CISA urges switch to Signal-like encrypted messaging apps after telecom hacks

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CISA urges switch to Signal-like encrypted messaging apps after telecom hacks

New York City Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government in Lower Manhattan https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/new-york-city-resident-pleads-guilty-operating-secret-police-station-chinese (Announced with @NewYorkFBI and @TheJusticeDept)

CISA urges switch to Signal-like encrypted messaging apps after telecom hacks

full Guidance
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mobile-communications-best-practices.pdf

@WeldPond
Due to U.S. telco networks being compromised, today CISA is recommending:
1. Use only end-to-end encrypted communications
2. Enable Fast Identity Online (FIDO) phishing-resistant authentication
3. Migrate away from Short Message Service (SMS)-based MFA
4. Use a password manager to store all passwords
5. Set a Telco PIN
6. Regularly update software
7. Opt for the latest hardware version from your cell phone manufacturer
8. Do not use a personal virtual private network (VPN)

switch to https://signal.org/

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ECP NetHappenings Long COVID, Health, Technology, Government

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HEALTH – LONG COVID

Rob Wüst @RobWust
Long COVID symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, myalgia, and post-exertional malaise (#PEM). This thread dives into our newest literature review exploring skeletal muscle dysfunction as a key factor in reduced exercise capacity for #LongCovid . https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1869409724581728666.html

TECH

In generative A.I. there’s no intelligence. It’s great at regurgitating the contents of the internet but it gives you wrong answers. It gives you hallucinations.” ` Fred Hickey

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US Government Issues Cloud Security Requirements for Federal Agencies
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cloud-security-federal-agencies/
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published Binding Operational Directive 25-01: Implementing Secure Practices for Cloud Services on December 17, which sets out actions federal agencies must take to identify and secure all production or operational cloud tenants in their environments.

GOVERNMENT

The Silent Generation knew how to retire at 65 then  receive their gold watch or string of beautiful pearls then leave.

The Electoral College meeting for Pennsylvania is underway in Harrisburg….
5 of the state’s 19 Trump electors this year were “fake electors” in 2020, who signed a phony certificate falsely proclaiming that Trump won the state that year. more here –>
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/politics/2020-fake-electors-electoral-college-2024/index.html

Why Won’t Boomers Retire?

AOC defeated by Connolly in battle for Oversight role
Like her or hate her, a lot of young people respect and look up
@AOC. Her loss to a 74 year old battling cancer does not inspire the belief that democratic leadership is learning or listening, young people don’t want geriatric establishment leadership.
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/aoc-loses-gerry-connolly-democrats-oversight

Pelosi and the old guard’s continued opposition to younger talent seems breathtakingly counterproductive in the face of the Democratic Party’s numerous challenges right now.
Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.
In sabotaging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of the Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189500/pelosi-aoc-oversight-committee-democrats

Jamie Raskin elected Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee for the 119th Congress.

Kennedy must be defeated. This is a redline.
Any Democrat who votes to confirm him will deserve a primary loss. This moron thinks vaccines cause autism, HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, raw milk is good for you… Oh, and also, why does he eat rotten food like roadkill and develop parasites in his brain?
RFK Jr. claims that the polio vaccine “killed far more people” than the polio virus itself. Send a letter to your senators urging a NO vote on Kennedy here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-kennedy-for-health-and-human-services-secretary

  • “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”— John F. Kennedy
  • “Do your best, history will do the rest.”— Harry S. Truman
  • “They’re eating the dogs!”— Donald Trump

#TrumpIsARapist
“MR. TRUMP SLAPPED ME AND TOLD ME TO SHUT UP AND THEN HE RIPPED MY PANTIES OFF. ”
– Interview with Epstein victim Katie Johnson.
The Daily Mail, Nov 4, 2016.
Katie’s lawyer Lisa Bloom sat in on the interview.
This incident was CONFIRMED by Katie’s Handler ‘Tiffany Doe’ in a follow up interview Katie was a 13 year old virgin when she met Trump.

