As another poster detailed, this is not a company that exposed your info: these credentials are all from stealer logs, which are logs of credentials stolen by keyloggers installed on machines. If your credentials were in this report, it means that you’ve entered that username and password on a machine with malware on it. Could be your personal machine, or it could be some other computer you’ve used.

Oh my God, the Something Awful forums are still up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/

I don’t think this is a case of trying to make more money.

Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.

What we’re seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don’t think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.

Why would anything socially progressive organize on Facebook? Most normal people I know have abandoned that platform, let alone anyone privacy-minded or anti-oligarch.

That you’d be a bad teammate: the kind of person who puts personal preference above what the group has decided and causes problems for no good reason; the kind of person who would insist on indenting with spaces when the whole team has decided to use tabs.

Snow Crash is almost kinda satire, but also not. Also, I believe, the first use of the term “metaverae”. It’s a fun read.

For anyone who doesn’t want to have to sit through ads and dig through menus just to get to the website: https://www.charachorder.com/

All that does is compel the recipient to stop what they’re doing and wait until you send the message, which, if you’re typing up a wall of text, could be minutes. This is like calling someone on the phone and, when they answer, saying “hello please hold”. Don’t do it; it’s super rude.

If we’re really lucky, maybe they’ll patent the idea and then everyone else will have to stop doing it.

Thanks for posting this; I’d been seeing a lot of people talking about how China was using backdoors that the FBI wanted and used, but hadn’t seen anything definitive about US use of those vulnerabilities.

Also this is another reminder for me that I’m glad to be able to vote for Wyden.

I’ll be sticking with Protonmail, personally

There are a lot of parts to the puzzle! It’s easy to miss some.

Signal, Whatsapp, etc are great, as long as I don’t have access to your phone and password, right? Likewise, what if your phone’s operating system has a critical vulnerability that the OS makers don’t know about (AKA a zero day) that can allow a complete remote takeover of your device after a single click on a text message? It didn’t end well for Jamal Kashoggi: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/middleeast/khashoggi-phone-malware-intl/index.html

E2EE is great for data in transit, and full disk encryption is great for if someone steals your locked device. Neither will help if you have compromised code running on your machine, though.

It seems to me that Syncthing is the exact right thing to use here; what is “overkill” about it that makes you think you should use something else?

Technically it’s O.MG; they work with and are sold through HAK 5, and license Ducky Script.

Their headline, and the summary above, actually say 0.8%. so either they updated their headline or there was some kind of error when posting it here.

Ah gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks.

I don’t know how relevant FDIC is to the 1%; it only covers 250k, and only in things like checking and savings accounts and CDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corporation

Most of the 1% wealth is probably tied up in things like stocks and real estate, or maybe they diversify all over the place.

My understanding is that intention is not uncommonly litigated; I believe the question of “intent to deceive” is central to trademark law, for example. That’s also what the the “degrees” of murder etc are about.

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. I do read an awful lot of contacts and talk to lawyers.