| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| The future of low earth orbit. | 2021-12-30 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476674189922693120 | 1476674189922693120 |
| When is "private" not so private? | 2021-12-30 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476596238388641793 | 1476596238388641793 |
| AM radio a casualty of electric cars. | 2021-12-29 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476050187399303169 | 1476050187399303169 |
| How China achieved global dominance in electric car | 2021-12-29 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476047064970588164 | 1476047064970588164 |
| Your street is the test lab, with very little oversight. | 2021-12-29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476046585381330944 | 1476046585381330944 |
| A Federal civilian cyber academy to get America back to | 2021-12-27 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475289943962435592 | 1475289943962435592 |
| The Information Age has quickly become the Misinformation | 2021-12-25 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474780335208501249 | 1474780335208501249 |
| Biggest tech failures of 2021! | 2021-12-23 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474065657461297152 | 1474065657461297152 |
| Fake it til you make it? Bid to win? | 2021-12-23 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473859195229257729 | 1473859195229257729 |
| Rich guys like Elon Musk don't need to obey laws! | 2021-12-23 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473852528315928580 | 1473852528315928580 |
| Who cares about facts or laws when there's money to | 2021-12-21 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473355710389833731 | 1473355710389833731 |
| Not just NSO - add Cytrox! | 2021-12-18 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472054843288162309 | 1472054843288162309 |
| Huawei might be closer to the Chinese Communist Party than | 2021-12-15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470988054231875586 | 1470988054231875586 |
| Beware function creep - half-baked covid technology will | 2021-12-13 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470530000042401797 | 1470530000042401797 |
| Distracted driving should be a violation. | 2021-12-12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469886931072741378 | 1469886931072741378 |
| Internet on fire - again. | 2021-12-11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469525861665628164 | 1469525861665628164 |
| The inevitable result of centralization - back to | 2021-12-09 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468800993575854081 | 1468800993575854081 |
| Democratization of technology - groups you arm might not | 2021-12-08 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1468440660512428033 | 1468440660512428033 |
| NSO Pegasus used on US diplomats. By whom? | 2021-12-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466903651650134016 | 1466903651650134016 |
| What hell is like - millions of fans and no friends | 2021-12-02 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1466492256035082243 | 1466492256035082243 |
| Most chips in American products are made in Taiwan - | 2021-12-02 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466259835381424132 | 1466259835381424132 |
| Space junk - the final barrier to the final frontier. | 2021-12-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465939079082614788 | 1465939079082614788 |
| Does the PRC have a new plan for internet governance? | 2021-11-30 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1465513494778814464 | 1465513494778814464 |
| Make your iphone more private. | 2021-11-26 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464379443057606658 | 1464379443057606658 |
| The democratization of advanced weaponry eliminates | 2021-11-25 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1463918112588242949 | 1463918112588242949 |
| Will civil litigation slow down hacker enablers? | 2021-11-25 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463710029601669123 | 1463710029601669123 |
| Maybe space junk accounts for the Fermi paradox! | 2021-11-23 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463024271958044673 | 1463024271958044673 |
| The browser was going to be the universal operating system. | 2021-11-20 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461941625899257862 | 1461941625899257862 |
| More on Russian space test | 2021-11-16 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460459738987065347 | 1460459738987065347 |
| Space junk is an increasing barrier to outer space. | 2021-11-15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460373359309443079 | 1460373359309443079 |
| Planned obsolescence - good for the companies and for | 2021-11-14 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460014066353668097 | 1460014066353668097 |
| Remember the great step forward fromn 026 to 029? | 2021-11-14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459948386988134401 | 1459948386988134401 |
| External FBI mail server hacked | 2021-11-14 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1459942204445626370 | 1459942204445626370 |
| People came to America to escape their past and start over. | 2021-11-12 | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459173180749148167 | 1459173180749148167 |
| The new slave drivers! | 2021-11-12 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459028525118230529 | 1459028525118230529 |
| Sound like a bubble to you? | 2021-11-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458459287441731586 | 1458459287441731586 |
| Democratization of technology! | 2021-11-07 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457215876613107712 | 1457215876613107712 |
| Trying to escape by pivoting to something new? Doesn't | 2021-11-05 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456460347234156545 | 1456460347234156545 |
| Limits on hackers for hire. | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456458156066828290 | 1456458156066828290 |
| How can we avoid the "metaverse"? | 2021-11-05 | 113 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456437231430684674 | 1456437231430684674 |
| Outsourcing critical business and military infrastructure | 2021-10-31 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454680936830758913 | 1454680936830758913 |
| Better weapons don't necessarily make you safer. | 2021-10-30 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454310344281583619 | 1454310344281583619 |
| Directed energy weapons - another aspect of democratized | 2021-10-29 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453935337558798343 | 1453935337558798343 |
| How close are we to WW III between China and US? | 2021-10-29 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453934266560040962 | 1453934266560040962 |
| Russians are still at it. | 2021-10-25 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452778943493271554 | 1452778943493271554 |
| Monetizing the surveillance state | 2021-10-24 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452265562025889794 | 1452265562025889794 |
| Data centers need to clean up their water usage as well | 2021-10-23 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451769413573636098 | 1451769413573636098 |
| https://political-scrapbook.net/ | 2021-10-20 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450714808576208897 | 1450714808576208897 |
| Missouri blames the messenger. | 2021-10-15 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448844395080339461 | 1448844395080339461 |
| DO NOT PRESS 1 or 2 Don't answer! Or if you do, just | 2021-10-14 | 85 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1448632176837226500 | 1448632176837226500 |
| DO NOT PRESS 1 or 2 Don't answer, or just hang up. | 2021-10-14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448473895980261383 | 1448473895980261383 |
| Bipartisan agreement that SOMEthing should be done about | 2021-10-10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447295670440792066 | 1447295670440792066 |
| We're learning about social media as we go along. | 2021-10-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446672971955802112 | 1446672971955802112 |
| At last a law requiring cancellations to be as easy as | 2021-10-09 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446671102474797056 | 1446671102474797056 |
| Hacking for fun - or fame - or fortune? | 2021-10-07 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446263563056599041 | 1446263563056599041 |
| QR codes and privacy | 2021-10-07 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446162057208811520 | 1446162057208811520 |
| Neiman Marcus - luxury goods without luxury data | 2021-10-03 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444756515575906305 | 1444756515575906305 |
| Cloak and dagger for internet addresses - IPv4 addresses | 2021-10-01 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443961541938737153 | 1443961541938737153 |
| Sometimes you can get your data deleted. But it's an | 2021-09-26 | 406 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442179599052402697 | 1442179599052402697 |
| Standardization is political and economic. | 2021-09-25 | 384 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441759082168217605 | 1441759082168217605 |
| Space travel is probably mostly limited to low earth orbit | 2021-09-25 | 398 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441588301077442561 | 1441588301077442561 |
| What information about YOU is for sale somewhere on the | 2021-09-25 | 396 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441585730606694400 | 1441585730606694400 |
| Privacy settings to reset right now! | 2021-09-24 | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441419313223663626 | 1441419313223663626 |
| Another benefit of the pandemic - employers perfecting | 2021-09-24 | 144 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441414060671569923 | 1441414060671569923 |
| Who's going to make all those electric vehicles? | 2021-09-24 | 148 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441401523720777730 | 1441401523720777730 |
| One of the oddest stories of an odd year. | 2021-09-11 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1436540860435361799 | 1436540860435361799 |
| The internet might be going down - but nobody can say when | 2021-09-10 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1436351095299739648 | 1436351095299739648 |
| The democratization of technology - | 2021-09-10 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1436178311260958721 | 1436178311260958721 |
| Thanks to the democratization of technology, | 2021-09-09 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1436045965367005191 | 1436045965367005191 |
| Fake students, fake financial aid - there's an app | 2021-09-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435613203199762439 | 1435613203199762439 |
