Covering everything from the company’s claim of transparency to its own security practices and more, Palant believes LastPass has downplayed the risks and is guilty of “gross negligence.”
Source: LastPass’ breach update was full of lies →
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The country’s vast population and high birth rate make it an attractive market for end-products as well as a manufacturing base, while Vietnam’s workforce offers lower labor costs than in China
Social media showed that everyone has the potential to reach a massive audience at low cost and high gain—and that potential gave many people the impression that they deserve such an audience.
Source - The Age of Social Media Is Ending →
We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge.
The clock continues to log its rigid seconds, minutes and hours, utterly unaware of the global crisis that is taking place. It is stable, correct, neutral and absolute. But what makes us wrong and the clock right?
Source - The Tyranny Of Time - NOEMA →
Google announced it’s going to start rolling out end-to-end encrypted group RCS chats to the Google Messages beta over the next few weeks.
Source: Google Messages is getting end-to-end encrypted RCS group chats →
A pretty important step for non-Apple ecosystem.
At a cultural level, we didn’t stop smoking just because the habit was unpleasant or uncool or even because it might kill us. We did so slowly and over time, by forcing social life to suffocate the practice. That process must now begin in earnest for social media.
Part of the power of a network is its distributed nature. That’s a plus when it comes to tech and innovation. It’s a minus when it comes to the speed of central agreement as well as the potential for abuse.
Source: Some thoughts on Mastodon →
“Even if you ideologically agree with him, unless you love being a replaceable cog who has to dance on command, this is not a workplace to be in."
A comment that says so much about the anxiety among Twitter employees.
Source: Elon Musk’s Disastrous Weekend on Twitter - The Atlantic →
In the past 30 years, the British economy chose finance over industry, Britain’s government chose austerity over investment, and British voters chose a closed and poorer economy over an open and richer one.
Source: How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe - The Atlantic →