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Another credit reporting agency breach, another terrible breach notification letter

TransUnion is bad at security and bad at handling security breaches and none of this is going to get better until we have a real federal data privacy law with meaningful penalties for companies which leak people’s data.

Category: Computer Security Computers Consumer activism Government activism Tags: Cyberscout, data breach, infosec, privacy, TransUnion

Thoughts on the proposed Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, S.2608

The proposed law is a good start but it has problems that should be fixed before it is enacted. Here are some of them.

Category: Boston Computers Consumer activism Government activism Internet Law Tags: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Data Protection Act, privacy

Using Tasker on Android to toggle Blokada+ / private DNS / WiFi

Creating an Android quick setting tile that performs three different tasks automatically so I don’t have to do them all by hand on a regular basis.

Category: Computers Mobile Computing Tags: archive.today, AutoInput, Blokada, Tasker

Suspicious email from “pulse <root@overlinux.com>”: malicious or just dumb?

The person who sent this email is either extremely clueless or up to no good. It’s hard to say for certain which.

Category: Computer Security Computers Phishing Spam

Some Comics Aggregator internals changed, let me know if you run into issues

I’ve had to rewrite a bit of the Comics Aggregator code to be able to add Alexandra Petri to it. Because this involved switching from one third-party library to another in code that doesn’t just impact Alexandra Petri, I may have broken something. I did some testing and everything seems to be working, but I… Read More: Some Comics Aggregator internals changed, let me know if you… »

Category: Comics Aggregator

Alexandra Petri added to comics aggregator

I’ve added the humor columnist Alexandra Petri, who previously wrote for The Washington Post and now writes for The Atlantic, to the comics aggregator. If you don’t feel the need to read her stuff Right Away When It Comes Out, then I would encourage you to use the “1-day delay” variant of her entry in… Read More: Alexandra Petri added to comics aggregator »

Category: Comics Aggregator

“PanChol” clinical trial thread unroll

All my posts prior to today about my participation in a clinical trial for a truly revolutionary cholera vaccine.

Category: Social Activism Tags: Brigham & Women's Hospital, cholera, clinical trials, Mass General Brigham, PanChol

The solution I’ve found for non-rich Americans who want to legally move some money offshore

You can use Wise to convert dollars into foreign currency at a very competitive rate, then transfer the converted currency into an HSBC Expat account, if you have enough liquidity to open one.

Category: Finance Tags: HSBC, HSBC Expat, Wise

How I lost my family’s email, recovered most of it, and made sure it wouldn’t happen again

I made some mistakes, it cost me some time and a bit of lost data, and I’ve taken steps to make sure if it happens again I’ll lose less time and less data.

Category: Computers Free software Tags: Backups, btrfs, Cyrus IMAP, IMAP, post-mortem, sysadmin

Blast from the past: Boston Globe “special section” on Clinton Impeachment

Look back on simpler times, when the GOP pretended that lying about an affair was sufficient grounds to remove a president from office. Look, and despair.

Category: Boston Politics Tags: Bill Clinton, Boston Globe, Donald Trump, GOP, impeachment
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