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Ian Coldwater

@iancoldwater
33 posts
2024-08-03
This is textbook election fraud [image]
2024-08-03 View on X
CNBC

A look at Musk-backed America PAC's “Register to Vote” online campaign, which collects users' personal data in swing states, but does not help them register

https://www.cnbc.com/... (NYTimes had reported in July, “The group has taken pains to be secretive.  Joe Lonsdale...played a key role in the group, recruiting many of his friends —...

2024-03-30
This upstream supply chain security attack is the kind of nightmare scenario that has gotten people describing it called hysterical for years. It's real. Sleep well. backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise https://www.openwall.com/...
2024-03-30 View on X
Ars Technica

Researchers find malicious code in versions of the compression tool XZ Utils that were incorporated into Linux distributions from Red Hat, Debian, and others

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.  —  Researchers have found a malicious backdoor …

2024-01-14
I hate it here [image]
2024-01-14 View on X
The Verge

Amazon sells products with titles like “I'm sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings

Fun new game just dropped!  Go to the internet platform of your choice, type “goes against OpenAI use policy,” …

This is now patched due to a friend at AWS seeing this tweet and bringing it to the attention of the appropriate team, sorry to ruin the fun everyone XD
2024-01-14 View on X
The Verge

Amazon sells products with titles like “I'm sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings

Fun new game just dropped!  Go to the internet platform of your choice, type “goes against OpenAI use policy,” …

2024-01-13
This is now patched due to a friend at AWS seeing this tweet and bringing it to the attention of the appropriate team, sorry to ruin the fun everyone XD
2024-01-13 View on X
The Verge

Amazon sells products with titles like “I'm sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings

Fun new game just dropped!  Go to the internet platform of your choice, type “goes against OpenAI use policy,” …

I hate it here [image]
2024-01-13 View on X
The Verge

Amazon sells products with titles like “I'm sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings

Fun new game just dropped!  Go to the internet platform of your choice, type “goes against OpenAI use policy,” …

2023-11-30
@josephfcox Literally who would want this?
2023-11-30 View on X
404 Media

Plex users express alarm after getting a “Week in Review” email that showed what they and their friends watched, part of Plex's opt-out Discover Together tool

2023-11-18
damn, OpenAI really did take everybody's jobs
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

2023-07-21
This seems so mundane that I'm not sure why it warranted a news story. Dude needed to get his disclosure signed off on by company higher-ups, and one of them was OOO. And? Slow news day? https://techcrunch.com/...
2023-07-21 View on X
TechCrunch

A Google bug report says the company fixed a Chrome zero-day that an Apple employee found during a March 2023 hacking competition but did not report to Google

Someone else in the competition, who did not find the bug and wasn't even on the same team, reported it. … Twitter: @iancoldwater : This seems so mundane that I'm not sure why it w...

2023-04-11
“People shouldn't post anything private on the Internet anyway!” ok fellow infosec professional, but people *do* do this, and meeting people where they are & showing them why something is important generally works better than smugly feeling good about yourself & yelling at them https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-11 View on X
Techdirt

Matt Taibbi's account, including the Twitter Files, was shadowbanned for a while after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from finding his tweets in search

The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber.  —  Quick(ish) recap:

I made a Twitter Circle with one person in it and posted this tweet for science. This was the result. Two people I don't follow saw the tweet & liked it. One of those people doesn't follow me either. Twitter Circles aren't private. Don't post anything you want private in them. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-11 View on X
Techdirt

Matt Taibbi's account, including the Twitter Files, was shadowbanned for a while after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from finding his tweets in search

The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber.  —  Quick(ish) recap:

2023-02-27
Performatively sleeping at the office doesn't make the company love you back. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-27 View on X
The Verge

Reports: Twitter laid off “well above 50” staff over the weekend, including Director of Product Management Esther Crawford and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper

Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter's forthcoming payments platform.

2023-02-19
normally I'm on team “better than nothing,” but this is a great time to tell the non-security professionals in your life that SMS is the least secure form of 2FA. use an authenticator app or a physical hardware key instead, and don't give this clown money to make security worse! https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-19 View on X
The Verge

Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; all users can use an authenticator app or a physical security key

In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use a far …

2023-02-18
normally I'm on team “better than nothing,” but this is a great time to tell the non-security professionals in your life that SMS is the least secure form of 2FA. use an authenticator app or a physical hardware key instead, and don't give this clown money to make security worse! https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-18 View on X
The Verge

Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; non-Blue users can use an authenticator app or physical security key

In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use …

2022-11-19
This thread speaks truth. This site may be running right now, but when it goes, it's gonna go. That is not an if. That is a when. Make whatever backups you need. Exchange contact info. Make a plan. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-19 View on X
The Verge

Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum

Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick /...

This thread speaks truth. This site may be running right now, but when it goes, it's gonna go. That is not an if. That is a when. Make whatever backups you need. Exchange contact info. Make a plan. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-19 View on X
New York Times

Sources: some internal estimates show 1,200+ full-time Twitter employees resigned on November 17; Twitter previously laid off ~3,700 of 7,500 staff

Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter's underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.

2022-01-22
besides this generally being obnoxious, connecting your crypto wallet to your Twitter account seems like a spectacularly bad idea. What could go wrong? https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-22 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as hexagon-shaped profile pictures

Service will be available to some users of the company's Blue subscriber service  —  Twitter Inc. will start allowing some users to use nonfungible tokens as their profile pictures...

2022-01-21
besides this generally being obnoxious, connecting your crypto wallet to your Twitter account seems like a spectacularly bad idea. What could go wrong? https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Twitter will let iOS users of its Blue subscription service use NFTs as hexagon-shaped profile pictures

Service will be available to some users of the company's Blue subscriber service  —  Twitter Inc. will start allowing some users to use nonfungible tokens as their profile pictures...

2021-09-09
brb, putting Reuters calling me “container escape artist” on my resume https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-09 View on X
Reuters

Microsoft says it has fixed a flaw that could have let hackers access the data of some Azure customers; Palo Alto Networks reported the flaw in July

Microsoft (MSFT.O) warned some of its Azure cloud computing customers that a flaw discovered by security researchers could have allowed hackers access to their data. Source: Micros...

2021-07-31
it probably says something that my first response to reading the first part of this was “if I had a dollar for every time this happened at a con I'd have a whole lot of dollars, and if I had one for every time it happened at BH specifically I'd be able to afford dinner in Vegas” https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-31 View on X
Protocol

A look at the fallout from the Activision Blizzard suit, as the company confirms it fired WoW lead for misconduct last year and hires “union-busting” law firm