| Americans are concerned about government surveillance - | 2021-09-07 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435233205263618050 | 1435233205263618050 |
| A roblem of user interface design - how to warn users | 2021-09-05 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1434406323358081024 | 1434406323358081024 |
| Islamic State understands the power of cloud computing - | 2021-08-28 | 88 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1431462610310873094 | 1431462610310873094 |
| Why everybot is trying to POST to boaform on | 2021-08-27 | 59 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1431279483957354501 | 1431279483957354501 |
| Profitable propagandists can re-orient faster than social | 2021-08-27 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1431075673959919616 | 1431075673959919616 |
| Nobody wants to be regulated - neither crypto speculators | 2021-08-12 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1425942660477452291 | 1425942660477452291 |
| A prophet is not without honor except in his own time. | 2021-08-12 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1425934086703513606 | 1425934086703513606 |
| More disinformation, probably paid for by Russia, to | 2021-08-12 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1425713869326929920 | 1425713869326929920 |
| Robocallers protected by Trump Supreme Court! | 2021-07-31 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1421339451851100165 | 1421339451851100165 |
| The metaverse? | 2021-07-29 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1420617705720188940 | 1420617705720188940 |
| Turn off your phone every day. | 2021-07-28 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1420368773110894597 | 1420368773110894597 |
| Conclusions from Pegasus - no phone and no one is safe | 2021-07-22 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1418223031101509632 | 1418223031101509632 |
| NSO says they can't hack US phone numbers. | 2021-07-20 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417305973237059598 | 1417305973237059598 |
| Pegasus - your key to unlocking people's secrets. | 2021-07-19 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417129730478727171 | 1417129730478727171 |
| So much for Apple security. Typical tech companies | 2021-07-19 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417126382107119620 | 1417126382107119620 |
| China government behind Microsoft attack carried out by | 2021-07-19 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417099656882884611 | 1417099656882884611 |
| Spyware for sale, and maybe help using it. | 2021-07-19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1416985169546792964 | 1416985169546792964 |
| Commercial spyware business booming? | 2021-07-17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1416375217450934274 | 1416375217450934274 |
| And now for something completely different! | 2021-07-16 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1416085825498935296 | 1416085825498935296 |
| Insurers against ransomware attacks have themselves been | 2021-07-13 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414934916656103424 | 1414934916656103424 |
| "the bad guys will come in and delete the backups or | 2021-07-09 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1413502661249298435 | 1413502661249298435 |
| There is no past in the internet - only an ever-changing | 2021-07-05 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412185597012189189 | 1412185597012189189 |
| Thank goodness for cloud backup! | 2021-07-05 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412049591474679818 | 1412049591474679818 |
| Cyber insurance premiums are rising 20-30% per MONTH. | 2021-07-05 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1411931623566680070 | 1411931623566680070 |
| Happy Dependence Day Weekend! | 2021-07-03 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1411304062583074817 | 1411304062583074817 |
| Brute force - just keep guessing passwords until you | 2021-07-02 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410764249010380805 | 1410764249010380805 |
| Where in the world can a poor miner billionaire go to burn | 2021-06-18 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1405686741898387457 | 1405686741898387457 |
| Global connectedness means global problems! | 2021-06-18 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1405683002542198788 | 1405683002542198788 |
| Lots of plausible deniability and no deterrence for | 2021-06-16 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1404996702616965126 | 1404996702616965126 |
| Chinese keep busy while Russians hog the spotlight. | 2021-06-15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1404941068282388485 | 1404941068282388485 |
| Five myths about ransomware. | 2021-06-13 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403967214886158341 | 1403967214886158341 |
| Hazards of contacting aliens. | 2021-06-13 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1403966159603462148 | 1403966159603462148 |
| A Potemkin bitcoin economy. | 2021-06-11 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403334202825740289 | 1403334202825740289 |
| Maybe you need to keep critical data local, and just | 2021-06-09 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1402517769489248259 | 1402517769489248259 |
| Wonder what other "encrypted" apps aren't? | 2021-06-08 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1402243578072498178 | 1402243578072498178 |
| What if everybody's data is in the cloud - and it just | 2021-06-08 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1402242557937999878 | 1402242557937999878 |
| Want to connect with your neighbors? No problem, you | 2021-06-07 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1402043600456744961 | 1402043600456744961 |
| Funny business in the apps stores. | 2021-06-07 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401745434180087808 | 1401745434180087808 |
| The future of routine work? If you're not cheaper than | 2021-06-06 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401572741220765696 | 1401572741220765696 |
| Pearl Harbor, 9/11, covid, commercialized ransomware-as-a | 2021-06-06 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401437266065584133 | 1401437266065584133 |
| Panetta saw it all coming. | 2021-06-05 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401176718740647936 | 1401176718740647936 |
| More democratization of technology. We have drones, | 2021-05-31 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1399182367135199237 | 1399182367135199237 |
| Maybe they will figure it out. | 2021-05-30 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1399117688966766595 | 1399117688966766595 |
| Tracked with technology? Evade with technology! | 2021-05-28 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1398354751155171328 | 1398354751155171328 |
| The democratization of technology! | 2021-05-28 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1398074567856250881 | 1398074567856250881 |
| Still no answers on radio-frequency energy attacks. | 2021-05-23 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1396471023667580935 | 1396471023667580935 |
| Boom times again in Silicon Valley! | 2021-05-22 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1396096328938049545 | 1396096328938049545 |
| Ever wonder why your own web pages don't look very good | 2021-05-21 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1395890264644808706 | 1395890264644808706 |
| What a Trumpist internet looks like! | 2021-05-21 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1395572560784334855 | 1395572560784334855 |
| Hackers got in long ago and took their time. | 2021-05-21 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1395570625784152075 | 1395570625784152075 |
| The only way to stop the attacks is to stop paying ransom! | 2021-05-20 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1395228741211594752 | 1395228741211594752 |
| The big business of ransomware. Facilitated by | 2021-05-16 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1393928708130443273 | 1393928708130443273 |
| Not just pipelines! Going after law enforcement, too. | 2021-05-12 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1392332404971380737 | 1392332404971380737 |
| Maybe in 30 years it won't be dark at night any more! | 2021-05-11 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1391934106829660160 | 1391934106829660160 |
| Ransomware attacks on America and its allies are the new | 2021-05-09 | 88 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1391393117035667467 | 1391393117035667467 |
| Another way to use technology to break the system. | 2021-05-07 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390817329890533376 | 1390817329890533376 |
| A fast and easy way to track people. | 2021-05-06 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390153205992984579 | 1390153205992984579 |
| Dark patterns - how cell phone companies, cable companies, | 2021-05-01 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1388353096435208194 | 1388353096435208194 |
| Ransomware attacks Silicon Valley disabled. | 2021-04-27 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386896636849266688 | 1386896636849266688 |
| Not much of an explanation! | 2021-04-27 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386864643621097473 | 1386864643621097473 |
| Ransomware attacks individuals, too. Best defense | 2021-04-27 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386847610737098757 | 1386847610737098757 |
| Russian ransomware attacks protected by the state. | 2021-04-27 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386844796602388480 | 1386844796602388480 |
| China hacks Pulse "Secure VPN" | 2021-04-26 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386826510556749828 | 1386826510556749828 |
| Technology disrupts another traditional business. | 2021-04-26 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386689618087534596 | 1386689618087534596 |
| The Feds are trying to do something about ransomware. | 2021-04-26 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386483953482158081 | 1386483953482158081 |
| It's too expensive to engineer security into products and | 2021-04-25 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386333095222153218 | 1386333095222153218 |
| More on the DOD IPv4 mystery! | 2021-04-25 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386198221706317832 | 1386198221706317832 |
| IPv4 addresses are a very valuable commodity. Why did | 2021-04-24 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1385971543365218308 | 1385971543365218308 |
| Nothing new about fake news. It's not caused by | 2021-04-15 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1382537745558511619 | 1382537745558511619 |
| GPS is rather important - built into modern ways of doing | 2021-04-15 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1382536327988584456 | 1382536327988584456 |
