If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences:
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-media-system
He has a good point. And it applies to more than just the US, but most of the media across the world.
Windows users told to patch now after active zero-day attacks disclosed by Google.
Over the past month I have been shifting from a MacOS to Windows. My main driver has been ideological differences with Apple around closed and open ecosystems. It's taken a bit, but wow.. it's been enjoyable... especially like their seamless #linux integration
Do you trust Zoom?
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says...
Since at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided a lower level of security .. Allowing them to decrypt users communication.
Scary growth of the DDoS attacks size through the years...
Good read to understand how Google thinks and handles DDoS attacks.
Ok, let's move on to more pressing issues..
What's your highest score: http://www.trex-game.skipser.com/
10's of thousands of small businesses closed. 100's of thousands of jobs gone, and even more families affected. My goodness.. 😢
Source: https://chainstoreguide.com/offthechain/coronavirus-business-impact-2020/
-2m scanned websites contained outdated software which could potentially lead to an exploit.
-70k sites were infected with SEO spam, accounting for 39.59% of website infections.
-19k scanned websites contained malicious scripts or iframes from blacklisted domains.
-11% of infected sites were found to include scripts and iframes from blacklisted domains.
Pretty good report from Sucuri:
https://blog.sucuri.net/2020/10/sitecheck-malware-report-september-summary.html
📺 Broadcasting now! Watch the webinar live on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWieRFAglMw to hear about Decentralized alternatives to Big Tech
Listening to this session on Decentralized Alternatives to Big Tech... listening to
@matrixdotorg
leadership talk to how it works https://youtube.com/watch?v=AWieRFAglMw&ab_channel=NewAmerica pretty neat when you think of how it can be used and how it improves an organizations control of their own content..
Howdy! If you've been wondering what our platform looks like, now you can take a peak under behind the curtain. Short video gives you a quick orientation fo the platform: https://youtu.be/szd_SR1VYOo
Product direction from Mozilla:
"...this decision allows us to sharpen our focus on experiences like Mozilla VPN, Firefox Monitor, and Firefox Private Network."
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/09/17/update-on-firefox-send-and-firefox-notes/
VPN, VPN (through CloudFlare's) & EOM of haveibeenpowned?
Where is the Mozilla we used to love?
Founder of CleanBrowsing, ColdPath, DDOS Racing Team. Former Co-Founder Sucuri and CubicTwo, Executive at GoDaddy.
Challenging the status quo and encouraging creative thought. If no one is disagreeing, then no one is thinking.