infosex.exchange <3

You are probably looking for the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance

This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.

Discoverability and Archiving

Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.

Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.

Gluttony Section for Search Engines

[RSS] Marriott agrees to pay $52 million settlement, improve data security practices

https://cyberscoop.com/marriott-starwood-breach-ftc-settlement-data-security/

Here's a story about a Hungarian guy who hacked Marriott ~15 years ago: https://www.securityweek.com/hungarian-man-pleads-guilty-hacking-marriott-systems-demanding-job-it-dept/ I know this guy learned some hard lessons, Marriott apparently didn't...
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[RSS] Russian cyber firm Dr.Web denies data leak by pro-Ukraine hackers

https://therecord.media/russian-antivirus-company-drweb-denies-data-leak
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Re: traffic lights hacking

We have a childrens book series, where the pets of the protagonist children often do reckless and outright dangerous magic, like changing traffic lights and being fascinated by all the hard breaks and horns. There is no explanation why such thing would be irresponsible and any "punishment" is very mild (and usually also self-imposed).

I think this book should not be read to/by children without a responsible adult explaining why the cute characters are actually dangerous psychopaths.

The writing is also objectively bad.

How can I responsibly get rid of these books (I don't want to destroy them)?

#Book #Bookstodon
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'I thought “surely it’s not THAT Rebecca Black.” And so I did some internet browsing and found out “yeah, it’s THAT Rebecca Black.”'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkcyXB08BBE

It's Friiidaay, Friiiidaaay \o/
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@Viss Same!
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@lcamtuf Rand Ridley got it: "he was removed from his position at Cognito Inc. [...] as a result of his attempt to permanently cure skin cancer by destroying the sun[sic]"

https://insidejob.fandom.com/wiki/Rand_Ridley
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SEC Consult SA-20241009-0 :: Local Privilege Escalation via MSI installer in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect (CVE-2024-9473)

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Oct/2
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"You're one of 31,081,179 people pwned in the Internet Archive data breach"

Somehow I didn't feel the same sense of pride with LinkedIn :)
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@joxean @tmr232 In this case this tool may be very useful for robust handling of Java types:

https://mypy-lang.org/
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@joxean Do you plan to develop using a public repository? I'd love to contribute this (except Q4 is happening :P)
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