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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘The revised indictment said that in late June of last year, shortly after the government demanded the surveillance footage as part of its inquiry, Mr. Trump called Mr. De Oliveira and they spoke for 24 minutes.

Two days later, the indictment said, Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira “went to the security guard booth where surveillance video is displayed on monitors, walked with a flashlight through the tunnel where the storage room was located, and observed and pointed out surveillance cameras.”

A few days after that, Mr. De Oliveira went to see Mr. Taveras, who is identified in the indictment as Trump Employee 4, and took him to a small room known as an “audio closet.” There, the indictment said, the two men had a conversation that was meant to “remain between the two of them.”

It was then that Mr. De Oliveira told Mr. Taveras that “‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted,” the indictment said, referring to the computer server holding the security footage.

Mr. Taveras objected and said he did not know how to delete the server and did not think he had the right to do so, the indictment said. At that point, the indictment said, Mr. De Oliveira insisted again that “the boss” wanted the server deleted, asking, “What are we going to do?”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/trump-documents-carlos-de-oliveira-charged.html

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the Justices should abide by the same ethical codes as others https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/supreme-court-justices-book-deals.html

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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

This practice of inflating reports with trivialities is harmful:

- Clients drown in low-quality reports bloated with trivial "findings".
- Auditors (like me) feel pressured to mimic this trend. If not, our succinct reports may be misconstrued as less thorough.

Ironically, only the auditing firms engaging in this practice benefit, bragging about "100,000+ disclosed issues", without revealing the percentage of those were typos.

Enough with the noise, can we focus on quality over quantity?

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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

The alarm bells ring when audit firms boast about the unverifiable billions they've "saved". It feeds into a hype cycle where exaggerated claims like "100B USD+ in safeguarded token value" become the norm.

Audit report "findings" are another area of concern. Common "issues" include:

- Writing 10000000000 instead of 1e10? That's an issue!
- Spot a typo in your codebase or tests? Each one's an issue.
- Used redundant parentheses? That's a finding, too.

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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

After 7 years of cryptography and security audits, I've weathered my fair share of criticism, particularly on severity assignments and perceived superfluous issues in some of my reports. But let's talk about the state of smart contract audit reports, where this sort of problem appears to exist on a completely higher dimension. Small thread: 1/3

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Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:

July 2023 is the hottest month of July on record globally. In fact, it's so hot that the reports are coming in before the end of the month: no chance that the last few days can change the picture.

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jecfish@indieweb.social ("Jecelyn Yeen 🐟") wrote:

Devs: How can I debug beyond console.log()?
Me: Asked and you get it. New #DevToolsTips video just drop - explaining breakpoints, logpoints and more!

https://youtu.be/JyHjoaUhAus

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fringemagnet@mstdn.social ("Annie Hsh :coffefied: :ww:👾🖖") wrote:

Seen one of these posted without credit, so sharing some more here because they are amazing and I'd buy every single one of them if they existed.

Made by New Zealand model maker and 3D artist Natalie Stevens (natalie.3dblah). More of her work here:
https://www.instagram.com/natalie.3dblah/

#Barbie #film #movies #3D #3Dart #StarTrek #Aliens #Dune #BattleStarGalactica

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ExtentOfTheJam ("Louis") wrote:

A fun rhythmic glitch while working on keeping the curves away from the front of the screen. It would’ve been even better if the zmap got corrupted. #indiedev #msdos #retrocoding

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

lmao there's another vignette where Carl decides to try acid. I can't speak to personal experience there but I would kind of respect it if these characters were deliberately traumamaxxing by doing hallucinogens in the middle of terrifying-hallucinations-while-sober-ville

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

A less obvious weed-related break with psychological realism that this game does is that the stoner character lives in his childhood home, which he (correctly) believes is haunted. Being high all the time in a genuinely haunted house would be fucking miserable

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

oh man I just started a side-story in the Echo VN where Chase tries a magic blueberry muffin and it's given the most overblown reefer madness kind of treatment. This is way funnier than they probably intended

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

you are really not supposed to tamper with evidence, Citizen Trump.

