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CFAIL: The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology | “Failing better since 2019…”
I just discovered this, lol: https://www.cfail.org
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Via @lorenzofb | NEW: CrowdStrike sent partners a $10 UberEats gift card to apologize for the outage
Oh dear. Links onwards to https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/
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WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly | …maybe, but maybe not; avoid hysteria
Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard. …except that such features DO NOT EXIST within WhatsApp and Signal, which therefore presumes that the UK Government can/will compel WhatsApp and…
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2017: “EU: New antitrust complaint looms over Microsoft” | …the smoking gun to which Microsoft alludes re: CrowdStrike’s kernel modules
Quoting this article which clips this paywalled content — it seems that Microsoft are telling the truth; also it’s interesting to note that Apple locked-out third party kernel modules starting circa 2019. Further content on the same topic at: Microsoft comes under pressure as software suppliers raise market abuse complaints with the European Commission over…
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I was asked for my perspective on how we got to a world where the CrowdStrike affair could have occurred…
So I responded: What we have just experienced is a synthesis of multiple, possibly unsolvable, systemic and regulatory problems. This kind of incident can (and does) happen to any and all platforms, but I would argue that Windows is disproportionately impacted because: (a) competing operating systems were built for more hostile environments like multiuser computers…
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Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage | Microsoft
Microsoft claim that the Crowdstrike outage impacted 8.5 million machines, but as a fraction of internet-attached devices this is far smaller than the Internet Worm of 1988 which took out up to 10% (6,000 out of 60,000) of connected devices: While software updates may occasionally cause disturbances, significant incidents like the CrowdStrike event are infrequent.…
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Confidential counselling calls were eavesdropped on by strangers | BBC News
People intuitively understand that communications are meant to be private amongst those people who are doing the communication: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxee3glz2pyo
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What railway pedestrian fatalities in Mumbai can teach us about online safety
I found a video on TikTok that tipped me off to a series of googleable stories over the past 15 years about reducing pedestrian railway fatalities in India caused by people walking along and over the tracks. In a nutshell: The latter is the important one to accept: there’s no way to force fatalities down…
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Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group | this is an absolutely fantabulous website for people who…
…are fascinated by undocumented minutiae https://www.horg.com/horg
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The challenge of “dual use technology” elegantly contextualized in a single tweet
The same goes for: age verification, “child protection” content filters, upload filters to prevent copyright theft, …