“Obviously this is a great fit for abusers who live with their victims or have physical access, however brief, to their wallets...Credit card info is not a goddamn unique identifier.”
https://www.404media.co/i-tracked-nyc-subway-rider-home-omny-mta/
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and we are allowed to enjoy it, as a treat.
This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry is absolutely out of control and needs strong regulation:
I assume this change was implemented while wearing black robes, circled around an X logo, chanting "Freedom of speech but not freedom of reach."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/
Now that we have "AI detection" meant to catch students who cheat by using AI to do their work, of course we have false positives.
People in management who feel the need to loudly tell everyone how pro-labor they are give off strong Steve Buschemi "how do you do fellow kids" vibes.
“What do you do for a living?”
“I sneakily try to turn security engineers into privacy engineers.”
Man Famous For Not Paying His Bills And Making Empty Promises Offers to Pay Other People's Bills, Which is Totally Not an Empty Promise: https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-x-fund-legal-bills-people-treated-unfairly-due-posting-platform-2023-08-06/
Nothing has ever been less surprising than the news that the ad-sharing payments Elon promised will not be arriving on time.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820859/x-twitter-ad-sharing-payment-unpaid-delay-elon-musk
In the year+ since Dobbs, nearly everything that Team "You're Overreacting" said would never happen has happened. It's almost like they were never arguing in good faith. Weird.
https://jezebel.com/idaho-republicans-are-directly-asking-hospitals-for-the-1850707627
In case you were unaware, Window Snyder is a goddamn legend and this profile of her by nostr:npub1lt9k43thw2z4xamkhwl2x7d6388ver4jkfcxukgyxy4ljdz6w0tqa5f6eq is excellent.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/04/window-snyder-cybersecurity-trailblazer/
Please know that if my only escape from the apocalypse means spending the rest of my days on an island populated by effective altruists, I will absolutely choose the sweet embrace of death.
Me, dipping my toe into the oversized trend in clothes: I look so cool and relaxed.
Also me: I look like a child who has wandered into her Mom's closet and is wearing her clothes.
We all knew infosec Twitter was dead, but here's a graph.