Hot take: Every time a corporation announces layoffs, they should be legally required to disclose how much money they've spent on stock buybacks in the past 6, 12, and 24 months.
I wonder if it's actually possible to make stock buybacks illegal within the existing legal framework, but I'm pretty sure you could require the stock buyback to require some special process that flags those shares being transferred in such a way that it can't move the stock price
edit: I just don't see how it isn't blatant fraud for them to buy back to push the stock price higher which is generally what happens (as well as siphoning out the company's coffers to the shareholders, which while disgusting is perfectly legal even though it risks killing the company by significantly weakening its finances)
I am concerned that the industry push away from passwords towards security keys and biometrics is a giant step backwards for civil liberties in the US.
A person in the US can’t be compelled to give up their password (usually, of course there are exceptions, but they are few and don’t affect the average person) as that would be considered a violation of several US Constitutional amendments (mainly the 4th and 5th).
In addition, there are few (if any) 4th amendment protections for any data that is stored “in the cloud”. Service providers can, and have been, compelled to disclose sensitive information in their custody that “belongs” to a person, organization, or other “entity”.
But more alarming is that an American citizen does not have any 4th or 5th amendment protections against being forced to look at phone or computer to unlock its contents, or to provide a finger to do the same.
There are even issues with Yubikeys. They are physical keys and anybody with access to them can unlock any system that is protected with them.
So forgive me for not jumping on the passkey, Windows Hello, and other security key bandwagon and avoiding those technologies when I can.
yes, but I don't know of a way to do it in practice except using the Apple PassKey implementation and turning off TouchID and FaceID so you have to put in a password to use it
If I could somehow make a PassKey out of my GPG/smartcard on my yubikey it would be possible for me to require my passphrase before the PassKey could be used.
I wonder if someone is working on this or if it's even possible.
Yeah great I worked at Sourcefire/Talos for a while. I've been in charge of protecting databases of our 0days, processing embargoes, etc
I get the whole "look at me, I am important security researcher" shtick but your ego is about 6 sizes too big to be calling yourself "distinguished company"
Based on the bizarre response he sent back I think the guy's full of shit because if those things aren't compromised there's no good reason to do a thorough reset of them
There’s so much code to write bros… I work morning to night like Daddy Elon says, but I’m still chipping away at the precursors to the thing before I can do the thing.