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madcadmium··on ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
> by all metrics, immigrants are a net positive to society.

What about wage suppression?

madcadmium··on Black Swan author warns of future selloffs 2-3 times worse than DeepSeek shock
"Someday, the sky will fall"

Ok.

madcadmium··on 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
> This would provide an incredibly precise estimate of the user's location.

Within ~250 miles of their location is not "incredibly precise"

madcadmium··on My Ban from X Is About One Thing: Elon Musk Controlling the Flow of Information
I would like to read this article but am unwilling to provide even a fake e-mail address to do so
madcadmium··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
I wonder how many of their telecom devices like routers, switches, etc. have bombs implanted in their power supplies
madcadmium··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
I wonder how many of their telecom devices like routers, switches, etc. have bombs implanted in their power supplies
madcadmium··on Sam Bankman-Fried Files Appeal to Overturn Fraud Conviction
His wealthy parents, probably
madcadmium··on CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our process'
Does it also monitor the contents of your copy/paste buffer? It would scoop up a ton of privileged data if so.
madcadmium··on In a leaked recording, AWS CEO tells most developers could stop coding soon
> Operations and Sysadmins I don't forsee ever changing, especially with AI.

Why not?

madcadmium··on Ark Invest: Robotaxis 28 trillion by 2030 [video]
Yes, the woman who started Ark Invest because it was "God's will"
madcadmium··on IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
When I managed a large fleet of EC2 instances running CentOS I had Ansible running locally on each machine via a cron job. I only used remote SSH to orchestrate deployments (stop service, upgrade, test, put back in service).
madcadmium··on The death of the 60/40 portfolio
How much leverage though?
madcadmium··on Tesla's in Its Flop Era
Yeah, I was really confused. This guy loves his BMW M3 but wants to ditch it for a Tesla?
madcadmium··on Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users
It's in the article:

> Ken didn’t know it when all this was happening (and it’s not at all obvious from the Apple prompts), but clicking “Allow” would not have allowed the attackers to change Ken’s password. Rather, clicking “Allow” displays a six digit PIN that must be entered on Ken’s device — allowing Ken to change his password. It appears that these rapid password reset prompts are being used to make a subsequent inbound phone call spoofing Apple more believable.

madcadmium··on Stop playing God, Pope's adviser tells tech titans
Oh, the irony!
madcadmium··on IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
You can control what messages you receive by closing your client
madcadmium··on Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff
The remaining employee's workloads are about to increase 50%
madcadmium··on Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users
Because people who don't bother to read the article assume it's a new breach, as we can see in the comments here ("another breach"). I'm not saying that it makes it better or worse.
madcadmium··on Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users
This is not a new breach, it is a disclosure of additional findings from the last breach.
madcadmium··on Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users
This is not a new breach, it is a disclosure of additional findings from the last breach.
madcadmium··on Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users
This is not a new breach, it is a disclosure of additional findings from the last breach.
madcadmium··on Apple, Disney and IBM to pause ads on X after antisemitic Elon Musk tweet
That's rich coming from IBM
madcadmium··on Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
This is karma for their passive-aggressive blog post about Okta's security incident one week earlier
madcadmium··on Hackers stole access tokens from Okta's support unit
Isn't Equifax part of a de facto monopoly? Okta doesn't have that luxury. Security is also not Equifax's core competency, but it is supposed to be Okta's. I would be happy for you to be right, but I think this happening a second time to Okta is going to cause massive damage to their reputation in the industry.
madcadmium··on Hackers stole access tokens from Okta's support unit
Okta outsources their support staff to save millions of dollars while losing billions of dollars in market cap each time their support staff gets hacked.
madcadmium··on Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen
Competitive advantage?
madcadmium··on Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen
Locking down what, exactly?
madcadmium··on Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen
That would be contrary to Okta's zero-trust security model.
madcadmium··on Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen
Okta employee here. I can assure you that there are no clear-text credentials in our source code.
madcadmium··on 'Big Short' investor says white-collar jobs bubble is 'bursting'
You're saying that we've reached peak automation?