The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS
Link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/12/23303411/zoom-defcon-root-access-privilege-escalation-hack-patrick-wardle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447339
Former Twitter Employee Convicted of Spying for Saudi Arabia - Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of spying and money laundering. - https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-twitter-employee-convicted-of-spying-for-saudi-arabia-11660076924?mod=rss_Technology #paid
Urbanista brings solar-powered headphone tech to true wireless earbuds - Exeger’s Powerfoyle solar panels are included on the charg... - https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/10/23299492/urbanista-phoenix-solar-powered-true-wireless-earbuds-charging-case-exeger-powerfoyle
Iran cheerfully admits using cryptocurrency to pay for imports - Trade minister says to expect more of this sanctions-busting stuff starting in September ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/iran_pays_for_imports_in_crypto/
The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (2007)
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17509238/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32380731
Many such cases
https://archive.ph/43Asw
The trial of Ahmad Abouammo, once a rising star at Twitter, is underway; he is charged with spying for Saudi Arabia, outing dissidents who likely faced torture (Joel Rosenblatt/Bloomberg) - Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
The trial of Ahmad Abouammo, once a rising star at Twitter... - http://www.techmeme.com/220725/p19#a220725p19
#Fedilab 3.0.11 has been published on our #Fdroid repo.
*Changed:
- Composing messages is no longer forced to max chars
*Fixed:
- Cross-account follows
- Cannot subscribe to notifications for an account
- Issues when sharing
- Wrong profile for emoji reactions in notifications
- Issue with cards
- Crashes with tabs
- Tabs cannot be renamed
Surveillance is not security.
Surveillance is not privacy.
Surveillance is not safety.
Don't allow facial recognition tech to creep into our day-to-day lives.
Brax.me
I'd buy your braxphone Rob if it had a removable battery.
Probably would have bought a Fairphone 4 by now if it wasn't so expensive and had an actual earphone jack...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg0497vB4uc
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and others register for a license in Indonesia under which they might have to censor content and hand over users' data (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) - Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and others... - http://www.techmeme.com/220721/p15#a220721p15
Poor old Rob @robbraxman got the Coof, quite bad by the sounds of it but is OK now. No way of contacting him directly. Installed the brax.me app but not (ahem) that easy to navigate on mobile.
Anyway if he's ever on the Fedi and sees this - glad you're well now Rob and sorry you got all that crap from people on the livestream...
https://youtu.be/VRBy08F3ipY
British intelligence recycles old argument for borking encryption: think of the children! - Levy and Robinson are at it again Comment Two notorious characters from the British secu... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/07/22/british_encryption_scanning/