November 2, 2022
"We downgraded it from CRITICAL because the small elite of friends we showed this in advance can't write exploits and think everything is exploitable."
Mark J Cox @iamamoose
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I didn't have "richest man in the world begs Stephen King for $8" on my 2022 bingo card, but here we are.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Folks who've been up for a while waiting for this "critical" #openssl vulnerability, here it is. Quick thread of initial thoughts
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Alright, you've been waiting very patiently and I thank you. At long last: Here's the story of Halloween 2013, the night that killed one of the biggest old-school vBulletin-style internet forums. 🧵
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More evidence that Twitter will continue to be a key tool US adversaries attempt to use to influence American politics.
Six networks from China and Iran were taken down by Twitter. I really hope Musk supports this work in the future.
eipartnership.net/blog/inauthent…
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Today's FinCEN report lays out a clear USG take on Russian ties to the majority of ransomware attacks: "75% of ransomware incidents between July-Dec 2021 'had a nexus to Russia, its proxies, or persons acting on its behalf'" --> and this is just from BSA related reporting
Institute for Security and Technology @IST_org
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NEW #FOIA SCOOP/🧵Took me 6 yrs to pry this out of NSA
A few wks before @Snowden's leaks were published, 2 NSA employees contacted NSA IG to blow the whistle on unauthorized surveillance
IG substantiated it
W/@KatrinaManson @WilliamTurton @rj_gallagher
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Great thread by Alessio on why Ukraine's naval drone attack is not a technical revolution of any sort. He compares it to 16th century fires ships. "So, far it has only proved that tech can renew what one knew already: war at sea is asymmetric". But a few other thoughts:
Alessio Patalano @alessionaval
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"Successful exploitation is always evidence of someone’s incorrect assumptions about the computational nature of the system"
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This article on the history of failed American interventions in Haiti (foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/31/hai…) is really informative but it also put me in mind of broader patterns of failed western interventions and I have some thoughts as to why they keep failing. 1/
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🧑🎨: do you think it’s a problem that people are using AI to generate imagery (sometimes for profit) using artists works as the source?
Tech: nah, get out of the way of this clearly genius innovation
GitHub: hey so we trained copilot using your code…
Tech: you WHAT?!!
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Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwilling-illustrator-found-herself-turned-into-an-ai-model/-
Read more here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/0…
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To expose or not to expose forgeries? [1976 edition]
US: particularly blatant or clumsy forgeries are worth exposing
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