Thus begins a first for me on two levels, one I will be simultaneously live tweeting, tooting and skeeting along with a movie and two that movie will be Swordfish from 2001, which I have never seen before.
I wonder if 20 years of cramming "#hackers" into every story that involves computers being broken (or broken into) has anything to do with #Canada banning #FlipperZero? :thaenkin:
Surely, media focusing every such story, for decades, on some nebulous "hackers" instead of on companies who could not be bothered to secure their stuff properly in no way affected the public perception of who's to blame. :blobcatcoffee:
But please, do tell me how we should not fight for this term anymore. 🙄
“#Hackers backed by the #China government are targeting U.S. water treatment plants and electrical grids, strategically positioning themselves within critical infrastructure systems to "wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities," FBI Director Christopher Wray is expected to tell Congress Wednesday.”
I'm bummed I'm only learning about this now, and that I can't travel due to health reasons, and also there's still a pandemic ongoing. But while they're not live streaming it, they are making recordings which I'll probably buy.
One of the earliest TV news segments still findable online that deals with #hackers and #hacking, a 1983 segment from CBS Nightwatch on the movie WarGames, the 414s #hacker group busts and the safety of the US nuclear arsenal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui8BejEVpz4
Imagine you're a screenwriter and you've been asked by Netflix to write a six-episode mini-series about the beginnings of the hacker subculture or notable events, say from the 60's to the early 90's. Who will each of the six episodes be about? My picks:
This 'numb3rs' episode ("Shadow Market") that is sort of about #hackers and darkweb marketplaces is just too much, too many cringe inducing moments that I want to post.
The episode starts with the feds undercover at a #hacker con called "Pentest".
The Toledo Blade asks "Are kid #hackers bad or just bored" on the 28th of September 1999, cult of the dead cow gets name dropped and we get well and truly dunked into the rage filled world of teenage AOL #hacker d00ds in the tail end of the 90s.
Il y a tocards qui n'ont rien d'autre à secouer de leur temps, qu'aller éditer des billets de blog à l'étape de brouillon/jamais publiés... 🙄
Le Web, ce lieu où conserver un site/blog inactif, est plus un calvaire, qu'autre chose.
Pas s'étonner si les sites finissent tous par fermer. #hackers#tocards#blogging#internet
So I was using keybase.pub for some file hosting stuff a while back. I liked it because it was encrypted, didn't require account verification that could identify me, and offered a convenient URL that I could give to people to grab files that I uploaded.
Sadly, as of March first, they took Keybase.pub offline. It still works as a means of sharing files between users as I understand, but the major thing I used it for was a secure means to share libraries of content without using an account tied to an email, phone number and then some to those who weren’t using the Keybase system.
So, now I’m on the hunt for a decent alternative that follows the same guidelines. Would anyone know of anything worth looking into?
I don’t need a secure chat platform; I already have a few of those that I trust and have my people on.
I just need a way to host my data and share it with people like Keybase allowed.
KBFS to upload files to private, group or public folders that are then accessible to whoever has the URL like keybase.pub/user allowed. Hope I’m making sence? lol
But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.
The enshittification of email has led to their announcement emails getting filed to spam by Google etc al. (We run our own mailserver and have been wrestling with this for years, but at least our livelihoods don't depend on it!)
Statement from #Newag — the Polish train manufacturer that sabotaged its competition by DRMing its trains — deliberately abuses the word "hackers" to paint a picture of some cybercriminals taking over the trains.
Newag is doing this on purpose, to deflect blame and muddy the waters.
And a lot of media just walks right into this, repeating and boosting the bullshit narrative simply by parroting that misuse of that term.
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