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mattcasmith

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About mattcasmith

Cyber security professional writing about technology, business, and culture. http://mattcasmith.net

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    I'm surprised there haven't been more releases along the lines of Konami's old WE/PES units, which essentially take a console football game and drop it in an arcade cabinet. I'm no…

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    Comment #48546861

    I’ve seen a few of these – malicious repos to clone, fake call links that prompt for “driver” downloads, and so on. The only way around it is to be hyper-vigilant if anyone asks yo…

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    Comment #48537665

    I’ve been going all-in on regular writing this year, and have published a blog post a week since December ( https://mattcasmith.net/ ). My most recent piece is about the privacy-im…

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    Comment #48489080

    “Sharing malicious URLs, including those that may harm another player.” The URL was google[.]com.

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    Comment #48489001

    I was amazed recently by how locked down the hidden PlayStation 5 browser is. You can’t access it as an app through the dashboard, but it appears if you click a URL from a message.…

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    Indeed. Have never used Blacksmith and maybe there’s a good reason why they do this, but it seems odd that in world where so much of the signup and onboarding process is fine tuned…

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    Comment #48459653

    Have been thinking about this a lot recently. AI could be an absolute game changer for a small start-up rushing a product to market – you could quickly build an MVP that would take…