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Tulsi Gabbard reused the same weak password on multiple accounts for years


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Leaked records show that Tulsi Gabbard, now director of national intelligence, reused the same weak password across personal accounts for years, including during her congressional tenure on sensitive committees.

The password, containing “shraddha,” a name reportedly linked to a controversial religious group, appeared in multiple data breaches.

Though not used on government accounts, the reuse violated basic cybersecurity practices. Gabbard’s team dismissed scrutiny as “bigoted” and politically motivated.

Experts warn such behavior poses serious security risks, especially given Gabbard's current role overseeing U.S. intelligence and national security operations.

https://www.wired.com/story/tulsi-gabbard-dni-weak-password/




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Now that I’ve been retired for a couple of days, I think I can finally tell this story of how I was – very briefly – steve@next.com And Steve Jobs sent me an…

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Open Source ELINT Accidentally from NASA


You normally think of ELINT — Electronic Intelligence — as something done in secret by shadowy three-letter agencies or the military. The term usually means gathering intelligence from signals that don’t contain speech (since that’s COMINT). But [Nukes] was looking at public data from NASA’s SMAP satellite and made an interesting discovery. Despite the satellite’s mission to measure soil moisture, it also provided data on strange happenings in the radio spectrum.

While 1.4 GHz is technically in the L-band, it is reserved (from 1.400–1.427 GHz) for specialized purposes. The frequency is critical for radio astronomy, so it is typically clear other than low-power safety critical data systems that benefit from the low potential for interference. SMAP, coincidentally, listens on 1.41 GHz and maps where there is interference.

Since there aren’t supposed to be any high-power transmitters at that frequency, you can imagine that anything showing up there is probably something unusual and interesting. In particular, it is often a signature for military jamming since nearby frequencies are often used for passive radar and to control drones. So looking at the data can give you a window on geopolitics at any given moment.

The data is out there, and a simple Python script can pull it. We imagine this is the kind of data that only a spook in a SCIF would have had just a decade or two ago.

Jamming tech is secretive but powerful. SMAP isn’t the only satellite to have its mission unexpectedly repurposed.


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Happy Mother's Day to moms and mother figures everywhere.

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Sometimes you just have to whack a couple of googly eyes on a flower bud and be done with it.
Yes, *have to*.
Shush now.

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes

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Mexico sues Google over Gulf of Mexico name change parstoday.ir/en/news/world-i23…


🇨🇿 “It’s simple: Ukraine and the democratic world want a ceasefire — Putin wants to keep shooting,” — Czech FM Jan Lipavský.



Apple may release a ‘mostly glass, curved iPhone’ in 2027
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DNS...it's always DNS!

So, yesterday evening I've setup pfsense DNS resolver to BLOCK my clients from using external DNS. I used the inverted allow rule, to allow 53 and 853 nowhere but to pfsense (self).

Everything seemed to work perfectly, until today. No client was able to reach the internet. (Maybe the "states" where still in effect yesterday evening? I dunno why it worked...

So I was diving deeper and learned the following:

If I BLOCK DNS to everywhere, except to pfsense, it does not mean that it is automatically ALLOWED to pfsense.

Therefore one has to create an explicit rule to ALLOW 53 & 853 to pfsense (self).

In Short:
By default, any traffic is allowed to Internet.

DNS rules:
a) BLOCK 53 & 853 to everywhere (Internet)
and
b) ALLOW 53 & 853 to pfsense (self)

I'm again a little bit wiser with the trade off of an additional snow-white Hair I found... §8-)

Always learn, never stop, make mistakes!

Happy new week to all 38-)




ciao @claus61, ho visto il commento che hai lasciato su lore.

Certo che mi ricordo di te 💪

La chat di cui parli non era su Telegram (io non gestisco nessuna chat su Telegram) ma su Matrix.

Ecco l'indirizzo

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Quando vuoi sei il benvenutə 🤗

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è Fedifriends, dovresti essere già dentro se non ricordo male...

EDIT: no, non ci sei (forse ne eri uscito?) comunque si parla di fediverso e software libero.

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Saturday’s cargo flight is the largest single shipment of explosives to pass through NYC’s busiest airport. theintercept.com/2025/05/10/is…


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Useful article from @PetaPixel about in-the-field photo backups using a smartphone. I actually use an iPad now, but the idea is the same: a mobile device, USB hub & removable storage is your friend.

petapixel.com/2025/05/11/no-la…

Certainly better than the way I used to do it. Backing up to an iPod worked, but drained the battery of both camera & iPod. Which is a problem when you don't have a reliable way to recharge (that kerosene lantern is there because the power was out, yet again).