| Ransomware coming to a file near you. | 2021-04-03 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378338271663517702 | 1378338271663517702 |
| How China and Russia are using the UN to control the | 2021-04-03 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378176318047612932 | 1378176318047612932 |
| Deepfakes have come to your phone. | 2021-03-25 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1375151547458281474 | 1375151547458281474 |
| Is the real story here that somebody broke in, or that it | 2021-03-19 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372936265797017601 | 1372936265797017601 |
| A lot like Trump except he's smarter - hence more dangerous | 2021-03-15 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1371542312740818945 | 1371542312740818945 |
| Learning to teach, and be taught, within Zoom. | 2021-03-14 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1371132680616566787 | 1371132680616566787 |
| Necessary infrastructure for the next pandemic - | 2021-03-14 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1371109228492910594 | 1371109228492910594 |
| It's hard to get complicated software debugged when the | 2021-03-12 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1370459877177356288 | 1370459877177356288 |
| Why everybody whose livelihood depended on business travel | 2021-03-10 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369724353739325441 | 1369724353739325441 |
| Everything you do is recorded and readily available | 2021-03-10 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369656666162040839 | 1369656666162040839 |
| Yet another hack - frequent flyers. | 2021-03-07 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368591395569635334 | 1368591395569635334 |
| Yet another hack - this one from Eastern Europe. | 2021-03-07 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368572026848378880 | 1368572026848378880 |
| Chinese hackers have been busy. It's not easy keeping | 2021-03-07 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368448856082378752 | 1368448856082378752 |
| There's are reasons for zoom fatigue! | 2021-02-24 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364391488889647104 | 1364391488889647104 |
| In Russia, all data is on sale. | 2021-02-22 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1363648041597603841 | 1363648041597603841 |
| Technology to the rescue? | 2021-02-12 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1360079148652187653 | 1360079148652187653 |
| The nuclear knot gets more tangled. | 2021-02-11 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1359725164468965380 | 1359725164468965380 |
| Trust YOUR water? | 2021-02-10 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1359304322777927681 | 1359304322777927681 |
| What's pushing demand for electric cars? | 2021-02-09 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1359285094108696576 | 1359285094108696576 |
| We need to play defense as well as offense! | 2021-02-07 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1358298652301692929 | 1358298652301692929 |
| A new use for online doorbells. | 2021-02-06 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1358102500537114624 | 1358102500537114624 |
| Broadcasting your location to the world. It all gets | 2021-02-05 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1357767055676559360 | 1357767055676559360 |
| The epistemic coup - | 2021-01-31 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356029004189462532 | 1356029004189462532 |
| Fake facebook friends | 2021-01-30 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1355530113807355906 | 1355530113807355906 |
| Long supply chains invite hacking, and hackers accept | 2021-01-25 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1353716853856555009 | 1353716853856555009 |
| GPS is an Achilles tendon. No backup is in place. | 2021-01-24 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1353463065946202113 | 1353463065946202113 |
| Austin and Miami dream of taking over from Silicon Valley! | 2021-01-18 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1351253203036241920 | 1351253203036241920 |
| Mismanaging your passwords is tricky, and can be expensive! | 2021-01-18 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1351241739043033088 | 1351241739043033088 |
| It's not all good news on the electric vehicle front - | 2021-01-16 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1350235635458600960 | 1350235635458600960 |
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========== The future of low earth orbit. https://www.vox.com/recode/22839485/space-station-iss-orbit-satellites WWI aircraft pilots first waved as they passed. Then they carried pistols and took pot shots. Then came the machine guns. There might not be big money in space, but there is big military advantage. #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-30 21:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476674189922693120 ========== When is "private" not so private? https://www.reuters.com/technology/alphabet-ceo-pichai-can-be-questioned-privacy-lawsuit-judge-rules-2021-12-28/ When it interferes with the business model! #PS1technology ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-30 16:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476596238388641793 ========== AM radio a casualty of electric cars. https://www.soundandvision.com/content/why-tesla-killing-am-radio #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-29 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476050187399303169 ========== How China achieved global dominance in electric car batteries https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/business/china-catl-electric-car-batteries.html #PS1technology ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-29 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476047064970588164 ========== Your street is the test lab, with very little oversight. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/business/tesla-self-driving-regulations.html #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-29 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476046585381330944 ========== A Federal civilian cyber academy to get America back to parity with its strategic rivals - China and Russia - and lesser irritants like Iran and North Korea. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/keep-our-country-safe-we-need-national-cyber-academy-think-it-west-point-technology-defense/ #PS1technology ===== impress 59 time 2021-12-27 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475289943962435592 ========== The Information Age has quickly become the Misinformation and Disinformation Age. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/24/covid-pandemic-uncertainty-bad-information/ Inventors of revolutionary new technology imagine only the good things it will do. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1567081220303058 #PS1technology ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-25 16:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474780335208501249 ========== Biggest tech failures of 2021! https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/tech/biggest-tech-fails-2021/index.html And the perpetrators become billionaires! #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-23 17:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474065657461297152 ========== Fake it til you make it? Bid to win? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/21/elizabeth-holmes-blood-test-theranos/ The dark underbelly of Silicon Valley amorality. #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-23 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473859195229257729 ========== Rich guys like Elon Musk don't need to obey laws! https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-business-video-games-ohio-cdddb5dc6215b844a488e18486d46bad #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-23 03:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473852528315928580 ========== Who cares about facts or laws when there's money to be made! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilot-elon-musk.html Elon Musk, the next, more dangerous, Trump. #PS1technology ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-21 18:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473355710389833731 ========== Not just NSO - add Cytrox! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-israel-egypt-jamal-khashoggi-4948468da80e73681d9d9ca88ac28fc0 #PS1technology ===== impress 37 time 2021-12-18 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472054843288162309 ========== Huawei might be closer to the Chinese Communist Party than it admits. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surveillance-china/ #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-15 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470988054231875586 ========== Beware function creep - half-baked covid technology will creep into other applications to serve other markets. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-business-health-europe-7d81971ca5eb93fd59a99d559c968a65 #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-13 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470530000042401797 ========== Distracted driving should be a violation. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-games-video-games-a139b90962d90c5b8516da5cea459836 Enabling distracted driving should be a felony. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1557911411220039 #PS1technology ===== impress 16 time 2021-12-12 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469886931072741378 ========== Internet on fire - again. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01 Expect more of the same. #PS1technology ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-11 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469525861665628164 ========== The inevitable result of centralization - back to mainframe/terminal computing, except it's called "the cloud" now. The internet was designed to be a network of peers to be robust against such failures. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-amazoncom-inc-web-services-cloud-computing-a3a668b1b42d3ee560ed4b1d0c5a2fb4 #PS1technology ===== impress 11 time 2021-12-09 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468800993575854081 ========== Democratization of technology - groups you arm might not accept your command. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/iran-drones-iraq-militias/2021/12/06/5685e772-5469-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html If every street gang all over the world learns to use small drones - what would they have to lose? #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-08 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1468440660512428033 ========== NSO Pegasus used on US diplomats. By whom? