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Kevin Sæverud @severud@infosec.exchange

i just looked and apparently when the wayback machine was first made public in 2001 (they started scraping and backing up to tape in 1996) the size of the archive had already hit 100 TB

@Ev Williams: the #digitaladvertising business, coupled with the rise of #socialmedia, has trapped #publishers in a vicious competition for people’s #attention…which naturally favors loud and extreme voices.
#technology doesn’t just accelerate and amplify #humanbehavior,” Mr. Williams wrote. “It creates feedback loops that can fundamentally change the nature of how people interact and societies move (in ways that probably none of us predicted).”

nytimes.com/2018/05/09/busines

RT @SecPlanner: If most people knew how much personal data was collected without our consent, we might think twice about where we click nex… source: twitter.com/eff/status/9942708

I'm not generally thought of as an open-source friendly kind of guy, but I really like @federationbot the federation model.

The internet is two systems, really: a flat peer-2-peer IP network is the underlay, and a hierarchical Domain Name System is the overlay.

Federating allows us to stay in our safe vertical siloes and affiliate over the flat network with other siloes. That's democratic & transparent, even if it's gnu to me

Join the campaign to demand accountability and community control over surveillance equipment acquired by law enforcement in California. eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/surv source: twitter.com/eff/status/9925087

The blue oyster mushrooms are getting big. Still no blue caps. I wonder how much bigger they'll get?

[Photo of progress of home cultivated mushrooms]

watching companies try to invoke the notion of "blue collar workers" without accidentally sparking a bolshevik revolution in their replies is what i live for

Domain fronting is critical to the open web blog.torproject.org/domain-fro

Tor is an open network, and all Tor relay IPs are public, which makes it simple for repressive governments to block them all.

Meek is a domain fronting pluggable transport that censored users rely on to bypass these blocks. Since Amazon and Google have blocked domain fronting, only Microsoft's Azure cloud still works, but Tor hears Microsoft might block it next.

♲ @Torsten Grote (t_grote@twitter.com): "The only way to reliably protect elections from both malice and accident is to use something that is not hackable or unreliable at scale; the best way to do that is to back up as much of the system as possible with paper."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/04/securing_electi_1.html

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I do not want to live on this planet anymore:
arstechnica.com/information-te

"[T]he exploit is the first to show that GPUs can flip individual bits stored in dynamic random-access memory. (...) It's also the first Rowhammer attack that uses standard JavaScript to compromise a smartphone, meaning it can be executed when users do nothing more than visit a malicious website. Another key innovation: on average, GLitch takes less than two minutes to compromise a device"

#infosec

Anti-theft software LoJack hijacked by Russian Fancy Bear group
hackread.com/anti-theft-softwa
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