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Yeah, I’m fully in support of a decentralised web but the internet is old enough now that being naive about this stuff has become equivalent to being maliciously incompetent. Witho…

This isn’t an Obsidian thing, it’s just the next iteration of the GTD mania of the aughts or the Atomic Habits people or whatever other trend. There will always be people trying to…

And also just… misguided? I don’t particularly think of neo-Nazis when I think of people who advocate against CSAM.

Those were always my favourite episodes too! Enough to get into a career doing social engineering and physical intrusions. It's very tense! You're right to think it's insane; the n…

But I’m responding to the notion that they should’ve had signed documentation with the scope with them. They did. The fact that their own company hung them out to dry by not inform…

> If we were testing security for something like a courthouse we would've had a card on each of us with the personal cell phone number of the county clerk along with a statement of…

The best use? Probably not. But if I built a website that let people generate extremely convincing unlimited photos of you wearing an SS uniform and forcing your dog to smoke meth …

That’s really interesting extra context, thanks!

Absolutely nothing in this article is related to feds using conversation metadata to map participants, so, no they weren’t.

A society which took psychological safety seriously would never have created ChatGPT in the first place. But of course seriously advocating for safety would cost one their toys, an…

Using any variant of NTLM is insecure, which is why Microsoft is phasing it out in Windows 11/Server 2025. Which means we should be free of it some time around 2060.

Yes. This is no more pernicious than releasing a multiplication table.

Some citations would help your case a lot.

A lot of good information for infra teams to internalise, although I worry that it gets a bit lost in the structure of the piece (there's kind of like 3-5 separate essays here but …

The gutless liberals that dominate your country’s preconceptions of “the left” are not your anti-police state faction, but you do their work for them by conflating the two. The ant…

I just registered CVEs in several platforms in a related industry, the founders of whom likely all asked themselves a similar question. And yet, it's the wrong question. The right …

I'm also Australian and some of these comments have really made me re-appreciate what we have in Medicare. Damn, it's got its issues, but the American attitudes towards their healt…

Yeah man, when would technology ever be abused to monitor health data. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/period-tracking-apps-ou...

It doesn't have to get to your employer, it just has to get to the enormous industry of grey-market data brokers who will supply the information to a third-party who will supply th…

Start with your threat model. Who is the “someone” you’re imagining attacking you? What are the most likely risks to occur? What are the most damaging? Where do those two lists ove…

It's always worth being skeptical when someone appeals with the term "good". I'm sure there are people who run large tech companies who want to deliver "good software", but it's su…

Microsoft is currently a target of BDS, which calls it "perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palest…

I really like Rustfully on YouTube. Every video is under 10 minutes long and he goes over one concept and where it would be used in practice. Great for reinforcement learning.

This would make this blog notable as the first AI company to proactively respect trademark.

How does a camera make it harder to commit a crime? If I bash your skull in on camera, did the camera make that more difficult? Would your family be less aggrieved?