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Bitcoin: $1bn seized from Silk Road account by US government
More than $1bn (£772m) in Bitcoin linked to the notorious Silk Road website has been seized by the US Department of Justice (DoJ).
Earlier this week, crypto-currency watchers noticed about 70,000 bitcoins being moved from an account believed to be linked to the illicit marketplace. Silk Road was an online black market, selling everything from drugs to stolen credit cards and murderers-for-hire. It was shut down by the US government in 2013. The sum is the largest amount of crypto-currency seized to date by the Department of Justice. On Thursday, US Attorney David Anderson confirmed that the officials had seized the crypto-currency assets. "Silk Road was the most notorious online criminal marketplace of its day," he said in a statement. -
US election: Bannon Twitter account banned amid clampdown
President Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the "glorification of violence" amid the election aftermath.
Mr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them. It comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation. Facebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results. Mr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency. -
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
Democrats blast FTC/Zoom settlement because users won't get compensation.
Zoom has agreed to upgrade its security practices in a tentative settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which alleges that Zoom lied to users for years by claiming it offered end-to-end encryption. "[S]ince at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided a lower level of security," the FTC said today in the announcement of its complaint against Zoom and the tentative settlement. Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised." -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
Democrats blast FTC/Zoom settlement because users won't get compensation.
Zoom has agreed to upgrade its security practices in a tentative settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which alleges that Zoom lied to users for years by claiming it offered end-to-end encryption. "[S]ince at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided a lower level of security," the FTC said today in the announcement of its complaint against Zoom and the tentative settlement. Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised."LOL and /sigh... uh huh - we all already knew this.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
Democrats blast FTC/Zoom settlement because users won't get compensation.
Zoom has agreed to upgrade its security practices in a tentative settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which alleges that Zoom lied to users for years by claiming it offered end-to-end encryption. "[S]ince at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided a lower level of security," the FTC said today in the announcement of its complaint against Zoom and the tentative settlement. Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised."LOL and /sigh... uh huh - we all already knew this.
Except their share holders may not have, which is why this is an issue.
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Facebook: Biden aide Bill Russo attacks post-election role
One of Joe Biden's senior aides has attacked Facebook over its handling of conspiracy theories, calls to violence and disinformation in the days following the US election.
"Our democracy is on the line. We need answers," tweeted Bill Russo, who is deputy press secretary to the US president-elect. Facebook declined to directly respond. However, it has introduced "probation" as a measure to tackle the spread of disinformation within its groups. This involves tasking the administrators of some politically themed groups with checking that all posts made within them follow Facebook's rules. They have been warned that failure to comply could lead to their groups being shut down. -
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Amazon's Ring video doorbells catch fire because wrong screw used
Dozens of Amazon's Ring smart doorbells have caught fire or burned their owners after being fitted with the wrong screw.
The problem has prompted US and Canadian product safety officials to issue a formal notice, and Amazon to provide a revised instruction manual. The issue is that if a longer, sharper screw is used at the device's base, it can damage the battery pack. This causes it to overheat, which has led to property damage and injuries. However, despite a "recall notice" having been issued, users are not actually being asked to send the devices back. Instead, they are simply being urged to follow the new guidance. -
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/ -
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
There are reasons to not virtualize listed in the documentation.
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Xbox and Call of Duty cause record broadband data use in UK
The UK's leading internet providers have experienced record broadband use as a result of new Xbox consoles and fresh releases to the Call of Duty games franchise.
BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Vodafone, City Fibre and Zen Internet said they had all coped with the spike in demand on Tuesday. Much of the activity was generated by video gamers downloading large files. Some people will have experienced slower speeds as a consequence. The internet service providers will be tested again on 19 November when the PlayStation 5 comes to the UK. -
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
There are reasons to not virtualize listed in the documentation.
I haven't spotted that yet. I wonder if they're so bad as their "Don't use software RAID" thing they used to spew.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
There are reasons to not virtualize listed in the documentation.
I haven't spotted that yet. I wonder if they're so bad as their "Don't use software RAID" thing they used to spew.
Essentially it's a ZFS storage reason.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
There are reasons to not virtualize listed in the documentation.
I haven't spotted that yet. I wonder if they're so bad as their "Don't use software RAID" thing they used to spew.
Essentially it's a ZFS storage reason.
Yep, I'd call that bad for sure.
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Kickstarter replies to complaints from seven years ago
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter has surprised some of its users by replying to complaints they made seven years ago.
These included complaints about a book which some felt encouraged sexual harassment. Users who received responses to long-expired projects from 2013 took to Twitter to congratulate the company on its response times. Kickstarter said the emails were "auto-generated in error". "The emails folks received yesterday was due to an unfortunate human error while working on a clean-up task completely unrelated to the ticket from 2013," a company spokeswoman said. "It's important to remember we are still a small team at Kickstarter and mistakes can happen." -
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
I concur. I do see they say not to install it directly on the hypervisor -- now that I could get behind. Install it as a VM and connect it to the storage that it should use (off-box, preferably!) and go.
I actually want to play with Proxmox, I just don't have the hardware to do it with ATM.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Proxmox Backup Server 1.0 (stable)
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-1-0-stable.78851/That's cool. Appears they recommend installing onto hardware and not a VM based on the install instructions.
Likely a box dedicated for just that purpose.
Even so, no reason not to virtualize that box.
I concur. I do see they say not to install it directly on the hypervisor -- now that I could get behind. Install it as a VM and connect it to the storage that it should use (off-box, preferably!) and go.
I actually want to play with Proxmox, I just don't have the hardware to do it with ATM.
At my last job, I used some extra low end laptops that we had, to setup Proxmox. I did they with XenServer/XCP-ng too.
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Kamala Harris: Facebook removes racist posts about US vice-president-elect
Facebook has taken down a string of racist and misogynistic posts, memes and comments about US Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris.
The social network removed the content after BBC News alerted it to three groups that regularly hosted hateful material on their pages. Facebook says it takes down 90% of hate speech before it is flagged. One media monitoring body described the pages as "dedicated to propagating racist and misogynistic smears". However, despite the pages being places where hate-speech is regularly directed towards the vice-president-elect, Facebook said it would not take action on the groups themselves. Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said: "Facebook's removal of this content only after it's been flagged to them by the media confirms that the rules and guidelines they establish are hollow because they put little to no effort into detection and enforcement.
