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23 Nov, 6 tweets, 7 min read
Today on the Attack Surface Lectures (8 panels exploring themes from the third Little Brother book, hosted by @torbooks and 8 indie bookstores): Opsec/Personal Cyber-Security, with @runasand and @window, recorded on Oct 22 by @ThirdPlaceBooks.



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You can watch it without Youtube's surveillance courtesy of the @internetarchive:

archive.org/details/asl-op…

Or get the audio as an MP3:

archive.org/download/asl-o…

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Earlier instalments in the series:

I. Politics and Protest (with @evacide and @rondeibert, hosted by @strandbookstore):

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

II. Cross-Media Sci-Fi (with @amber_benson and @jonrog1 hosted by the @booksmithtweets):

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

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III. Race, Surveillance, and Tech with @culturejedi and @mer__edith, hosted by @Booksmith

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

IV. Cyberpunk & Post-Cyberpunk with @NB_Chris and @bruces, hosted by @AndersonsBkshp

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

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V. Little Revolutions with @TochiTrueStory and @BCMorrow, hosted by @skylightbooks

craphound.com/news/2020/11/2…

Here's a master post with all the media as it is goes live:

craphound.com/news/2020/11/1…

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And you can also get this as it's posted on my podcast feed - search for "Cory Doctorow podcast" in your podcatcher or use the RSS:

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zaw…

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Sci-Fi Genre: Sarah Gailey and Chuck Wendig on the Attack Surface Lectures.



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Saudi Aramco is gushing debt: Vision 2030 strikes again.



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24 Nov
How to Fix the Internet is @EFF's amazing new podcast: nuanced discussions of tech law and ethics with incredible experts, interviewed and contextualized by EFF executive director Cindy Cohn and strategy director @mala.

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I devoured the first three episodes. I mean, I started working with EFF nearly 19 years ago (!) but I was learning SO MUCH from them.

Today, the episode I recorded dropped. I've never been in such august company.

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24 Nov
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The researchers say that the back-door allows remote parties to "monitor and control all traffic coming through" affected devices, using an undocumented web-form that accepts commands and runs them as root.

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24 Nov
During the first dotcom bubble, @jwz coined Zawinski's Law: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." It's all three kinds of funny: funny ha-ha, funny strange, and funny serious.

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It's the software equivalent of carcinization, the tendency of every animal to eventually evolve into a crab. Crab's aren't the best animal, but they're the most versatile.

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xkcd.com/2389/

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24 Nov
Under the leadership of the murderer Mohammad bin Salman, the Saudi royal family (and the Saudi state it controls) have embarked on "Vision 2030," a plan to shift the country's economy from oil to not-oil.

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Extraction-based states are always dysfunctional. All you need to run an extraction economy is a hole in the ground surrounded by guns. Being a leader of such a state requires merely that you be able to judge which mercenaries and diggers to hire.

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When these leaders are called upon to do anything more sophisticated - particularly anything that requires forbearance, tolerance, and a degree of personal discomfort - they fail, badly.

Sure, MBS was up to the task of going to NYC to drink Starbucks with Bloomberg.

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24 Nov
Today on the Attack Surface Lectures (8 panels exploring themes from the third Little Brother book, hosted by @torbooks and 8 indie bookstores): Sci-Fi Genre with @gaileyfrey and @ChuckWendig, recorded on Oct 16 by @FountainBkstore.



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You can watch it without Youtube's surveillance courtesy of the @internetarchive:

archive.org/details/asl-sc…

Or get the audio as an MP3:

archive.org/download/asl-s…

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Earlier instalments in the series:

I. Politics and Protest (with @evacide and @RonDeibert, hosted by @strandbookstore):

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

II. Cross-Media Sci-Fi (with @amber_benson
and @jonrog1, hosted by the @booksmithtweets):

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

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