How were the Yahoo emails “hacked”?
Security compromise in 2013 and 2014 that resulted in stolen login info including hashed passwords. Possibly the biggest data breach of all time.
Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says
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#162https://twitter.com/ppathole/status/1116670170980859905 Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize. The only modification i'd recommend is replacing the gun with something simpler, like a sledgehammer. Can't be too careful.
As a sysadmin of many decades, I have not owned a printer in 15 years, and no self respecting tech worker I know would ever have one of them in their home. I do have an enterprise grade network, next gen firewall, a homelab, and a host of vlans with home automation segmented off to a dedicated network with zero internet access
"Printer" doesn't imply "wireless connection" necessarily.
A lot of "smart" devices can be used without giving them access to the world.
Just. don't. give. them. your. password.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
The funny thing is, while "to protect yourself from government tyranny" is the favorite phrase of gun enthusiasts and gun lobbies in this country, whenever a citizen uses a gun in justifiable defense against police (the most recent notable one being Breonna Taylor's case) these same people side with the police every time.
This is inaccurate. I know many people on both sides of the gun debate and I don't know a single person who doesn't want police reform regarding no-knock raids. I don't know a single gun owner who supports the police in the Breonna Taylor incident. The overwhelmingly vast majority of "protect yourself from government tyranny" types want to massively curtail police powers.
> The overwhelmingly vast majority of "protect yourself from government tyranny" types want to massively curtail police powers
I find this hard to believe. Back the blue, blue lives matter, thin blue line people are propagated by gun enthusiasts who use nice slogans like “government tyranny” to justify their positions in a shallow and emotional way. There’s no actual belief in government tyranny, otherwise they wouldn’t stand with the law enforcement arm of the government’s elevated agents.
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Like what? Everyone should be paperless these days. What exactly do you still need to print?
Should be, maybe, but isn't. To give one trivial example: if you're selling vinyl records on Discogs, you need to print the mailing address to put it on the package.
Where I live you'd upload that to the post office and they give you a QR code you can use when you hand the package over.
(OK you probably wouldn't, but you can)
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#165"that’s why we made two-step verification mandatory,"
Hopefully, you didn't use sms as 2steps :).
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are more or less stating that the problem is overzealous responses from police, rather than police receiving a fake call for which a SWAT team would be an appropriate response. Do police in other countries simply not have the capacity to deal with people in imminent danger? Their response to getting a call claiming that there's a crazy person in the house about to murder the caller is to knock politely and ask q…
> Do police in other countries simply not have the capacity to deal with people in imminent danger? Speaking from europe, we just don't have that here, at least not enough to have SWAT forces ready immediately. I can't think of any times that it was a problem the SWAT team was not ready.
The equivilant to SWAT in Germany is run by state police. They are used in specific situations, and most of those are never covered by the press. Statiscally, they are have on average around one deployment per day.
The big difference is, those units in Europe are a professiobally trained force and part of a professionally trained police force. And not somw wannabe commandos recruited from ill-trained police officers run by departments too small to even exist in Europe.
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#167Re: Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like what? Everyone should be paperless these days. What exactly do you still need to print?
Bills need to be mailed to my health insurance company if I want to be reimbursed for anything — no online uploads whatsoever, and this is for one of the major national companies that everyone knows.
Every medical practice I know of still has a fax number, in 2022.
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#169https://twitter.com/ppathole/status/1116670170980859905 Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize. The only modification i'd recommend is replacing the gun with something simpler, like a sledgehammer. Can't be too careful.
As a sysadmin of many decades, I have not owned a printer in 15 years, and no self respecting tech worker I know would ever have one of them in their home. I do have an enterprise grade network, next gen firewall, a homelab, and a host of vlans with home automation segmented off to a dedicated network with zero internet access
I have an old hp laser jet I keep around. Occasionally I’ll hook it up to print things out of spite.
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#170Assuming Ring cameras are the problem in this is part of the issue. The big issue is keeping your account unsecured and basically granting some psychopath access to your home.