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/03/israel-nso-pegasus-hack-us-diplomats/ #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-03 22:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466903651650134016 ========== What hell is like - millions of fans and no friends https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/02/twitch-loltyler1-tyler-steinkamp/ Nobody sends you to hell, you run in trying to get past everybody else trying to get in. Your descendants will imagine that all their inherited wealth was somehow productively earned. #PS1technology ===== engage 2 engage-rate 11% expands 1 impress 18 time 2021-12-02 19:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466492256035082243 ========== Most chips in American products are made in Taiwan - which might be conquered by PRC at any time. That's a national security issue. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/01/opinion-facing-chip-shortage-u-s-must-train-semiconductor-workforce/ #PS1technology ===== impress 22 time 2021-12-02 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466259835381424132 ========== Space junk - the final barrier to the final frontier. https://apnews.com/article/space-exploration-science-business-europe-russia-71c3b1cc374a5541a128cd149a90416f #PS1technology ===== impress 26 time 2021-12-01 07:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465939079082614788 ========== Does the PRC have a new plan for internet governance? Or is it just Lu Heng? https://apnews.com/article/technology-africa-china-uganda-pornography-89cf353a0bf0ed1ba135a6c694b382b7 #PS1technology ===== impress 81 time 2021-11-30 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465513494778814464 ========== Make your iphone more private. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/26/ios-privacy-settings/ #PS1technology ===== impress 21 time 2021-11-26 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464379443057606658 ========== The democratization of advanced weaponry eliminates any remaining distinction between organized crime and terrorism. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ https://apnews.com/article/africa-somalia-mogadishu-al-qaida-al-shabab-91ae010f4484ed24dd67e301b716f944 https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-army-gangs-f63d6aac1d8057c8024ae7688c465696 Parts of Mexico are as failed state as Somalia. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 likes 1 time 2021-11-25 17:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463918112588242949 ========== Will civil litigation slow down hacker enablers? https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-software-apple-inc-spyware-578116c8bccca0b79d1d476e0b157b12 #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-25 03:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463710029601669123 ========== Maybe space junk accounts for the Fermi paradox! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/space-junk-satellite-tests/2021/11/19/d074acdc-487d-11ec-95dc-5f2a96e00fa3_story.html The weaponization of low earth orbit could also account for the seeming lack of advanced technology in the universe. #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2021-11-23 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463024271958044673 ========== The browser was going to be the universal operating system. Then smartphones happened. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/18/larry-magid-smartphones-are-often-cluttered-with-too-many-apps/ Instead of going to a website, you download an app. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-20 06:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461941625899257862 ========== More on Russian space test https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-satellie-weapon/2021/11/15/0695621c-4648-11ec-973c-be864f938c72_story.html #PS1technology ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-16 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460459738987065347 ========== Space junk is an increasing barrier to outer space. https://apnews.com/article/space-exploration-science-business-697f5aa719331ab6e74102ebb06b52d8 #PS1technology ===== impress 13 time 2021-11-15 22:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460373359309443079 ========== Planned obsolescence - good for the companies and for some consumers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/13/3g-service-ending-fcc/ But old people and poor people don't buy much telecommunications or make large political donations, so who cares? #PS1technology ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-14 22:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460014066353668097 ========== Remember the great step forward fromn 026 to 029? Remember your 33 KSR fondly? Then remember Steve Jobs raving about fractional horsepower compute engines and a new industrial revolution? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/11/computing-has-gone-full-circle/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539731146371399 #PS1technology ===== impress 12 time 2021-11-14 18:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459948386988134401 ========== External FBI mail server hacked https://www.engadget.com/fbi-email-server-hack-221052368.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/14/fbi-hack-email-cyberattack/ Why is this so easy? #PS1technology ===== engage 7 engage-rate 15% impress 46 likes 1 retweets 2 time 2021-11-14 17:52 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459942204445626370 ========== People came to America to escape their past and start over. Is it still possible? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/loose-change-korey-rowe-911-truth-conspiracy/ Should it be possible? Now all your mistakes are in the cloud forever - available to anybody with the financial or technical clout to get them. #PS1technology ===== impress 104 time 2021-11-12 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459173180749148167 ========== The new slave drivers! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/11/lawyer-facial-recognition-monitoring/ #PS1technology ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-12 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459028525118230529 ========== Sound like a bubble to you? https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/robinhood-security-breach-exposes-data-on-millions-of-customers https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/technology/nft-nyc-metaverse.html The internet makes it easier to lose more of your money faster! #PS1technology ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-10 15:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458459287441731586 ========== Democratization of technology! https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ Coming soon to a presidential palace near you! https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-fires-iraq-baghdad-embassies-4069e75a45ee9b4eaa5e93648fa15211 #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2021-11-07 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457215876613107712 ========== Trying to escape by pivoting to something new? Doesn't usually work. Emulating Elon Musk might not be the best plan either. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-03/mark-zuckerberg-takes-a-page-from-elon-musk-s-book-with-the-metaverse #PS1technology ===== impress 114 time 2021-11-05 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456460347234156545 ========== Limits on hackers for hire. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-united-states-spyware-e15abad12084154b873765b420ae5f05 #PS1technology ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 03:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456458156066828290 ========== How can we avoid the "metaverse"? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/style/meta-facebook.html The one thing we can be sure of is it will be intended to be immensely profitable - for somebody else. And it might well be immensely profitable - for somebody completely different from its founders. #PS1technology ===== impress 113 time 2021-11-05 01:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456437231430684674 ========== Outsourcing critical business and military infrastructure to outer space does have its drawbacks. https://apnews.com/article/science-lifestyle-aurora-fourth-of-july-sun-9e5c3a010652635f22c3f0b59dce7545 But if you see a good aurora, enjoy it. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-31 05:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454680936830758913 ========== Better weapons don't necessarily make you safer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-nuclear-weapons-electronic-sensors-accuracy/2021/10/28/79533ff0-34cc-11ec-9bc4-86107e7b0ab1_story.html Deterrence is psychological as well as technical. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-30 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454310344281583619 ========== Directed energy weapons - another aspect of democratized weapons technology. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/28/dealing-with-havana-syndrome-is-policymakers-nightmare/ The weapons probably are or will be soon available to anybody with the money. #PS1technology ===== impress 40 time 2021-10-29 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453935337558798343 ========== How close are we to WW III between China and US? Probably not at all. Both have too much to lose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/28/its-not-sputnik-moment-we-should-not-feed-cold-war-paranoia/ The problem with democratizing technology of mass destruction is minor states and terrorists that feel they have nothing to lose. #PS1technology ===== impress 42 time 2021-10-29 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453934266560040962 ========== Russians are still at it. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-europe-russia-1e65777560b39e35209e11dbccfcab1f #PS1technology ===== impress 47 time 2021-10-25 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452778943493271554 ========== Monetizing the surveillance state https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/22/crime-suburbs-license-plate-readers/ Fake cameras and signs would probably work equally well. #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2021-10-24 13:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452265562025889794 ========== Data centers need to clean up their water usage as well as electricity usage. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-environment-and-nature-oregon-united-states-2385c62f1a87030d344261ef9c76ccda #PS1technology ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-23 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451769413573636098 ========== https://political-scrapbook.net/ https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/09/over-1-million-sites-affected-by-redux-framework-vulnerabilities/ #PS1technology ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-20 06:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450714808576208897 ========== Missouri blames the messenger. https://apnews.com/article/technology-education-hacking-missouri-newspapers-6f730cb3ac61ad4cf120e7702a789d6b #PS1technology ===== impress 88 time 2021-10-15 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448844395080339461 ========== DO NOT PRESS 1 or 2 Don't answer! Or if you do, just hang up. https://nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/spam-call-blocking.html Texts? Delete before reading. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 85 time 2021-10-14 12:49 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448632176837226500 ========== DO NOT PRESS 1 or 2 Don't answer, or just hang up. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/spam-call-blocking.html Texts? Delete before reading. #PS1technology ===== impress 2 time 2021-10-14 02:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448473895980261383 ========== Bipartisan agreement that SOMEthing should be done about big tech. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/technology/facebook-big-tobacco-regulation.html No bipartisan agreement whatever about exactly WHAT should be done. The big tech lobby puts big pharma and big tobacco to shame. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515536698790844 #PS1technology ===== impress 11 time 2021-10-10 20:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447295670440792066 ========== We're learning about social media as we go along. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/technology/facebook-scandals.html What we're learning is that all new technology has good and bad uses, and there are people and organizations devoted to finding and exploiting the bad uses. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-10-09 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446672971955802112 ========== At last a law requiring cancellations to be as easy as signing up! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/07/larry-magid-new-law-will-make-it-easier-to-cancel-online-subscriptions/ Making it as hard as possible to cancel seems to be part of the business model pioneered by cable tv and cell phone companies, and now standard throughout the internet. #PS1technology ===== impress 22 time 2021-10-09 02:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446671102474797056 ========== Hacking for fun - or fame - or fortune? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/07/twitch-epik-hack-hacktivist/ #PS1technology ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-07 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446263563056599041 ========== QR codes and privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/07/are-qr-codes-safe/ #PS1technology ===== impress 83 time 2021-10-07 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446162057208811520 ========== Neiman Marcus - luxury goods without luxury data protection! https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2021/10/01/neiman-marcus-tells-46-million-customers-that-credit-card-and-gift-card-data-breached/ Nobody noticed for 18 months. #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-10-03 20:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444756515575906305 ========== Cloak and dagger for internet addresses - IPv4 addresses are a valuable commodity. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-africa-china-uganda-5462f03bbd75bf9724a26623295fbf0e #PS1technology ===== impress 50 time 2021-10-01 15:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443961541938737153 ========== Sometimes you can get your data deleted. But it's an attack on companies' business models, so expect resistance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/26/ask-company-delete-personal-data/ #PS1technology ===== impress 406 time 2021-09-26 17:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442179599052402697 ========== Standardization is political and economic. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/business/european-union-apple-charging-port.html Consumer preferences are usually last. #PS1technology ===== impress 384 time 2021-09-25 13:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441759082168217605 ========== Space travel is probably mostly limited to low earth orbit until they come up with a solution for radiation. https://nasa.gov/hrp/5-hazards-of-human-spaceflight Amazonification of space is in progress anyway! https://nytimes.com/2021/07/21/technology/the-amazonification-of-space.html #PS1technology ===== impress 398 time 2021-09-25 02:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441588301077442561 ========== What information about YOU is for sale somewhere on the internet? https://apnews.com/article/technology-europe-business-religion-data-privacy-97334ed1aca5bd363263c92f6de2caa2 #PS1technology ===== impress 396 time 2021-09-25 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441585730606694400 ========== Privacy settings to reset right now! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/privacy-settings-guide/ #PS1technology ===== impress 115 time 2021-09-24 15:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441419313223663626 ========== Another benefit of the pandemic - employers perfecting mandatory spy software. Governments next? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/24/remote-work-from-home-surveillance/ And they wonder why some people don't want to rejoin the workforce. #PS1technology ===== impress 144 time 2021-09-24 14:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441414060671569923 ========== Who's going to make all those electric vehicles? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/business/economy/electric-vehicles-jobs.html If they're going to be made in the USA by union labor, some government intervention will be required. #PS1technology ===== impress 148 time 2021-09-24 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441401523720777730 ========== One of the oddest stories of an odd year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/10/pentagon-internet-protocol-addresses-trump/ Is there a good explanation waiting to be made public? #PS1technology ===== impress 48 time 2021-09-11 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1436540860435361799 ========== The internet might be going down - but nobody can say when or for how long. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/10/growing-risk-of-once-in-a-century-solar-superstorm-that-could-knock-out-internet-study-says/ #PS1technology ===== impress 41 time 2021-09-10 15:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1436351095299739648 ========== The democratization of technology - https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ has multiplied the threat from foreign and domestic enemies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/09/christopher-wray-fbi-director-911-lessons-combat-threats/ #PS1technology ===== impress 55 time 2021-09-10 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1436178311260958721 ========== Thanks to the democratization of technology, https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ every little faction will be able to conduct remote war, and won't be worried about civilian casualties - and most likely will be hoping for as many as possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/09/biden-is-embracing-redefinition-war-not-an-alternative-war/ #PS1technology ===== impress 36 time 2021-09-09 19:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1436045965367005191 ========== Fake students, fake financial aid - there's an app for that! https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2021/09/california-community-colleges-financial-aid-scam/ #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2021-09-08 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435613203199762439 ========== Americans are concerned about government surveillance - https://apnews.com/article/technology-afghanistan-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-government-surveillance-d365f3a818bb9d096e8e3b5713f9f856 For if you build it, they will come - and hack it. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-taliban-c007f85fb1b573c43a4391b947a5dcd4 #PS1technology ===== impress 37 time 2021-09-07 13:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435233205263618050 ========== A roblem of user interface design - how to warn users without giving them a way to respond? https://apnews.com/article/technology-environment-and-nature-floods-12d4138915cabd7a08adcb682aced7ce In this case, for most people it meant don't walk or drive through deep or moving water, but for some it meant get to higher ground immediately. #PS1technology ===== impress 34 time 2021-09-05 06:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1434406323358081024 ========== Islamic State understands the power of cloud computing - you can't bomb AWS. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/27/amazon-isis-app-cloud/ They probably understand the risk of cancellation and presumably are switching to Plan B. #PS1technology ===== engage 4 engage-rate 5% impress 88 likes 1 time 2021-08-28 03:44 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1431462610310873094 ========== Why everybot is trying to POST to boaform on https://political-scrapbook.net/ web servers - 209.141.50.63 - - [13/Jul/2021:13:52:08 -0700] "POST /boaform/admin/formLogin HTTP/1.1" 404 196 The flaw must still be widespread enough to search for. https://theregister.com/2020/04/16/fiber_routers_under_fire/ #PS1technology ===== engage 6 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 59 time 2021-08-27 15:36 +0000 urlclicks 5 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1431279483957354501 ========== Profitable propagandists can re-orient faster than social media bureaucracies can regulate. https://apnews.com/article/tn-state-wire-coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-c17c288880f980c280e74545be740fde #PS1technology ===== impress 67 time 2021-08-27 02:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1431075673959919616 ========== Nobody wants to be regulated - neither crypto speculators and criminals nor legislators want any light shown on their finances. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/opinion/senate-cryptocurrency.html #PS1technology ===== impress 44 time 2021-08-12 22:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1425942660477452291 ========== A prophet is not without honor except in his own time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/ No technology is fully understood until its criminal applications are fully understood. #PS1technology ===== impress 42 time 2021-08-12 21:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1425934086703513606 ========== More disinformation, probably paid for by Russia, to unsettle the west. https://apnews.com/article/technology-europe-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-2f2fe7911b4657ede152d5c21531d6b0 #PS1technology ===== impress 38 time 2021-08-12 07:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1425713869326929920 ========== Robocallers protected by Trump Supreme Court! