And depending on the results of the upcoming election the FTC may no longer exist afterwards anyways.

That's not how systemic problems work.

This is probably one of the most security ignorant takes on here.

People will ALWAYS fuck up. The world we craft for ourselves must take the "human factor" into account, otherwise we amplify the consequences of what are predictable outcomes. And ignoring predictable outcomes to take some high ground doesn't cary far.

The majority of industries that actually have immediate and potentially fatal consequences do exactly this, and have been for more than a generation now.

Damn near everything you interact with on a regular basis has been designed at some point in time with human psychology in mind. Built on the shoulders of decades of research and study results, that have matured to the point of becoming "standard practices".

I'm not sure if this is just a rhetorical question or a real one?

Because I didn't claim it isn't negligence. It is negligent, however, it is not a problem solvable by just pointing fingers. It's a problem that solvable through more strict regulation and compliance.

Cyber security is almost exactly the same as safety in other industries. It takes the same mindset, it manifests in the same ways under the same conditions, it tends to only be resolved and enforced through regulations....etc

And we all know that safety is not something solvable by pointing fingers, and saying "Well Joe Smo shouldn't have had his hand in there then". You develop processes to avoid predictable outcomes.

That's the key word here, predictable outcomes, these are predictable situations with predictable consequences.

The comment above mine is effectively victim blaming, it's just dismissing the problem entirely instead of looking at solutions for it. Just like an industry worker being harmed on the job because of the negligence of their job site, there are an incredibly large number of websites compromised due to the negligence of our industry.

Just like the job site worker who doesn't understand the complex mechanics of the machine they are using to perform their work, the website owner or maintainer does not understand the complex mechanics of the dependency chains their services or sites rely on.

Just like a job site worker may not have a good understanding of risk and risk mitigation, a software engineer does not have a good understanding of cybersecurity risk and risk mitigation.

In a job site this is up to a regulatory body to define, utilizing the expertise of many, and to enforce this in job sites. On job sites workers will go through regular training and exercises that educate them about safety on their site. For software engineers there is no regulatory body that performs enforcement. And for the most part software engineers do not go through regular training that informs them of cybersecurity safety.

Typical security negligence of startups.

Your data is essentially never secure if it's sitting with a startup. It's an atrocious world for security out there.

I think that community guidelines/ code or conduct should still exist at a top level, in a digestible form, and not nested within a legal document.

They can still be part of the legal document, but should be made more accessible if said guidelines are cared about.

Otherwise you'll find that it's a set of expectations that no one reads (And likely cannot find even if they where looking for them), when those expectations are critically important to community health.

To be fair, the content quality on Lemmy has been about the same from what I've seen.

Bots all over the place, low-effort quips instead of discussions bubbling up, lots and LOTS of low-quality armchairing, personal attacks and flaming instead of actual discussion....etc

It was good for a month or so during the reddit 3rd party app purge, but quickly went downhill.

Love it when corporations have more power than government entities.

The dystopian future is coming faster than ever

Nation state cybersecurity threats are a big deal, and heavily targeting Microsoft is definitely part of a larger game plan by Russia.

If Microsoft is struggling, imagine how helpless "smaller" corporations (Even 10/100's of billion $ corps) would be.

I'm interested in how this plays out, and the kinds of postmortems we'll get from this. Will we see any shift in security culture and best practices?

Imagine not using FFmpeg or anything that uses FFmpeg 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Probably because brave is kind of the king of advertising in the space.

They managed to sell tracking activity for monetary gain as a privacy centric product.

This isn't technology news.... It's business news, and Elon spam.

Just look at the comment section how many comments are actually related to technology?

Can we not put the bar on the floor?

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Many many hours is a massive understatement.

Thousands and thousands of hours is more appropriate

Honestly couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not because Poes law until I saw your note.

If all the wealth created by these sorts of things didn't funnel up to the 0.01% then yeah. It could usher in economic changes that help bring about greater prosperity in the same way mechanical automation should have.

Unfortunately it's just going to be another vector for more wealth to be removed from your average American and transferred to a corporation

Too bad this doesn't affect them because they managed to get themselves an exception to the rule...

Anything powered by a combustion engine is an exception.

What a great way to dismiss an entire problems based that affects our society. It's easier to just hand wave it away as someone else's problem than to actually consider it...

When a problem becomes systematic it's now a societal and cultural problem and not an individual responsibility problem. Individual responsibility isn't working so it's now down to the society this is occurring in to solve the systematic problem in a systematic way.

That's how almost everything works

OP spreading disinformation.

Users used bad passwords. Their accounts where accessed using their legitimate, bad, passwords.

Users cry about the consequences of their bad passwords.

Yeah, 23AndMe has some culpability here, but the lions share is still in the users themselves

Where can one get a hold of these documents?

This appears to be the original blog post, but I'm not finding a way to download this. https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

Is this not leaked past this one person?

Edit 2: No, these appear to be normal public docs.

Edit: seems these are the docs? https://hexdocs.pm/google_api_content_warehouse/0.4.0/GoogleApi.ContentWarehouse.V1.Model.QualityNavboostCrapsCrapsData.html

I mean the name is literally Leonardo, referencing Leonardo da Vinci, I'm not sure what you expect...?

The grand majority of reddit users have more in common with tictok users than forum users. The lowest common denominator is the biggest user base.

They doom scroll and satisfy their addiction, many are kids, they really don't really care about information manipulation, quality content, discussion quality....etc

So they will stay, and the niche groups, those that care and contribute in quality ways, tend to be pushed out.

Making it extremely hard to actually find professional content because Reddit tends to cater to the lowest common denominator and most professional subs tend to corrupt over time.