‘The revised indictment also added three serious charges against Mr. Trump — attempting to “alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence”; inducing someone else to do so; and a new count, the 32nd, under the Espionage Act stemming from a classified national security document he showed to visitors at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/trump-documents-carlos-de-oliveira-charged.html

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the chances of accidental expansion of this war just went up

https://www.dw.com/en/romania-war-edges-closer-to-natos-border/a-66360520

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

More info:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/new-merchandise/

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Going to share a few more up-close shots of the new Mastodon merch! I'm happy that we got to incorporate some Mastodon history in the designs. Mind you there's only going to be 250 of each at launch!

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I know we love talking about #mastodon here on the #fediverse so I won't bother keep it brief when I say: this place really has stepped up and been good for me! Not perfect, etc, etc, but a nice space

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Deglassco ("D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

In 1942, the Pittsburgh Courier, a prominent Black newspaper, responded to a thought-provoking letter from 26-year-old Black soldier James G. Thompson. In his letter, Thompson questioned whether he should risk his life for a country that treated him as a 2nd-class citizen, stating, "Should I sacrifice my life to live half American?" In response to this poignant question, the Courier initiated the Double V Campaign.

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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #Military

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've seen Oppenheimer in #70mm IMAX, and I'm disappointed.

The picture may have been super sharp, but that didn't really add anything to the experience. OTOH the projection had noticeably poor black level, and a standard dynamic range — like an average LCD TV.
Good OLED TVs can do better IMHO.

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mlncn@social.coop ("benjamin melançon") wrote:

i totally missed this news from neighboring Golden Valley, #Minnesota — the racist police abolishing themselves.

https://portside.org/2023-07-05/half-police-force-quit-crime-dropped

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

waiting for an online mtg to begin, chaired by someone named Godot I think

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hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

Table I painted

#art #painting #artwork

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bastianallgeier ("Bastian Allgeier") wrote:

The new X button doesn't close the website: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/1876

🤣🤣🤣

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tchambers@indieweb.social ("Tim Chambers") wrote:

Members of US Congress on the Fediverse:

https://firstbranchforecast.com/2022/11/30/members-of-congress-on-mastodon/

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openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

It seems the Home Office is annoyed it hasn't been able to stop tech companies improving people's privacy. They want to make it even easier to issue IPA notices. These notices can stop companies deploying security enhancing measures. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66256081 #privacy #encryption #RIPA

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Mer__edith@mastodon.world ("Meredith Whittaker") wrote:

Open letter from UK-affiliated cybersecurity academics laying out why the Online Safety Bill's spy clause is dangerous and unworkable:

https://haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenletter.pdf

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dustinvolz@journa.host ("Dustin Volz") wrote:

New: Microsoft is facing mounting scrutiny over its security practices related to the recent China-linked email hack. Sen. Ron Wyden is asking for three separate federal probes as some researchers say breach could be worse than initially feared.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-faces-mounting-scrutiny-over-china-linked-email-hack-7a028523

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“While the researchers frame their discovery as a backdoor, the organization responsible for maintaining the standard pushes back against that specific term, and says the standard was designed for export controls which determine the strength of encryption. The end result, however, are radios with traffic that can be decrypted using consumer hardware like an ordinary laptop in under a minute.”

why do we have to keep making
the same damned mistake
and think closed-source crypto
is reasonable???

FFS ppl, make *new* mistakes

https://infosec.exchange/@nono2357/110771069480539404

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nono2357@infosec.exchange ("Renaud Lifchitz :verified:") wrote:

Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3n3j/backdoor-in-police-radios-tetra-burst

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

jeff@honeytree.social ("Jeff Brown") wrote:

Social age verification requirements in the US are going to become a problem in the #fediverse, particularly for larger instances.

It is the mainreason we shut down new signups on Newsie last month.

Now the team at https://HoneytreeTech.com is starting work on a module that uses https://stripe.com/identity to handle age and ID verifications.

The challenge is it's not free ($1.50 per validation).

So maybe this is the start of a super-premium instance offering.

Maybe not a bad thing.

#mastoadmin