I got my partner - who is non-technical - a Windows laptop for Christmas in 2023. A fancy one with Windows 11, TPM blah blah. Clean install.
It has Defender, Smart App Control enabled etc so I wasn’t concerned about the security.
Anyhoo, just looked at 7 months later and Defender is disabled, a ‘free’ AV called RAV is registered which appears to be a fake Chinese AV, Smart App Control is disabled, her traffic is routed to a Chinese VPN, her browser is Opera GX (a Chinese owned one).
Gajim 1.9.3 has been released 🎉
This release fixes an issue with the MS Store installer and brings some improvements. Thank you for all your contributions!
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Gajim 1.9.3 fixes an issue with the MS Store installer and brings some improvements. Thank you for all your contributions!cal0pteryx (https://gajim.org/)
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The number of CNAs over time (#CVE Numbering Authorities). At 385 right now. Over 20,000 CVEs published in the first half of 2024.
From the "CVE Program and CNA Quarterly Report"
#trurl 0.14 is here. github.com/curl/trurl/releases…
Works best with libcurl 8.9.0 (and later)
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Thunderbird stagnated for years, but now it feels like a phoenix.Bertel King (How-To Geek)
«Damit die Attacke gelingt, muss allerdings Python auf dem Zielgerät installiert sein. Daher sind in erster Linie Softwareentwickler und Poweruser anfällig für diese Sicherheitslücke.»
— oder Schüler, die an die Materie "Programmierung" herangeführt werden. Potentiell mögliche Opfer also
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Eine Sicherheitslücke in WhatsApp für Windows erlaubt das Versenden von Programm-Anhängen, die beim Öffnen direkt ohne Vorwarnung starten.Ulrich Schmitz (heise online)
Hello Jamers 🙂,
For those who missed it or didn’t have the time to click on the Dev update #10 link, no worries! We've got the highlights for you!
If you're curious and want to dive deeper, here's the link: jami.net/dev-update-10/
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Our team focused on bug fixes, UI enhancements, unit tests implementations.jami (Jami)
If you could speak to the future, what would you want to ask?
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Well, good news: the future has just gotten in touch.
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President Biden Announces Bold Plan to Reform the Supreme Court and Ensure No President Is Above the Law.
1. Constitutional amendment - No Immunity for Crimes a Former President Committed in Office
2. Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices of 18 years, with new appointments every 2 years
3. Binding Code of Conduct for the Supreme Court
This will require Congress to pass appropriate bills.
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From his first day in office—and every day since then—President Biden has taken action to strengthen American democracy and protect the rule of law. InThe White House
Sources: HPE is expected to secure unconditional EU approval for its $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks; the EC is scheduled to decide on the deal by Aug. 1 (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
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A US court rules that US border agents must get a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the border (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
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During the Berlin XMPP sprint, some XMPP developers worked on message formatting. Previously, formatting was done using simple markup (e.g. *bold*), which sometimes leads to unintended formatting and is limited in functionality. We now decided to transmit formatting information outside of the normal text, with optional fallback to markup for legacy clients. We worked on improving the specification and on support in three different clients, including @dino.
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New, by me: A federal district court in New York ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the U.S. border.
The judge warned that had they ruled in the government's favor, this ruling could have be used to target political opponents, who "would only need to travel once through an international airport for the government to gain unfettered access" to their devices.
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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… On the 11th, we announced LibreOffice 24.2.5, the fifth minor update to the latest major release.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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The second day of DebConf24 has ended, we start again tomorrow, Tuesday 30, August at 10:00 KST (01:00 UTC). The schedule for the day will be https://debconf24.debconf.micronews.debian.org
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This, @EUCommission , would be a fantastic opportunity to ditch Microsoft altogether and embrace some European-maintained open source solution instead for your 40K employees. The EU government depending on non-EU infrastructure is not good for strategic autonomy – and that's on top on digital surveillance by American tech corps being against our data protection laws.
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Following its investigation, the EDPS has found that the European Commission (Commission) has infringed several key data protection rules when using Microsoft 365. In its decision, the EDPS imposes corrective measures on the Commission.European Data Protection Supervisor
@hbons one time I encountered a credit card payment form that insisted adamantly the ZIP code was mandatory
After a bit of searching I found out there's a "magic" ZIP code that means "elsewhere not in the US" that they're supposed to accept (it might be 99999).
Still extra silly though.
US cards don't use PIN. The US banking industry declared their customers too stupid to remember a PIN.
Note that last time I encountered this was in 2018 as I haven't driven south of the wall since.
@hub they USED to not have a PIN. As mentioned else thread, in recent years the CC circuits have started a "forced" upgrade campaign: in case of fraud (and it's extremely easy with mag band and no PIN) the retailer is not covered by insurance and is responsible out of pocket.
This is making a lot of them upgrade.
But of course there's a giant inertia (and backlog).
@hub @renatoram my bank offered me the option of setting a PIN for my new credit cards. But with 1 exception, I've never used it.
Cards don't just get a PIN code, they also have a priority which can be "use PIN always" / "use PIN only in unattended POS" / various. The bank set mine to "Unattended" which means I can use it to buy things at automated kiosks (like for a train ticket). But if I go to a checkout counter with a clerk, the PIN *cannot* be used, and a signature is required instead.
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