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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Jan-2021 11:57:24 EST 
GeniusMusing
@guizzy
There is always a second option.
2 E-Mail Services Shut Down to Protect Customer Data The New York Times
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/two-providers-of-encrypted-e-mail-shut-down/
>Lavabit, a Texas-based service that was reportedly used by Edward J. Snowden, the leaker who had worked as a National Security Agency contractor, announced the suspension of its service Thursday afternoon. In a blog post, the company’s owner, Ladar Levison, suggested — though did not say explicitly — that he had received a secret search order, and was choosing to shut the service to avoid being “complicit in crimes against the American people.”
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>Within hours, a fast-growing Maryland-based start-up called Silent Circle also closed its e-mail service and destroyed its e-mail servers. The company said it saw the writing on the wall — while also making it plain that it had not yet received any court orders soliciting user data. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Jan-2021 11:31:40 EST
GeniusMusing
@guizzy
@lain@lain.com
Not just scraped, handed over...
Parler shared information with FBI about Capitol riot suspect - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/parler-shared-information-fbi-capitol-riot-suspect-2021-1 -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jan-2021 20:03:14 EST
GeniusMusing
Windows 10 Bug Corrupts Your Hard Drive On Seeing This File's Icon Slashdot
https://nu.federati.net/url/279332
>An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command. Bleeping Computer reports:
>In August 2020, October 2020, and finally this week, infosec researcher Jonas L drew attention to an NTFS vulnerability impacting Windows 10 that has not been fixed. When exploited, this vulnerability can be triggered by a single-line command to instantly corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive, with Windows prompting the user to restart their computer to repair the corrupted disk records. The researcher told BleepingComputer that the flaw became exploitable starting around Windows 10 build 1803, the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, and continues to work in the latest version. What's worse is, the vulnerability can be triggered by standard and low privileged user accounts on Windows 10 systems. [...] It is unclear why accessing this attribute corrupts the drive, and Jonas told BleepingComputer that a Registry key that would help diagnose the issue doesn't work.
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>One striking finding shared by Jonas with us was that a crafted Windows shortcut file (.url) that had its icon location set to C:\:$i30:$bitmap would trigger the vulnerability even if the user never opened the file! As observed by BleepingComputer, as soon as this shortcut file is downloaded on a Windows 10 PC, and the user views the folder it is present in, Windows Explorer will attempt to display the file's icon. To do this, Windows Explorer would attempt to access the crafted icon path inside the file in the background, thereby corrupting the NTFS hard drive in the process. Next, "restart to repair hard drive" notifications start popping up on the Windows PC -- all this without the user even having opened or double-clicked on the shortcut file. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jan-2021 19:51:25 EST
GeniusMusing
Brings a whole new meaning to "Free Willy".
Not that I would want to see that sequel. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jan-2021 17:24:13 EST
GeniusMusing
That would be interesting, I looked but couldn't find anything. I might just stay with what I made at this point. Even my "simple" page of 77 lines overall and 16-18 lines of PHP code throws an error in 7.4 was fine in 7.3. Not sure what changed between 7.3 and 7.4 but it seems be causing headaches for people. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jan-2021 16:56:25 EST
GeniusMusing
Two new posts, well one new one and one almost a week old (I forgot to post it) and new blog site because of PHP 7.4.
The Random Thoughts of GeniusMusing
https://geniusmusing.com/
>01/52 Posts for 2021 - Life is a Subscription
>It has been said that “Taxes are essentially just a yearly subscription to the country you live in, childhood was the free trial” (Source: Unknown but there is a meme about this somewhere).
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>02/52 Posts for 2021 - Unplanned Writing
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>So I got an email with the subject of “Time to upgrade your PHP Software”.
It does have an error that I didn't have in 7.3
`Deprecated: Directive 'allow_url_include' is deprecated in Unknown on line 0`
But the site still works and I am not really doing anything "fancy" in PHP...
Will have to see if I can get it fixed at some point.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jan-2021 19:10:27 EST
GeniusMusing
If you use this please read this now.
GitHub greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender: A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory
https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender
URGENT: SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious · Issue 1263 · greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender · GitHub
https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263
>TLDR: The old maintainer appears to have sold the extension to parties unknown, who have malicious intent to exploit the users of this extension in advertising fraud, tracking, and more. In v7.1.8 of the extension (published to the web store but NOT to GitHub), arbitrary code was executed from a remote server, which appeared to be used to commit a variety of tracking and fraud actions. After Microsoft removed it from Edge for malware, v7.1.9 was created without this code: however, it can be added back at any time, and the original maintainer remains in control. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 17:37:36 EST
GeniusMusing
Gorillas at San Diego Zoo test positive for Covid in apparent first San Diego | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/11/gorillas-san-diego-zoo-coronavirus
>Several gorillas at the San Diego zoo safari park have tested positive for coronavirus, with some experiencing symptoms, in what is believed to be the first outbreak among such primates in captivity.
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>The park’s executive director, Lisa Peterson, told the Associated Press on Monday that eight gorillas who live together at the park are believed to have the virus and several have been coughing. Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, confirmed at his Monday news briefing that at least two gorillas had tested positive while three were symptomatic.
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>It appears the infection came from a member of the park’s wildlife care team who also tested positive for the virus but has been asymptomatic. The safari park confirmed the presence of Covid-19 through fecal samples from the gorillas, and the test results do not “definitively rule out the presence of the virus in other members of the troop”, the zoo said in a statement.
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>Veterinarians are closely monitoring the gorillas, who will remain in their habitat at the park, north of San Diego, according to Peterson. “Aside from some congestion and coughing, the gorillas are doing well,” she said. “The troop remains quarantined together and are eating and drinking. We are hopeful for a full recovery.”
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 15:46:02 EST
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1 @musicman
@adcock
>It was 10F/-9C when I started on Saturday.
And that is one of the reasons why I left the midwest and moved to pacific northwest. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 11:18:13 EST
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
@adcock
Wi-Fi 6, explained: how fast it really is The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/21/18232026/wi-fi-6-speed-explained-router-wifi-how-does-work
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>How fast is it?
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>The short but incomplete answer: 9.6 Gbps. That’s up from 3.5 Gbps on Wi-Fi 5.
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>The real answer: both of those speeds are theoretical maximums that you’re unlikely to ever reach in real-world Wi-Fi use. And even if you could reach those speeds, it’s not clear that you’d need them. The typical download speed in the US is just 72 Mbps, or less than 1 percent of the theoretical maximum speed.
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The real world numbers are much more dismal, using an internal speed test that I can get Gb speeds on wired connection I can get at most about 300 Mbps on my Wi-Fi5 connection. I am going to guess that the 3.5 Gbps might be total throughput using multiple connections but my AP only had a 1 Gb wired connection anyway.
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