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“The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we actually do it to sell engagement. Attention is more valuable than a spreadsheet…” | Nikita Bier
This is a lot more realistic than most takes you’ll ever read on the matter. Saving you a click: The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we
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Via @tychotithonus@infosec.exchange a novel idea: maybe it’s about time we started talking honestly about what had to be done to combat Y2K to diffuse the disinformation about it
Smart idea: The hardest part about refuting Y2K disinfo is how many problems were fixed quietly, in part to mitigate risk of ligitation (negligence, etc.). People have stories they can’t tell. At this point, I think enough years have passed that a formal amnesty – to encourage companies to disclose just how bad some of
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Via @ollie_whitehouse@infosec.exchange I came across @punkxorg who built a boardgame to teach his kid ARM assembly, and wondered: Does anyone play Corewars any more?
So Ollie posted a tweet linking to the below tweet — which is itself very cool — but reading about the game sparked memory of CoreWars, something I haven’t thought about in 20+ years. In case you’re unaware, it’s basically “Robot Wars in Cyberspace”: Core Wars is a perfect game for the pentester-inclined: two players
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Happy New Year, Everyone
Let’s hope it’s a good one, and that the world leans away from oppression in so many arenas.
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The year is finishing on a crappy note with the theft of a load of groceries; hopefully they actually need them, but I doubt it
To commiserate we will ring in the new year with an Australian Sauternes knockoff + yummy biscotti to dip, and watch the neighbourhood fireworks. Happy New Year, everyone.
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What the history of OpenBoot, Phrack, Mudge & Solaris, can teach us about the wisdom (or not) of Apple’s building their iPhone security debugging-backdoor-NSA-hack thing
In the days before people really, really, cared about security — when it was more amazing that mainstream computers worked at all rather than that they offered falsifiable guarantees about privacy and integrity, and most of all in the days before hackerdom decided that it would be great if all the world’s computation ran on
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Qing dynasty China, where failing to properly subtweet the Emperor would get you — and possibly all your rellies — beheaded, or worse…
“…only death by beheading.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_taboo A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere. It was enforced by several laws throughout Imperial China, but its cultural and possibly religious origins predate the Qin dynasty. Not respecting the appropriate naming taboos was considered a sign of lacking
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There’s a better English alphabet
I had not heard of Shavian script before this — I have some dim memory of an experimental script ending up on the sides of “alien” space-craft in some Sci-Fi series, but it may not have been this — but it’s clever, cute, and this is a nice video. Aside: I wonder what would happen
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Umikot Planetary Gear Spirograph Espresso WDT Tool by redfoxdude | Printables.com
I am tempted but I think that I need to tune my Prusa before attempting to print this: https://www.printables.com/model/481587-umikot-58mm-version-planetary-gear-spirograph-espr