Cyber Fix Episode 8: Learning from Others

Welcome to Cyber Fix, your dopamine-infused tech news update.
My name is Gabriel, here to help get other information junkies up to speed with important tech news. Stay tuned for a light-hearted exploration of hostile cyberspace and what we can do about it.

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Stories

Platform Peril

• Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities
• Since 2018, Telegram has been able to disclose IP addresses/phone numbers of criminals to authorities.
• Telegram Confirms it Gave U.S. User Data to the Cops
• My Thoughts on the WordPress Drama
• Rokfin: What Is Going On? A Sale? Closing?
• Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

Solutions Roundup

• Time to take back the Internet
• AntennaPod is participating in Hacktoberfest 2024 – Join us!
• How to keep communicating when your internet is disrupted
• This Month in Ladybird September 2024
• Redot Game Engine

The Fine Details:

• Modern society has a super complicated relationship with privacy
• Digital ID: The Foundation for Technocracy
• FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance is Out of Control
• YouTube Doesn’t Want You to Use a Media Server at Home
• Tornado Cash: Code Not Speech, Non-Custodial MSBs, Knowledge Not Required

Cyberwar

• Microsoft ‘Buys’ Nuclear Power Plant to Run AI – and it’s Showing Us the Future
• ISPs ‘Betrayed’ Over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, The Reckoning Will Be Invisible
• Dutch Police Hacked, 63,000 Officers’ Details Exposed
• The Cyber Resilience Act, an Accidental European Alien Torts Statute?
• U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack

Music Credits:

• Y&V - Lune
• Valcos - A New Light
• Killercats - Kaibu
• Dark Ages - MaxKoMusic

Honorable Mentions

These are items that didn’t quite make it into the final episode, but noteworthy in their own right.

• Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds
• That doomsday critical Linux bug: It’s CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices
• You’re probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE
• NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
• Digital ID Isn’t for Everybody, and That’s Okay
• We Need Internet! Running a 3,000 ft Fiber Optic Cable
• LaTeX Boilerplates
• anytime - the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy
• The Internet and Engaged Citizenship
• Gender-based digital transnational repression as a global authoritarian practice
• Threat Actor Claims to Have Breached High-Profile Israeli Institutions
• CrowdStrike executive testifies on global outage (Starts ~30mins in)
• Insights from a Child Safety Online Symposium: Bridging Research and Policy
• The TENET Media Disaster
• TekSavavvy Quarterly Transparency Report

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