VessOnSecurity

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." --Voltaire

I thought it was "For every Ph.D., there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.".

Which probably means that it was China.

NOW I GOTTA WORRY ABOUT NUCLEAR HORNETS?!

Crazy that governments impose website age restrictions on their citizens before they provide Internet compatible government ID for their citizens, and everyone's stuck providing selfies that get hacked and recycled for fraud.

Yeah, he wants to support personal liberties and free markets. The horror, the horror.

Stagflation (rent inflation + salary deflation) sucks.

Maybe it is?

A politician will NEVER admit that they were wrong. When a policy fails, it's always "because not enough of it was being done" and never "because it was a braindead idiocy that would have never worked in the first place".

this is what we on the internet call "doubling down" instead of admitting you've royally fucked up

I disagree. Both were espionage ops, not destructive ones. There was very little to lose if they were discovered. They would have been done regardless of the state of US defenses.

🪪 My concerns about the Online Safety Act remain the same as when I last wrote about it nearly decade a decade ago when it was proposed as the Digital Economy Bill:

1) It normalizes uploading sensitive documents such as ID scans to random websites, which will likely increase identity theft.

1/3

Not just the banks. The current generative AI is based on deep learning neural networks. I've used a product based on neural networks for trading stocks in the late 90s. (Its performance sucked, BTW.)

In the interest of science, you must also compare its performance with a control group - e.g., one consisting of a stock-picking chimp. Or maybe Jim Cramer; I don't see a difference.

Well, why do you think the rest of the economy isn't growing fast? Because everybody is spending their money on advertising, instead of on something productive...

Shout out to the government of the United Kingdom.

They singlehandedly doubled, possibly tripled, the value of cybersecurity people.

Identity theft is going to be rampant in the next 2 or 3 years.

And those who do remember the past are condemned to helplessly stand by while everyone else is repeating it.

Yay, New Zealand has solved computer security. No need for a CERT any more...

It seems pretty obvious to me that western governments are looking at China and other countries with monitored/sealed Internet and slowly putting the pieces in place to do the same thing for their own Internets.

think about the "tea" app for women to anonymously report abusers that was recently hacked and the names and driver's licenses posted on 4chan. how good of an idea does it seem to force children to provide personally identifying information that can just as easily be obtained and distributed?

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.

Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike. www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

Today PornHub introduced mandatory age verification for UK users - as demanded by the Government's new Online Safety Act.

In other news, searches for "VPN" in the UK just went through the roof.

What a surprise, huh?

Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack of Microsoft Corp.’s SharePoint document management software, according...

Link to the Bloomberg article:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It is based on an anonymous source.

They didn't kill anyone?

The mandatory reporting and the disruption of the criminal activities is a good thing but the ransom paying ban, especially of critical infrastructure entities, is an idiocy. Your emergency hospital got ransomwared? Sorry, guv, a quick solution is illegal. Go die somewhere else.

wow

UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption Officials fear technology deals with Washington could be impeded after Trump administration weighs in

The UK gov't is backtracking on encryption backdoors.

UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption
www.ft.com/content/3a3e...

This has to be the most hilarious vibe coded garbage I've ever seen. He's trying to perform BIOS interrupt from a Windows Kernel driver on a UEFI system. It's basically the software equivalent of trying to put diesel in your electric car, which is actually just a bicycle. 2/2