My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup's Recent Memory Safety Comments :: The Coded Message
https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/stroustrup-response/
https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/stroustrup-response/
The Coded Message
My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup's Recent Memory Safety Comments
The NSA recently published a Cybersecurity Information Sheet about the importance of memory safety, where they recommended moving from memory-unsafe programming languages (like C and C++) to memory-safe ones (like Rust). Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup, the original…
PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html
Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/
CBS News
Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave
To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/
Ars Technica
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
TLDR : Every cop's body cam is basically an AirTag. Here is a talk at DEFCON explaining how you can detect and ID police body cams with your phone.
BLE devices are now all the rage. What makes a purpose built tracking device like the AirTag all that different from the majority of BLE devices that have a fixed address? With the rise of IoT we're also seeing a rise in government and corporate BLE surveillance systems. We'll look at tools that normal people can use to find out if their favorite IoT gear is easily trackable. If headphones and GoPro's use fixed addresses, what about stun guns and bodycams? We'll take a look at IoT gear used by authorities and how it may be detectedable over long durations, just like an AirTag.
https://blog.dataparty.xyz/blog/snoop-unto-them/
BLE devices are now all the rage. What makes a purpose built tracking device like the AirTag all that different from the majority of BLE devices that have a fixed address? With the rise of IoT we're also seeing a rise in government and corporate BLE surveillance systems. We'll look at tools that normal people can use to find out if their favorite IoT gear is easily trackable. If headphones and GoPro's use fixed addresses, what about stun guns and bodycams? We'll take a look at IoT gear used by authorities and how it may be detectedable over long durations, just like an AirTag.
https://blog.dataparty.xyz/blog/snoop-unto-them/
blog.dataparty.xyz
DEFCON 31 - Snoop unto them, as they snoop unto us
The official videos from DEFCON 31 have been posted!
Below you can watch our talk “Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you”. The talk, slides, files
Below you can watch our talk “Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you”. The talk, slides, files
Phineas Fisher, Hacktivism, and Magic Tricks
https://blog.isosceles.com/phineas-fisher-hacktivism-and-magic-tricks/
https://blog.isosceles.com/phineas-fisher-hacktivism-and-magic-tricks/
Isosceles Blog
Phineas Fisher, Hacktivism, and Magic Tricks
It's said that a good magician never reveals their secrets. Computer hacking is a particularly good type of magic trick, and for the most part, hackers don't reveal their secrets either. It's sometimes hard to reconcile this, because we read about hacking…
Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (22 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bk3v/commercial-flights-are-experiencing-unthinkable-gps-attacks-and-nobody-knows-what-to-do
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bk3v/commercial-flights-are-experiencing-unthinkable-gps-attacks-and-nobody-knows-what-to-do
VICE
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do
New "spoofing" attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is "highly significant" for airline safety.