How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
By Mat Honon
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.
In many ways, this was all my fault. My accounts were daisy-chained together. Getting into Amazon let my hackers get into my Apple ID account, which helped them get into Gmail, which gave them access to Twitter. Had I used two-factor authentication for my Google account, it’s possible that none of this would have happened, because their ultimate goal was always to take over my Twitter account and wreak havoc. Lulz.
Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn’t have had to worry about losing more than a year’s worth of photos, covering the entire lifespan of my daughter, or documents and e-mails that I had stored in no other location.
Those security lapses are my fault, and I deeply, deeply regret them.
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From Oscar®- and Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated; Twist of Faith) comes The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.
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Definitely not the smartest action taken by the protestor, but interesting how one can be charged with terroristic threats AND disorderly conduct.
Occupier charged with terroristic felony for protesting in front of bank
A protester belonging to an Occupy Wall Street group in rural Pennsylvania is being charged with felony attempted bank robbery and a terrorism-related charge for holding signs up during a demonstration at a local Wells Fargo branch.
David C. Gorczynski, 22, was charged on Tuesday with attempted bank robbery and terroristic threatening, both felonies, as well as one misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. Police detained him after he walked into an Easton, PA Wells Fargo branch with a sign that read “You’re being robbed” and another that said “Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob a country.”
Gorczynski was at the Wells Fargo bank as part of a demonstration led by Occupy Easton, the small Pennsylvania town’s OWS offshoot.
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Good news.
Judge repeats: Parkway feeding can go on
A federal judge on Friday reaffirmed his July 12 order blocking enforcement of Mayor Nutter's rule banning groups from feeding homeless people along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Within hours of the release of the 56-page opinion and preliminary injunction by District Judge William H. Yohn Jr., the Nutter administration filed notice of appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
At a hearing last month and in writing Friday, Yohn encouraged representatives of the city and four religious groups that challenged the June 1 ban to try to resolve the dispute for the good of the city and the homeless.
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Come on, which is it: Close on Sundays so you can go to church and be with your family or... use your religion to make more money on Sunday, your slow day?
Pa. eatery says business up after religion flap
The proprietor of a central Pennsylvania restaurant that made national headlines when its Sunday discount to anyone showing a church bulletin was challenged by a member of an atheist's group says the controversy hasn't hurt business.
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About a year ago, the restaurant started offering 10 percent discounts to diners who bring in a current church bulletin on Sundays. Prudhomme, who owns the establishment with husband David, said the promotion was designed to boost business on a traditionally slow business day.
Last month, John Wolff of Lancaster County filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission against the discount. Wolff, who is an atheist and member of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, said Prudhomme's should not give out discounts based on faith.
"I bear them no ill will, but they shouldn't be pushing religion," Wolff said.
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On the grand conspiracy that told Romney to pick ...
... Ryan as part of a plot for Romney to lose and then for Obama to cut Social Security ...
... what is the evidence in favor of that over (1) rich people pushing for the rollback of Social Security investing in effective propagandists and getting their focus-group-tested messaging entrenched into the status quo discussion of Social Security over the course of thirty years (2) a Hedge Fund Democrat pushing for the fictitious benefits of "deficit reduction" because he has bought the establishment story hook, line and sinker and (3) a Republican candidate seeing the race moving against him and seeing a need to gin up the base making the base-friendly pick?
One reason a status quo establishment is so much more robust than a grand conspiracy is that it doesn't need a single master committee meeting in secret to come up with the strategy, it only needs individual groups that have a vested interest in the status quo to engage in their own private deliberations, and the end result is as if there was some grand conspiracy to maintain the status quo.
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