The problem with this is that most of the apps used in scams are already on the play store. I haven’t ever seen a scam which requests the user to download a third party app, although I’m sure it’s happened on occasion.

My point is that this won’t stop most scams, and primarily cause annoyance for actual power users.

There’s an episode of Swindled all about how Ford knew this was a flaw and allowed it to happen so that they could compete in the lower end market.

I’m actually looking at getting a heat pump combo since they don’t need ducting

sigh I’ll add it to my growing todo list. I’m worried that I’m gunna tear a hole in it when I clean it.

It’s almost like climate change includes cold snaps, because the average global temperature rise increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather.

This is the timeless classic that you hear from the common clay any time it gets cold. “So much for global warming, it snowed today!”

They do not and will not ever understand the difference between weather and climate.

I feel very lucky that my county has public fiber.

I honestly kind of doubt what you say in your first paragraph. Their country is getting glassed, why would they hold back? Do you think that they’re thinking the US government will stop if they breach a mid sized company? Besides, it’s not a great “warning shot” when most of the general public has no idea what the company is (this is America we’re talking about).

What I think is more likely is that it was found on Shodan (or similar), researched, and since it’s a sizable US company with clear attack vectors, they took action. I don’t think they specifically sought out this company.

Targets like the US government, banks, and tech companies generally have the money to defend against such exploits, to a point. To be clear, I’m not saying that these large organizations do not have exploitable infrastructure (especially the US govt these days). I’m saying that they have the money, employees, and capacity to reduce their attack surfaces, and also have alarming for when something abnormal is detected. It’s a similar strategy for homes and businesses with prominent security cameras in plain view. The security cameras can’t physically stop a burglary, but they do make the location less of an easy target and cause most criminals to find somewhere without them instead.

For a little bit of context and without doxxing myself, I’ve worked for several large fortune 50 companies on the tech side of things, and many of these attacks were caught and dealt with internally without the need to notify anyone in the public. There have been a ton of non-publicly disclosed attacks from state level actors in these organizations, and they’ve only been increasing, even before this illegal war.

Again, not to say that Iran doesn’t have some tricks up their sleeves in regard cyberattacks. I do think that they will eventually breach and damage some huge companies in the near future, I just don’t think that this was any type of warning shot.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Canadian one is even more broad. There’s nothing in it that seems to say that the relatives need to be alive, nor is there anything saying how many generations you can go back.

Edit:

“There’s no limit on how many generations you can go back, as long as you can prove it,” Fultz said.

So, if this goes back all the way to the colonies, then I probably can apply, since my great-great-great grandfather was born in Quebec. So long has his birth record still counts (it was logged in a church’s record book)

In college, on the first day of orientation, someone in my class bragged that they wrote 50,000 lines of code for a game that was similar to tic tac toe, emphasizing that he “wrote a lot of code”. A TA told him that it wasn’t a sign that his program was decent and that it really didn’t seem like it should take 50k lines of code to make something as simple as his game.

He dropped out after the first week of intro to programming.

Yeah, they’re just a prick who can’t understand that people are trapped here. They cannot understand that the billionaire class intentionally trapped the lower (and much of the middle) class, and think that everyone here is perfectly content with what’s happening. So much for class solidarity, funny that they call themselves a leftist.

They’d rather see the lower class either get murdered one by one in the streets (because unless there’s millions of us at once, that’s what will happen). They haven’t thought very far ahead, and for some reason they think that if the government cracks down on us that it’ll cause the collapse of the US. I don’t think that’s true, and in fact, I think it would only give the feds a tighter grip and allow them to fight additional illegal wars.

It’s interesting to see them be happy that their supposed fellow leftists are losing their right to vote. Not just happy, in fact… they want left leaning voters to fear voting. Just like Trump and the GOP. Funny how that works.

Agreed, but I think most of the Americans here on the fediverse aren’t the ones that need to hear that.

My flight tomorrow should be interesting…

They just replied:

What gave you the idea that this was a full rewrite? I moved things around with AI and added postgres support for the queries. Nobody has ever reviewed and tested anything more thoroughly than I did with this branch.

You are twisting what it actually is. You are assuming something that is not true.

This makes me think that they didn’t review or test it at all, lmao

I don’t expect to retire.

Not by choice, if that wasn’t clear.

Yeah. Usually videos like this also make no mention of security implications and how to best secure your setup. It’s part of why shodan has so many vulnerable, public facing endpoints owned by individuals.

us-east, classic

It gives Assistant (to the) Regional Manager vibes

Probably caused by slop generators again I’m guessing

I would love to leave tech. Desperately. But I feel that I have no other real skills, and I have a mortgage that I need to pay and a house to maintain. I do have savings, but it would probably only last a year at best.

I would love to do something outdoors. Like, maybe for WA state’s park services. But I’ve heard that’s super competitive and next to impossible to get into without first volunteering for years.

I do like that Kagi has a fediverse search option.