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I hope there is more to the story than this because if not...wth...
@zackwhittaker@twitter.com:

SolarWinds, whose software was backdoored to allow hackers to breach U.S. government agencies, was warned last year that anyone could access its update server using the password "solarwinds123", per @Bing_Chris and @razhael.
Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it

French Film Company Somehow Trademarks 'Planet', Goes After Environmental NGOs For Using The Word - techdirt.com/articles/20201215 remember that Canal Plus doesn't care about saving this planet...

☘ American journal of botany
Lancaster, Pa.: Published in cooperation with the Botanical Society of America by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, 1914-
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4

What is Technology for Liberation?

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Palantir, for example, produces software for ICE agents to profile and arrest families of undocumented status, playing a direct role in taking migrant children away from their
parents and caging them in privately run detention facilities.75

Want to take a COVID test at home? You must install an app to get the results: "Ellume’s test requires users to download an app on their smartphone to learn their test result. That app automatically sends data by Zip code to the cloud"

washingtonpost.com/health/2020

Visa and Mastercard, acting together, are currently a chokepoint for online payments. This means their arbitrary policies often decide what you can read - or watch - online. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa

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It's because most vendors think of customers as children that must be protected from themselves by removing as much agency and control as possible. This also makes customers completely dependent on them.

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Have you noticed that a parent's default way to protect a child's security w/ tech (lock the device, tightly restrict what they can do, spy on everything) is exactly the same approach most vendors use to protect an adult customer's security?

Carbon dioxide emissions of Finland as a whole will go down by 7% and Sweden by 10% after a single steel company will introduce new technology.

Fantastic news.

teknologiateollisuus.fi/en/aja

Most #ChildSexualAbuse gangs made up of white men, Home Office report says | #HomeOffice | The Guardian

There was a wave of high profile #media coverage of #SouthAsian gangs who got caught and they very much gave the impression that they were the major group guilty of the #crime

theguardian.com/politics/2020/

#UK #ChildAbuse

@natecull this is not entirely unrelated to the way that the entire tech industry keeps right on trucking along (after pausing to swear at one another for a bit) every time we come across something like spectre/meltdown or notice that intel has chucked an entire extra operating system backdoor in all of their hardware, instead of going "ok actually, shit, hold on it might turn out that even vaguely trustable computers are completely impossible, what are we going to do about this"

@natecull

> and still nobody in the C-suites have figured out that there is no way for cloud compute nodes to ever be secure from sufficiently centralised prying eyes

i mean, look, i think everybody who's got sort of a basic grasp of what computers are and has thought about it for ~20 minutes is aware of this, which can't rule out the *entirety* of the executive class. a good chunk of them are perfectly aware of it. what's nearly universal is the tacit agreement to pretend it doesn't matter.

You guys know I like to bash Go, but... FUCK!

"The Go security team has determined that the root causes of the vulnerabilities cannot be reliably addressed."

Ok, your language design has some serious flaw that can't be fixed, so they are basically saying "Yup, a core library is going to be vulnerable for a long time".

Also, this is going since August 2020, according to the related post. Project Zero works way fast (30 days) to disclose issues on every other project, but on a project from their own company, 4 months.

Google surely cares about the well-being of the internet, sure.

Link: mattermost.com/blog/coordinate

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