NEW: Food prices in Europe have been soaring. Earlier this year, the Austrian government said it would build a price database to let people compare costs at different supermarkets. It said this would take months to make and only include a small number of product categories.
Within 2 hours, @badlogic had built a first prototype, pulling the data from supermarket's websites, and open sourced the project. Now Heisse Preise lists 177,000 products from 10 chains.
The transparency has allowed prices to be compared: and the results appear to show supermarkets are watching each other and adjusting their prices based on others. The competition authority is investigating and already said new laws should make supermarkets publish proper APIs with full item data
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez #Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in #server farms to illustrate some of the diverse #environmental impacts of #datastorage.
"The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes"
I've cracked billions of #passwords from tens of thousands of #data#breaches in the past 12+ years, and because of this, I likely know at least one #password for 90% of people on the Internet. And I'm not alone! While I primarily crack breached passwords for research purposes and the thrill of the sport, others are selling your breached passwords to criminals who leverage them in #AccountTakeover and #CredentialStuffing attacks.
Use a #Diceware style #passphrase - four or more words selected at random - for passwords you have to commit to memory, like your master password!
Enable MFA for important online accounts, including cloud-based password managers!
Harden your master password by tweaking your password manager's KDF settings! For #Bitwarden, use Argon2id with 64MB memory, 3 iterations, 4 parallelism. For #1Password and other PBKDF2 based password managers, set the iteration count to at least 600,000.
Use unique, randomly generated passwords for all your accounts! Use your password manager to generate random 14-16 character passwords for everything. Modern password cracking is heavily optimized for human-generated passwords, because humans are highly predictable. Randomness defeats this and forces attackers to resort to incremental brute force! There's no trick you can do to make a secure, uncrackable password on your own - your meat glob will only betray you.
Use an ad blocker like #uBlock Origin to keep you safe from password-stealing #malware and other browser based threats!
Don't fall for #phishing attacks and other social engineering attacks! Browser-based password managers help defend against phishing attacks because they'll never autofill your passwords on fake login pages. Think before you click, and never give your passwords to anyone, not even if they offer you chocolate or weed.
#Enterprises: require ad blockers, invest in an enterprise password management solution, audit password manager logs to ensure employes aren't sharing passwords outside the org, implement a Fine Grained Password Policy that requires a minimum of 20 characters to encourage the use of long passphrases, implement a password filter to block commonly used password patterns and compromised passwords, disable #NTLM authentication and disable RC4 for #Kerberos, disable legacy broadcast protocols like LLMNR and NBT-NS, require mandatory #SMB signing, use Group Managed Service Accounts instead of shared passwords, monitor public data breaches for employee credentials, and crack your own passwords to audit the effectiveness of your password policy and user training!
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
"The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. No amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements. "
If you are out there happily applying the new #Debian pointrelease - DO NOT REBOOT into the updated #linux#kernel. It contains a serious (and silent) #data#corruption#bug that MAY (not must) affect you.
Fixes are in preparation, but builds will take a bit to complete.
@pluralistic writing for @goodlawproject on why the question of NHS data is not one between Palantir & non-use, but between an approach based on profit (and data exploitation) and an already proven system (headed up by Ben Goldacre) that offers real security for patients' data.
The real Q. is how much has Palantir paid decision-makers to get on the inside track?
Roaming charges are history! Experience the freedom to travel and stay connected.
Remember when you couldn't activate your mobile #data when you were abroad to avoid high charges? With Roam Like at Home you can enjoy the same benefits wherever you go:
📱 Lightning-fast #5G for seamless connectivity
💰 No unexpected charges, peace of mind
🆘 Improved access to emergency services for safety
The end of #roaming charges has revolutionised #travel and communication, bringing #Europe closer together.
One thing to note in the Rochdale by-election result was it appeared that Galloway was using data to target people based on protected characteristics. This would be a breach of the data protection act. It appears to me like they had custom filters for this setup on the EARS electoral software. With growing sectarianism in British politics using data to target people like this will only increase divisions. #election#data#rochdale
Do you consider yourself a data scientist of any variety? Maybe it makes up a bit of your job, maybe it’s all of it, but if you went to school in the UK and can spare quarter of an hour to reflect on a few things it would be hugely appreciated.
This is our first toot on mastodon. We are looking forward to get in touch with the german and international chemical community to exchange ideas about research data. #chemie#chemistry#research#data#nfdi4chem
Mozilla study reveals that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare” (www.theverge.com)
All 25 car brands reviewed raised privacy concerns regarding customer data.
Delete your data from data brokers. (github.com)
An opt-out list of links that help you delete your data from data brokers.