✨Yael Grauer ✨ @yaelwrites@mastodon.social
independent journalist * The Intercept, Wired, Ars, Motherboard, Slate, etc.* ⚑ * #alwaysantifascist * yael@yaelwrites.com * PGP: 0x08b7ca8dc9f8e0f7
With so many lives at stake, computer scientists and healthcare IT pros are motivated to develop strategies that keep patients safe from medical device hackers. They’re making progress. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/medical-device-security-hacking-prevention-measures-1806.html
what journalists need to know about password managers:http://businessjournalism.org/2018/06/what-journalists-need-to-know-about-password-managers/
great piece by @yaelwrites including Jack Balkin's concept of information fiduciaries: "Although relationships with third parties might be lucrative for telecoms, any entity collecting sensitive information like location data has a moral obligation to keep it safe."
#privacy #security
holy shitballs disable PGP right now folks https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/attention-pgp-users-new-vulnerabilities-require-you-take-action-now
I opened up my oven today and forgot that I had my glasses on and then they got all foggy. steam: 1 four-eyes: 0
I learned a lot about hardware hacking and got to use free software BIOS tools like chipsec, EUFITool, and flashrom.
It was a lot of fun! I go into much more technical detail in the article.
I installed Debian on the laptop. Before each trip, I removed the hard disk and took checksums of the partitions and the disk header. I also dumped the BIOS firmware. After each trip, I did the same, and compared to see if they matched.
I hoped that, if an evil maid attacker tried tampering with my laptop, I would not only discover the attack, but learn how it works, and possible who was behind it. Unfortunately (fortunately?), I didn't discover any evil maids.
For the last two years I've carried a honeypot laptop with me every time I traveled. I checked it in my luggage, left it unattended in my hotel rooms. After each trip, I did forensic analysis on the laptop to detect if it had been tampered with.
I wrote about my experience and methodology here: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/28/computer-malware-tampering/
Hackers are so fed up with Twitter bots they’re hunting them down themselves. https://theintercept.com/2018/03/16/twitter-bot-detector-software/
I wrote a textbook!
If you want a sneak peek, I'll be doing a webinar at 2/14 at 1PM Pacific to walk business professors through the courseware and supplementary materials.
Sign up here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5279498983425996290.
And here's more about the book: https://www.stukent.com/business-writing-textbook/. https://mastodon.social/media/a0NTGxzdaBF-ew5ziK8
Whenever fire trucks drive into the wrong side of the street, I always freeze for a second. I think I need to drill it.
Do people ever ask men if they have empathy?
not sure if being productive or just kicking the work can down the road
I think everyone disagrees with me, which is fine.
or at least they could realize that if you treat people like dogshit, they might not donate to your family's GoFundMe after you pass--so maybe get life insurance.
I hope when I die that people a) politicize my death b) tell the truth about me. Hopefully the truth is net positive, but if it's not, then I should've lived better & maybe whoever's listening can take that as a wakeup call to do better than I did.
Maybe it makes people feel better temporarily but I don't think it actually makes the world a better place.
but glossing over or dismissing srsly problematic issues while painting a saintly picture seems dishonest, at best
you can be both honest and generous. well, I mean, I can't, if I only have the honest bits. but people can acknowledge them without glossing over them and then move on to the stuff of which people like me are unaware.
