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According to a new report, tech giants like Amazon and Alexa are allegedly spying on us with their smart home devices. Who would have thought that devices designed to spy on us are spying on us?
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We’re pleased to announce that starting in August 2024, developers who are not part of an organization managed by an IT administrator can choose to receive monthly Visual Studio security updates through the Microsoft Update (MU) system on “patch Tuesdays”. We dare you
Yes, I've reported on it in the past. But this one includes the Registry key to shut it off.
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you just cannot make this $$## up.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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New global research from secure storage maker Apricorn into the security and storage of data finds corporate information is knowingly put at risk by 55 percent of mobile workers. *Workers* put corporate data at risk. The remote ones just do it in their pyjamas
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"The remote ones just do it in their pyjamas"
maybe 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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ExectOS is a preemptive, reentrant multitasking operating system that implements the XT architecture which derives from NT™ architecture. Is this The Year of ExectOS?
Getting in before the official declaration
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The NT architecture is unmitigated bullshit.
It itself was sort of inspired by VAX/VMS if memory serves, and to that degree that it is this is 1970s architecture.
Look, I dev windows. There's a lot to like about it, but for god sake, don't keep it going.
Microkernels are where its at. A message passing core is fundamental to making fully connectible operating systems. Something like MachOS or QNX.
Why not refine an OS around POSIX? What the hell is so bad about POSIX? Apple stuff does fine with it.
It's old, but it has withstood the test of time across far more platforms than NT ever has.
Maybe I'm just crotchety, but NT like x86 needs to die, not have its shelf life extended.
/flame-proof-pants
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The Biden administration on Thursday will announce plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia's Kaspersky Labs in the United States, a person familiar with the matter said, citing the firm's large U.S. customers including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments. Anti-anti-virus
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The concern is valid given how paranoid Russia's government has become. The US DoD banned Kaspersky a few years ago from their systems and now it appears the ban will go government wide.
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Two veteran astronauts will extend their stay on the International Space Station as teams on the ground work to better understand issues with the Boeing-built spacecraft that carried them to orbit. What has trouble going up, has trouble coming down
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The Old Men of Space? Where is Hemingway when we need him?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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He was a Christian, wasn't he? So I guess he is up there.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I don't think science fiction authors could have written a more perfect "end of world" scenario that leaves astronauts stranded. On the other hand, it does sound like a possible start to Rebecca Kelly's "The Eta Chronicles" (The Station and The Surface).
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Artificial intelligence-generated comedy still reportedly requires humans, as it remains a struggle to write comedic content independently, as revealed by a new Google Deepmind study. As I demonstrate daily
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WeAreDevelopers have published the results of their survey on tech recruiting. And 100% would just like the cheque
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If you are not using random, computer-generated passwords, or one of the best password generators, chances are your logins can be cracked within an hour, research has warned. So don't bother using a hard one - they'll never expect you to use an easy one!
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Other bad news.
They were able to compile a list of "top passwords" in the first place, which means someone is sharing or storing them clear text or at least reversible.
Whoops.
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So instead of passwords, let's all use 4-digit PINs to access our bank accounts. Yep, the stupidity never ceases.
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The vulnerability could let hackers gain access to your PC on public Wi-Fi networks. WiFi? More like WiFuuuuuuuuu
It does read like they'd have to be on the same router (which would be the case in a coffee shop etc. anyway)
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is adjacent (AV:A). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to be within proximity of the target system to send and receive radio transmissions.
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Recently, both .NET Upgrade Assistant and Azure Migrate application and code assessment for .NET have had updates improving privacy and security as well as adding some useful new features. Sadly, they don't modernize your privacy and security code
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Kahn had a communications perspective, Cerf came with a computing perspective, and together they worked on connecting diverse computing networks — up to 256 of them. But what have they done for us lately?
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A researcher has found a bug that allows anyone to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts, making phishing attempts look credible and more likely to trick their targets. Good thing they never email anyone
"The bug, according to Kokorin, only works when sending the email to Outlook accounts." <-- Oh, phew. Good thing no one uses those.
/sigh... Microsoft...
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Did something change? I was of the impression you could forge email headers all you wanted so long as you controlled the SMTP sending the mail?
I've sent prank mail from Gates and such. From .NET it was as simple as changing the FROM: to whatever you want.
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I suspect this bug allows you to spoof the entire header, including the routing and source mail server information. Changing the "FROM" information doesn't change the source email server information.
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