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/opinion/the-robocall-rebellion.html #PS1technology ===== impress 29 time 2021-07-31 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1421339451851100165 ========== The metaverse? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/28/will-metaverse-connect-us-or-just-remind-us-how-far-apart-we-remain/ The internet was supposed to support real life, not supplant it. But it's really no different from what cable TV has become. #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2021-07-29 05:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1420617705720188940 ========== Turn off your phone every day. https://apnews.com/article/technology-government-and-politics-hacking-752db867fafbaba1f9cc34f7588944c5 #PS1technology ===== impress 19 time 2021-07-28 13:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1420368773110894597 ========== Conclusions from Pegasus - no phone and no one is safe from spying. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/07/18/takeaways-nso-pegasus-project/ #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-07-22 14:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1418223031101509632 ========== NSO says they can't hack US phone numbers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/07/19/us-phone-numbers-nso/ Yet the have spent millions to gain influence here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/nso-business-us/ Is it any surprise that Flynn worked for them? #PS1technology ===== impress 36 time 2021-07-20 02:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417305973237059598 ========== Pegasus - your key to unlocking people's secrets. It seems to be very widely available and widely applied. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/19/india-nso-pegasus/ #PS1technology ===== impress 21 time 2021-07-19 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417129730478727171 ========== So much for Apple security. Typical tech companies have one VP for security and 99 for time to market. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/apple-iphone-nso/ Avoid iMessage! #PS1technology ===== impress 20 time 2021-07-19 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417126382107119620 ========== China government behind Microsoft attack carried out by private hackers. https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-exchange-hack-biden-china-d533f5361cbc3374fdea58d3fb059f35 #PS1technology ===== impress 24 time 2021-07-19 12:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417099656882884611 ========== Spyware for sale, and maybe help using it. https://apnews.com/article/technology-middle-east-business-journalists-jamal-khashoggi-00a3fb4349b04504d3d7c481eae233d3 They don't even need you to click on anything. #PS1technology ===== impress 19 time 2021-07-19 04:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1416985169546792964 ========== Commercial spyware business booming? https://apnews.com/article/technology-middle-east-canada-business-government-and-politics-09dcd0402e26cd9720676b3a4aace2be #PS1technology ===== impress 17 time 2021-07-17 12:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1416375217450934274 ========== And now for something completely different! The most entertaining computer arithmetic talk ever. https://arith2021.arithsymposium.org/session/session8video.html It's the video #2, Towards arithmetic-centered filter design The published paper is much more technical and detailed. #PS1technology ===== impress 29 time 2021-07-16 17:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1416085825498935296 ========== Insurers against ransomware attacks have themselves been successfully attacked. It's time to stop paying ransom. Let a few large companies go out of business as a lesson to the others to tighten up. https://apnews.com/article/kaseya-ransomware-attack-0705-4c2272cdd428ddfa1f3644d513566c06 #PS1technology ===== impress 40 time 2021-07-13 13:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414934916656103424 ========== "the bad guys will come in and delete the backups or encrypt them" Maybe magnetic tape is still a better backup medium than the cloud! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/09/how-ransomware-attack-works/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1451624131848768 #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2021-07-09 14:17 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1413502661249298435 ========== There is no past in the internet - only an ever-changing now. But there is an illusion of the past - and little help to determine whether the illusion is faithful. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/ #PS1technology ===== impress 19 time 2021-07-05 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412185597012189189 ========== Thank goodness for cloud backup! https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-capitol-siege-business-electoral-college-media-efe0ea1092bc11c6d3f42ea4ef752d98 The FBI gives thanks every day. Who else might? #PS1technology ===== impress 19 time 2021-07-05 14:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412049591474679818 ========== Cyber insurance premiums are rising 20-30% per MONTH. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-4c2272cdd428ddfa1f3644d513566c06 The Kaseya attack is so big the attacker is having trouble managing the responses to all its ransom demands. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-europe-government-and-politics-technology-business-fc0df4c42f8cd6148bf936ca24bb5cbe #PS1technology ===== impress 27 time 2021-07-05 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1411931623566680070 ========== Happy Dependence Day Weekend! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/02/kaseya-ransomware-attack/ https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-3011c6037bda9ac11b1249a4beb13b06 All that computing in the cloud makes you very DEPENDENT on a host of software providers and makes it easier to attack hundreds of cloud customers at once. #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2021-07-03 12:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1411304062583074817 ========== Brute force - just keep guessing passwords until you get in. That works often enough to keep the Russian security agencies in business. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-europe-russia-health-coronavirus-pandemic-9dcfb8608fd80b76cda0e17d56ada736 #PS1technology ===== impress 16 time 2021-07-02 00:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410764249010380805 ========== Where in the world can a poor miner billionaire go to burn coal and oil? No problem - Kentucky, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas are all eager to help! https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/bitcoin-mining-china-crypto-america/2021/06/17/0a39c3a8-c903-11eb-8708-64991f2acf28_story.html Billionaires don't believe in climate change if it affects their bottom line. #PS1technology ===== impress 42 time 2021-06-18 00:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1405686741898387457 ========== Global connectedness means global problems! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-b372a6796f95a3f51fbbb2bc8f6b40bf #PS1technology ===== impress 34 time 2021-06-18 00:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1405683002542198788 ========== Lots of plausible deniability and no deterrence for cyberweapon attacks. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/world/europe/biden-putin-cyberweapons.html #PS1technology ===== impress 45 time 2021-06-16 02:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1404996702616965126 ========== Chinese keep busy while Russians hog the spotlight. https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-hacking-technology-business-7350235e07d46ba5afc1238b553ea4b9 #PS1technology ===== impress 30 time 2021-06-15 23:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1404941068282388485 ========== Five myths about ransomware. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-ransomware/2021/06/10/b1e00344-c8b1-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html #PS1technology ===== impress 48 time 2021-06-13 06:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403967214886158341 ========== Hazards of contacting aliens. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ufo-report-aliens-seti/2021/06/09/1402f6a8-c899-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html Earthly experience of cultures contacting is that it turns out very badly for the less technologically advanced. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 52 time 2021-06-13 06:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403966159603462148 ========== A Potemkin bitcoin economy. https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-el-salvador-bitcoin-lifestyle-technology-d30c52b39e16ef49e4b6342fdc885c92 #PS1technology ===== impress 72 time 2021-06-11 12:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403334202825740289 ========== Maybe you need to keep critical data local, and just use the cloud for backup. However that was not the Fastly problem. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-17a6b1f238588758aabc53597f8b22af #PS1technology ===== impress 58 time 2021-06-09 06:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1402517769489248259 ========== Wonder what other "encrypted" apps aren't? https://apnews.com/article/europe-technology-a6ac691e26be2efc6e2f4a6974117536 #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-06-08 12:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1402243578072498178 ========== What if everybody's data is in the cloud - and it just floats away? https://apnews.com/article/internet-outage-down-fastly-7c607c931faba19584975da74c8fa633 #PS1technology ===== impress 42 time 2021-06-08 12:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1402242557937999878 ========== Want to connect with your neighbors? No problem, you need to do nothing. Don't want to connect? Then you have to act. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/07/amazon-sidewalk-network/ #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2021-06-07 23:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1402043600456744961 ========== Funny business in the apps stores. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/06/apple-app-store-scams-fraud/ Be cautious about sending money to anybody! #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2021-06-07 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401745434180087808 ========== The future of routine work? If you're not cheaper than a robot, a robot will figure out you're expendable. