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07/22/2019

Latest Techmeme Ride Home podcast.

Equifax agrees to a settlement over its massive 2017 data breach, Microsoft invests a billion dollars in an generalized AI startup, Huawei is linked to North Korea’s cellular network buildout, Google settles multiple lawsuits, including a decade-old one about Wi-Fi snooping, Apple’s sequel to Ti...

07/03/2019

This is a FASCINATING Twitter thread that asks what you would do to profit with admin access to Fortune 50 company.

“I'm going to ask an open question that I like to ask when interviewing or when mentoring people towards thinking more creatively. You've gained access to a Fortune 50 company. Your objective is to make as much money as possible before you get evicted from the network. How?”

03/26/2019

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/25/18281333/apple-tv-plus-streaming-many-questions-missing-details-event-2019

Apple TV Plus is more mysterious than familiar

03/22/2019

The fact that 200 million plus user passwords sat unencrypted is bad enough. That they were unencrypted for multiple YEARS is really, really bad. They were stored on an internal server which makes it even worse. It’s usually much easier to loot a system from the inside. All it takes is a confident individual armed with enough right answers and questions that make someone believe you belong. Kevin Mitnick is living proof of that.

Unencrypted user credentials stored on Facebook internal servers as far back as 2012.

03/22/2019

If you have a web site that needs to be updated or if you don’t have one, I can definitely help you. I can take your existing site and transform it into an updated, easy to manage system for less money than you might think. If you are starting from scratch, I’ll be happy to work with you all the way from a concept to the finished product. You being satisfied with the results is my goal.

03/20/2019

This is an interesting read. Automated calling software does respond and learn from hearing SIT’s, but the developers of those systems also reverse engineer devices like the Tele-Zapper in order to defeat them. For cell phones, you could record the tone and entire ‘disconnected/no longer in service’ message as your voice mail message. I’d loop it twice for effect. You could also use different combinations of the SITs and messages as your voicemail message.

- This project was submitted to FTC Robocall Challenge

03/12/2019

The internet has been around a long time. Professor Leonard Kleinrock sent the first message over the ARPANET in 1969. There were only two internet nodes back then. 30 years ago today, in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted the famous “Information Management” proposal. This is what would become WWW, the World Wide Web.

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02/08/2019

The latest episode of TekThing

Is Dell's new 49" UltraSharp Monitor -too- big??? Can Pocketalk's translator replace Google Translate on a phone? Best Gaming TVs: we’ve got picks! CamelCamelCamel’s $49,000 hard drive crash, and more!