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Why is this an issue?
For an institution that claims to be an engineering leader, there's no real excuse for not having TLS everywhere with proper redirects today. It can prevent ISPs from seeing what you get or injecting their own code into webpages.
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I have 24k emails over the last year in my work email. I think this is fairly typical in large companies.
In a University it is completely out of control. Every individual you ever meet or encounter electronically seems to generate an email or meeting invite from them, their university, their department, their school/faculty and from associated departments with a shared resource that you are required to understand. Sometimes it's multiple messages per day, and I haven't worked there in 3 years. Anacedata as I have only w…
Email is, of course, worse. For every 15-20 emails I get maybe one of them I was expecting or is personal. It's just a glorified spam box.
> In September, in response to revelations about engagements between MIT and Jeffrey Epstein... This isn't true, right? MIT knew about those engagements from as far back as 2013. This is the first sentence in the first answer to the first question and it just isn't correct. What _actually_ happened in September is a bunch of fucking terrible press for MIT. This whole thing is just so sad and at the end of all this is…
The sentence reads: > In September, in response to revelations about engagements between MIT and Jeffrey Epstein, President Reif and the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation asked MIT's general counsel to retain a law firm to design and conduct a review of the facts surrounding those engagements. It is the case that Goodwin Procter's fact-finding investigation began in September. And the report details interact…
Epstein didn't kill himself. Video footage "accidentally" deleted and the backup footage also lost due to "technical errors." His death and a cleanup so slovenly and brazenly done in front of the public eye is a mockery of America as a nation of "liberty and justice for all."
We all kind of know that, yet it still remain just a "conspiracy theory" which no decent person will dare to publicly acknowledge. Yeah, another one.
At best, the doctor can affirm that Epstein died. Little more. Suicide is associating a storytelling, a blatantly lying storytelling in the face of the public as long as no proof of intent was even available when the suicide was affirmed. We basically know nothing on the circumstances of his death, so the suicide word was more than unfounded.
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Kind of impressive, and nice in a way - - since it is so obviously corrupt and we become aware of it because the case is so high profile. Makes you wonder who pulled it off and how often things like it occur.
The attorney general confirmed it was a suicide, so if we're to believe it was actually a surreptitious murder, it goes all the way to the top.
Especially because the case disappearing is clearly convenient for people personally connected to the AG, or to whom the AG owes a favor.
2)“I’ve also talked to Nicholas [Negroponte] as well who had met him and he also agrees that we should treat Jeffrey with respect.”
3)Negroponte pushed back on concealing Epstein’s attendance, responding (in part) “Of course he can come and would be welcome …. I would make absolutely no fuss over his coming and welcome home [sic] 100%.”
Wow, just wow, are there no depths too low?
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For an institution that claims to be an engineering leader, there's no real excuse for not having TLS everywhere with proper redirects today. It can prevent ISPs from seeing what you get or injecting their own code into webpages.
Are either of those a risk that's practically worth guarding against for this information? Engineering leaders generally have the skill of choosing the right solution for the problem at hand.
But today TLS-by-default is pretty much a standard practice for any public web-page like this, there's no trade off to make here, and it can be argued it undermines my privacy as a visitor, since instead of just revealing that I'm visiting mit.edu to the network, I have no choice but to reveal what page I'm visiting and what I'm reading there. Furthermore, the network owner may decide to serve me any bullshit instead of this very important official MIT statement, and I will have no way of knowing that.
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Wow. Seth Lloyd is a very well-known name in Quantum Computing. It's pretty shady that he's depositing $50,000 gifts from known sex offenders directly into his personal bank account...
It would appear to be $50,000 plus $125,000 if I'm reading that last note correctly.
In contrast, the $125,000 is included in the $850,000, as indicated by the breakdown in the table on page 9. Thus, though not stated explicitly, the report indicates that the $125,000 was sent to MIT (to fund Seth Lloyd's research but not into his personal bank account).
(At any rate, the fact that he accepted a gift of any amount, especially into his personal bank account, is very concerning. Sounds like currently he has been put on administrative leave and we'll see what happens after they're done deciding what to do.)
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The attorney general confirmed it was a suicide, so if we're to believe it was actually a surreptitious murder, it goes all the way to the top.
It is quite possible he was taken off suicide watch so he could... commit suicide. It wouldn't have to be a murder in the technical sense
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-cell-video...