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What is Jesus for?
It’s worth the translation… https://twitter.com/latricherie/status/1363791114533232640?s=19
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“I was a tech worker at ByteDance, where I helped develop tools and platforms for content moderation. In other words, I had helped build the system that censored accounts like mine. I was helping to bury myself in China’s ever-expanding cyber grave”
Powerful Essay https://www.protocol.com/china/i-built-bytedance-censorship-machine Some Key Quotes I was on a central technology team that supports the Trust and Safety team, which sits within ByteDance’s core data department. The data department is mainly devoted to developing technologies for short-video platforms. As of early 2020, the technologies we created supported the entire company’s content moderation in and
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Looks like there is some technomedievalist anti-abortion lobbying kicking-off in Iowa https://twitter.com/ACLUiowa/status/1362497722108895232
It’s not the technology, it’s the intent, and the intent is illiberal. …and, today…
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If you feel pessimistic about tech, if you feel that “tech” is a social negative, is addictive, a risk, is turning our (or childrens’) brains to mush — this podcast is amazing and may bring you fresh perspective:
From “Build For Tomorrow” (formerly: “Pessimist’s Archive”) — I’ve not yet heard a dull episode, and so far it covers the social context of technology more objectively than anything I’ve heard elsewhere in the media: Link: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/pessimists-archive/episode/f27ab2c1/what-new-tech-will-we-fear-next
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The @NSA gets some stuff right about #DNSoverHTTPS, but it also is astonishingly “tone deaf” about some aspects of enterprise #security, so also gets some stuff dead wrong… #DoH
A long time ago I used to do network security – hardening, pentesting, that sort of thing – for Sun Microsystems, and one of our key challenges was “nomadics“, that in a company of 40-thousand people, a large contingent would be equipped with PCMCIA modems and chunky laptops, remotely logging into Sun’s intranet from hotels
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From January; alas, poor #Bugtraq…
The Wikipedia page needs updating. Source: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2021/Jan/0 The SecurityFocus assets, including the BugTraq mailing list, has a long history of providing timely information on the latest vulnerabilities, security vendor announcements, and exploit information. We are forever grateful to those who created, maintained, and contributed to the archive – many of us have connected and learned
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#CarringtonEvent — it turns out that a global #Pandemic is not the only kind of once-a-century-ish / eventually-inevitable event that might reshape the world. Take a look at this:
The Carrington Event[1] was a powerful geomagnetic storm on September 1–2, 1859, during solar cycle 10 (1855–1867). A solar coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth’s magnetosphere and induced the largest geomagnetic storm on record. The associated “white light flare” in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by British astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson. The storm caused strong auroral displays and wrought havoc with telegraph systems. The now-standard unique IAU identifier for this flare is
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No Port 53, Who Dis? A Year of DNS over HTTPS over Tor — final version (I hope) #DNSoverHTTPS #DNS #DoH #Tor #NDSS21 @torproject
Paper direct link Presentation direct link