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Wow, Github
Companies policing employee {political, religious} belief worries me deeply, but okay, this is just an individual question and it’s on a personal Twitter account… …and suddenly, like, it’s not possible to convey the irony of what happens elsewhere in the same company: I’m just hoping that it’s bad reportage all-round.
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EU Temporarily Permits Data Transfers To The UK Pending A Decision On Adequacy # expect what… #Schrems3? #Schrems4? #MadMaxFuryDataTransfers?
https://www.mondaq.com/uk/privacy-protection/1024482/eu-temporarily-permits-data-transfers-to-the-uk-pending-a-decision-on-adequacy
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Important thread by @cyberlegal:
Art 19 Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” Here are ten things that it doesn’t say: 1. Everyone has the…
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I’m a neophyte to 3D CAD; it’s fun to learn, but @Autodesk #Fusion360 @adskFusion360 feels so hostile to technical learner-hobbyists now that I’ve started learning @OpenSCAD instead /cc @autodesk_uki
I don’t want to come across as negative – Fusion 360 is clearly a tool for professionals and it’s the sort of tool to which I might aspire to drive with skill; but I am a “deep nerd” and a control freak technically inclined so the junior TinkerCAD documentation comes across as lacking focus to…
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As a former colleague put it, “what an oddly specific number!” – #Parler was not designed by anybody in the expectation of growth
For non-programmers: the biggest number which you can easily represent in a legacy 32-bit binary signed number, is approximately 2.1 billion. That may sound like a lot but it isn’t really – a few million users each doing a few thousand things will overflow it.
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Nerds in their field of interest are particularly dangerous to argue with:
A journalist asked me about my claim on @BBCr4today today that there have been 65 revisions to the lockdown laws and said "you don't have any kind of tabulation or something to prove it" and I said "… as it happens…" like a lawyer nerd's ultimate dream https://t.co/5Z1p3gVjbX — Adam Wagner (@AdamWagner1) January 12, 2021
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“There was an API on this server, a URL with a number at the end. If you incremented this number, you saw the next…”
Welcome to 2013, and a genuine Nazi downloading data from a poorly designed and unprotected API There was an API on this server, a URL with a number at the end. If you incremented this number, you saw the next iPad 3G user email address TechCrunch in 2013 https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/ Sound familiar?
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Gotta love all these kind-hearted, activists, indulging in (checks notes) doxxing and all the social-network privacy abuses which so many of them have previously criticised trolls, spooks & corporations for doing.
I most definitely am not against using “sunlight as a disinfectant”, but I prefer it to be targeted against malicious individuals rather than “everyone on a platform”. Unrolled thread, follows: here is the metadata from all 30TB of those videos: https://gofile.io/d/8qAZqC for how to access the video files themselves and the rest of the archive,…
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Trump shunned by Tech. And Banks. And Golf. Not the obvious trifecta of activism.
The very emotional discussion right now about whether Twitter has the right to de-platform Trump should widen the lens and see that the list of corporations that essentially came to the same conclusion include such famous wokesters such as (checks notes) the PGA and Deutsche Bank A debate about big tech's power and the rights…
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This, folks, is what is known as a “side channel”
Some software engineer at Microsoft was probably laughing so hard when this got approved and nobody noticed pic.twitter.com/6U8x7OpioE — Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) January 9, 2021
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UPDATED: Why have @WhatsApp changed their E2E white paper regarding “at no time…access to private keys”? Answer: Because Facebook plan to offer Bots in the Cloud for WhatsApp “Business” Users
IMPORTANT UPDATE re: data policy changes, see below, January 12th So there are one-or-more people on Twitter who worry that WhatsApp are somehow changing their End-to-End encryption; fortunately there are also other people who already know the answer and are responding to those who fret: That Leigh is correct is confirmed by the WhatsApp FAQ…