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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Senior reporter @TechCrunch, writing a book on Hacking Team and government spyware.
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- Dorsey and his weird beard-shirt combo, Alex Jones, a congressional staffer wearing Google Glass, and a journalist wearing an 1980s Casio watch. This has to be the most hilariously dystopian picture of the year.
- NEW: A hacker took control and locked the chastity cages of several men, asking them for a ransom to unlock them. "Your cock is mine now," the hacker told one of the victims.
- NEW: Activision Blizzard workers are accusing the company of "union busting" and "intimidation." A current employee said they are "scared" because they are seeing "retaliation," and some other workers who were outspoken before are now going "silent."
- NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal. This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial.
- Can we all agree that we should not say whitelist/blacklist and instead use allowlist/denylist?
- NEW: Elon Musk switched on X calling by default, which could potentially expose your IP address, and allow spam calls. We tested how it works in different scenarios and even ran a network analysis test to break it all down. And it's a real mess.
- Tech bros think shitty AI products have human rights or something. Go for a walk and take a deep breath dude.
- New: leaking collective @DDoSecrets published 270 gigabytes of internal sensitive files from police departments all over the US. Hat tip to @briankrebs who verified the leak.
- "On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job." vice.com/en/article/y3g…
- Uber: our drivers do not deserve health insurance nor other benefits. Also Uber: please vaccinate them first so they can keep making money for our stockholders and board members.I’m asking governors in all 50 states + DC to prioritize drivers & delivery people for early vaccine access. 👇 These frontline workers should get the vaccine before people like me. reut.rs/374LWiv
- New: We found the supposed Facebook data breach that some people are claiming is somehow connected to the Facebook outage. It's almost certainly not connected. And it's almost certainly not a data breach, but a scam.
