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darrenpauli.bsky.social
Ex infosec hack ‘06-‘17 @ TheRegister, SCMagazine, ZDNet, ComputerWorld. Now I write about writing and help regular folk understand infosec.
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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@mattbevan.bsky.social are you even a popular podcaster if people aren't trying to Jan 6 your live show? I hope it has become the ABC's new line for having 'made it'.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Facebook scam reporting services going as strong as ever.

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I miss these stories. Could make cracking headlines with them. Real pwnie award candidate material. Wrote a lot of em sometime around 2010 though. Shocking vulns sometimes too. Guess AV did something to fix how they were built. therecord.media/eset-softwar...

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Another antivirus-is-effective-in-the-same-way-a-lightbulb-is-that-sets-everything-on-fire-as-long-as-you-only-measure the-lumens moment therecord.media/eset-softwar...

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Trump. Pelosi. Mandela. Presidents, war mongers, activists; HARDtalk held power to equal account over near three decades until the BBC axed it. Axed it for another interview show that I see goes easy on priests covering up abuse. SOFTtalk? Unbelievable. Treat yourself: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n...

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I find this hard to accept but has Facebook squashed scam ads? You can search terms here. www.facebook.com/ads/library/ Keywords like 'Irwin', 'Koshie', or 'newscomaustralia' would return loads of ads often leading to investment scams with AI news reels. Now, nothing. Am I missing something?

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@kenklippenstein.bsky.social you're gunna need to tell us how many new subs you got from the noaa this is hilarious and supremely well-played

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Champagne corks fly as WinRAR gets another paid user

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Google Gemini gets a memory, one of ChatGPT's more useful features (if you're into this sort of thing) to improve responses with all important context.

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This guy started buying VHS tapes instead of paying for a British TV licence and has uploaded about 200 threat letters he's received since 2006 for refusing to buy one. www.bbctvlicence.com Reminds me of the Pirate Bay's legal section.

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

Just say 'use a password manager'.

submitted 141 days ago • 2 comments

Billboard hacking is the 🐐

submitted 149 days ago • 1 comment

Fkn cat is meowing loudly up the stairs while I try to get my kid to sleep so I did this. All quiet now.

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Advertise your account with one image.

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Hello! In case no one told you, Harper Collins is demanding that their staff train AI with their authors' works without author consent. But guess what? They aren't the only publisher doing this. I know of at least two more!

submitted 471 days ago • 43 comments

phenomenal stuff

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There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph. November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.

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