So when moneybags or should I call them "accredited investors" using media to manipulate stocks and wipe out real people savings back in 2008 and then they receive bailouts from representatives they help get elected it's all fine and legal, fast forward 2021 ... moneybags manipulating stocks again and ordinary people stand up to them and now media crying that standing up is illegal, give me a break! (This is not investment advise) https://gizmodo.com/current-status-of-wallstreetbetss-gamestop-run-1846142174
I had pondered to start a podcast on #PinePhone and general Linux topics for a while. So when @PINE64 asked, I just had to do it. @Ezra is an awesome co-host and we had fun recording the first episode!
Go give it a listen at https://www.pine64.org/pinetalk/ !
#podcast #linux #community #Pine64 #pinetalk #opus #mp3
Apple Users Got Owned
https://puri.sm/posts/apple-users-got-owned/
"The illusion that Apple users have control over their computers was briefly disturbed this week when Apple released their new MacOS version “Big Sur” to the world."
Danger of trusting any company with cloud operated web cams/microphones. Cloud comes with a danger of disclosing your private information by company's personnel. The only way to avoid it is to encrypt data with your keys stored locally. https://gizmodo.com/a-home-security-worker-hacked-into-surveillance-systems-1846111569
Regardless of what you think about Parler they were shielded by law (Section 230) from liability of user generated content, no wonder there's significant push to take it down then government could decide what is allowed and not allowed on the internet, look at China, Russia, Belarus do we really want to go that route as a nation? https://gizmodo.com/house-oversight-committee-asks-fbi-to-investigate-parle-1846105887
QNAP is one of the most popular NAS servers, no wonder some folks were after it. https://www.zdnet.com/article/qnap-warns-users-of-a-new-crypto-miner-named-dovecat-infecting-their-devices/
Kindle owners beware and make sure you are on most recent update. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113743/hacking/kindle-kindledrip-exploit.html
Strategical investments are past due, these days it's easy to write code, there are a lot of materials to teach people to code. Unfortunately experience matter in order to produce great code, and not many companies yet understood that investing into CI/CD will improve code their produce as well as overall security of their systems. Stop complaining about talent and empower your existing employees with CI/CD tools.
Ugh Nvidia cards are very popular. That not a good news for owners, off you use Nvidia make sure to update. https://threatpost.com/nvidia-gamers-dos-data-loss-shield-tv-bugs/163200/
That would be interesting to learn how Telegram wasn't affected by this one. https://threatpost.com/google-research-pinpoints-security-soft-spot-in-multiple-chat-platforms/163175/
Actual pice of information, especially in a light of changes to WhatsApp terms of use. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-take-your-messages-with-you-when-leaving-faceboo-1846078323
There are a lot of debates going on, while ago I wrote my take on Section 230 https://sergeysh.com/2020/12/14/Section-230/
This is really nice article about what your phone really is, Purism and Pine64 are two companies who trying to change that by bringing Linux to the front line. https://puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-your-castle/
There is no cloud it's just somebody else's computer. Apple and Google trying to decive people into believing that by paying for it person actually buys the phone and gets private space in their cloud for backups, well not really ... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT
Such an interesting finding, simple link that is capable of BSOD, glad that it's not much more. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-10-bug-crashes-your-pc-when-you-access-this-location/
CNN panel advocates for ISP to start censoring traffic? Who are we? China, Russia? What happened to our country? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wThP4i80Tw
Journalists are important fabric of our society, our democracy, when they are prosecuted for the information they published it creates very dangerous precedent, espionage act has not been created to silence journalists, those actions destroy our democracy, look around silencing journalists is a first action of any dictatorship state #freespeech https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/opinion/laura-poitras-assange-espionage-act.html
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