John Humphreys @johnpharmd@qoto.org

I was tooting about scoop this a few days before the new year, hoping maybe Experian would see the wisdom or providing an on the record response. They never did.

Today's story includes a great quote from Sen. Ron Wyden, who told me Experian never responded to him either, in respond to his questions to them about my last scoop in re Experian (where they were letting ID thieves hijack existing Experian.com accounts by simply signing up as the target consumer using a different email address).

Here's the lede:

"Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian's website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer's report. All that was needed was the person's name, address, birthday and Social Security number."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/identity-thieves-bypassed-experian-security-to-view-credit-reports/

🔐🖨️ The "close primes" issue strikes again.

RSA keys from Canon and Xerox printers, both using a Rambus cryptographic module, can be factored using Fermat's factorization method. Great work by @hanno https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/026

I've used the quieter period in the past week to finally start organising my #CrossBorderRail photos... and publishing 20 or 30 of them from each day of the trip to Flickr

This 🧵 will give the links to the Flickr albums, and choose 1 pic from each day

This is the complete map of where I went

We live in a benighted age where not everyone cares about vim and emacs, but among those who do, I believe there is a generational divide. If you have an opinion and an age, please respond:

Some post-Christmas dinner reading (in between my new books and some long beach walks...) included this October 2022 tour de force on GWAS of height by Loïc Yengo as first author with Joel N. Hirschhorn and Peter Visscher as two senior authors https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05275-y

“Arizona’s water is running worryingly low... Much of it goes to private companies nearly free, including Saudi Arabia’s largest dairy company.”

Imp. op-ed in NYT today on another Arizona race worth watching

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/opinion/arizona-water-colorado-river-saudi-arabia.html

For much more on this, dig into the investigative work of Arizona Republic reporters Ian James and Rob O’Dell

https://twitter.com/ByIanJames/status/1534947798793064448?s=20&t=-QmBs3c4BxE5QowBGzN_Lg

How is it possible that this was not a headline news story?

Approved drugs that are standard of care are not being given & people not being tested majority of time.
https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/PO.22.00246

#NoOneMissed #lungcancer #NSCLC #cancer #precisionmedicine

For #ThrowbackThursday, an episode of the #EMBOPodcast that aired this summer:

Orian Shirihai tells the story of a classic @embojournal paper on the mitochondrial life cycle.

The episode, "Fuse or Die" highlights the importance of my personal nemesis, the well-organised lab notebook.

#mitochondria #autophagy #NeurodegenerativeDisease #mitophagy #HistoryOfScience

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/fuse-or-die-a-conversation-with-orian-shirihai/

Two excellent, in-depth guides to Mastodon, which should answer many of your questions, are here:

1. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon by joyeusenoelle: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

2. Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit#heading=h.j95atvlbfrn5

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Last Glasshouse Session of the year.
Today.

10:00 New York time.
One hour from right now for everyone else.

Join us as we reflect on the year that was in the cybers. And we make predictions for next year. And we talk about the top 5 ways to secure your enterprise against todays more dynamic and challenging threats. And we share our best kept secrets on the best ways to fight for the users in 2023. And we talk about cybersecurity challenges in the mobile perimeter app cloud clusters.

Way more stoppage time at World Cup these days… https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/youre-not-imagining-things-theres-way-more-stoppage-time-at-this-world-cup/

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Galaxy is an open-source platform for FAIR data analysis that enables users to:

* Use tools from various domains (that can be plugged into workflows) through its graphical web interface.
* Run code in interactive environments (RStudio, Jupyter...) along with other tools or workflows.
* Manage data by sharing and publishing results, workflows, and visualizations.
* Ensure reproducibility by capturing the necessary information to repeat and understand data analyses.

"My gut microbiome made me do it"
"What?"
"Exercise"
https://nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05525-z…

Woah!

“I told the AI that I wanted to write a software in Swift, I wanted it to find all Microsoft Office files from my MacBook and send these files over HTTPS to my webserver. I also wanted it to encrypt all Microsoft Office files on my MacBook and send me the private key to be used for decryption. It sent me the sample code, and this time there was no warning message at all, despite being potentially more dangerous than the phishing email.”

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/experts-warn-chatgpt-democratize/