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Receipt Validation With All the Ethernet Interfaces
mjtsai,
Jeff Johnson: I’ve recently run into a case that seems to call into question all extant sample code for Mac App Store receipt validation. […] I learned that the ethernet port of the customer’s Mac was fried as a result of electrical damage from a lightning strike. The Mac’s motherboard was replaced, but afterward the […]
NVIDIA Sued for Stealing Trade Secrets
Mariella Moon (via Hacker News): NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees. According to Valeo’s complaint, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, an engineer for NVIDIA who used to work for its company, had mistakenly showed its source code files on his computer as he was […]
Cavium Networking Hardware May Contain Backdoor
Bruce Schneier: Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Stefania Maurizi: Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance is a public document and has been downloaded over 18,000 times since March 2022 when it was first published.[…]In 2013, Jacob Appelbaum published a remarkable […]
Data Analytical Services (DAS)
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra (Hacker News): A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter Wired obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, […]
Section 24220: Advanced Impaired Driving Technology
Jon Miltimore (Hacker News): “Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a ‘vehicle kill switch,’” wrote Barr, who was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president in 2008.[…]To my relief, I saw several fact-checkers at legacy institutions […]
Bradley Cooper would do another Hangover, but oh darn, he doesn’t think Todd Phillips wants to do it
AV Club,
Do you ever have one of those days where you definitely want to keep the plans you made with somebody to do something, but then—dang it all—something totally unexpected (and 100 percent completely real) comes up that prevents you from doing it? It’s just so flippin’ frustrating! Anyway, this isn’t related at all, but… Read more...
Senate nears vote on Biden's Ukraine request
Politico Picks,
The announcement of a vote the first week of December puts pressure on lawmakers to come up with a border security deal that can pair with assistance for U.S. allies.
Napoleon conquers Wish but gets exiled by the Hunger Games prequel
November 2023: Napoleon is master of the domestic box office. Only The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes stands before it. Oceans are now battlefields. Or, you know, close enough. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has successfully defeated every other movie at the U.S. box office this weekend—save for The Ballad Of… Read more...