How to Surrender to a Drone
December 19 2022The Ukrainian army has released an instructional video explaining how Russian soldiers should surrender to a drone:
“Seeing the drone in the field of view, make eye contact with...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Concert
December 17 2022Squid is performing a concert in London in February. If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this. As usual, you can also use this...
Read moreApple Patches iPhone Zero-Day
December 16 2022The most recent iPhone update—to version 16.1.2—patches a zero-day vulnerability that “may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.1.”
News:
Apple said security researchers...
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A Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
December 15 2022Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet:
With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed command—like its controllers did one day while Akamai was...
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Reimagining Democracy
December 15 2022Last week, I hosted a two-day workshop on reimagining democracy.
The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects...
Read moreHacking Boston’s CharlieCard
December 14 2022Interesting discussion of vulnerabilities and exploits against Boston’s CharlieCard.
Read moreObligatory ChatGPT Post
December 13 2022Seems like absolutely everyone everywhere is playing with Chat GPT.
So I did, too….
Write an essay in the style of Bruce...
Read moreApple Is Finally Encrypting iCloud Backups
December 12 2022After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups:
Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data Protection: device...
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