Why Indian Hindutva supporters back Israel on Gaza bombing

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/18/bjp-expresses-solidarity-with-israel-as-gaza-bombing-continues

#bjp #india #israel

Why you should request open-source software for your IoT devices - CNX Software

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/05/17/why-you-should-request-open-source-software-for-your-iot-devices/

Israel is the only "country" that has not and doesn't have plans to sign the Biological Weapons Convention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Biological_Weapons_Convention

https://t.co/xPkX3rXLfK

#SheikhJarrah #palestine

#magisk #rip #google

Technopolice - One year of activism against surveillance technologies - Framatube – https://framatube.org/videos/watch/6036529e-a02d-4e59-bca1-43e627b3ae5d

Edlira Nano is a board member at April, the French free software organization, and is a member of La Quadrature du Net, a French organization that defends digital liberties. Guinness is a member of La Quadrature, as well as Exodus Privacy and Nos Onions.

This talk is about Technopolice, La Quadrature’s initiative to analyze and document the spread of surveillance technologies in order to defend civil rights and liberties. Eda and Guinness describe how their efforts have played out over the last year, some of the lessons they’ve learned, and how you can spread the word and utilize this information in your own work..

#Technopolice #LaQuadratureDuNet #LQDN #LibrePlanet2021

Ad block shouldn't break your checkout

We've recently started a shop with some merchandise using TeeSpring. We wanted to try out selling merch as a strategy for monetizing our game Bela Online. And while TeeSpring enabled us to set up this very fast and it is a no-brainer in terms of how hands off it is, there are some issues. Some critical issues.

What happened? 🤔

If your customer has an ad blocker enabled which blocks, well, ads, the whole checkout experience breaks. A friend of mine reported it today to me. He has uBlock Origin installed and when he clicks "Checkout" the site doesn't do anything. 😢

The experience just stops, and he couldn't go through with the order.

I've sent a report through a channel intended for reporting issues with your order, but I've also wanted to write this blog post as a cautionary tale for other developers.

uBlock Origin breaks things 😿

So, what is the root cause of this issue? If we look at the code that breaks:

https://ilakovac.com/teespring-ublock-issue/

#ublock #adblock #issues

Introducing Site Isolation in Firefox

When two major vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre were disclosed by security researchers in early 2018, Firefox promptly added security mitigations to keep you safe. Going forward, however, it was clear that with the evolving techniques of malicious actors on the web, we needed to redesign Firefox to mitigate future variations of such vulnerabilities and to keep you safe when browsing the web!

We are excited to announce that Firefox’ new Site Isolation architecture is coming together. This fundamental redesign of Firefox’ Security architecture extends current security mechanisms by creating operating system process-level boundaries for all sites loaded in Firefox for Desktop. Isolating each site into a separate operating system process makes it even harder for malicious sites to read another site’s secret or private data.

We are currently finalizing Firefox’s Site Isolation feature by allowing a subset of users to benefit from this new security architecture on our Nightly and Beta channels and plan a roll out to more of our users later this year. If you are as excited about it as we are and would like to try it out, follow these steps:

💡 To enable Site Isolation on Firefox Nightly:

1.) Navigate to about:preferences#experimental

2.) Check the “Fission (Site Isolation)” checkbox to enable.

3.) Restart Firefox.

💡 To enable Site Isolation on Firefox Beta or Release:

1.) Navigate to about:config.

2.) Set fission.autostart pref to true.

3.) Restart Firefox.

With this monumental change of secure browser design, users of Firefox Desktop benefit from protections against future variants of Spectre, resulting in an even safer browsing experience. If you aren’t a Firefox user yet, you can download the latest version here and if you want to know all the technical details about Firefox’ new security architecture, you can read it here.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/18/introducing-site-isolation-in-firefox/

#ff #firefox #site #isolation

Colonial Pipeline Hit by Network Outage Just Days After Hack Shutdown

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline is having network issues preventing shippers from planning upcoming shipments of fuel, the company said on Tuesday, just after the nation's biggest fuel pipeline reopened after a week-long ransomware attack.

The disruption was caused by efforts by the company to harden its system as it restores service following the cyberattack, Colonial said, and not the result of a reinfection of its network. It did not say when the issue would be fixed, but said it was still delivering products scheduled by shippers.

Last week's closure of the 5,500-mile (8,900-km) system was the most disruptive cyberattack on record, preventing millions of barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from flowing to the East Coast from the Gulf Coast.

Colonial has been using its shipper nomination system to schedule batches of fuel deliveries to bring flows back to normal. A prolonged network outage could prevent shippers from adding to or making changes to deliveries - which would hamper delivery across the U.S. southeast and east coasts just after the line reopened.

After the ransomware attack forced Colonial to shut its entire network, thousands of gas stations across the U.S. southeast ran out of fuel. Motorists fearing prolonged shortages raced to fill up their cars.

Colonial's shipping nomination system is operated by a third party, privately-held Transport4, or T4, which handles similar logistics for other pipeline companies. T4 could not say when the issue would be fixed, and did not comment on whether its systems for other pipelines were affected.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2021-05-18/colonial-pipeline-nomination-system-shut-tuesday-market-sources

https://twitter.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1394672389464670212

#colonial #pipeline #network #issues

Pentagon Plans to Monitor Social Media of Military Personnel for Extremist Content

📡@G3News: As part of the Biden administration’s crackdown on domestic extremism, the Pentagon plans to launch a pilot program for screening social media content for extremist material, according to internal Defense Department documents.

An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will “continuously” monitor military personnel for “concerning behaviors,” according to a Pentagon briefing in late March.

Although in the past the military has balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official.
🔗SOURCE

City pays $350,000 after suing “hackers” for opening Dropbox link it sent them

Employee mistakenly sent the link when replying to a records request.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/city-pays-350000-after-suing-hackers-for-opening-dropbox-link-it-sent-them/

Amazon Gave The FBI The Shopping List Of An Anti-Fascist Activist.

Anyone who can recall the chaos of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 will remember the violence that broke out between far-right and far-left attendees.

One suspect from the melees was Lindsey Moers, an alleged adherent of the anti-fascist Antifa movement. She was seen in an Instagram video reviewed by FBI agents beating two individuals with a baton. She was there, according to the government, in opposition to protestors who’d turned up in the Virginia city to vocalize their “right-wing” and “white supremacist views,” according to a search warrant for her Twitter accounts first filed in 2019, but only unsealed earlier this month.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/05/17/amazon-gave-the-fbi-the-shopping-history-of-an-alleged-antifa-activist/


#Amazon #fbi #cops #why