How to say you know nothing about game development without saying you know nothing about game (software) development. But want to assert your opinion on it regardless.

It's corporate profiteering not lazy devs. The devs work their asses off, these aren't their decisions to make.

It's like blaming the guy finishing the drywall for design problems with the building. Lazy drywallers, ruining a good office tower, it wouldn't be leaning if they weren't so lazy.

I find it crazy how Trump trying to foege election results with fake certificates and get those flown into DC somehow didn't affect any of these things at all.

Like wtf.

I like how they say Taiwan Independence is a dead end.

Taiwan is already independent. China wants to undo that, but they make sure to word it as if Taiwan is a rebelling State instead.

I see the lack of critical thinking apple doesn't fall far from the Reddit tree.

It's not your country, it's not your decision, buzz off with it.

Well the US really is on a death spiral.

Your country is fucked. Even Brazil handled their corruption better.

Isn't there semi-automated tools that can detect CP?

Those might be an automated solution to at least cut down on the volume.

The same can go for banned images. These can automatically be identified with perceptual hashing, and automatically be denied when uploading.

It's surprising because there is a well documented history of Trump being above the law. No one would be surprised if the court ruled that he cannot be removed from the ballot, that's par for the course.

This is unexpected, expected, results. It's not par for the course. Therefore it is surprising.

It's even worse when open source projects point you towards their discord for questions and support.

It's just a black hole for information

Remember, this is not only the kind of shit that would get proposed but would be the kind of shit that would pass in a future Republican controlled state with Fuhrer Trump at the helm.

It sounds ridiculous and insane now, but remember, there are representatives that actually believe in this, and don't think it's rhetoric.

Their voter base as well would happily see "the other" carted off, in good fascist fashion.

It's a glorified autocomplete, I'm not sure how we can consider it bullying even with the most elaborate mental hoops.

In general high quality things tend to have physical buttons and knobs as opposed to touch screen devices.

Instead of turning into e-waste after 5 years or less they can last for the next 30 to 50 years.

How many smart thermostats have become obsolete because their service providers stopped providing cloud services for them?

I just tore apart a working thermostat that almost 80 years old now (to understand how it works) and in perfectly working condition. It uses the physical properties of the materials inside to measure temperature (a coil of metal expands and contracts causing a pendulum to move clockwise or counterclockwise). Suspended at the top of this pendulum is a small vial of mercury containing two electrodes. When the pendulum is far enough counterclockwise the Mercury slides in the vial and bridges the electrodes, turning the furnace on, when the pendulum is far enough clockwise the mercury slides to the right and no longer bridges the electrodes.

When you set the temperature on the thermostat you are changing the default position of this pendulum. Meaning that it has to move more or less distance for the bead of mercury to bridge the circuit.

It's brilliantly simple and will continue to work essentially forever. The physical characteristics of the materials involved won't change.

That's..... Not how new steel production works.

Coal is a significant component in the production of steel to impregnate it with carbon. It's a fundamental part of how a blast furnace operates. The article literally talks about this...

Even the article about doesn't mention an alternative. An arc furnace relies on scrap it cannot make new steel.

Though, I wonder if we can move more towards charcoals, but even then I wonder if that's just much less effective or if it cannot reach the temperatures or concentrations required for industrial processes.

Yeah, those vested interests are part of the free market.

You don't get to cherry pick this

It also creates a really weird paradox where the folks suffering from this effect do not believe they are suffering from this effect and instead believe that everyone else is.

It's a lose-lose situation for everyone involved. There is no winning play, since any play means being drug down by stupidity.

Plus you'll get to see if they add all the post-launch microtransactions like games are starting to do these days.

Launch to good reviews, and THEN rebalance and force players towards transactions and paid currencies.

ITT: Everyone conflating sex for gender...

It's actually quite important. Your sex are what your chromosomes are, your gender is what you identify as.

Your sex doesn't change, your gender does.

That's literally the definition of it.

This is important especially for medical purposes, medication, surgery, emergency care...etc all has variations based on your sex, because different sexes are predisposed to different classes of problems and interactions. This also applies to REPORTING, reporting that a medication affects someone born female different than someone born male is an extremely important distinction.

Incorrect reporting literally costs lives.

It should to be standardized, just like everything else that has significant consequences on well being.

Politics are ruining what should be completed apolitical...

And it looks like lemmy is just Reddit again, except at least on Reddit you can find an informed opinion before the bottom of the thread. This thread is completely devoid of critical thinking....

This take brought to you by Amazon!

Seriously this is such a corporate take, demanding that everyone stop complaining unless they do things that may it may not be possible for them to do. Not everyone works in a unionizeable job, and not everyone can boycott Amazon (Most of their profits are from AWS, which runs the majority of sites and services you use. Stop using them, including lemmy instances hosted on AWS? You start!)

Possible that nation wide labor rights may be eroded away, EVERYONE has a right to complain about that.

It's really disingenuous to mud sling people with a different view by implying they themselves don't exist/are astroturfing/are bots.

I'm a real human who decided to use their service for kicks and actually like some of the benefits and control over the results compared to other search engines.

Especially when I'm doing research, which is usually half of all my time searching anyways.

Enough that I decided to pay for the service. I'm happy with it and want to share that happiness with others. Are you saying that because I liked a service that I can't seem to get anywhere else I'm now the bad guy? Because I like something and want to share it with others, that's bad?

Is the alternative that you might prefer to be corporate astroturfing instead of organic discussion and growth? Like, really, seriously, what's the alternative here if people talking about and sharing something they like is not acceptable?