December 9, 2022
E-government German style: students have finally Ben allowed to apply for grants online, but since the administration was incapable of processing electronic docs extra staff had to be hired to print them out... @thegrugq @ciaranmartinoxf
Dec 8, 2022
Bafög-Ämter müssen Anträge ausdrucken – teils mit extra Personal
Studierende können Bafög online beantragen – aber da endet die Digitalisierung. Für Ämter bedeutet das Mehrarbeit, für Studierende längere Wartezeit. Verantwortlich sind laut Studierendenwerk die Bundesländer.
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NEW TODAY: @PaulSzoldra mingles with the masters of the military-industrial complex and shares the view from the wine-sipping trenches of contracts, bureaucracy, and generals being followed by people with papers vital to the national interest.
Dec 8, 2022
Peace through strength
Mingling with the masters of the military-industrial complex.
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.@medibank will take systems offline this weekend for security hardening, a project called Operation Safeguard. Improvements include bolstered monitoring, more detection and forensic capabilities and 3rd pty analysis support. PR here: medibank.com.au/livebetter/new… #auspol #infosec
Dec 8, 2022
Medibank to undertake ‘Operation Safeguard’ at the weekend
Medibank and ahm systems will be temporarily offline from 8.30pm AEDT Friday 9 December 2022 as we undertake some maintenance to further strengthen our systems and enhance security protections.
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ICYMI, from two days ago: @KimZetter's great post about western cybersecurity and tech firms assisting Ukraine.
Dec 9, 2022
Security Firms Aiding Ukraine During War Could Be Considered Participants in Conflict
Experts say cybersecurity companies helping to defend Ukraine against Russian cyberattacks during the war could be considered direct participants in the hostilities and open themselves to attack.
@KimZetter It's a super interesting Q! But is it right? So, anyway, what do you have to do to become a "direct participant in hostilities"? What does it mean if you do? Does co-locating military data make that happen? And could it drag us all into war if they did?
Dec 9, 2022
No, Tech Companies and Cybersecurity Firms Aren’t Close to Becoming Direct Participants in the Conflict by Helping Ukraine
And it’s not particularly close. But here’s what the Laws of Armed Conflict have to say about it.
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The photo of the U.S. Air Force's new stealth aircraft is on the left, taken at night, with stars in the background. We can use them to find the exact location of the jet (thread)
Dec 8, 2022
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By popular demand, I have scanned my copy of Draft #1 of #Kernighan and #Ritchie's C Programming Language book. Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OvgKikM8vpZGxNzCjt4BM1ggBX0dlr-y #ComputerHistory #UNIX #CLang
Tom Lyon ✅: "By popular demand, I have scanned my copy of Draf…" - Mastodon.social
Attached: 1 image By popular demand, I have scanned my copy of Draft #1 of #Kernighan and #Ritchie's C Programming Language book. Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OvgKikM8vpZGxNzCjt4BM1ggBX0dlr-y #ComputerHistory #UNIX #CLang
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Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"
In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"
Martin Boller :debian: :tux: :freebsd: :mastodon: :heart_pride:: "Shared by my Daughter "*I need privacy, not becau…" - Infosec Exchange
Shared by my Daughter "*I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are*" In response to "*if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear*"
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Well formatted free eBooks
Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
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At @enisa_eu we are often asked, why is information manipulation in the threat landscape? Together with @eu_eeas colleagues and @ErikaMagonara from #ENISA we try to answer and explain how one can map the information manipulation threat landscape! Excited to hear your views!
Dec 8, 2022
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fyi, none of the AI ethicists i’ve spoken to are saying this. they simply recognize that automation amplifies asymmetric power at the expense of the vulnerable & marginalized — unfortunately something a lot of puzzlebrain engineering types don’t seem to understand, or care about.
Dec 8, 2022
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"How US police use counterterrorism money to buy spy tech." Spoiler: it's FEMA.
Dec 8, 2022
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Everything old is new again. Sniffing ssh passwords (like from yesterday’s newsletter) on openbsd. In case you find yourself hacking into 2004 or something…
@0xdea And here is how you can do this on OpenBSD
http://astr0baby.online/OpenBSD/SSH-SNOOPING/ Dec 9, 2022
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Speaking openbsd, here’s a dive into a 24yr old bug in ping.
https://tlakh.xyz/fuzzing-ping.html-
Seth Jenkins wrote a blog post on a new kernel exploitation technique for exploiting a temporary-increment-at-controlled-address bug without an infoleak: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/12/exploiting-CVE-2022-42703-bringing-back-the-stack-attack.html
Jann Horn: "Seth Jenkins (@jenkins) wrote a blog post on a ne…" - Infosec Exchange
Seth Jenkins (@jenkins) wrote a blog post on a new kernel exploitation technique for exploiting a temporary-increment-at-controlled-address bug without an infoleak: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/12/exploiting-CVE-2022-42703-bringing-back-the-stack-attack.html
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“Fuck Nuance” by Kieran Healy
https://kieranhealy.org/publications/fuck-nuance/"Sociologists typically use nuance as a term of praise. Almost without exception, when nuance is mentioned it is because someone is asking for more of it. I argue that, for the problems facing sociology at present, demanding more nuance typically obstructs the development of theory that is intellectually interesting, empirically generative, or practically successful."
Alex Gantman: "swearing, but academic" - IOC.exchange
Attached: 1 image · Content warning: swearing, but academic
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DoNotPay is building a chrome extension where you can specify something like “negotiate my Comcast bill down,” and it will use the Comcast online chat to lower your bill with GPT-3. Over time, Comcast will also use LLMs. So robots will just be negotiating with each other!
Dec 6, 2022
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In a similar vein, French DPA fined another company €300k, again highlighting an infringement during bad password management/policy. Plain-text passwords stored, and transmitted over email. France & #GDPR will kill bad passwords? Why not use article 25? legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTE…
Dec 9, 2022
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