#photography

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Dear Care and Feeding: I just accidentally said something incredibly racist to my daughter’s friend. But she pushed me to it.

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Das Bild zeigt eine Silhouette eines großen Baumes vor einem dunklen Nachthimmel. Der Baum hat einen dicken Stamm und einen breiten Kronenbereich, der sich gegen den Himmel abzeichnet. Der Himmel wechselt von einem tiefen Blau am oberen Rand zu einem helleren Blau und einem Hauch von Orange am Horizont, was auf die Dämmerung hinweist. Ein kleiner, heller Punkt, möglicherweise der Mond oder eine Stern, ist am Horizont zu sehen. Der Boden ist dunkel und unklar, was die Silhouette des Baumes noch stärker hervorhebt. Die Umgebung wirkt ruhig und friedlich, mit einer sanften Landschaft im Hintergrund.

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Often it can be hard to tell how big the "thing" is, in this case this dragonfly was massive, at least the size of my middle finger.
Easy to shoot from 2m away, shame it was moving so much.

📷 #FujiFilm #XT30II
🔭 XF 70-300mm

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Bugs #Dragonfly #Macro #MacroPhotography



We have a very regular woodpecker

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It's setting up a Connect-4 board. Or maybe Battleship. Is there another board on the other side of the tree?



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I got this from an article in the Washington Post. Article is titled “The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government”1 dollar limits on credit cards, so crippling people by spending limits on pens and anything that would help us EFFICIENTLY do our jobs!Also, you can send info to reporter securely. Ether by encrypted email or (ironically) Signal. We gotta fight.“The Washington Post wants to hear from people affected by DOGE activities at federal agencies. You can contact our reporters by email or Signal encrypted message.Hannah Natanson: hannah.natanson@washpost.com or (202) 580-5477 on Signal.Maxine Joselow: maxine.joselow@washpost.com or MaxineJ.55 on Signal.”washingtonpost.com/anonymous-n… this post doesn’t violate anything, I’m just tired of complaining and not fighting.

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Whoop Promises Free Upgrades - But Some Users Will Have to Pay to Extend Their Subscriptions it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11…




#PodOS Browser can now be installed as a progressive webapp. Give it a try to have all your #Solid data at hand when you need it.

browser.pod-os.org

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23andMe customers notified of bankruptcy and potential claims —deadline to file is July 14
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/11/23andme-customers-notified-of-bankruptcy-and-potential-claims-deadline-to-file-is-july-14/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Harry Houdini’s Great Rope Escape (Circa 1920)

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Helluva mess when your dominatrix calls it a day and you forgot your safeword…


This Mother's Day, give mom a protected bike lane.

Geef je moeder deze Moederdag een beschermd fietspad.

Groningen, NL
#BikeTooter

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🌐 ■ Hamás dice que liberará al soldado rehén estadounidense para facilitar una tregua en Gaza ■ El grupo, que no ha especificado cuándo pondrá en libertad a Alexander, comunicó esta decisión tras conversaciones con EEUU, en las que asegura haber mantenido una actitud "muy positiva".
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#global #eeuu #israel #gaza #hamas



Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service

Link: customerexperiencedive.com/new…
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Un comentario común a lo largo del 2022 sobre Terrero fue que qué hacía. El sentir era que iba tarde. Algo raro con lo trabajadora y todoterreno que es.

Para colmo, Agua tardó mucho en llegar, poniendo un doble subrayado a esa percepción de cantante que estaba desaprovechando un momento histórico a su favor.

Con unos visuales de Musté, el largo se mantuvo lejos de los números que cualquiera esperaría tras su chanelazo. Sony fijo que los esperaba. Y fijo que también, por su lado empresarial, se decepcionó.

A punto de cumplirse este catorce el tercer aniversario de su mítica puesta en escena (no digo canción, el detalle) y buen hacer, Chanel lanza Antillas y, atendiendo a los créditos, Sony ya no aparece por ningún lado.

Este sencillo suena en la onda actual, pide verano y soltarse. Es breve y bruto. Tiene un poso de mixtape. Si es música independiente, y en principio por la ausencia de una mayor se asemeja, no lo parece. Sí desesperadilla por sonar (la rimas -illa, la percu machacona, los cambios de tempo rápido-lento tan alternos, siempre buscando que pase algo, que no caiga la noche, o que no amanezca, que el ritmo no pare), aunque la apuesta por un son latino tradicional en lo melódico (que recuerda a la infravalorada Nia y su afán por demostrar que otro latineo es posible) rebaja la impresión inicial.

