I recently made a comment about The Best And The Brightest and went to amazon to get a link to the book.
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I recently made a comment about The Best And The Brightest and went to amazon to get a link to the book.
LastPass is, right now, “scrambling to fix another vulnerability” [ars] but I’m going to talk about it anyway. The unfortunate reality of how software is written nowadays is that it’s practically impossible to write reliable code – there are too many layers of abstraction and somewhere down in the bowels of something you embedded from someplace else, there are bugs.
I’m going to explain things a bit then I’ll drop into a nice easy workflow you can use to get this problem taken care of and have passwords off your plate, forever.
Verizon was ready with new spy tech, to force onto people’s phones when it became legal for them to begin tracking and selling customer data. [boingboing]
You’re probably familiar with the upcoming relaxation of companies’ ability to sell users’ browsing and internet history. [guardian]
I loathe the way the media soft-peddle their service to the state.
Britain reopens privacy debate after attack, presses tech firms [reuters]
It may be that we’re looking at some “parallel construction” [wikipedia] here; this sounds a bit dodgy.
To some of my earlier comments about ‘tradecraft’ – if you’re interested in how good the retro-scope is: you definitely want to read this. [dailybeast]
“It’s just metadata,” the cry echoes down the corridors of power. And the ISPs, in the name of “increase your marketing dollar” have taken it up.
CNN asks a silly question: [cnn]
SAN FRANCISCO — Almost all nations engage in some type of cyber espionage, but Russia stands apart in outsourcing the work to criminal hackers from its thriving cyber underground, say U.S. security experts.
I’m usually surprised by the coverage regarding NSA/CIA/FBI spying: there’s some stuff we definitely should be scared of, and there’s other stuff that I file under “so, what?”
For example, the fact that the US government has consistently ignored its own laws regarding wiretapping: nobody who has observed any government in action should be surprised by that.