If one password got you the records for 120000 users, the password is not your problem.

Pretty textbook on how not to do crisis communication for this type of attack. So here’s a little thread on what to do instead. 🧵 If you don’t know, I’m Hadyn Green, Principal Communications advisor at @first.org and my job is to go around the world teaching people how to do to cybersecurity comms

A request for #rstats help. Motivated by a real-world problem I'm facing, I wrote a package designed to help new users wean themselves off using rm(list=ls()), and nudge them in the direction of better practice. I would sincerely appreciate feedback before I send it to CRAN

Incredible stuff

hate it when my elite pedophilia related government cover up gets in the way of my domestic ethnic cleansing and starvation campaigns while I’m trying to invade other countries

sure sure you can have hegemony by trade, ideology and cultural influence, but does that make your dick hard?

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Lol

Grant Louis of Manhattan, welcome to The War on Cars.

Part of the issue is that data is inherently viewed as an asset rather than nuclear waste Ideally, companies would view data as something they only want the bare minimum of in order to function before discarding it as soon as they can Knowing my birthday to send me an email is unnecessary

It's behind a paywall (I paid $8 for one month access) and this is quite a good article The reporters tried to visit ManageMyHealth's Auckland office for comment and got a brief comment from "Kazu" www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

Code freeze is coming.

But GRRM, why was the world of Westeros stuck in the same high medieval era for hundreds of year??

I tried!

Yeah, I think there some kind of contortion where they draw a face on the machine and now the machine - rather than its maker or its users - are responsible, and yet - FLIP - machines can't be morally judged, they just need retraining/guardrails.

MMH update with comment from me. Key points: * this type of crew goes after low hanging fruits - which means this vulnerable is going to be something basic, well-known, and preventable www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

My reckon is that they pre-wrote all of these op-eds before Christmas, but nobody counted on the scenario being "Maduro renditioned, nothing else changed". Because, you know, that would be stupid.

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

Ah. Apparently, you *would* both-sides fascism, but you *wouldn't* both-sides an illegal invasion.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Generals (Presidents) are always fighting the last war [that they can remember, which, due to cognitive decline, is Bush Sr's Gulf War]

Statement on Trump’s military actions in Venezuela.

For those whose sudden expertise on Korean politics has waned: the opposition party has vowed to impeach Yoon EVERY SATURDAY until they basically shame him into resigning or his own party is shamed into voting against him. He's looking at a charge of treason or insurrection.

He cares nothing about consent, laws, collaboration, or unity. He covets power and indulges in violence. The act of “grabbing by the pussy” is not sexual it is violence. A person who perpetuates violence over another is capable of doing it to anyone. Dangerous sociopath.

Take it with a pinch of salt, obviously, but always interesting to consider the business practices (brand management!) of criminal enterprises.

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

Incidentally, look how close we have come in one year to Sonia Sotomayor’s hypotheticals in the Trump Immunity dissent all happening Not quite exactly, but not too far off, and she nailed the bribes prediction scholar.google.com/scholar_case...

"even if doing so strains the anti-interventionist identity once central to his political brand." He was never an "anti-interventionist" and people writing things like this are at great risk of being scammed by the wallet inspector.

that is what Bush said about Iraq - $7 trillion mistake

I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵

Here’s a thread on how easy it is to attack oil infrastructure. I’ve spent a lot of time traveling in Colombia since 2001 & had the opportunity to document insurgent attacks on Colombian oil targets. They blew so many holes into the pipeline that locals call it a flute. See my photos in this thread:

ask afghanistan how it worked out

Just gonna go down a little podcast hole on the invasion of Panama today

24 hours ago, journalists were wondering aloud what "deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" could possibly mean

This is a work of art

Oh boy.

They’ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago makeshift “situation room.” Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

RNZ's subtle watering down of the latest MMH release is fascinating "one module [...] within the app was compromised" became "just one part of the app [...] had been accessed" "We know that 6-7% of [...] users have been affected" became "It believed 6 and 7 percent [...] may have been impacted."

Saw this in the Herald twice this week; Liam Dann reporting its answer as worthy of note re whether an AI bubble will burst and Shayne Currie 'interviewing' it about the role of AI in media in the year ahead. It's really bizarre.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

managemyhealth.co.nz/mmh-cyber-br... > The investigation has identified that one module, Health Documents, within the app was compromised, not the whole app. > [...] we will start informing people directly from early next week.

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

The corporate media continues to minimize elite complicity in this administration’s cruel policies. This is not a nameless Ninja Turtle. This is Michaelangelo. Name and shame these guys!