This is a very well done attack. Enjoyed reading about your efforts to gain community credibility. You rapidly transformed this from a small number of victims into an epidemic.
I'm surprised that VSCode extensions don't have a permissions system (EG:
"Request network access").
Yeah, I've written a few of these and should probably release a package at some point but each version has been somewhat domain specific.
The last time we measured an immediate 99% performance improvement over SNS+SQS. It was so dramatic that we were able to reduce job resources simply due to the queue implementation change.
There's a lot of useful and almost trivial features you can throw in as well. SQS hasn't changed much in a long time.
If the iPad could run Mac apps when docked to Magic Keyboard like the Mac can run iPad apps then there may be a worthwhile middle ground that mostly achieves what people want.
The multitasking will still be poor but perhaps Apple can do something about that when in docked mode.
That said, development likely remains a non-starter given the lack of unix tooling.
"Dewdney was a member of the 9/11 truth movement, and theorized that the planes used in the September 11 attacks had been emptied of passengers and were flown by remote control.[13] He based these claims in part on a series of experiments (one with funding from Japan's TV Asahi) that, he claimed, showed that cell phones do not work on airplanes, from which he concluded that the phone calls received from hijacked passengers during the attacks must have been faked."
Yes, I kept trying to follow his work after he left the column, but the work he went through, the extreme twists he put on logic and credulity in order to absolve the murderers of wrongdoing, that put me off.
Yes, because it is rational. Maybe taking it this far isn’t when you consider personal impact, but questioning things is very rational, and there are more than enough legitimate examples (MKULTRA, Operation Northwoods, and countless other declassified operations that were regarded as conspiracies in their time) to justify not accepting things at face value.
There are declassified documents from the Warren Commission where they basically concede that parts of the CIA could have been involved. And there IS significant fishiness around 9/11 (the missing trillions, back when that was a lot, building 7, etc), it should be questioned. That doesn’t mean assuming US involvement, it just means not assuming that there wasn’t any. Because there it should be clear by now that most of government does not have the people as a priority.
The Epstein island was a “conspiracy theory” at least a decade before it was known, and it’s still considered “conspiracy thinking” to say it was an intelligence operation, when that’s the only rational explanation given all the details. And there was someone that had him suicided under the public eye, it’s not inconceivable to me that those same people would facilitate a domestic terror attack. Especially after reading declassified CIA documents proposing similar false flags.
They may be able to get a refund from their bank, but this may depend on their bank's policy and how negligent the customer was.
They will have gone through security on their bank's app or website, which will have warned them about common scams like this and told them to check that what they are doing is legitimate.
I am assuming this is an "Approved Push Payment" scam where people are transferring money from their bank account directly to the fraudster, rather than by using a credit or debit card. If the payments were by card then a chargeback should be easy to file.
Booking.com says the hotel is at fault for having their credentials leaked; the hotel says booking.com failed to protect their account, the bank says the user was phished so it’s not their fault.
IMO if booking.com offers a messaging service which lends far more authority than “just a random person SMSing you” then they’re on the hook for this.
Also tried it out in both up-to-date Chrome and Safari on my up-to-date MacBook, which can play everything on https://webglsamples.org/ just fine, but on this page, nothing happens.
However, luckily in my case, it was caught immediately in the staging env since collisions caused exceptions.
Realizing when an expression is evaluated is pretty easy to miss. That code is probably live somewhere else right now surreptitiously causing issues.