Jeff Bezos is now in the process of convincing Donald Trump to eliminate the USPS.
Get ready to pay $15 to send a letter through Amazon.
This is a government of billionaires, by billionaires, and for billionaires.

Wow. Elon Musk’s lawyers have advised him not to seek a higher security clearance because “Musk would have had to answer questions from the government about his contacts with foreign nationals and drug use.”
He’s hiding his conversations with Putin.

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ECP NetHappenings Isle 5 AI Clean Up

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Isle 5 AI Clean Up

GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

Just had a fascinating lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though.

He kept pausing mid-sentence, searching for words. Not complex words – basic ones. Like his brain was buffering.

Finally asked if he was okay. His response floored me.

“Sometimes I forget words now. I’m so used to having ChatGPT complete my thoughts that when it’s not there, my brain feels… slower.”

He’d been using AI for everything. Writing, thinking, communication. It had become his external brain. And now his internal one was getting weaker.

Made me think about calculators. Remember how teachers said we needed to learn math because “you won’t always have a calculator”? They were wrong about that.

But maybe they were right about something deeper.

We’re running the first large-scale experiment on human cognition. What happens when an entire generation outsources their thinking?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m beyond excited about what AI and AI agents will do for people in the same way that I was excited in 2009 when the App Store was launched.

But thinking out loud you got to think this guy I met with isn’t the onnnnnly one that’s going to be completely dependent on AI.

Mike Ashcroft @bigmisterash
This reminds me of the story of London cab drivers brains’ having larger than average sized Hippocampi due to them being required to memorise the streets & routes to do their jobs without relying on external aids.
Outsourcing our navigation was the first taste of this. Many people can’t drive anywhere now without it.

Researchers used AI to generate 288 complete academic finance papers predicting stock returns, complete with plausible theoretical frameworks & citations. Each paper looks legit. They did this to show how easy it now is to mass produce “credible” research. Academia isn’t ready.

Former Google CEO: A time will come to consider ‘unplugging’ AI system

Google’s former CEO offered his opinion on when humans will need to pull the plug on AI.

Ilya sutskever gave a TED talk yesterday after a long time. He explains how ‘pre-training as we know it will end’ Another important point he discusses: Reasoning will lead to “incredibly unpredictable” behavior, and self-awareness will emerge in AI systems.
https://x.com/slow_developer/status/1868317360568123680/video/1

Still amazes me that people could once churn out pages of coherent paragraphs on a typewriter with only a backspace key and whiteout for editing.

New workplace dystopia just dropped.
AI monitoring software now flags you if you type slower than coworkers, take >30sec breaks, or checks notes have a consistent Mon-Thu but slightly different Friday. Bonus: It’s collecting your workflow data to help automate your job away.

ChatGPT’s AI Search Tool Is Now Available
OpenAI just launched its newest artificial intelligence search experience for ChatGPT. Here’s how to get the AI search update, and WIRED’s initial impressions.

Karen Piper
There are two things Elon Musk cares about lately. Neither is Mars.

1. He wants to strangle his competition in AI because he knows he can control the world with it. (This is scary.) OpenAI is ahead of him, so he’s trying to destroy them.

2. He wants to eliminate regulations so he can do whatever he wants. For him, it’s all about world domination.

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ECP NetHappenings Donny Dumps in Notre Dame

“Quelle est cette horrible odeur?”

When Trump invited himself to the rededication ceremony of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, he had a little accident, diaper-wise. As a result, nobody would sit next to him. The French were too polite to say anything,… but look at them all whispering about the horrible stench: https://x.com/Roshan_Rinaldi/status/1867768899053175236/video/1

French lesson: Did someone take a shit in their pants?
Quelqu’un s’en est-il fait chier dans son pantalon?
Peppi LePew is here.

With all these news reports of Trump’s Notre Dame Cathedral diaper fiasco,… … seems like a good time to remember when,… … Dianne Feinstein had to pretend she didn’t hear Trump loudly soil his diaper on live TV.

C’est EU DE MERDE

https://x.com/Roshan_Rinaldi/status/1867902327887413743/video/1