Collaborate Disseminate
I had tried to type news.google.com into an Incognito tab of the Chrome browser on macOS. I don’t think I mistyped it, but that is possible.
What appeared was a big red window with a "McAfee Virus Warning" telling me I’m at risk … Continue reading What is taiwanprotect(dot)click, is it safe, and how did I get there? [closed]
Ars Technica’s April 24, 2024 Millions of IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it for dead begins with
Ability of PlugX worm to live on presents a vexing dilemma: Delete it or leave it be.
and says later:
The US Dept of Justice on Monday, March 25, 2024 announced Seven Hackers Associated with Chinese Government Charged with Computer Intrusions Targeting Perceived Critics of China and U.S. Businesses and Politicians It includes the following… Continue reading What are forms of "hidden tracking links" in email messages that collect data; activated by simply opening email?
I’m an expat and recently someone convinced a professor’s assistant to send them scans of my passport and locally issued government residency/visa documentation specifically using LINE (desktop) and not institutional email.
Many people her… Continue reading My passport and other personal documents were sent to someone using LINE rather than institutional email. Does LINE OCR & share info with advertisers? [closed]
There are files I need from a heavy NAS user and they’ve given me a link of the form http://gofile.me/xxxxx/xxxxxxxxx If my laptop running the Chrome browser in macOS is connected to the internet via an iPhone hotspot and I download the da… Continue reading When I visit an http://gofile.me/ link, how much information to I provide to the NAS server owner?
Space.com’s SpaceX Starlink satellite internet terminals arrive in Ukraine, The Verge’s Elon Musk’s promised Starlink terminals have reached Ukraine and Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine’s twe… Continue reading How to reduce/mitigate the degree to which a Starlink terminal user in a war zone is giving their position in real time?
Java update messages on my computer have recently (~month(s)) started appearing partly in Chinese, meaning that I can’t read part of the message or what looks like a link.
Is this change expected behavior? Is there a way to say "Hey … Continue reading Java update messages have recently started appearing partly in Chinese meaning that I can’t read part of the message. Is this expected behavior? [migrated]
Discussion under this answer in Space Exploration SE links to items in NAIF; NASA Planetary Data System Navigation Node links for MacIntel_OSX_64bit
I’m looking at these two.
spy: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/utilities/MacIntel_OSX_… Continue reading How can I find out what’s in this NASA JPL "Spy" command line program for macOS and how safe it is?
The BBC reports that the image Boris Johson posted on Twitter to congratulate Joe Biden contains traces of the text "Trump" in the background. The BBC article links to a Guido Fawkes’ article, and when I download the tweet’s JPEG… Continue reading What aspects of image preparation workflows can lead to accidents like Boris Johnson’s No. 10 tweet’s ‘hidden message’?
I’m terrified of clicking on links in emails, and yet a colleague insists I do.
When I receive an email in my gmail account that contains links of the form http://gofile.me/xxxxx/yyyyyyyyy along with its password, apparently sent from some… Continue reading How to decide to use, then how to use an http gofile.me url in an email, explained to a five year old?