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Trying to open up a socket to google.com:443 is not how you check if there's an internet connection
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This week in algorithms gone wrong: Google steering people into literal fires rather than metaphorical ones.
"The Los Angeles Police Department asked drivers to avoid navigation apps, which are steering users onto more open routes — in this case, streets in the neighborhoods that are on fire." fw.to/EMJxt2E
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Wait, I installed it, how is localbattle.net using a valid certificate. I don't know if I want to look under this rock. 😬/cc @hanno
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Used Outlook's S/MIME feature in the past 6 months? Your mails were probably not sent encrypted: sec-consult.com/en/blog/2017…
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OKAY! Time to lift our #startup. Everyone visit http://localhost:8080 and share :)
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Surprise, I ported Windows Defender to Linux. 😎github.com/taviso/loadlibrar…
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When you have to manually edit the DB to get SCVMM 2016 into a consistent state... @Microsoft ever hear of QA?
Applied to a company that "specialises in cyber security", their recruitment system sent me my password in plain text over email!
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Cloudflare have been leaking customer HTTPS sessions for months. Uber, 1Password, FitBit, OKCupid, etc. bugs.chromium.org/p/project-…
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I don't tweet much and this isn't groundbreaking but I have to say this publicly, IPv6 is a clusterfuck
Just used the Microsoft online self activation thing (microsoft.gointeract.io), pretty slick!
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On the internet nobody knows you're a carwash shodan.io/host/108.201.148.9… via @viss
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Looking at my hard drive spreadsheet, drives made in Taiwan seem to have a lower early fail rate than ones made in China.
I have a hard drive reporting "User Capacity: 600,332,565,813,390,450 bytes [600 PB]". It might need replacing.
9766909440 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [7/5] [UU_U_UU]
I don't think I need to say anymore.