Stunning reporting from San Francisco reveals the crisis situation: The story that stuck with me most came from Greg Moore, director of safe programs for the Tenderloin Community Benefit District. Last month, he was walking at Turk and Hyde streets when he saw a driver in a sport utility vehicle waiting at a red light … Continue reading San Francisco Tenderloin Fentanyl Epidemic Kills 3X COVID19
Everyone and their dog knows that Unix systems come with a “least-privilege” default, which for some reason was flipped on its head when Alibaba created a service model. Trend Micro reports: …the default Alibaba ECS instance provides root access…all users have the option to give a password straight to the root user inside the virtual … Continue reading Alibaba “Most-Privilege” Cloud Access Model Compromised
An interesting Bay Area article has taken AllTrails to task for being a heavily funded attempt to centralize and plan an economy, without investing in data integrity required to keep people safe. I get a call from Meaghan Praznik, AllTrails’ head of communications. I ask her why my email led to an immediate change when … Continue reading AllTrails is Centrally-Planned Centrally-Managed System Dangerous to Hikers
The US Naval Institute reports that ladders in a speedboat were one indicator that led to interception near Malaysia: The ship was responding to reports of pirate activity and heading to the scene while sending it’s embarked Royal Danish Air Force MH-60R helicopter in advance to observe the area, according to a Thursday news release … Continue reading Danish Navy Intercepts Pirates, Kills Four