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aero_sm1thon Ruby 2.x Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain

The title is kinda misleading. This should mention Payload for vulnerabilities within the Ruby libs.

aero_sm1thon How Taiwan transformed its health care system

Taiwan, and ergo Singapore, have an ideal health care system.

aero_sm1thon Fakespot – measure the legitimacy of reviews on popular sites

I use Fakespot religiously since 2016 and I noticed the same thing so I emailed them asking them, why would Amazons' products have fake reviews? This was their reply (from co-founder, Ming):

"We have noticed trends where fake review clubs/bots seed their reviewer profiles by leaving reviews on various products, specifically Amazon best selling products to create a profile that looks legitimate (it is done to fool anti-fraud systems that Amazon utilizes). Our engine detects these seed reviewer profiles and therefore penalizes them accordingly by examining their profile and our AI algorithm (one of numerous) was trained to distinguish these patterns."

I hope this is helpful. I love the website and I think it is not to the benefit of Amazon, Yelp, or TripAdvisor to do anything about fake reviews as it only helps their platforms generate more $.