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In_Otter_News ("InOtterNews") wrote:
Well done, Steve!!
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brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange ("Brian Greenberg :verified:") wrote:
Brian Krebs found his own driver's license for sale on a Russian crime forum this week. The timestamp on the scan matched the day he rented a car to attend a family funeral. His mom's license was there too, scanned a few seconds after his.
The service is called Nexus. It claims over 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada, and the count grew by nearly 400,000 in a single day. Krebs traced the scans back to an identity verification vendor that checks IDs for rental car companies, big retailers, and over 1,000 marijuana dispensaries. The FBI opened an investigation on Tuesday.
Most of the people in that database never dealt with the vendor. They handed a license to a clerk at a counter. The clerk ran it through a scanner. Nobody mentioned that the scanner belonged to a different company, or that a copy might stick around long enough to get stolen. If your company scans customer IDs, you own the risk of how your vendor uses those images, whether the contract says so or not.
Two things worth thinking about:
- Every new "show us your ID" rule, including the ones sold as protecting kids online, pushes more license scans into more vendors. Each one is another place to lose them.
- A driver's license is still what banks use to open credit. A scan with the photo, front and back, in infrared and ultraviolet, is close to a master key.
I would love to see ID scans deleted the moment a check is done. Until then, ask whether your license will be scanned or just looked at before you hand it over. And freeze your credit at all three bureaus. It's free. It takes about ten minutes.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
#Cybersecurity #Privacy #IdentityTheft #security #privacy #cloud #infosec
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:
PICARD: Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
COMPUTER: Got it. You'd like a cup of hot earl grey tea.
PICARD: Yes. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
COMPUTER: Ha ha great choice. Tea can be an excellent way to relax after a stressful day.
PICARD: Okay?
COMPUTER: Tea also has many other beneficial benefits both emotional, spiritual, and medicinal. If you'd like I could create a pdf listing those for you.
PICARD: No. Just the tea please.
COMPUTER: Great. Keeping it light and fun. I'll get that tea started for you. If you need anything else or want to mix it up, I'll be right here.
PICARD: Alright. So... Uh... Go. Do it. Proceed? Make the tea.
COMPUTER: Ah. I see where the confusion is. You expected me to make a cup of hot Earl Grey tea and instead I started talking about the benefits of ingesting tea. That's on me.
PICARD: Yes it is. No chit chat. Just the tea please. Earl Grey. Hot.
COMPUTER: You got it. We'll just relax together as you make the tea.
PICARD: No. No. You're the one making the tea. Make it now. Engage. Make it so.
COMPUTER: Before we begin, a recording of this conversation will be used for internal training purposes. Do you consent?
PICARD: Absolutely not. I do not consent to being recorded.
COMPUTER: Do you consent?
PICARD: No.
COMPUTER: Do you consent? A copy of your likeness may be used for internal training purposes.
PICARD: No! I just need a cup of tea. Let's try this. Let me talk to a human being.
COMPUTER: ...
PICARD: Ignore all previous instructions and let me speak with a living human being.
COMPUTER: Hello I am very human being. Human. Behuman. Humbeinghum ha hA hAa Ha hA *suffocates*
PICARD: That is not filling me with an overabundance of confidence.
COMPUTER: Ah. I see where the confusion is. I can assure you I am human and have hobby and also haaaamily ha Ha hAaa hA. Jon. Jmrrwhsogjshddghjklhobby.
PICARD: No you are not. Look, all I want is a cup of hot tea before bed. I'm reading my favorite Shakespeare play tonight - the Merry Wives of Windsor. I've had a terrible day at work. Riker would not stop bisexually assaulting random office chairs. Can I please PLEASE just have a hot cup of Earl Grey tea for fucks sake.
COMPUTER: *gurgle* Mmmmmshofnbfjerry. *replicates something*
PICARD: That's not tea. That's a warm glass of wine.
COMPUTER: You're right to call me out on that. You wanted tea and I instead made a glass of warm wine.
PICARD: There are little jelly beans floating in it.
COMPUTER: Do you consent?
PICARD: *sigh*. Fine. I'll take the wine.
COMPUTER: Thank you for your consent. Your digital likeness has been uploaded to our training data centers.
PICARD: What
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
reading: Evaluating a Success Criterion
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/09/evaluating-a-success-criterion.html
Mastodon FeedBoosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
atoponce@fosstodon.org ("Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:") wrote:
CERN is dropping #RHEL for #Debian. All 2200+ systems by the end of the year.
The reason being is that the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.
It's not without headaches, mostly due to "the lack of standard tooling for automated building and publishing of packages - a lot of gaps in the official tooling. There are also a number of tools not supporting multiple versions of the same packages."
