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Shared Links (weekly) May 16, 2021
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Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom
– Expect more of the same, it pays off for the hackers.
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Teams Not to Automatically Record All Meetings
“Unless you have a regulatory or legal need to do it, automatic recording for all Teams meetings is a horrible idea.” – I thought the same when I saw the original article.
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Prioritizing Mental Health in a Pandemic with Stellar Women Mary Mack & Kaylee Walstad
Linked: Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them
On Wednesday, as we watched the invasion of the Capitol building play out, my first thought had everything to do with how little police and national guard presence there was. The reason that was my first thought was because we have watched this rally, and the ensuing violence, be planned on right in front of our faces on social media for the last few weeks. All you had to do was pay even a little bit of attention, and it was clear that there was a significant number of people who weren’t there to simply protest, but were there fully expecting this to be the start of a civil war. It was obvious enough that I knew it, just from an occasional look at Twitter or TikTok. I didn’t even have to go to the dark corners of the web to find it.
Linked – Depression Series Archives
I’ve been sharing these articles on social media for much of this week because the topic is obviously something I have a keen interest it. If you haven’t seen any of them or just want to get caught up on the whole series from this past week that Rocket Matter put together, this is the…
Linked – Container ships easy to hack, track, send off course and even sink, security experts say
This doesn’t sound good. “Pen Test Partners (PTP), a penetration testing and security services firm, demonstrated a number of methods for hacking into the satcom systems of ships, which can allow bad actors access to shipboard systems and wreak potential havoc for the vessels and the shipping industry.” Hmm, imagine what kind of havoc could…
Linked – Mad about Metadata
Craig asks: “There are different considerations for database content and the rare proprietary system; but, for your run-of-the-mill Windows or Mac operating system, this is just common sense that seems to be uncommonly absent. I ask you, Dear Reader, what moves lawyers to be so obtuse about something that is so freaking easy to understand…
