August 14, 2022
The new Perun video is out. Covering the Ukraine military this time.
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New: I tried out Apple's new "extreme" iOS 16 security feature called Lockdown Mode, which aims to protect at-risk users — journalists, activists, and human rights defenders — against zero-click government spyware.
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A really interesting thread of a normie installing Pi-hole on their network and what impact it had on their experience. Also the ethics of ad blocking and the constant pervasive surveillance on the internet. It’s really enlightening to see how non-technical people live and what they think about tech.
My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole. It’s a raspberry pi running Ad blocking on the whole house’s network.
We’re a few hours in and we’re seeing effects, as well as some teething problems.
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A developer is making this game about a squirrel with a gun where you can also run around and rob people
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Amazing work by Orange Tsai (as usual), BH slides at: i.blackhat.com/USA-22/Wednesd…
Orange Tsai 🍊 @orange_8361
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Slides are up for our (w/ @tiraniddo) Kerberos LPE presentation from #blackhat2022. Hope you enjoy, and thank for to everyone who attended!
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Eugene Spafford being all prescient and saying how the security industry needs to improve. In 2013.
https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/on_competitions_and_competence/-
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We asked him to tell us about the mystery wherein some music would crash a laptop!!?? https://t.co/BRgfsWEaaC
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The sudden deletion of important Git repos from GitHub is now a thing, and while that *shouldn’t* mean all copies of the software are gone (thanks to Git being decentralized), it does make it hard to verify purported clones w/o knowing the hashes.
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A story of what we’ve lost in computing
http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html-
Heap overflows on iOS ARM64
https://www.inversecos.com/2022/07/heap-overflows-on-ios-arm64-heap.html
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A meditative read on logistics.
https://readpassage.com/i-watched-an-857-hour-movie-to-encounter-capitalisms-extremes/-
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I cam back to it a few hours later and it hadn't even been touched. ...Till I booted it up the next day and glitter spewed out of the fans on the back.
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What does winning the Grammy do to a musician’s style? After winning, their future albums become more stylistically unique.
But Grammy-nominated artists that fail to win become conformists. Their future albums sound more like everything else out there than previous records. 1/2
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CYBER NORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lee Newcombe @lee_newcombe
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