Tampoco es que necesite un chanelazo 2.0. Ya fue y estuvo bien. Además, sus ganas de pasarlo bonito y llevarnos a la pista son bienvenidas. Pero con esa base tan directa (y sin una multi respirando en su nuca) se echa en falta un mayor espacio para lucir la melodía y mayor finura en los arreglos.

El remate final, más electro, cierra de fábula este sencillo, no que claro si promocional o buzzsingle, porque no hay video.

Chanel, si te has ido por tu cuenta (o te dieron boleto) que se note más. Una parte de ti continúa en Sony. Fuera miedos
youtube.com/watch?v=5zKX_o3Ll6…
#popazo #pop #music #musica #nowplaying #chanel #latina #latin #latinmusic #urban #antillas #latino

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In microcosm, this is why “fund defence spending with an aid cut” is really stupid. What is your strategy to prevail in these conflicts if not through funding something like the World Service in addition to your hard power?

Ministers demand BBC World Ser...




Here's a couple CVEs in some ASUS motherboards to start us off this Friday.

asus.com/content/asus-product-…

sev:CRIT 9.4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

"This issue is limited to motherboards and does not affect laptops, desktop computers, or other endpoints." An insufficient validation vulnerability in ASUS DriverHub may allow untrusted sources to affect system behavior via crafted HTTP requests. Refer to the 'Security Update for ASUS DriverHub' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.


nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2…

sev:HIGH 8.4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H

"This issue is limited to motherboards and does not affect laptops, desktop computers, or other endpoints." An insufficient validation in ASUS DriverHub may allow unauthorized sources to interact with the software's features via crafted HTTP requests. Refer to the 'Security Update for ASUS DriverHub' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.


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@campuscodi Nice. Too bad it's not referenced in the CVE too.



Questo potrebbe essere il parassita intestinale più antico mai scoperto
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So here's another blog from me where I dismantle the rack I made in the last blog and start remaking it, better, neater, rackier... codepope.dev/post/2025/05/misc…

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The April-May Best of Krita-Artists poll is now open for voting!

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#krita #DigitalArt #DigitalArtists



Il pianeta delle Scimmie: è esistito grazie a un’idea geniale (che non erano le scimmie)

Abbiamo vissuto a lungo con un incubo crepuscolare: il Pianeta delle Scimmie. Ma non ci sarebbe mai stato senza un’idea che molti di noi usano ancora adesso.

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A #Trenord stanno impazzendo, più del solito intendo.

"Il passante di #Milano d’estate non si muove: queste le linee sospese e le soluzioni alternative" 🤦🏽

#treno

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Hamas says last living American hostage in Gaza will be released in truce efforts #World #gaza

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A video of this hospital: youtu.be/C8VYOVqwSTY

Abandoned hospital (Militärkrankenhaus) Germany Jan 2011

#urbex #photography #abandoned #hospital #germany #lostplace #YouTube


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The image depicts a futuristic cityscape at sunset. The scene is dominated by a large, bright sun partially obscured by clouds, casting a warm orange glow across the sky. The city is characterized by tall, intricate structures with cylindrical towers and domes, suggesting advanced technology. The architecture is a mix of industrial and organic elements, with buildings featuring arches and bridges connecting different parts of the city.

In the foreground, a figure with blue hair and a red cloak stands on a bridge, facing away from the viewer, looking towards the city. The figure's cloak flows behind them, adding a sense of movement to the scene. The ground is a mix of stone and metal, with patches of water visible in the lower left corner.

The sky transitions from orange near the sun to a lighter yellow further away, with stars visible in the upper right corner. A spaceship is seen flying in the sky, adding to the futuristic atmosphere. The overall color palette is a blend of warm oranges, yellows, and muted grays, creating a striking contrast between the natural and artificial elements of the scene.

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Aber alle meine Freund*innen, Promis, blah trinken das vergiftete Wasser! Ich will nich alleine gesund sein!
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@jfml Wie kommt denn das rüber wenn ich mich als einziger beim gesunden Wasser anstelle.


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11 May 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Györgyi Einhorn, was born.

In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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Today's hike was up and around Pendle Hill, probably most famous for the Witch Trials 400 years ago which resulted in nearly a dozen people (mostly women) being put to death for witchcraft.

Near Pendle today there is a sculpture trail, supposedly inspired by the witches' stories, although the connections are I think fairly tenuous.

They may appear to be only sculptures but we took no chances and were of course suitably polite to the fae creatures of the forest.

#Pendle #witches #hiking #Lancashire

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