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"Amateurs study heists. Professionals study money laundering."
Dump 30,000 stolen credit card numbers into the hopper, untraceable cash comes out the other side.Much of the system was automated, including the creation of Apple accounts. According to Diachenko, the...
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Two-factor auth and SMS hijacking
tl;dr: You ought to be using 2-factor, and you ought to be using the one-time password generator built into 1password instead of using SMS.The "SIM porting" attack has been becoming more common and...
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Death to the Lightning connector
Apparently Apple's latest patch to prevent cops from rooting your phone means that I have to type a password every time I want to charge my battery now."USB power chargers are not affected, but some...
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Today in Ono-Sendai News
Also, today is the 23rd anniversary of Hackers. Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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Apple Watch: You had one job.
Apple Watches repeatedly crashing and rebooting due to daylight saving time bugThe Watch reboots itself repeatedly, as long as the Infograph Modular face is active with the Activity complication. This...
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This was an iPhone and now it is a cursed orb
Ingrid Burrington: This was an iPhone and now it is a cursed orb There will probably be more orbs made in the future, please give me your old phonesThere are too many rectangles and cylinders in...
View ArticleFucking Apple.
Dear Lazyweb: Why won't iOS 12 ever show me a mail notification? Messages notifications work fine. I have all the obvious things checked, and Do Not Disturb is off. Server logs show mail being...
View ArticlePayphone News, 1994
Rotary Pay Phones Return, This Time to Foil Drug DealsIt is the boldest tactic in a campaign that began with improving lighting, moving phones away from problem areas, then disabling phones so they...
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Never post photos of your keys
A hacker might do something untoward with them.Previously.
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Mister Softee Unmasked
Meet The Man Who Uses LinkNYC To Freak Out NYers"I have never understood the fundamental premise of LinkNYC, that every single outdoor payphone should be routed and replaced with this unproven...
View Article"Advanced" Linux Sound "Architecture"
I can't believe that this 1994 clown car has still not disgorged all of its passengers, but here we are. I'm running Raspbian 9.6 and if mpg321 is interrupted before it finished playing the file, about...
View ArticleXScreenSaver 5.41
XScreenSaver 5.41 is out now, including iOS and Android. New hack, Handsy. I modeled and animated it by "hand", heyyo. I tried considered using the Leap Motion Controller API to snapshot real hands,...
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Undeletable Facebook, the last tolerable iPhone, and also some lens questions
Facebook is the new crapware:The scandal-beset social media behemoth has inked an unknown number of agreements with Android smartphone makers, mobile carriers and OSes around the world to not only...
View ArticleMinimum Functionality Dali Clock released from App Store Probation
After two weeks and a dozen messages with the Apple Sweatshop prisoners, I finally said "let me speak to your manager" enough times that they approved Dali Clock 2.44. This may be a "temporary"...
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Dawn of the Second Epoch
Or, 10 bits should be enough for anybody:GPS used a 10 bit field to encode the week number in each GPS time message, which means that a maximum of 1,024 weeks (19.7 years), could be handled. Each of...
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The ever-changing rules about autoplay
Lazyweb: I wish to have an HREF that, when clicked, creates a new 16:9 window with a YouTube IFRAME in it, which then begins playing, with audio.My understanding was that the current crop of what we...
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Instagram: How not to do messaging
Hi, today I'm going to remind you that spyware manufacturer Facebook's subsidiary Instagram has a messaging interface that is so bad that it might actually be an intentional prank.There are three...
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5G Networks Could Throw Weather Forecasting Into Chaos
NOAA's acting chief said that interference from 5G wireless phones could reduce the accuracy of forecasts by 30 percent.That's equivalent, he said, to the quality of weather predictions four decades...
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