Microsoft On the Issues: Google’s Shadow Campaigns
In a pot calling the kettle black moment, Microsoft is accusing Google of antitrust practices such as creating an astroturf lobbying organization. Since the author is a Corporate Vice President (CVP), Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft, there's some weight behind such an accusation on Microsoft's public blog. As a consumer with no skin in the game, this is a grab-the-popcorn moment. Let them fight.

#microsoft #google #monopoly #antitrust #lobbying

Serious question. Can anyone tell me how we are safer / better for the cookie warning clicking I have to do on the internet? Advertisers still own your browsing habits and the world expends a collective bazillion hours a week on a needless friction.

Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems https://www.redthreatsec.com/blog/greenlightspart1

Thirteen years ago I found "a bad babe" in Windows

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/10/28/whos-0xabadbabe-and-why/

In our new blogpost we guide you through the process of improving the tools available for #pentesting WCF services over the net.tcp binding:

https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2024/10/28/wcf-net.tcp-pentest/

We created a brand new #kaitaistruct based parser and implemented transformations so messages can be manipulated and replayed with #BurpSuite.

are YOU making a website with INFORMATION?

it needs a date. if its not just a list of links... it needs A DATE.

yes your blog, youre recipe edit etc NEEDS A DATE..

please, can we get this right

I had to deal with a freshly unboxed Android phone, and the flipping *clock* app, that was installed by default, came with a privacy policy.

I discovered this because the clock started crying that it couldn't work properly without Google Play Services.

I don't care what the privacy policy was for. I am tired. A clock app does not need to be in a position to have any privacy policy more involved than "we collect and report no data".

The clock is now disabled.

I am so tired of this.

Don't mention explodey stuff near TSA. Noted ✅

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."