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CLEAN IT UP JANNY !
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Hospitals are for, some reason, installing Facebook trackers in their web portals. Good job guys!
The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment. The data is connected to an IP address—an identifier that’s like a computer’s mailing address and can generally be linked to a specific individual or household—creating an intimate receipt of the appointment request for Facebook.
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My point is that security people need to get their priorities straight. The “threat model” section of a security paper resembles the script for a telenovela that was written by a paranoid schizophrenic: there are elaborate narratives and grand conspiracy theories, and there are heroes and villains with fantastic (yet oddly constrained) powers that necessitate a grinding battle of emotional and technical attrition. In the real world, threat models are much simpler (see Figure 1). Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from [email protected]. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them. In summary, https:// and two dollars will get you a bus ticket to nowhere. Also, SANTA CLAUS ISN’T REAL. When it rains, it pours.
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Poll closed! @Lascaille won, and the banner looks great with the css!
https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/76822/closed-offer-1500-dc-to-design
Poll will be open for 24 hours, what banner should we switch to, or should we keep the current one?
Here are the submissions:
Winning submission gets 1500 DC. If the original banner is kept, everyone who participated gets 100 DC.
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Tbh, good riddance and almost nothing of value has been lost.
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A new KeyTap3 exploit might explain how some websites are able to track and offer recommendations for an item you just searched for.
Programmer Georgi Gerganov doesn’t use any Bluetooth, WiFi, or RF-based methods to eavesdrop on your keyboards, but rather a normal microphone. That’s right, it essentially captures audio of you typing before using that information to generate a cluster map of clicks with similar sounds.
It then analyzes those clusters and utilizes statistical information about the frequency of the letter n-grams in the supposed language of the text.
The algorithm realizes that some of these letter combinations are used more frequently in certain languages, like English, and then begins guessing.
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It's time to say goodbye to Internet Explorer. As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that faded away as users found faster, less crash-prone alternatives. https://t.co/fovamIOeNM
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 15, 2022
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tl:dr I'm to r-slurred to understand this but you will probably be affected by this
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Not a super detailed post (I don’t think we’ll ever know what happened due to ISP secrecy) but it rounds up everything that happened.
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Offer closed, go vote here.
I think we can do better than the current banner image. A new banner should should stick with the theme of Slacker News and rdrama. Marseys not required, but encouraged. Banner dimensions should be 1558x190. Submissions will be taken up to 48 hours, then voted on. Winning submitter gets 1500 DC.
Oh, and please no bardfinn or 1488 shit.
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Would You Buy the World's First Laptop With an E-Paper Screen dramanauts?