Twin Google flaws allowed researcher to get from YouTube ID to Gmail address in a few easy steps A security researcher has found that Google could leak the email addresses of YouTube channels, which wasn’t good because the search and ads giant promised not to do that. A security researcher who goes by Brutecat last week explained he found two vulnerabilities that, when chained, make it possible to sniff out the email …
About that for stopping Pig Butchering - according to a pic on Reddit, the CIA has stopped their cybersecurity outreach to senior citizens due to Trump/Musk butchering.
Mushroom cloud because they were sacked too.
As the linked-to article points out, doge.com is (currently) just a mirror of their Twitter posts.
But at least that means we can see those tweets without going anywhere near, let alone actually logging onto, The Website That Must Not Be Named[1].[2]
Though you just gotta love a dot-com that has to stick at the top "An official website of the United States government" without any kind of recognisable logo, let alone a dot-gov address. Yeah, I'm convinced. Ooh, look, this other website says that is is "The official website of Prince Burt of Nigeria" and he would like me to do him a favour.
[1] come on, "x" isn't a name, it is the canonical placeholder for the thing you don't know the name of.
[2] and having read the first page or so: now we see the very definition of "picayune"! That lot is a triumph against waste and will lead to saving two trillion dollars? Meanwhile, let's kill off more US Soft Power influence... And damn those come paper straws!
The join page currently blocks me:
This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.
This suggests to me a bug in their code. I don't care enough to understand.
Yeah, that suggests they've got the same bug/design f*kup as the Cisco/Meraki rubbish.
When a site is censored by the administrators, the user is typically first told that the site has a problem, that the site has a security error ("risky!site!"): incorrect security certificate. If you choose to proceed Unsafe, it will then buckle, resort to showing you the actual error: that site is censored by internal policy as being Too Dangerous For Plebs To See.
If they wanted an X mirror they could have saved themselves some time and used one of the working Nitter instances. No need to give your data to the fourth reich.
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