Saturday, March 28, 2020

Thread by @ShirazMaher: I've been debating about whether to 'go public' on having coronavirus



https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1243554346396246018.html

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Achieving Continuous Compliance using AWS Config


https://youtu.be/QbA0859qNI8

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Why Newton Added Two Colors to the Rainbow? | Dr Len Fisher



https://www.lenfisherscience.com/how-did-the-rainbow-get-its-colours-its-all-down-to-newton/

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

CIA secretly owned world's top encryption supplier, read enemy and ally messages for decades



But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company's devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages.

The decades-long arrangement, among the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War, is laid bare in a classified, comprehensive CIA history of the operation obtained by The Washington Post and ZDF, a German public broadcaster, in a joint reporting project.


https://boingboing.net/2020/02/11/cia-secretly-owned-worlds-to.html

Monday, January 20, 2020

Hacker leaks passwords for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices


A hacker has published this week a massive list of Telnet credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers, and IoT (Internet of Things) "smart" devices. 


Sunday, January 19, 2020

Not a Joke: Trump Is Looking Into Making Bribery Legal | Vanity Fair


"It's just so unfair that American companies aren't allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas," Trump said, according to a passage published by the Post. "We're going to change that." 

More:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/donald-trump-bribery-laws

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Ukraine prosecutor clears Joe Biden and son Hunter of wrongdoing




WASHINGTON – Ukraine's top prosecutor said he hasn't seen any evidence of wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden nor his son Hunter Biden in dealings with the country.

Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said Hunter Biden and Burisma, a Ukrainian private gas company of which the younger Biden served on the board, were not the targets of investigations by his office.

He also said the former vice president, and current Democratic 2020 hopeful, didn't act improperly when he called for the dismissal of Ukraine's former prosecutor general, Victor Shoki, who had been investigating the company.

"I do not want Ukraine to again be the subject of U.S. presidential elections," Lutsenko said in an interview with Bloomberg. "Hunter Biden did not violate any Ukrainian laws – at least as of now, we do not see any wrongdoing. A company can pay however much it wants to its board."

More:
https://nypost.com/2019/05/16/joe-biden-and-son-hunter-cleared-of-wrongdoing-by-ukraine-prosecutor/

Friday, December 13, 2019

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

New – Use Tag Policies to Manage Tags Across Multiple AWS Accounts | AWS News Blog



https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-tag-policies-to-manage-tags-across-multiple-aws-accounts/


Just a reminder...


Constitution of United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992)
Section 4

The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Choosing a Paper Topic: The ACE Method


  • "Angry" topics tend to lean towards "This is a problem that needs to be solved. I'm going to find three ways (or five ways) to solve it, and present that to my audience." When you write this kind of paper, you're being an advocate or an activist. You want people to get fired up and do something about the problem, so in this case, choosing a paper topic means finding something that fires you up too.
  • "Curious" topics tend to lean towards "This is something that needs to be explained, so that we understand it better. I'm going to explain this topic to my audience." When you write this kind of paper, you're being a scientist. You want people to come away with a better understanding of how something works, so choosing a paper topic means finding something you want to explain for yourself, too.
  • "Excited" topics tend to lean towards "this is something that everyone needs to know about, so I have to find a way to tell them!" When you write this kind of paper, you're being a salesperson. You want to get other people just as excited about the topic as you are, so choosing a paper topic here means you need something that excites you, too.

Pick one of those things, and you have your paper topic.




Sunday, October 20, 2019

Turn Off PayPal 2 Factor Auth | This shouldn't be SO HARD to find...


Not Mine.  Found while researching the issue.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
Contributor

Re: How to remove 2-step phone verification from my paypal account?
 

I've succeeded to disable 2-Factor-Authentication!

You have to use the old interface of PayPal. 

  1. Log in
  2. Enter https://www.paypal.com/webapps/customerprofile/summary.view
  3. Goto Security Token Settings (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/customerprofileweb?cmd=_security-token)
  4. select your phonenumber and then disable it
  5. cheers!

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Amazon Shares 6 Ways It Creates a Culture of Innovation and How You Can Too



https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/amazon-shares-6-ways-it-creates-a-culture-of-innovation-how-you-can-too.html

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Two Giuliani Associates Who Helped Him on Ukraine Charged With Campaign-Finance Violations - WSJ


WASHINGTON—Two Soviet-born donors to a pro-Trump fundraising committee who helped Rudy Giuliani's efforts to investigate Democrat Joe Biden were arrested late Wednesday on criminal charges stemming from their alleged efforts to funnel foreign money into U.S. elections and influence U.S. politics on behalf of Ukrainian and other foreign politicians.

More:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-foreign-born-men-who-helped-giuliani-on-ukraine-arrested-on-campaign-finance-charges-11570714188



Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Amazon Plans $800 Million Data Center in Argentina


Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud division plans to build a regional data center in a free-trade zone in Argentina, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Seattle-based company is preparing to invest about $800 million in the project over 10 years and will reap considerable tax benefits by locating the data center in the Bahia Blanca-Coronel Rosales districts of the province of Buenos Aires.

More: