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There is Good News and Bad news in the Atlassian Outage.
Posted on Friday, 15 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
On April 6th news of an outage at Atlassian that affected customers using Jira, Confluence and other products started to surface. The outage started the day before on the 5th and started rumors of everything from a ransomware attack to…
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Twitter Backtracks on Removing Embedded Tweets from 3rd Party Websites after Deletion for Now
Posted on Monday, 11 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Twitter is an interesting company. On the one hand they act like they are a bastion of free speech and have stood up for the anonymity of some of the users. They have, in the past refused government interference in…
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Twitter Moving to Allow Manipulation of Embedded Tweets on 3rd Party Websites
Posted on Thursday, 07 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Twitter has been in the new a lot over the last few years. From deleting accounts of people and groups for very flimsy reasons to censoring posts that contain factual, but non-popular information. It seems that they just cannot help…
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Happy April 1st, See You on April 2nd
Posted on Friday, 01 April 2022
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Sean Kalinich
So, today is April 1st and with the net full of clever ideas to play a joke on readers it can be fun to sort through what is real and what is not. Because of this, we are going to…
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Elden Ring has a Flaw that Invaders are Using to Corrupt Game Saves
Posted on Monday, 21 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Elden Ring, from developer FromSoftware seems to have a flaw that is allowing an interesting attack for PC players. The flaw allows invaders, malicious players that enter another player’s world to cause a game crash, this crash leads the player…
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Why the ZuckerVerse is not the Wonderful Thing Some Might Think it is
Posted on Monday, 14 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
The concept of an immersive virtual reality world is one that is often talked and written about. It also has been the subject of several movies. When it is the topic of books and movies, it is rarely a good…
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DuckDuckGo Makes Changes after Increased Pressure from US Lawmakers
Posted on Friday, 11 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine and browser company, has come under a lot of negative press recently and now are facing pressure from the US government. They have already been labeled as a search engine for “conspiracy theorists” by many…
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High Fraudulent Transaction Rates Combined with Volatility Led to Steam Dropping Crypto as a Payment Form in 2017
Posted on Tuesday, 01 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
As the Steam Deck is starting to get to people that have ordered them questions about Steam’s place in Web3 and recent moves around NFTs come up in conversation. Steam, Valve’s distribution arm has been seen as a one of…
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Elon Musk Brings Starlink Internet to Ukraine as Russian Invasion Continues
Posted on Tuesday, 01 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Warfare has changed little over its centuries of existence. The tools have changes, the arenas have moved from two dimensions to 3, but the concepts and execution area basically the same. You need to not only assault and occupy ground,…
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Research shows that Meta is not Ready for the Metaverse.
Posted on Monday, 28 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Last year a group call Centre for Countering Digital Hate reviewed interactions in the Metaverse. The results of their checkup were not encouraging as they encountered 100 potential violations of Meta’s policies in the span of only 11.5 hours. The…
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Google Finds a Sneaky Way to Keep Tracking Paid Workspace Users
Posted on Tuesday, 22 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Google has a bit of a history (understatement) of abusing data collection and sneaking in ways to continue collecting data on its users. This type of collection is all in service to their ad business. They want to be able…
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Meta Makes Changes to Instagram Daily Time Limit Warnings after Disappointing Revenue Report
Posted on Tuesday, 22 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Recently Mark Zuckerberg had to admit that Meta not only had lost a significant amount of money but stood to lose more as changes in attitudes around personal data privacy and targeted ads are changing. In the EU privacy protection…
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It Feels Like 99 Again as Two Digit Bug May Impact Multiple Browsers May be Impacted by Version Change
Posted on Tuesday, 22 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
In mid-1999 software and hardware developers uncovered a bug of sorts that, at first glance, seemed like it would end the computer world as we know it. It was called the Y2K bug and centered around the issue that somehow…
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Meta Settles 2012 Data Privacy Lawsuit to the Tune of $90 Million.
Posted on Wednesday, 16 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Meta (Facebook) has a long history of privacy and other abuses of the platform they control. We have seen everything from abusing facial recognition technology to tracking users’ internet history after existing the platform. These types of abuses are concerning…
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CIA Found to have Run Bulk Data Collection Program that May Have Mishandled US Citizen Data.
Posted on Tuesday, 15 February 2022
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On December 4th, 1981, then President Ronald Regan signed Executive Order 12333. This Order, further amended by EO13284 in 2003, 13355(2004) and 13470(2008), is what grants and governs the collection of intelligence by Federal agencies. These agencies include the NSA,…
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Cisco looking to Buy a Coner of the Market, makes a $20 Billion Buy Attempt of Splunk
Posted on Monday, 14 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
According to reports form the Wallstreet Journal, Cisco has attempted to take over Splunk for more than $20 Billion. The acquisition would be the largest in Cisco’s history by far. Cisco has a history of buying technology companies and integrating…
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