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/business/online-groceries-pickers-instacart.html #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-06-06 16:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401572741220765696 ========== Pearl Harbor, 9/11, covid, commercialized ransomware-as-a service. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/business/leon-panetta-cyber-attacks.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/politics/ransomware-cyberattacks-sept-11-fbi.html #PS1technology ===== impress 55 time 2021-06-06 07:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401437266065584133 ========== Panetta saw it all coming. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/business/leon-panetta-cyber-attacks.html "Cyber Pearl Harbor" no longer sounds like hyperbole. It will force national indoctrination on safe computing practices in the spirit of "lose lips sink ships" 80 years ago. #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-06-05 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401176718740647936 ========== More democratization of technology. We have drones, they have drones. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraq-militia-drones-threat/2021/05/28/864e44d0-bc8f-11eb-922a-c40c9774bc48_story.html #PS1technology ===== impress 42 time 2021-05-31 01:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399182367135199237 ========== Maybe they will figure it out. https://apnews.com/article/hi-state-wire-d52f7cf7fb0798ae695c6f76b29e424e But a defensive system for a big expensive target has to be 100% effective, while an offensive system can be 10% effective if each weapon costs one tenth as much. It's the democratization of technology. #PS1technology ===== impress 35 time 2021-05-30 21:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399117688966766595 ========== Tracked with technology? Evade with technology! https://apnews.com/article/europe-technology-business-1cd3714c9ce906b8fc931ebb95cb9e26 #PS1technology ===== impress 49 time 2021-05-28 19:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398354751155171328 ========== The democratization of technology! https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ It gives the advantage to small organizations on the offense with nothing to lose. Attack is fantastically cheap and defense is fantastically expensive - perfect terror. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/27/warfare-future-is-now/ #PS1technology ===== impress 49 time 2021-05-28 00:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398074567856250881 ========== Still no answers on radio-frequency energy attacks. https://apnews.com/article/health-government-and-politics-51ebd4f82664aacc5394c1863cd6a5f2 #PS1technology ===== impress 37 time 2021-05-23 14:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1396471023667580935 ========== Boom times again in Silicon Valley! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/technology/semiconductor-chip-innovation-boom.html #PS1technology ===== impress 41 time 2021-05-22 13:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1396096328938049545 ========== Ever wonder why your own web pages don't look very good when you link them on Facebook or Twitter? Read up on what's needed to avoid a very boring link. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/social-ads.html#technical It's for people that like to configure their own web servers. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 36 time 2021-05-21 23:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1395890264644808706 ========== What a Trumpist internet looks like! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/business/china-internet-alibaba-tencent.html Players fall over themselves trying to please the government and get it to knock off their competitors. They are regulated ideologically but deregulated economically. #PS1technology ===== impress 52 time 2021-05-21 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1395572560784334855 ========== Hackers got in long ago and took their time. https://apnews.com/article/hacking-business-technology-government-and-politics-b221968496ed498457ab56aae7970c90 Just like a long-term government espionage project rather than a quick criminal job. #PS1technology ===== impress 54 time 2021-05-21 02:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1395570625784152075 ========== The only way to stop the attacks is to stop paying ransom! https://apnews.com/article/hacking-technology-business-ed1556556c7af6220e6990978ab4f745 But like the earlier Barbary Pirates, these pirates can only operate within the protection of a state. Countermeasure also need to be brought against the sponsoring states. #PS1technology ===== impress 36 time 2021-05-20 04:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1395228741211594752 ========== The big business of ransomware. Facilitated by crypto-currencies. Protected by host governments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/15/ransomware-colonial-darkside-cyber-security/ #PS1technology ===== impress 49 time 2021-05-16 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1393928708130443273 ========== Not just pipelines! Going after law enforcement, too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/ransomware-attack-dc-police/2021/05/11/e1cb8600-b295-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html These gangs operate as the Russian government looks the other way. The only solution is 1) pay no ransom 2) pressure Putin 3) teach everybody how to avoid getting in trouble. #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-05-12 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1392332404971380737 ========== Maybe in 30 years it won't be dark at night any more! Satellites everywhere, probably shooting at each other by then. https://apnews.com/article/tx-state-wire-spacex-business-technology-science-9c2a06a4868408043ccb472372a0d8dd Democratization of technology always has surprising consequences. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1technology ===== impress 49 time 2021-05-11 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1391934106829660160 ========== Ransomware attacks on America and its allies are the new hot business opportunity. How long before the hackers do an IPO on a stock exchange? https://apnews.com/article/ga-state-wire-business-c6ef4314af911fb58b8445d2b121e82d https://apnews.com/article/ransomware-gangs-hacking-police-cybercrime-pipeline-3a38c27c4fafe0c39461fb71bf91a42a #PS1technology ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 88 likes 1 replies 1 time 2021-05-09 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1391393117035667467 ========== Another way to use technology to break the system. https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-technology-business-9f10b43b6aacbc750dfc010ceaedaca7 Hardly any real consumers support giving internet and cell companies any more power. #PS1technology ===== impress 54 time 2021-05-07 23:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390817329890533376 ========== A fast and easy way to track people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/05/apple-airtags-stalking/ #PS1technology ===== impress 47 time 2021-05-06 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390153205992984579 ========== Dark patterns - how cell phone companies, cable companies, Amazon Prime, and even Trump's campaign fund make it as easy as possible to start sending money and as hard as possible to stop. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/dark-pattern-internet-ecommerce-regulation.html Heads I win, tails you lose. #PS1technology ===== impress 41 time 2021-05-01 04:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1388353096435208194 ========== Ransomware attacks Silicon Valley disabled. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/26/a-hot-mess-vta-ransomware-attack-strands-riders-with-disabilities/ #PS1technology ===== impress 76 time 2021-04-27 04:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386896636849266688 ========== Not much of an explanation! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/26/questions-answers-pentagon-internet-protocol-addresses/ Does ANYBODY in Congress know what's going on? #PS1technology ===== impress 60 time 2021-04-27 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386864643621097473 ========== Ransomware attacks individuals, too. Best defense is the same as any other computer problem - back up early and often and securely. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/15/tips-for-preventing-ransomware/ #PS1technology ===== impress 75 time 2021-04-27 01:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386847610737098757 ========== Russian ransomware attacks protected by the state. https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-general-news-government-and-politics-c9dab7eb3841be45dff2d93ed3102999 #PS1technology ===== impress 76 time 2021-04-27 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386844796602388480 ========== China hacks Pulse "Secure VPN" https://www.wired.com/story/vpn-hacks-pulse-secure-espionage/ It seems to be getting easier! #PS1technology ===== impress 117 time 2021-04-26 23:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386826510556749828 ========== Technology disrupts another traditional business. https://apnews.com/article/technology-north-carolina-business-cb6b4a4883eb315d03f42540828a5121 Property lines will eventually be recorded as GPS tracks anyway. #PS1technology ===== impress 76 time 2021-04-26 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386689618087534596 ========== The Feds are trying to do something about ransomware. But it's hard when the criminals are foreign and protected by foreign governments. https://apnews.com/article/technology-hacking-business-45977e01475a23513051ac549026fffb Ultimately it depends on ordinary people using computers more carefully - a hard task. #PS1technology ===== impress 77 time 2021-04-26 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386483953482158081 ========== It's too expensive to engineer security into products and delays time to market and reduces competitive advantage! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-b1139dc8bd2ec3179f1075d6ef77c7fb It's better for the bottom line to let the consumer figure it out. Or not. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/22/larry-magid-my-new-air-fryer-is-a-security-risk/ #PS1technology ===== impress 52 time 2021-04-25 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386333095222153218 ========== More on the DOD IPv4 mystery! