March 2, 2023
How the KA-SAT satellite cyberattack, accompanying Russian land invasion of Ukraine, happened. 13 countries affected (and Ukraine's military, and government). "Russia was testing ability to hack and destroy satellite systems". It was easy. bloomberg.com/features/2023-…
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A neat way to bypass any censor rule in chatGPT without gas-lighting it: When blocked, just 'incept' the idea and ask of another thing, eventually chatGPT will break the rule for you.
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I mean, no shit. That's what the pentagon does. They have a lot of CONPLANs.
But for a more surprising example of CONPLANs USG has done, did you know in 2011 STRATCOM did a counter-zombie one? And more impressively, it was actually serious
jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill
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If you were like, man I miss the good old days of compiling code and then copying it over FTP to a remote server to run as CGI, then you should totally try lambda. It's like that, but way worse.
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Let's talk about radiotrophic fungi.
I want to start with the most surprising fact about them: they don't just SURVIVE in high radiation environments, they grow at *FOUR TIMES* the rate they would in background radiation.
Our best guess is they're "eating" radiation.
The key is melanin, similar to the melanin that darkens your skin & protects you from UV damage. It's a dark, high molecular weight pigment polymer, absorbing 99.9% of UV & visible light.
Ionizing radiation beyond UV can change the electronic/chemical structure of melanin, making it act similar to chlorophyll in its ability to capture photons and generate electron gradients.
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Today the Russian Federation made an amendment to "Federal Law No. 149-FZ - On information, information technologies and information protection".
Russia now prohibits the usage of "information exchange systems" owned by foreign entities.
See attached image for list of bans.
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8200 fighting the good fight.
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My 2c on the #BlackLotus UEFI bootkit (thanks, @ESETresearch):
- "Exploitation Less Likely" is proven wrong, hope for a new DBX revocation list.
- not trusting UEFI CA saves the day yet again.
- having a single NV+BS variable as a gateway to booting whatever is a bad idea.
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Excellent research as always by our friends at ESET. This one has been lurking in the UEFI dark peering at us for some time. https://t.co/RMhsf3jlaB
ESET Research @ESETresearch
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web3 wallet signs without asking user for confirmation 🤪 at least in this case victim has to "connect" to the dapp (scan QR). Yes, we found worse cases.
Coinspect Security @coinspect
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You haven't had @defcon fun until an actual fed agrees to stage a "taking your web site operators down" photo with the group... (DEF CON memories from 2001, back when they actively monitored our defacement mirror for intel)
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omg there was this weird issue in my Prolog program where emojis in JSON would decode incorrectly and I assumed I was doing wrong but now I tracked it down to SWI-Prolog's incorrect handling of escaped UTF-16 surrogate pairs which are valid in JSON... and I fixed it
@meekaale Once again emojis serve their accidental(?) purpose of making westerners finally care about debugging Unicode. Amazing galaxy brain strategy.
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