From 0e2bbb36e22f8aaf31d2e2a4c4e4fbb26d8e13a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: devenblake
-Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year (The Verge; Lyons, Kim) (Archive link)
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+ Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year (The Verge; Lyons, Kim) (Archive link)
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-Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (Medium; Wells, David) (Archive link)
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+ Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (Medium; Wells, David) (Archive link)
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@@ -187,9 +189,11 @@ Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states
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@@ -234,6 +238,9 @@ Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (Medium; Wells, David) (
Facebook Page Goes Dark, Angering Russia Dissidents (The New York Times; Roth, Andrew; Herszenhorn, David) (Archive link) (Onion link)
+ What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson (Medium; Tufekci, Zeynep) +
@@ -253,6 +260,9 @@ Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (Medium; Wells, David) ( Facebook is using your phone's location to suggest new friends - which could be a privacy disaster (Splinter; Hill, Kashmir) (Archive link)
++ Facebook temporarily blocks Black Lives Matter activist after he posts racist email (The Guardian; Levin, Sam) +
How does Facebook suggest potential friends? Not location data - not now (The Guardian; Hunt, Elle) (Archive link)
@@ -262,6 +272,9 @@ Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (Medium; Wells, David) ( On Facebook, French Antiracists Fall Victim to Censorship (La Quadrature du Net) (Archive link) ++ Publisher's Facebook page deleted after posting criticism of Turkish government (The Guardian; Hern, Alex) +
@@ -278,6 +291,9 @@ Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (Medium; Wells, David) ( Facebook accused of censorship after hundreds of US political pages purged (The Guardian; Tynan, Dan) (Archive link)
++ Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed' black people (The Guardiam; Levin, Sam) +
Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands (BBC) (Archive link)
@@ -370,9 +386,11 @@ Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance-New York Times Suffers Redaction Failure, Exposes Name Of NSA Agent And Targeted Network In Uploaded PDF (Techdirt; Cushing, Tim) -
++ New York Times Suffers Redaction Failure, Exposes Name Of NSA Agent And Targeted Network In Uploaded PDF (Techdirt; Cushing, Tim) +
+-An Alternate AltaVista Search Engine History Lesson For Internet Nerds (Tedium; Smith, Ernie) -
++ An Alternate AltaVista Search Engine History Lesson For Internet Nerds (Tedium; Smith, Ernie) +
+-A College Student Behind A Massively Popular Paint-Mixing TikTok Page Was Fired From Sherwin-Williams (Buzzfeed News; Chen, Tanya) (Archive link) -
++ A College Student Behind A Massively Popular Paint-Mixing TikTok Page Was Fired From Sherwin-Williams (Buzzfeed News; Chen, Tanya) (Archive link) +
+-Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (Electronic Frontier Foundation) -
++ Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (Electronic Frontier Foundation) +
+-Campus Staff Took Advantage of Weaknesses in Admissions Processes to Inappropriately Admit 64 Students as Favors to Donors, Family, and Friends (Auditor of the State of California) -
++ Campus Staff Took Advantage of Weaknesses in Admissions Processes to Inappropriately Admit 64 Students as Favors to Donors, Family, and Friends (Auditor of the State of California) +
+-Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers (Vice; Jeffries, Adrianne) (Archive link) -
++ Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers (Vice; Jeffries, Adrianne) (Archive link) +
+-"[Apple] has pushed a silent update to all Macs removing a ...web server installed by Zoom" (Twitter; Wardle, Patrick) (Archive link) -
--FBI Warns of Teleconferencing and Online Classroom Hijacking During COVID-19 Pandemic (Federal Bureau of Investigation Boston; Setera, Kristen) -
--Foreign intelligence operatives are reportedly using online platforms and video-conferencing apps like Zoom to spy on Americans (Business Insider; Sheth, Sonam) -
--Google Told Its Workers That They Can't Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore (BuzzFeed News; Dixit, Pranav) -
--The 'S' in Zoom, Stands for Security (Objective-See; Wardle, Patrick) -
--Two more macOS Zoom flaws surface, as lawsuit & government probe loom (AppleInsider; Peterson, Mike) -
--US Senate tells members not to use Zoom (Ars Technica; Stacey, Kiran; Murphy, Hannah) -
--Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake (TechCrunch; Whittaker, Zach) -
--Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says (Ars Technica; Brodkin, Jon) -
--Zoom macOS install 'shady,' plus video chats aren't end-to-end encrypted (AppleInsider; Gallagher, William) -
--Zoom Meetings Aren't End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing (The Intercept; Lee, Micah; Yael, Grauer) -
--Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website! (Medium; Leitschuh, Johnathan) (Archive link) -
--Zoom updates macOS installer to remove malware-like exploits (AppleInsider; Neely, Amber) -
--Zoom for iOS shares data with Facebook even if users don't have an account (AppleInsider; Peterson, Mike) -
++ "[Apple] has pushed a silent update to all Macs removing a ...web server installed by Zoom" (Twitter; Wardle, Patrick) (Archive link) +
++ Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website! (Medium; Leitschuh, Johnathan) (Archive link) +
++ FBI Warns of Teleconferencing and Online Classroom Hijacking During COVID-19 Pandemic (Federal Bureau of Investigation Boston; Setera, Kristen) +
++ Foreign intelligence operatives are reportedly using online platforms and video-conferencing apps like Zoom to spy on Americans (Business Insider; Sheth, Sonam) +
++ Google Told Its Workers That They Can't Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore (BuzzFeed News; Dixit, Pranav) +
++ The 'S' in Zoom, Stands for Security (Objective-See; Wardle, Patrick) +
++ Two more macOS Zoom flaws surface, as lawsuit & government probe loom (AppleInsider; Peterson, Mike) +
++ US Senate tells members not to use Zoom (Ars Technica; Stacey, Kiran; Murphy, Hannah) +
++ Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake (TechCrunch; Whittaker, Zach) +
++ Zoom for iOS shares data with Facebook even if users don't have an account (AppleInsider; Peterson, Mike) +
++ Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says (Ars Technica; Brodkin, Jon) +
++ Zoom macOS install 'shady,' plus video chats aren't end-to-end encrypted (AppleInsider; Gallagher, William) +
++ Zoom Meetings Aren't End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing (The Intercept; Lee, Micah; Yael, Grauer) +
++ Zoom updates macOS installer to remove malware-like exploits (AppleInsider; Neely, Amber) +
+-Unpacking Kamala Harris's Record on Trans and Sex Work Issues (them.; Sanders, Wren) -
++ Unpacking Kamala Harris's Record on Trans and Sex Work Issues (them.; Sanders, Wren) +
+Disclaimer: I am a fan of much of Stallman's work.
--Remove Richard Stallman (Medium; G., Selam) (Archive link) -
--Remove Richard Stallman: Appendix A (Medium; G., Selam) (Archive link) -
--Remove Richard Stallman and its appendix have had bits of them debunked but Stallman's -conduct is well-known within the open source community. -He's a bit of a missing stair. -To his credit, he's changed for the better over the years, but that does not undo the damage he's done. -
++ Remove Richard Stallman (Medium; G., Selam) (Archive link) +
++ Remove Richard Stallman: Appendix A (Medium; G., Selam) (Archive link) +
++ Remove Richard Stallman and its appendix have had bits of them debunked but Stallman's + conduct is well-known within the open source community. + He's a bit of a missing stair. + To his credit, he's changed for the better over the years, but that does not undo the damage he's done. +
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