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Alejandro Cáceres, the hacker who took down North Korea’s internet from his home: ‘My attack was a response to their attempt to spy on me’
english.elpais.com Alejandro Cáceres, the hacker who took down North Korea’s internet from his home: ‘My attack was a response to their attempt to spy on me’

Better known as P4x or _hyp3ri0n, this cybersecurity expert was recruited by the US government after his exploit. Disillusioned, he has decided to reveal his identity and continue the fight on his own

Alejandro Cáceres, the hacker who took down North Korea’s internet from his home: ‘My attack was a response to their attempt to spy on me’

(...) the internet went down across the country. A wave of cyberattacks left all systems on hold for more than seven days. First, the main national websites failed, from the official news site to the booking page of the national airline. Then, the Asian state’s connections with the rest of the world were interrupted. Emails could not be sent or received; there was no connection to cloud services. The blockade was complete.

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EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
  • Note the vote was withdrawn, not actually voted against. They're pushing this for a later date because there was no majority.

    “The EU Council did not make a decision on chat control today, as the agenda item was removed due to the lack of a majority, (...)

    Belgium’s draft law, (...) was instead postponed indefinitely. (...) Belgium cannot currently present a proposal that would gain a majority. In July, the Council Presidency will transfer from Belgium to Hungary, which has stated its intention to advance negotiations on chat control as part of its work program.

  • You guys nailed the new way votes are displayed.
  • This is subjective. I think it could be something like two check boxes in settings:

    • Enable hearts?
    • Enable up/down votes?

    (I'm not complaining, works for me as is. Just trying for some constructive criticism.)

  • Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers
  • They start with CSAM, move to copyright infringement, and end at censorship of those with opposing views.

    Once such laws and mechanisms are in place all it takes is the right wrong leadership to take it all away to keep us safe.

  • Off-Topic Friday
  • I've been drinking a lot of coffee lattely and I don't even like coffee. It's just that I add a lot of milk to it so it tastes kind of decent.

    I'm on my way to my fifth cup mug today.

    I've also recently developed an inability to fall asleep at night as quickly as I used to. I should probably go back to tea but every time I try I hear the coffee jar whispering in my ear "come to me or you'll regret it" and since I'm not a confrontational individual I kind of just go with it.

  • [Fixed] Are gifs broken?
  • I enabled the option and after reopening the app GIFs play but only after I click them.

    Click image, which zooms to occupy full screen, and GIF plays. Go back to thread by closing image and it stops again. \ So basically it plays when full screen but not inline.

  • Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
  • An extension would allow me to use FF as I usually do for all sites except for list-of-blocked-sites-in-EU that the extension would work its magic on to allow data through. Also, I wouldn't have to look for a secure proxy myself and it would work (hopefully) on FF for mobile devices.

    (Right now I'm using Tor which was already suggested in a different comment. The effort of having to open Tor is small but I was wondering whther an extension like Censor Tracker existed.)

    I suppose a proxy could work. Ideally I would have multiple proxies working within the same profile like

    • Proxy 1 for websites A, B, C (uni proxy so I can access papers)
    • Proxy 2 for websites E, F, G (Russia proxy so I can read EU-blocked stuff)
    • Rest goes unproxied.
  • Why does no distro utilise BitTorrent to distribute packages?
  • Some distros do this already.

    Alternative downloads

    There are several other ways to get Ubuntu including torrents, which can potentially mean a quicker download, our network installer for older systems and special configurations and links to our regional mirrors for our older (and newer) releases.

    BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer download network that sometimes enables higher download speeds and more reliable downloads of large files. You need a BitTorrent client on your computer to enable this download method.

    https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads

  • Volvo recalls all of its 72K EX30 cars due to software bug that obscures speedometer
  • In older models the speedometer and the tachometer were analogue but new Volvos have them digital so more likely to be affected by software bugs even when the separation exists.

    I don't actually know how the analogue versions work or if they could still be affected by software bugs in the onboard computer. UI wise probably sturdier than digital I suspect.

  • Custom Feeds Option?
  • My use case for this is that I only subscribe to communities related to tech to keep my core feed clean. Specially during short breaks during work hours I don't want to open Jerboa and bump into other stuff. But I have other interests, like most people.

    So it would be nice to have a feed of communities focused on politics even though I'm not subscribed to those communities. And another one focused on random interests like documentaries, books, etc (which I'm not subscribed to either).

    I believe this should be part of the back end though, and not a frontend-only thing, in order to have sync between clients (like smartphone, tablet, PC). Having to redo lists in each frontend would be a pain when lists can have many dozens of entries. (During the dark ages of reddit I remember hitting the 100 limit at some point.)

  • [Poll] What should be Lemmy's default way of displaying votes?
  • I like being able to see upvotes and dowvotes separately as it is done now.

    Arstechnica has them separately but also shows the sum which could be an option. For example, 90 (93 / -3) but with green and red color.

    Having a show/hide sum in settings could help please more people but it's extra work for developers.

  • YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers
  • Not to me (EU). I use Firefox with uBlock Origin.

    In Linux everything works without issues. I sometimes have music videos playing on the background and videos may pause after a while (30, 60 min maybe? not sure) but that's about it.

    In Android no delays and no ads, but I manually set resolution to 720p on my tablet and occasionally the video stutters a bit and drops to auto(360p). I mostly use it to listen to music videos and the audio keeps going during and after res drops so that's fine; since I'm listening and not looking at the video I don't even notice it happening. Resolution drops sucks when looking at the videos (vs listening to music) like when watching a documentary but I do that usually in landscape and I find resolution drops happen less often than when I'm using portrait/vertical mode for music.

  • Elefante de Luís XIV alimentado a pão e vinho

    Pedro II de Portugal oferece elefante africano a Luís XIV de França. O presente é alimentado a sopa, pão e vinho.

    >A diplomatic gift from Portugal in 1668, this elephant was a female from the Congo. > >It is known that she was fed daily with 80 pounds of bread, 12 litres of wine, a large portion of vegetable soup with bread and rice, and grass at will.

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)AN
    ಠ_ಠ @infosec.pub

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