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Two vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth chips typically found in access points that provide WiFi service in enterprises allow attackers to take control of the devices without authentication or to breach the network. Why should the CPUs have all the fun (and vulnerabilities)?
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Governments are reining in liberty for the eighth consecutive year, Freedom House reports "People walking around everyday. Playing games, taking scores, trying to make other people lose their minds"
The connection between the story and that blurb is pretty much entirely for one chorus. But that's how this brain "works".
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From the article: the internet ~~ is increasingly being used to disrupt democracies as opposed to destabilizing dictatorships The underlying train of thought behind this is absolutely abhorrent:
The Internet should be used to promote OUR form of government and destabilise others -- but no-one else is allowed to use it like that!
If that isn't an arrogant assumption of ownership of the Internet, I don't know what is.
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"In the United States, internet freedom declined in 2018 due to the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules."
Nonsense.
Any declines in internet freedom in the US are mostly due the actions by Facebook, Google and Twitter, who censor ideas they don't like. (What those ideas are is very predictable, but this isn't the Soapbox.)
The FCC fiasco was about its attempt to illegally reclassify the internet as under its control, whereupon it would become the censor.
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Thank you.
<sandbox>IMHO net-neutrality was more about govt controlling business. Everything I heard from simple users was that their ISPs could spy on them and extort them for more money based on usage. The goal is to have equal costs for everyone regardless of usage. It is perfectly fine for Grandma (who checks email once a week) to subsidize my household of 50 with 200 devices streaming all their movies and games etc etc etc.</sandbox>
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Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up, unless challengers or changes in taste reduce their clout, the inventor of the World Wide Web told Reuters. Didn't we see this movie already?
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From the series: Absolute power Corrupts -- Maybe we should Finally get around to doing Something about That
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As we have recently witnessed with the demise of Gab.com, we have seen first hand how Silicon Valley deals with any sort of challenger. They all gang up together and blow the challenger out of the water.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Gab.com is back online
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Our home galaxy snacked on a dwarf galaxy about 10 billion years ago—and it has its next victims in sight. And if Andromeda crosses us again, it's next
Actually, the Large Magellenic Cloud is our next victim. Mwahahahaha!
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The cryptocurrency, whose white paper was published 10 years ago on October 31, 2008, is still leading a year-long crypto market crash. Send all birthday money to my wallet at ...
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From $0 to $109.581.493.320 USD in ten years. Not exactly a "crash"
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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What's unfortunate is that its growth is largely due to monies obtained criminally, so I wouldn't touch it with a toilet brush.
That doesn't, of course, stop such honest and stalwart people as bankers and financiers using it to make yet more money for nothing, though.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What's unfortunate is that its growth is largely due to monies obtained criminally, You're confused with the dollar.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Astronomy organization votes to acknowledge the work of Georges Lemaître in the discovery of the Universe’s expansion — but some doubt whether the change will stick. The announcement was a Big Bang
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Aah, these bluddy forringers just want to force everyone to use characters that aren't on a standard keyboard.
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Children learn language by observing their environment, listening to the people around them, and connecting the dots between what they see and hear. "Kwaba, kwaba kitty kitty"
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So what this means is that, when it comes to written text, more than 60% of machines will also be practically illiterate.
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Google first launched its bot-detection reCAPTCHA system in 2007, which means that for over 10 years we've been deciphering garbled text, identifying street lights and clicking tiny boxes in a bid to prove we're human and subsequently access the sites and pages we want to view. It just needs to put on those sunglasses
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"First, you can set a threshold that determines when a user is let through or when further verification needs to be done, for example, using two-factor authentication and phone verification," Google explains You're not getting my number.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: You're not getting my number. Damned straight.
But what's annoying is that with the current recapture monstrosity, I just close pages that present them to me. This new one will be transparent to site visitors.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: This new one will be transparent to site visitors. I doubt that my bank will use their bright idea.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I would hope that no bank web-site used log-in security from a data-slurping company like google.
I'd certainly move my accounts from one that did.
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So google wants us to include a script on our sites that monitors everything users do on those sites, everything they click on, hover over, select, scroll, type etc and all that data is sent back to googles servers just so we don't need captchas.
What could possibly go wrong?
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So google has set aside an immense amount of space on new database servers, to store "behavior" of visitors to web-sites, as a way to avoid privacy laws.
They're such lovely people. I'm so glad that google is my friend.
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