Google Chrome now sends telemetry back to Google about CPU, GPU and memory usage via a browser extension that is hidden in the list of extensions.

https://x.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018 [$]

https://nitter.poast.org/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018

#GoogleChrome
#Chrome
#Google

Ysengrin posing in front of a brick wall, taken at AnthrOhio 2024.

#WerewolfWednesday #AnthrOhio #werewolf #fursuit

The year is 2042. AI "employees" are widely used in business and they are compensated better than their human counterparts because management has convinced themselves that AI employees produce higher quality work and are more productive.

An out-of-work writer gets a job by pretending to be an AI. Her work is better than what the other AIs are producing. Management is elated, thinking she's a revolutionary new model. They assign her increasingly high profile projects.

She finds it harder and harder to keep up the ruse, especially because she's fallen in love with one of her co-workers, something an AI doesn't do.

One of the most widely used network protocols is vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that can allow adversaries to gain control over a range of environments, including industrial controllers, telecommunications services, ISPs, and all manner of enterprise networks.

Short for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service, RADIUS harkens back to the days of dial-in Internet and network access through public switched telephone networks. It has remained the de facto standard for lightweight authentication ever since and is supported in virtually all switches, routers, access points, and VPN concentrators shipped in the past two decades. Despite its early origins, RADIUS remains an essential staple for managing client-server interactions.

Since 1994, RADIUS has relied on an improvised, home-grown use of the MD5 hash function. The result is “Blast RADIUS,” a complex attack that allows an attacker with an active adversary-in-the-middle position to gain administrator access to devices that use RADIUS to authenticate themselves to a server.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/new-blast-radius-attack-breaks-30-year-old-protocol-used-in-networks-everywhere/

New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere

Ubiquitous RADIUS scheme uses homegrown authentication based on MD5. Yup, you heard right.

^{Ars Technica}

I'm getting out the popcorn for this one. Capitalism made right: if we suffer from heat, then let's get the guys who are responsible for it to pay...

Even though I think the bad guys here have too much money and will throw so many lawyers at the problem that the courts will not be able to hold them all...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/oregon-county-seeks-to-hold-fossil-fuel-companies-accountable-for-extreme-heat/

#heat #climatecrisis #justice

Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat

Multnomah County's heat dome conditions killed 69 people in 2021.

^{Ars Technica}

Kindness is a virtue. Kindness is punk. Be kind to those who deserve it, especially (but not only) those close to you.

Pass it on.

• yes (35%, 59 votes)
• also yes but i checked with corey quinn first (64%, 107 votes)

Every so often I used to post this infographic about @Torrle and the stapler wolf and giant paw.

It's nice to see Fang, Feather & Fin did a larger writeup on it:

https://www.fangfeatherandfin.com/stapler-fursuit-the-legend-of-the-paw-and-the-maw/

overheard: "Linux? What is that?" "Oh, it's like Android for Desktop."

🥴

Normally, this kind of advice is framed more positively, but I want to be absolutely clear:

Don’t put yourself down.
Don’t apologize for existing.
Don’t tell others they should feel bad for knowing you.
Don’t wallow in shame.

Even if you feel bad, or like you’ve something to atone for, that kind of behavior doesn’t help you or anyone else; debasing yourself does nothing to process negative emotions or to take responsibility for your actions - and nothing hurts your loved ones quite like it.

Sometimes you can tell a lot about a person by the domains they register. For no particular reason, I was looking at the domain footprint of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and found a phone number connected to her over the years that was used to register mtgforamerica[.]us back in 2021. The domain's registration records are hidden behind privacy services from anonymize.com, but their privacy system assigns a unique email to each private registrant, so you can still do a reverse search on that and find out what other domains are registered by the same account.

Domaintools finds 21683@anonymize.com was used to register 156 domains, including supportkylerittenhouse[.]com and repealjuneteenth.com. Here's the full list if anyone's interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xy7FDYtN-YGyv29XZ08wf_Z1OPAemfmccpVqwZ-ci50/edit?usp=sharing

@hukaulaba posing for the camera - one of the better images from last weekend.

#AC2024 #kangaroo #fursuit

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/06/poseidon-mac-stealer-distributed-via-google-ads

this is the kind of thing I point to when I say that blocking ads is effective in blocking an entire vector for malware distribution

'Poseidon' Mac stealer distributed via Google ads | Malwarebytes

A competitor of the infamous Atomic Stealer targeting Mac users, has just launched a new campaign to lure in more victims.

^{Jérôme Segura (Malwarebytes)}

Content warning: FR pol, lol Reveal/hide

🎻

nyaa has wares if you have coin

#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits

Linksys routers are sending Wifi passwords to their servers in plain text 😬

#Infosec #Security

https://stackdiary.com/linksys-velop-routers-send-wi-fi-passwords-in-plaintext-to-us-servers/

Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers

According to Testaankoop, the Belgian equivalent of the Consumers' Association, two types of Linksys routers are sending Wi-Fi login details in plaintext

^{Alex Ivanovs (Stack Diary)}

In this house, we don't kinkshame.

We kink-enable. 😏

Being a furry with lots of wonderful and varied friends means that (almost) no matter what degenerate filth crosses my timeline, I know somebody I can send it to, safe in the knowledge it'll give them an inappropriately timed boner. :3c Muehehehe~ #furry #kobold #phone #kink #teasing #comic

The three act structure of storytelling:

1) Aw shucks do I have to?
2) Living the grindset and barely scraping by and shit keeps going wrong
3) Finally. Can I go home now?

#AmWriting

Hyena nubs.

Eurofurence 19 in 2013.