Notices by VessOnSecurity (bontchev@infosec.exchange)

"The Origins of Wokeness":

https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

@GossiTheDog I assure you, the Internet, as a whole, will do nothing about it and the same issue will pop up again in 2032.

So, the US Presidential election has been officially certified, I take it? 🤣

(Image is AI-generated, of course.)

@molly0xfff Because it has become so biased to the left on any political or generally controversial topic that even its creator says it can no longer be trusted?

https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-is-now-propaganda-for-left-leaning-establishment/

If you had invested $1,000 in Bitcoin in 2010, by now it would be worth $2 million to the people who had stolen it from you meanwhile.

@GossiTheDog There is a generic tool for getting info from Shodan without an account, if you know what query to use:

https://github.com/shubhamrooter/ShodanSpider

It's a bash script for Linux, though - needs jq, curl, grep, etc. I'll have to see if I could rewrite it in Python and make it cross-platform.

A partial list of people that Time has named "Person of the year":

- Adolf Hitler (1938)
- Joseph Stalin (1939)
- Joseph Stalin (1942)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1957)
- Ruhollah Khomeini (1979)
- The Computer (1982)
- Yuri Andropov (1983)
- Vladimir Putin (2007)
- Elon Musk (2021)

@GossiTheDog PoC||GtFO.

@GossiTheDog I thought you were happy with your 5G Internet connection?

@clive @mmasnick I am sure that all the leftists will remain completely blind to the difference between "the government strongly suggesting a social media network to do something" and "the owner of a social media network being a strong supporter of the government".

WaPo being a leftist piece of shit supporting the socialist administration is perfectly fine and their 1st Amendment right. The government "strongly suggesting" to WaPo to censor certain stories, however, is absolutely unacceptable.

The problem with the "Twitter files" isn't that Twitter did what was asked from it. The problem is that the government "asked" in the first place.

@GossiTheDog This from Telegram again? How many times have they been kicked out of there?

@rbairwell @GossiTheDog By putting explosives inside?

@rimu @RezzaBuh @campuscodi Uh, no, that's not at all what I meant. I meant, a platform specifically designed to facilitate criminal activities - like the on-line drug markets. Not something the criminals happen to use because it's not adequately moderated.

@campuscodi Right. Threat with jail time is pretty effective at cooling down any free speech fervor, as some Russian dissidents can attest.

When even that doesn't work, the governments could try poisoning the offenders - I'm told that's even more effective...

@RezzaBuh @campuscodi I have no problem with the police going after the offenders. I have a big problem with the police going after the communication platform that the offenders happened to use, especially when it's a general communication platform; not something that specifically caters to the needs of the offenders.

Also, I was making the point that there is no substantial difference in the actions undertaken by the governments of Russia and France. Saying stuff that contradicts the government's claims about the war in Ukraine is illegal in Russia. Posting child porn is illegal in France. In both cases the local law is broken. You might disagree with the law (i.e., can view one as totalitarian and the other as just) but the job of the police is to enforce the law, not judge it, and in both countries they've done the same thing.

@patrickcmiller Generative AI is one big flaw all by itself.

@horse @Sempf No. Besides, anyone detecting that string under such circumstances is doing it wrong. The string must be detection only if residing in the first 68 bytes of a file that is no larger than 128 bytes.

Among other things, this attack shows why detecting malware based on scan strings alone is a bad idea. What is this, year 1988? Honestly, I expected better from Kaspersky.

@patrickcmiller I liked it better then Microsoft had a US Government problem...

The cat is not allowed to climb the dining table.

The cat is absolutely not allowed to climb the dining table.

The cat knows perfectly well that it is not allowed to climb the dining table.

The cat is on the dining table.

#caturday #catsofmastodon

@GossiTheDog Starship troopers. The book, not the movie. Many people who have only seen the movie don't realize it, but the original Heinlein work was satire too.