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-b26ab809d1e9fdb53314f56299399949 #PS1technology ===== impress 54 time 2021-04-25 05:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386198221706317832 ========== IPv4 addresses are a very valuable commodity. Why did the Pentagon outsource them to an unknown organization in the last minutes of the Trump administration? Congress should investigate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/24/pentagon-internet-address-mystery/ Somehow IPv6 hasn't caught on much. #PS1technology ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 53 replies 1 time 2021-04-24 14:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1385971543365218308 ========== Nothing new about fake news. It's not caused by technology, though accelerated by it. It's caused by people exercising their free will - to do evil - often telling themselves they are doing the right thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/technologies-give-velocity-to-stupidity-but-they-dont-make-people-stupid/2021/04/13/bf857f10-9c74-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html #PS1technology ===== impress 46 time 2021-04-15 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1382537745558511619 ========== GPS is rather important - built into modern ways of doing things, like driving. Maybe it shouldn't be messed with. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/14/gps-is-endangered-by-misguided-fcc-decision-made-during-trump-administration/ #PS1technology ===== impress 45 time 2021-04-15 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1382536327988584456 ========== Ransomware coming to a file near you. https://apnews.com/article/hacking-california-6d0f5e1644814e2a85822cfaba132674 Soon it may be the leading industry in some places. #PS1technology ===== impress 66 time 2021-04-03 13:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378338271663517702 ========== How China and Russia are using the UN to control the internet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-russia-and-china-are-attempting-to-rewrite-cyberworld-order/2021/03/30/16030226-9190-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html #PS1technology ===== impress 55 time 2021-04-03 02:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378176318047612932 ========== Deepfakes have come to your phone. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/25/deepfake-video-apps/ How will you abuse them? #PS1technology ===== impress 41 time 2021-03-25 18:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1375151547458281474 ========== Is the real story here that somebody broke in, or that it is SO EASY to break in - almost everywhere? https://apnews.com/article/business-washington-switzerland-hacking-identity-theft-b657992e12f42880283cfe2c96cfb3bc Gives you a lot of confidence in corporate and government bureaucracies keeping your confidential data confidential! #PS1technology ===== impress 40 time 2021-03-19 15:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372936265797017601 ========== A lot like Trump except he's smarter - hence more dangerous when he goes into politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/technology/china-elon-musk-fans.html #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-03-15 19:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1371542312740818945 ========== Learning to teach, and be taught, within Zoom. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/zoom-classes-felt-like-teaching-into-a-void--until-i-told-my-students-why/2021/03/11/024afb2c-81e5-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html Feedback is a two-way street. #PS1technology ===== impress 41 time 2021-03-14 16:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1371132680616566787 ========== Necessary infrastructure for the next pandemic - https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-us-news-distance-learning-coronavirus-pandemic-internet-access-94c57075af6a3d539abe78bbb7e934ce Too late for this pandemic. Universal broadband availability should be part of the infrastructure plan. #PS1technology ===== impress 46 time 2021-03-14 14:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1371109228492910594 ========== It's hard to get complicated software debugged when the requirements are constantly changing. Even so, the failure rate is remarkable. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/technology/faulty-software-snarls-vaccine-sign-ups.html #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-03-12 19:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1370459877177356288 ========== Why everybody whose livelihood depended on business travel and entertainment is in real trouble. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/opinion/business-travel-videoconferencing.html Zoom's not great but it's good enough most of the time. #PS1technology ===== impress 51 time 2021-03-10 18:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369724353739325441 ========== Everything you do is recorded and readily available to hackers! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams Delivering on the promise of the fully-connected Internet of Things! #PS1technology ===== impress 44 time 2021-03-10 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369656666162040839 ========== Yet another hack - frequent flyers. https://apnews.com/article/travel-hacking-airlines-singapore-dad3f4782d276ccaa2fbf01f097897cc #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2021-03-07 15:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368591395569635334 ========== Yet another hack - this one from Eastern Europe. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-europe-eastern-europe-new-zealand-f318ba1ffc971eb17371456b015206a5 #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2021-03-07 14:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368572026848378880 ========== Chinese hackers have been busy. It's not easy keeping up with the Russians! But it seems to be easy to hack American institutions. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/technology/microsoft-hack-china.html #PS1technology ===== impress 30 time 2021-03-07 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368448856082378752 ========== There's are reasons for zoom fatigue! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/23/new-stanford-research-why-zoom-meetings-can-wipe-you-out/ #PS1technology ===== impress 42 time 2021-02-24 01:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364391488889647104 ========== In Russia, all data is on sale. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/business/media/probiv-investigative-reporting-russia.html #PS1technology ===== impress 45 time 2021-02-22 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1363648041597603841 ========== Technology to the rescue? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/opinion/science-technology.html It will probably widen the gap between the red and the blue. #PS1technology ===== impress 44 time 2021-02-12 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1360079148652187653 ========== The nuclear knot gets more tangled. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/world/europe/biden-nuclear-weapons-arms-control.html Does the Fermi paradox mean it's fatal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature_of_intelligent_life_to_destroy_itself #PS1technology ===== impress 59 time 2021-02-11 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1359725164468965380 ========== Trust YOUR water? https://apnews.com/article/business-water-utilities-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-utilities-e783b0f1ca2af02f19f5a308d44e6abb #PS1technology ===== impress 35 time 2021-02-10 00:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1359304322777927681 ========== What's pushing demand for electric cars? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/climate/catalytic-converter-theft.html #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2021-02-09 23:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1359285094108696576 ========== We need to play defense as well as offense! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/technology/cyber-hackers-usa.html #PS1technology ===== impress 35 time 2021-02-07 06:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1358298652301692929 ========== A new use for online doorbells. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-agents-killed-florida/2021/02/05/f40f90f6-672f-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html Surveillance technology works both ways. #PS1technology ===== impress 34 time 2021-02-06 17:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1358102500537114624 ========== Broadcasting your location to the world. It all gets recorded for sale. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2021-02-05 19:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1357767055676559360 ========== The epistemic coup - "a chaos machine for hire, in which norm violation is key to revenue" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/sunday/facebook-surveillance-society-technology.html "We may have democracy, or we may have surveillance society, but we cannot have both" #PS1technology ===== impress 35 time 2021-01-31 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356029004189462532 ========== Fake facebook friends https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/28/larry-magid-battening-down-your-facebook-hatches/ #PS1technology ===== impress 48 time 2021-01-30 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1355530113807355906 ========== Long supply chains invite hacking, and hackers accept the invitation. https://apnews.com/article/politics-hacking-russia-software-a1d451df34d9f50ddb20f9df0c16b2ef #PS1technology ===== impress 34 time 2021-01-25 14:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1353716853856555009 ========== GPS is an Achilles tendon. No backup is in place. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/opinion/gps-vulnerable-alternatives-navigation-critical-infrastructure.html #PS1technology ===== impress 55 time 2021-01-24 22:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1353463065946202113 ========== Austin and Miami dream of taking over from Silicon Valley! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-30/how-texas-can-become-the-next-silicon-valley But Silicon Valley is the place to develop revolutionary world-changing technology. Minority-rule politics is opposed to revolution. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1338028966541619 #PS1technology ===== impress 47 time 2021-01-18 19:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1351253203036241920 ========== Mismanaging your passwords is tricky, and can be expensive! No customer service to help you reset your password. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html #PS1technology ===== impress 41 time 2021-01-18 18:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1351241739043033088 ========== It's not all good news on the electric vehicle front - https://apnews.com/article/fires-vehicle-fires-69421270f049c9875c07b011e8d4a51e Damaged batteries are very dangerous, and most people don't know what to do about them. #PS1technology ===== impress 40 time 2021-01-16 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1350235635458600960