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I don't understand why they are just starting with the assumption that all of the bot traffic would just go straight out to the internet from their ASNs

If it were a professional operation, the first thing you would do would be to not give away the source of where the traffic is coming from and route the traffic through an intermediary.

This is just a general American complaint that has merit on its own, but has nothing to do with the article and is just derailing any discussion about the article itself and driving the conversation to your own personal concerns about something completely separate.

In this case, the EU does have consequences for data breaches where proper protocols are not followed.

Additionally, this is not private information .. most anyone can look this information up. ID numbers are not confidential information like SSNs are treated in the US.. they are just a number to tell person A from person B. You give this number to everyone without thinking about it because it's how every company you interact with identifies you.

In this case a rogue company, or compromised company, used their access to contact the central database to download everyone's information.

In my country we essentially use the same system, except for we still allow companies to download the whole database if they want to instead of making individual queries.

In this case the access to their system was unauthorized, and under GDPR data breaches have to be reported within 72 hours. Companies can't make the decision on their own that it's not a big deal.

Interesting and good to be aware of

When on a random CLI though my personal preference though is still to use telnet as the commands are easily memorized and there’s something more natural about typing the email out and then sending it.

AI / LLMs are not intelligence .. they are just a prediction engine that has been branded as 'intelligence' by marketing employees

At the end of the day it is still making a best guess at what the user wants based on data it has seen before.

It still requires someone smarter than the output to be able to evaluate if the result is any good, or just hand waving.

Set up a GitHub action to auto-close any pull requests from anyone not on an approved list.

Leave a message in the pull request that if they want to argue their case for a pull request they can send a message through a communication channel of your choice, and say that anyone sending a message with AI generated text, even to help with language and grammar will be banned.

You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body

I stopped using samsung because of the uninstallable facebook apps.

I don't get why if i'm paying multiple thousands of dollars for a phone that they still bundle what I consider spyware and give the user no option to uninstall it.

On my last Samsung I went into the settings and disabled all of the apps that I couldn't uninstall .. and when I checked the settings like 6-8 months later, those apps were still disabled, but in the meantime they had installed a few more facebook authored background apps without my permission.

I will not be going back until they stop this.

As long as you never have to interact with them. If you run into issues they have caused themselves, you'll find yourself dealing with a unique mix of arrogance and incompetence.

I think people are too focused on the device part of it.

Whatever Apple did to block access to the cache does not negate the fact that these notification messages are still being sent in plaintext through Apple and Google’s servers.

It’s hard to imagine that Apple/Google couldn’t just be compelled to hand this information over if ordered by a court and wouldn’t need your phone at all.

And this loophole possibly only hinges on the fact that most law enforcement maybe never realized this was something they could ask for.

Or perhaps this is happening and the public just doesn’t know it yet.

This doesn’t affect existing users.

This is a simple supply and demand curve.

Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before computers

Could also be non-native speakers .. Even as a former grammar nazi, now that English isn't my daily driver language I find myself making basic mistakes .. (two, too, to / its, it's / etc.)

I was always more partial to Compute magazine

If this gets swept under the rug, it doesn't seem like they are going to do anything about it, and it will mean that only the bad people are going to be able to find this stuff.. who knows for how long.

Trump support is currently at 37% and only 69% of people think this is valuable.

A 6% overlap is hardly unifying.

The few Trump supporters I know think the whole thing is fake.