Getting Stories from the Command Line.
Using command line tools whois and grep, the Financial Times found out who registered the website and retrieved a phone number.
I appreciate the article’s idea/lism on teaching journalists some computer tricks for their research. However, either its inception was way before the GDPR came into effect or it just outright wants to fool people tools like whois can still (i.e. under GDPR) be used reliably as an investigative tool. I stopped showing to the journalist students how whois works already last year as it became utterly useless for retrieving more helpful information of a website.
Talk about unintended consequences: GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data.
Over the space of two months Pavur sent out 150 GDPR requests in his fiancée's name, asking for all and any data on her. In all, 72 per cent of companies replied back, and 83 companies said that they had information on her.
Relevant: Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability.
There’s no such thing as a 140-character exegesis: the (non)-discourse around “Joker” is the latest to prove that social media is designed for emotion, not dialogue.
Telefonüberwachung wird in 5G-Netzen zum Problem.
Ausgerechnet das vordem nahezu triviale Mitschneiden von Telefonaten wird in 5G-Netzen ein Problem, das beim Roaming schlagend wird. Grund dafür ist ein vereinfachtes Roaming-Verfahren, das von den Telekoms bereits in den LTE-Netzen eingesetzt wird.
The ones who brought you Machinarium bring you…
Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
On social media, we are at the mercy of the platform. It crops our images the way it wants to. It puts our posts in the same, uniform grids. We are yet another profile contained in a platform with a million others, pushed around by the changing tides of a company's whims. Algorithms determine where our posts show up in people’s feeds and in what order, how someone swipes through our photos, where we can and can’t post a link. The company decides whether we're in violation of privacy laws for sharing content we created ourselves. It can ban or shut us down without notice or explanation. On social media, we are not in control.
Relevant: personalsit.es.
»Wir haben uns schon an viel zu viel gewöhnt!«
Da hätten die 68er auch ausfallen können, wenn danach nur Retropolitik folgt: Das Berliner Stadtschloss wird wiederaufgebaut, die Frau am Herd prämiert und als nächstes das Abtreibungsverbot wiedereingeführt. Es scheint, als hätten wir den Zenit des Fortschritts überschritten. Wo war sie denn eigentlich, die wirklich wichtige Debatte, warum wir Menschen im Meer ertrinken lassen? Wo hat sie sich versteckt? Von sich aus reden Politiker nicht über ihre mörderische Politik.
OMG the 90s are back!
808 State release new album after 17 years: Transmission Suite.
Pigs caught using tools in first-of-its-kind video.
“Retro nostalgia & why my new website looks like Window 9x.”