The "Oh hey look who got hacked today" thread!

[notorious bum]

New FOIA docs show FBI used classified malware to subvert animal rights activists' use of encryption in 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/te...iles-show.html

[Salodin]

Operation Trail Mix, lmao

[Churchill]

good on them

[Salodin]

Idk about that, they failed to prove their circumvention resulted in proving illegal activity, and that's not even the worst part when the judge for the case says their use of encryption is circumstantial evidence for their illegal activity. Like, what the fuck kind of reasoning is that =/

[dasva]

the judge for the case says their use of encryption is circumstantial evidence for their illegal activity. Like, what the fuck kind of reasoning is that =/

So basically the judge used the old if you have nothing to hide rhetoric...

[Salodin]

The judge did exactly that.

[Melena]

Lizard Squad decided to DDoS Blizzard last night. Probably over Blizzard shutting down a vanilla private server.

[Zetanio]

Operation Trail Mix, lmao

Whoever came up with this better have been promoted. That's a fucking god tier name.

[notorious bum]

Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.

What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/...-no-seriously/

I know I shouldn't laugh, but I seriously couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity of this practice.

[Byrthnoth]

On one hand, that article is written as unreasonably as possible.

On the other hand, it's pretty unreasonable that Apple enforces a streaming-only music ownership model.

[Zetanio]

I hate everything about that article, I read it earlier. Just reinforces my non-use of their store for anything.

[BerenTebogo]

Yeah I also read it earlier and it makes me glad I refuse to use any of that shit anywhere but on my phone, which I never connect to my PC, and keep my media on external drives

[notorious bum]

Apparently this feature isn't a default setting, but Apple's shitty, vague interface will ensure that this problem will keep happening until they finally make it clear about what they are doing with your files when setting up the streaming service.

http://www.imore.com/no-apple-music-...ss-you-tell-it

[zoobernut]

I fucking hate how much companies are pushing streaming and cloud services but ISP's are not keeping up. Hey assholes I don't give a shit how good your streaming service is I can't get decent enough internet at my house to even utilize it. Want me to stream my movies and music instead of buying them outright? Then put pressure on ISP's to provide better internet to rural areas.

[BerenTebogo]

I fucking hate how much companies are pushing streaming and cloud services but ISP's are not keeping up. Hey assholes I don't give a shit how good your streaming service is I can't get decent enough internet at my house to even utilize it. Want me to stream my movies and music instead of buying them outright? Then put pressure on ISP's to provide better internet to rural areas.

But instead what is actually happening is ISPs going "hey we're going to charge the streaming services more cuz muh bandwidths so they will have to charge you more"

Fun stuff

[zoobernut]

But instead what is actually happening is ISPs going "hey we're going to charge the streaming services more cuz muh bandwidths so they will have to charge you more"

Fun stuff

It is all part of the master plan. I guess my only consolation is everyone is getting fucked by both ends when we move to more streaming/cloud based services.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Nope, just the consumer. ISPs still rake in money, streaming services make the same, the consumer just pays twice for it.

[zoobernut]

Nope, just the consumer. ISPs still rake in money, streaming services make the same, the consumer just pays twice for it.

That is what I said. I meant everyone by all consumers, not just me. The ISPs and the content providers rake in ridiculous money no matter how bad they make it for us.

[TheDirtyHobo]

I assumed everyone meant everyone, including the ISPs and content providers.

[6souls]

Linkedin, Company has reset passwords
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/19/tech...linkedin-hack/