that will probably be overturned on appeal. It's the equivalent of saying that unlocking your front door to let the police in when they have a search warrant is "testifying against yourself". You don't have to hand them the key (password), but you have to unlock it. It's not testifying, because the only information you're giving them is that you currently possess the ability to unlock it, which they already presumed because it's your lock.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla If I ever have the opportunity to go to Rome again, I know where I'm not going to throw any more coins.
If you care about where the coins end up when you throw them in a fountain, you're approaching the whole situation all wrong.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Fuck right off
No shit!
Those who insist on eating red meat every day should have a maximum of 14g
14 grams? Let's see you even try to get a restaurant to agree to that serving size!
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@dcon
Obviously, the real solution is to have government issued "meat allowance coupons" that you can only pick up once per week to give you 7 14g tickets. And then when you want a Big Mac, you have to turn in 7 tickets when purchasing the food. And even though that's only 90.8g of meat for your 98g allowance, well, that's too bad, take it up with McDonald's.
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@boomzilla
Hello 911? Those hookers sucked
Well, that's part of their job sir.
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@DogsB
Should search for the story of the stolen harddisk from a coreners office containing partial autopsy reports off amoung many the victims of the Brussels attacks ...
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@TimeBandit
Sure? Maybe they didn't
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@boomzilla Oh... I thought that said "Complain About Hackers"
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@brie There's force and then there's force. Perhaps it will be of the variant "we'll find you in contempt of court if you don't", but they can't grab your hand and put it on the sensor.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@brie There's force and then there's force. Perhaps it will be of the variant "we'll find you in contempt of court if you don't", but they can't grab your hand and put it on the sensor.
What about "we'll find you in contempt of court if you don't, and throw you in jail until your next hearing, when you'll again be demanded to unlock it for us, and if you don't, you'll be found in contempt again, etc."?
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@brie Right.
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A glimpse into the soon-to-be-released records shows Facebook’s own employees worried they were bamboozling children who racked up hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of dollars in game charges. And the company failed to provide an effective way for unsuspecting parents to dispute the massive charges, according to internal Facebook records.
In one of the unsealed documents, two Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child whom they refer to as a “whale” – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders.
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‘FTP’ is a commonly used acronym for ‘f**k the Pope,’ a phrase used often by some fans of Rangers Football Club, whose supporters go by the nicknames of ‘bears’ and bluenoses.’
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
‘FTP’ is a commonly used acronym for ‘f**k the Pope,’ a phrase used often by some fans of Rangers Football Club, whose supporters go by the nicknames of ‘bears’ and bluenoses.’
I also find “FTP” offensive, but in my case it is because of its poor security and horrible behaviour w.r.t. NAT and firewalls.
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@dkf Fuck That Protocol?
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@PJH I remember seeing a car with the license plate "HTTP" a few years ago, which I guess must mean "Hats-off To The Pope"
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We need a sheep shagger emoji but for now
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A CPU so powerful, we can't even tell you how much it will cost
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
A CPU so powerful, we can't even tell you how much it will cost
And, knowing Intel, you're probably not allowed to benchmark
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
A CPU so powerful, we can't even tell you how much it will cost
Their yields must be terrible!
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It's now official
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Paging @HardwareGeek
Linked from that, paging @Polygeekery and a few others around here:
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@dkf Fuck That Protocol?
Fuck Tsaukpaetra, Please
Filed under: Plea for help
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
But does the wood contain gluten?
Likely!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
But does the wood contain gluten?
Serious answer: Only wheat, barley, rye and (some) oats contain gluten. Unless the wood was contaminated with one of those grains, or something made from them, no, it doesn't contain gluten.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Fuck Tsaukpaetra, Please
Filed under: Plea for help
- Find a bar/club
- Talk to people
- Perhaps you will get lucky?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Non-starter. I hate those places.
Sorry. All out of ideas. Finding three items that fit the "FTP" scheme somewhat was more than enough thinking for one Saturday.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
for one Saturday.
Oh fuck, it's that early in the morning already? Shit, I better get to bed!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Oh fuck, it's that early in the morning already? Shit, I better get to bed!
QFT. It's only 11, why am I out of bed?
Filed under: Need more coffee before I can continue sleeping.
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@Tsaukpaetra
Not making any connections to your pipe huh?