Until abortion access is fully legal, digital surveillance poses a significant threat. We’ve gotten better at answering questions about how to keep each other safe. Here’s what we’ve learned.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/two-years-post-roe-better-understanding-digital-threats #abortion #surveillance
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> Every version of the PuTTY tools from 0.68 to 0.80 inclusive has a critical vulnerability in the code that generates signatures from ECDSA private keys which use the NIST P521 curve. (PuTTY, or Pageant, generates a signature from a key when using it to authenticate you to an SSH server.)
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html
These direct solicitations to T-Mobile employees to participate in SIM-swaps are definitely not just limited to T-Mobile's employees. But T-Mob is probably the easiest still.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/1c4dgpl/sim_card_swap_scam/
Hi Fediverse, #introduction
Currently I'm spending a lot of my time on the computer researching into #music #corpora in order to finish my #phd @ #epfl by the end of 2023. My main subject is #musicTheory and I'm trying to measure stylistic differences between tonal languages of the last four centuries through #statistics on #harmony (#stylometry).
I'm here to connect with people who are interested in #dh #DataScience #machinelearning #opendata #dataset #foss #privacy #musicianship #funk #techno
Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, I don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*
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The eldest among us remember the First Web, before search engines were Good Actually. They used secret magics to make sense of the chaos that was the First Web.
Site directories.
Web rings.
Home pages linking to trusted sites.
Homework and jello shooter recipes study notes.
Now that the Search Engines have fallen it is time to bring those ancient tools back, for ourselves and the youngest among us who never knew the First Web.
I worked for the burningman project as Department of Public Works for 16 or so years. I have been programming since I was 12 and this is my 1st forray into social media. Here's hoping federation lives up to its promises!