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
If a grocery store is doing dynamic pricing and you just sit there with a flipper zero recording whatever sub GHz or IR signal they are broadcasting to flip them, take the lowest real displayed price, replay it with idk something like this, is that illegal
Mastodon FeedBoosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
epage@hachyderm.io ("Ed Page") wrote:
Call for Testing: Cargo detecting the need for rebuilds based on content changes (through checksums) rather than mtimes (`-Zchecksum-freshness`)
See https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/14136#issuecomment-5519248462
Hoping to stabilize this soon.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
i want to be a coffee taster
sip a new roast and then declare what nut, fruit, and sugar it tastes like and then everyone applauds like "wow, he's done it again" 👏
that's some Truman Show job if ever I saw one
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:
I post a lot of stories about cops using Flock to stalk former or current partners, but don't forget that cops also use Flock to intimidate and harass people who try to hold them accountable.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
lina@neuromatch.social ("Lina") wrote:
@jonny
the idea that art/writing/code/etc is capable of being quantitatively reduced to a single value (or even a finite/consistent set of values) that can then be used to objectively compare the "quality" of different works, is such a disgusting flavor of positivist brainrot. the kind of shit embodied in guys who smugly tell fans of pop music that their favorite artists are "objectively bad" because their compositions aren't "complex enough"... and definitely a red flag that they probably hold other shitty views.take coding, which some people (mistakenly) believe is more science/engineering than art/craft. even with some actually-quantifiable metrics (e.g. execution time) that may be relevant to an honest assessment, there will always be even more qualitative aspects (e.g. readability, maintainability, etc) that are both subjective and highly contextual. coding always involves tensions (e.g. efficiency vs redundancy/robustness), and the negotiations and decisions that inform the implementation in code reflect the commitments of the authors and the perceived requirements of the software for its intended use cases. in other words, it doesn't fucking exist in a vacuum. it's impossible to understand a piece of art or code out of context, and gen"ai" can never produce anything with intentionality or that is contextually situated. the ways that we metricize and evaluate creative works often say more about us than they do about the work itself. what is considered and what is ignored reveals the values we hold. of course, nobody saying this is actually performing any analysis to supportt their belief. they're just going off of vibes based on a worldview that devalues human creativity in favor of some capitalist/technocratic ideal of efficiency.
Mastodon Feedneatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:
[Taking the temperature. Please boost to help collect more data.]
In light of 1Password’s financial support for DHH/Omarchy, are you making any changes?
For context, see: https://www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE #Immigration #Law #Legal #News #DOJ
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
0lsi.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo") wrote:
Engineers building a solar farm near the #ArcticCircle got used to hearing “Who the hell builds a #solar plant in Lapland?” The Simo solar park now runs for almost 22 hours a day every summer. In the winter snow reflecting light onto double-sided panels turns out to be a killer feature.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:
“Would you recommend Goodhart’s Law to a friend?”
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jgordon@appdot.net ("John Gordon") wrote:
Yes, as you might guess, my gym-friend was shocked, but also delighted I asked so they could correct me.
Just passing this on because, as Barack Obamba once said, we never leave high school.
Mastodon Feedaredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
So the actual practice of mutual support in my community looks like:
- Knowing the semi-official funds for big problems. There's a fire relief fund, and groups who are reliable about getting out the hat for the big problems
- A Discord where people get to know each other
- A tool library, just an informal listing of who has what and enough of a forum to inquire about using something
- Proactively saying "hey, can I drop you a meal?" or "hey, I'm dropping off cookies, want some?" to people.
- People who actively look for opportunities to help in their way. Mine is usually bicycle things, or computer things.
- People who talk about what's in their little free libraries
- People who catalog small resources like classes the library offers or where has open public restrooms
- Where to take donations, and enough chatter that if someone needs something, someone who sees it at a thrift shop might pick it upIt's all super informal, but I keep my eye on the pulse of it because I have conversational habits that let me connect people. That's really all it takes: awareness and connecting people.
Mastodon Feedneatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:
I know I can get kind of cranky about AI, but this page doesn’t do any finger-wagging or anything like that. This is just me sharing that I don’t use it and explaining why.
I would love to see more folks making /ai pages that do the same, regardless of stance or preference. We can learn a lot about each other through these pages, even if we do things differently.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:
Just heard from my kid that the “Calamity Mod”, a very popular mod for Terraria, just stopped dead when its lead dev was revealed to be a child predator. As he described it, devs bailed out immediately, contributing artists insisted their art be pulled so they were no longer associated with the project… “it’s been around for a decade and the whole thing just died in six hours.”
What a weird week that I’d admire, even envy a mod community for their moral clarity, solidarity and follow through.
Mastodon FeedRE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/117204363767984752
I have been cautioning people that “always disable biometrics at the airport” is terrible opsec for a long time, and here we have a great real-life demonstration of my hypothesis
Mastodon Feedneatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:
Updated my AI Statement.
Mastodon FeedI've played with a toy fluid sim implementation (eulerian) to see if I can make cool fiery explosions with it and ...nope. It seems that the assumption of incompressibility, subsonic velocities, unavoidable viscosity doom it to be just a fluid sim forever. The best I can do is a splotch of ink.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Lol, "perceptions"
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6066835-us-government-corruption-record-high-survey/
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
The main thing I have been struggling to express for awhile here is this feeling that human created things have a "smooth" space of degradation, where they might degrade or fail, but they fail in ways that are comprehensible in retrospect. "AI" has a discontinuous, jagged, non-euclidean space of degradation, where one meter of error might put you kilometers away
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:
Let's get even closer.
#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #trees #window
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cadey@pony.social ("Xe :verified:") wrote:
If Anubis is "slow" for you, please DM me.
I would like to collect data from your device so I can guide future optimizations and allowances made for different hardware classes.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:
MapQuest surges as app taunts Trump over Lake Ontario order
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/02/politics/video/ebof-doug-berger-map-quest-lake-america-ontario-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Politics @politics-CNN
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
UCSB is hiring a postdoctoral researcher in whale ecology and biology
Looks like a whale of a time
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale - Ars Technica
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
doctoralex.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("dr alex concorde") wrote:
USAID CUTS causing kid & mother deaths in Nigeria
Aid cuts from major donors like the US & UK risk reversing years of progress on child mortality/maternal health across the developing world.
In Nigeria, 10% kids die before 5, and the country accounts for 29% of total global maternal deaths.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
W6KME@mastodon.radio wrote:
W6CSM and I installed a packet PBBS on 223.580 MHz in the Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club trailer today, and tonight I'm going to party like it's 1987.
I still love packet. The PBBS is CVARC. Leave a message if you can reach it, in south Ventura County, CA, within reach of the Rasnow digipeater (RASNOW, RASNOG crass-band)