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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1256060/use-of-vpns-to-bypass-age-checks-on-porn-sites-to-be-investigated-by-australias-esafety

Microsoft nepobaby recreated Honey, complete with all its slimy privacy and linkjacking practices, just under new brand name

A woman drives with both hands on the wheel. Her phone sits face-down on her lap. No officer pulls her over. No lights flash. Weeks later, a $1,251 ticket arrives in the mail. The evidence: a single frame from a Camera surveillance app. The charge: phone use while driving.

Automated camera companies market their devices as automated license plate readers — tools for catching stolen cars, flagging warrants, and aiding serious investigations.

Sold as a Crime Tool. Used as a Fine Machine.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1255400/what-does-a-13-year-old-see-on-snapchat-in-a-normal-week

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/10061950

Security researchers from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) have exposed critical vulnerabilities in Hoymiles solar inverters that allow attackers to remotely control, manipulate, or destroy hundreds of thousands of solar installations across Europe. The Chinese manufacturer holds roughly 20 percent of the European microinverter market, making the security flaw a widespread threat to balcony power plants and small rooftop solar systems.

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During experimental tests, a modified handheld scanner located two dozen foreign inverters and their identification numbers within 20 minutes. In Augsburg, Hunz identified 42 hackable systems within just one hour. The radio signals can travel several hundred meters, making it feasible to mount attack equipment on drones for systematic scanning of residential areas.

Once attackers have the serial numbers, they can switch inverters on or off, alter power limits, and inject malware through an unprotected firmware update command. Tampering with sensitive network parameters or erasing bootloader memory could lead to fires, electrical accidents, or device destruction requiring physical repair.

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The CCC informed Hoymiles [which is headquartered in China] about the vulnerability in February but received no initial response. Only after the German Federal Office for Information Security contacted the Chinese authority CNCERT did Hoymiles react at the end of June. The company announced a security update for mid-October.

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This is actually real. Story of the Killdozer

June 4, 2004

When Marvin Heemeyer of Granby, Colorado, reached a dead-end in his fight with the local zoning commission, the logical response would have been to petition them once again and await a future reply from them. After all, Marvin Heemeyer was known to have been a logical man, so it was expected that he would have taken a logical approach.

Instead, Marvin Heemeyer went home, outfitted his Komatsu D355A bulldozer with armored plates, a layer of concrete, and bulletproof plastic, and drove it through the town in a rampage, knocking down 13 buildings and causing $7 million worth of damage with his makeshift “killdozer.”

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49309448

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1255260/bank-of-england-handed-powers-to-regulate-key-tech-firms-including-amazon-and-google

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1255250/state-senator-pockets-massive-real-estate-fee-from-a-30m-data-center-land-sale-then-intr

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1255245/ai-surveillance-is-being-supercharged-and-it-will-chill-social-progress

Lobsters.