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Phew, that's a relief. Guess that's a reasonable compromise for a $550 product for which there are no other quality competitors.

My friend/colleague had her phone stolen while she was napping in the hospital room of her terminally ill husband. Fortunately it had MDM. Called Palo Alto PD, I sat with them and …

Gmail is an Electronic Communication Service as defined in 18 U.S.C § 2510, meaning its contents are protected under the Stored Communications Act (18 U.S.C. Chapter 121 §§ 2701–27…

Um, Windows 11 still hasn’t moved all the necessary utilities and administrative panels over to the windowing toolkit Microsoft introduced in 2012, and MacOS 26(??) is… hideous.

Thomas is one of the pickier, crankier, least faddish technologists I've ever met. If he has gone fanboy that holds a lot of weight with me.

Depending on what he actually did to enumerate that database and whether he downloaded all that PII I think changes the risk profile.

IANAL and this is not legal advice, but you probably fine reverse engineering a mobile app and intercepting your own network traffic. He was doing ok until he started enumerating I…

Agreed. I've been doing this for 25+ years and personally know a dozen people who have been threatened and several who have been sued or faced potential prosecution for legitimate …

Here is the actual paper: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kh752sm9123/ml_traini...

The CEO is sanctioned, which makes dealing with the company complicated. https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=34596

They aren't talking about general purposed datacenters, but satellite uplink stations. These new constellations of low-Earth orbit (LEO) internet satellites (like Starlink) can net…

A regression means that PhotoDNA scanning was working, and then stopped working correctly. This happened in the last several months, well after Mr. Musk's takeover. I think it is g…

We use Microsoft's PhotoDNA scanning service on all images we intake for research, which has access to hash banks collected by NCMEC, a government-sponsored clearinghouse on child …

This is an incorrect reading of our report. Twitter has scanned for CSAM using PhotoDNA for years, and is an early member of the Tech Coalition of companies working on this issue. …

Hi, I'm one of the authors of the report. You have pretty significantly misread it. > You might as well say, "Private unmonitored housing and properties implicitly allow the tradin…

Here is the detailed report (PDF): https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jd797tp7663/20230606-...

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

I can still hear the clunk of the relay switching over to 3D (versus 2D pass-thru) when booting Wing Commander.

To nitpick the nitpick, Stanford actually is held to some Constitutional standards, thanks to California's Leonard Law, which requires private universities to provide the same free…

The advertising ASN does not share any upstream peers. So it might not be a hijack, but it is an interesting event and could be related to the conflict. Untangling ISPs that have o…

"Paw Patrol Explainers Considered Harmful" In this thread, I will deconstruct... (1/49)

You can contribute to our attempts to find the bad router card here: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1336099461622157312 Almost certainly 12.242.117.22