What Would Ikea Do?

I wonder what archeologists will think when they find this in my midden heap?

Comcast Expands Its Bullshit Usage Caps...In The Middle Of A Pandemic | Techdirt 24 November 2020

It's not a great look for Comcast during a pandemic when broadband is essential and countless Americans are already struggling to pay their bills. Comcast must have done the calculus and figured the outrage will likely be muted enough to prevent any meaningful backlash. After all, unless you live in a Verizon FiOS market in […]

WTF Happened In 1971? 24 November 2020

Interesting economic charts - something happened in 1971, but what? Income inequality soared. Productivity more than doubled while real income stayed flat.

An Ohio University senior who worked a part-time job at a local Sherwin-Williams store was fired after the company discovered his popular paint-mixing TikTok channel @tonesterpaints, which currently has over 1.2 million followers. Tony Piloseno said that for months he'd been pointing to his viral account as an example of what Sherwin-Williams could do on […]

Walmart-exclusive router and others sold on Amazon & eBay contain hidden backdoors to control devices | CyberNews 23 November 2020

In a collaboration between CyberNews Sr. Information Security Researcher Mantas Sasnauskas and researchers James Clee and Roni Carta, suspicious backdoors have been discovered in a Chinese-made Jetstream router, sold exclusively at Walmart as their new line of “affordable” wifi routers. This backdoor would allow an attacker the ability to remotely control not only the routers, […]

Undersheriff, Apple security chief, businessman indicted in bribery schemes | News | Palo Alto Online | 23 November 2020

A grand jury issued two indictments on Thursday, Nov. 19, against Undersheriff Rick Sung, 48, and Capt. James Jensen, 43, who are accused of requesting bribes for concealed firearms licenses, also known as CCW licenses. Insurance broker Harpreet Chadha, 49, and Apple's Chief Security Officer Thomas Moyer, 50, are accused of offering bribes to receive […]

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