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[Phlyra]

Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population

A hacker has breached the Argentinian government\'s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country\'s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles.

therecord.media

How a simple Linux kernel memory corruption bug can lead to complete system compromise

An analysis of current and potential kernel security mitigations Posted by Jann Horn, Project Zero Introduction This blog post de...

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[Phlyra]

Supply Chain Attack: NPM Library Used By Facebook And Others Was Compromised

Here at Hackaday we love the good kinds of hacks, but now and then we need to bring up a less good kind. Today it was learned that the NPM package ua-parser-js was compromised, and any software usi…

hackaday.com

 

[Null]

but it doesn’t change the fact there are so many similarities between 1920 - 30’s Germany and the last decade under the Tories

We're just lucky that the tory party isn't semi-competent/efficient like the NSDAP was, otherwise we'd be in much worse trouble.

 

[levi]

I just found this. Think I'll get that with my next order, and build a small box myself.

Nice. It's a little weird that those game buttons appear to be more or less completely flat; normal traditional game buttons have either a convex or concave top (I think US manufacturers mainly use the former, and JP makers use the latter). And I can't see whether that joystick is 4-way or 8-way, or even (god forbid) anaglogue. I can't even see the microswitches in that shot.

 

[FBnil]

Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population

A hacker has breached the Argentinian government\'s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country\'s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles.

therecord.media

Imagine this is the future, and your blood/DNA, reticular/eye information and this other person is able to fake these too (planted synthetic blood through crispr process). Can't say your innocent now, when another impersonates you.
Unfortunately, the tendency now is to join all the databases. Once that happens, hackers could have really everything that is to know about you.

 

[pyrat]

Imagine this is the future, and your blood/DNA, reticular/eye information and this other person is able to fake these too (planted synthetic blood through crispr process). Can't say your innocent now, when another impersonates you.
Unfortunately, the tendency now is to join all the databases. Once that happens, hackers could have really everything that is to know about you.

You mean now people have to buy the data from different suppliers, which at least is more inconvenient for them, right ?

 

[Phlyra]

You mean now people have to buy the data from different suppliers, which at least is more inconvenient for them, right ?

Not really; it tends to get sold through data brokers - yeah, ok, that’s plural but a *lot* of purchasers will just go to one. Sure others will go to several for different datasets to de-anonymise disaggregated/pseudonymised data but still, there will be a lot of buyers willing to go to just one broker.

 

[Null]

Peony's shower thoughts: Masturbation is a homosexual act because it involves giving pleasure to/receiving pleasure from someone who is the same gender as you.

 

[levi]

Imagine this is the future, and your blood/DNA, reticular/eye information and this other person is able to fake these too (planted synthetic blood through crispr process). Can't say your innocent now, when another impersonates you.

It's much harder to change you blood type than your DNA, although if you change enough of your DNA your blood group will change sympathetically, and probably be a tremendous strain on your body, which may well kill you. If you can figure out a way to change most of your DNA without affecting your blood type then it might be possible to change enough DNA for the sections that are typically matched by police investigators to match. But the blood groups still wouldn't match, so if police relied on more old fashioned techniques and actually checked blood types they wouldn't match.

 

[pyrat]

It's much harder to change you blood type than your DNA, although if you change enough of your DNA your blood group will change sympathetically, and probably be a tremendous strain on your body, which may well kill you. If you can figure out a way to change most of your DNA without affecting your blood type then it might be possible to change enough DNA for the sections that are typically matched by police investigators to match. But the blood groups still wouldn't match, so if police relied on more old fashioned techniques and actually checked blood types they wouldn't match.

But the entropy of DNA is lots higher than blood group. There're only a handful of blood groups. The person who wants to impersonate someone else, just has to find a victim with the same blood group. Not that hard.

 

[FBnil]

But the entropy of DNA is lots higher than blood group. There're only a handful of blood groups. The person who wants to impersonate someone else, just has to find a victim with the same blood group. Not that hard.

But the blood also has DNA. And if we still get DNA from dino's and mammoths (and secret labs trying to revive them)... you can also get something useful from blood that's a few hours old.

If you have missed the slashdot, here's a gizmodo:

How to change your blood type without even trying

Blood types were once thought to be with people for life. And, in almost every case, they're still thought to be with a person for life. But there is one

gizmodo.com

 

[ElPoco]

We're just lucky that the tory party isn't semi-competent/efficient like the NSDAP was, otherwise we'd be in much worse trouble.

The efficiency and competency/efficiency of the nazis is a myth. The nazi party was all about the leader. Everyone else had to compete with each other to be in the leader's good grace so that they could get their ideas approved. It was a highly corrupt bureaucratic mess, important decisions couldn't be taken because you had to wait for the leader to take them and anything could change from one day to another because he just decided it.

 

[Null]

It was a highly corrupt bureaucratic mess

Sounds just like the tory party.

The Bumper UK Conservative Government Corruption Thread

All the reports of UK government corruption in one place!

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‘A corruption of Conservatism’: how a cartel of Tory MPs broke British politics

In an extract from his book, Peter Geoghegan shows how the European Research Group became a tightly organised ‘party within a party’ that set the UK on course for a no-deal Brexit.

www.opendemocracy.net

 

[Phlyra]

Your ISP Might Be Collecting Much More Data Than You Think

A new report by the Federal Trade Commission is revealing some scary practices by internet service providers.

interestingengineering.com

 

[Phlyra]

Linux 5.16 Will Be A Great Christmas Gift For Open-Source Fans With Many New Features - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

 

[Phlyra]

Check out slashdot submission 14846055 - and the link provided at the end of the post

 

[Null]

 

[Phlyra]

A New Tree-Based Material Gives Solid State Batteries a Safety Boost

Trees make everything better. Even EV batteries.

interestingengineering.com

 

[Null]

Amazon copied products and rigged search results, documents show

A trove of Amazon documents reveals how the company ran a campaign in India of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own products.

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[levi]

Product release cycles are killing the environment, techies tell British Computer Society

Running Linux on a vintage box is one answer, but someone has to hold big tech's feet to fire

www.theregister.com