Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org
Thinker. Coffee drinker. @jaysonmassey on Twitter. #cybersecurity #student in #Philadelphia
Joined Nov 2022
"Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home."
"Vishing attacks have been on the rise as a result, with 69% of companies experiencing them in 2021, up from 54% in 2020. These attacks often take the form of job or tech support scams and can be incredibly convincing. In August 2020, the FBI along with the CISA issued a warning regarding remote users being targeted by attackers spoofing organizations' business numbers and impersonating the IT service desk."
#vishing #cybersecurity #scams
https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/does-your-help-desk-know-whos-calling.html
""Their main point is to collapse society so they can rebuild for the white man," she says."
I hate that anyone even has to address this.
"In 1989, James Baldwin decried “What is it you wanted me to reconcile myself to? I was born here, almost 60 years ago. I’m not going to live another 60 years. You always told me ‘It takes time.’ It’s taken my father’s time, my mother’s time, my uncle’s time, my brothers’, and my sisters’ time. How much time do you want for your progress?”"
https://olurinatti.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-be-magic
"76% of vulnerabilities exploited by ransomware are old – really old. Many of them were discovered between 2010 and 2019!"
#ransonware #vulnerabilities #cybersecurity
https://blog.knowbe4.com/most-ransomware-vulnerabilities-discovered-before-2020
"I just want you all to consider the costs of vengeance" 🛋️
How would you vote in the 2023 Mayoral Democratic Primary if Philadelphia had Ranked Choice Voting? (1 winners, 50% to win)
@alfredo_liberal @Melody@masto.ai
Well...there are other factors at play...
"What we can do about it: Tackle the working conditions and other factors that are prompting teachers to quit and dissuading people from entering the profession, thus making it harder for school districts to retain and attract highly qualified teachers: low pay, a challenging school environment, and weak professional development support and recognition. In addition to tackling these factors for all schools, we must provide extra supports and funding to high-poverty schools, where teacher shortages are even more of a problem."
"‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won’t teach anymore
To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of lessons"
"Excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Passages from Christopher Columbus’s journal describing his brutal treatment of Indigenous peoples. A data set on the New York Police Department’s use of force, analyzed by race.
These are among the items teachers have nixed from their lesson plans this school year and last, as they face pressure from parents worried about political indoctrination and administrators wary of controversy, as well as a spate of new state laws restricting education on race, gender and LGBTQ issues."
This is very sad. What do you do to prevent this?
This article is behind Washington Post's paywall.
#ai #scams #cybersecurity #elderly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/05/ai-voice-scam/
"Treatments for Sex Reassignment;
Granting courts of this state temporary emergency jurisdiction over children present in this state if they are at risk of or are being subjected to the provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures"
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254/?Tab=RelatedBills
Jayson Massey
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After their mother died, one Iowa family received a startling letter: Medicaid covered her health care, so the government was recouping its money — by taking the house. It seemed bogus but it was very real. https://t.co/fPJlXsaElh
@jendemography What did I do now?
Great, now we have hate hacking via Zoom.
"KC historian’s presentation on Negro Leagues disrupted by hackers with racist messages"
"Dixon has traveled around the country for nearly 40 years sharing presentations on the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, tailoring each event to the town he visits. But on Feb. 21, his event was hacked by racist imagery, disturbing him and audience members."
This is today's worst thing in the world!
"As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like Google and Facebook are helping."
@morecowbell@mastodon.social I didn't that from reading the article.
"Here was the salient problem: The proponents of these new sciences saw validations and verifications of their theories everywhere. If you were having trouble as an adult, it could always be explained by something your mother or father had done to you when you were young, some repressed something-or-other that hadn’t been analyzed and solved. They were confirmation bias machines.
What was the missing element? Popper had figured it out before long: The non-scientific theories could not be falsified. They were not testable in a legitimate way. There was no possible objection that could be raised which would show the theory to be wrong.
In a true science, the following statement can be easily made: “If x happens, it would show demonstrably that theory y is not true.” We can then design an experiment, a physical one or sometimes a simple thought experiment, to figure out if x actually does happen. It’s the opposite of looking for verification; you must try to show the theory is incorrect, and if you fail to do so, thereby strengthen it.
Pseudosciences cannot and do not do this—they are not strong enough to hold up."
Thinker. Coffee drinker. @jaysonmassey on Twitter. #cybersecurity #student in #Philadelphia
Joined Nov 2022
