Notices by Khrys (khrys@mamot.fr)

FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people’s private information

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/fbi-says-hackers-are-sending-fraudulent-police-data-requests-to-tech-giants-to-steal-peoples-private-information/

The FBI is warning that hackers are obtaining private user information — including emails and phone numbers — from U.S.-based tech companies by compromising government and police email addresses to submit “emergency” data requests.

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When you dig a hole···

Paging The Hague: Israel’s Exploding Electronics Might Be War Crimes

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/19/israel-pager-walkie-talkie-attack-lebanon-war-crimes/

A day after pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and Syria, a second round of bombs — this time embedded in walkie-talkies and solar equipment — detonated on Wednesday in Beirut and throughout Lebanon.

The combined death toll from the attacks rose to at least 37 people, including a 9-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, with more than 3,000 wounded.

Let's say the word : terrorism.

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/

Microsoft said its update wouldn't install on Linux devices. It did anyway.

Kamala Harris’ husband’s ex-wife comes to her defense amid ‘childless’ attacks

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=c85DIe3p2Ew

Donc maintenant, on reproche à Harris de ne pas avoir enfanté. Ce serait un argument contre le fait qu'elle devienne présidente des États-Unis.
Et Harris qui doit se justifier qu'elle est une bonne mère, attentionnée, aimante.
Nous sommes en 2024.

#patriarcat

La Nasa charge SpaceX d'inventer le moyen de détruire l'ISS après 2030

https://www.france24.com/fr/info-en-continu/20240626-la-nasa-choisit-spacex-pour-d%C3%A9velopper-le-moyen-de-d%C3%A9truire-l-iss-apr%C3%A8s-2030

What could go wrong.

Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/lets-just-admit-it-the-algorithms

The weather experiment that really flooded Dubai

https://theconversation.com/the-weather-experiment-that-really-flooded-dubai-227021

“The interesting thing is that humans have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that 2,400 gigatonnes of carbon (our total emissions since pre-industrial times) might make a difference to the climate, but very readily get behind the idea of a few hygroscopic flares making 18 months worth of rain fall in a day.”

Pas mieux.

@aral Ok but I still don't understand that choice : Fairphone would have been a much better example - at least you can put free software on their phones + they are repairable.

Wheras you can do nothing at all with an Iphone - except use it as Apple wants you to use it, with Apple-validated apps. You don't own that shit. It owns you and your data. That Apple chooses - or not - to use these data for now is not what matters. You don't even know what they really do. You have to believe them.

@aral Hi, thanks for the talk, especially for the Part 1 and the apple (not the company, the fruit ;-) analogy, with the rotten core in Part 2.

I don't understand the slide about Apple, though :
Apple doesn't belong to the "good guys" that only sell products. They sell us too.

One example among others : https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-provides-powerful-insights-into-new-areas-of-health/

Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/amazon-drivers-urine-packaged-as-energy-drink-sold-on-amazon/

A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon's buying and selling safeguards.

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UK - Climate activists face ‘crippling’ legal fees for injunctions banning protest

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/civil-injunctions-just-stop-oil-insulate-britain-extinction-rebellion-punishment-protests/

Snapchat admet avoir bidonné la Snap Map pendant les émeutes

https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/snapchat-admet-avoir-bidonne-la-snap-map-pendant-les-emeutes-n211617.html

Une cadre de Snapchat a expliqué que la branche française du réseau social a trafiqué la Snap Map pour ne plus faire apparaître de contenu consacré aux troubles, en ne publiant que les photos et vidéos critiques envers les émeutiers.

Voilà.

Bisous.

Red Alert: ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government In The World To Seize Domain Names

https://freespeech.com/2023/04/19/red-alert-icann-and-verisign-proposal-would-allow-any-government-in-the-world-to-seize-domain-names/

ICANN, the organization that regulates global domain name policy, and Verisign, the abusive monopolist that operates the .COM and .NET top-level domains, have quietly proposed enormous changes to global domain name policy in their recently published “Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .NET”, which is now open for public comment.

@aral I'll be there \o/

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