A survery of various websites operated by EU governments shows that many of these governments and their agencies are deploying tracking scripts for online ad networks in violation of the EU's own online data protection laws (archived). Per the survey's authors, French government websites break EU laws in this manner most frequently.
Category Archives: Shitware
Pierre Omidyar Stops Stalling On Snowden Documents Instead Gives Up And Shutters Access Declaring "Case Closed"
Pierre Omidyar's "The Intercept" under the editorship of USG stooge Glenn Greenwald has stopped work on the Snowden archive citing the lack of headlines in five years as the reason for doing so (archived). Nevermind the lack of releases from the archive prevents headlines being written. They sat on a treasure trove whose only value was in being released and instead did nothing. Nothing beyond giving away the leakers that followed Snowden, to the tune of 5 years in prison for poor Reality Winner. Or as the rat Greenwald calls it:
From the time we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the documents in context and makes them digestible to the public, and that the welfare and reputations of innocent people be safeguarded.
"Careful reporting" to protect "innocent people" as identified through a stooge tinted lens allows the empire's evil to continue fermenting in the safety of darkness. Nevermind the actual moral imperative professional journalists carry of indicting the guilty. If you are one of the self identified journalists holding a copy of the Snowden archive and would like to become a professional journalist with ethics aligning to morals, you are invited to do some reading and get in touch.
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Hits Automattic's .Org WordPress Fork
A remote code execution vulnerability for the .Org WordPress fork has been reported (archived). At the core of this issue is Auttomattic's refusal to have their software do any sort of checking when comments are involved, a flaw which has left the bulk of WordPress blogs open to being used as DDoS participants. Because why would they fix structural problems? Why fix the grave structural problems making the software a public nuissance, when they can wait and patch particular problems only as they are exploited?
Newly Documented Intel Speculative Memory Management Bug Affects All Generations Of Intel "Core" CPUs, Makes ROWHAMMERing Much Easier
A weakness in the way addresses are speculated in the memory subsystem of Intel CPUs makes all manner of attacks much easier to pull off (archived). Particularly ROWHAMMER. This speculation weakness appears to be particular to Intel CPUs with AMD, ARM, and others not being weak in this specific way. Across Intel processors however, this weakness is endemic stretching all the way back to when Intel first started using the "Core" branding to label processor models.
Intel was reportedly informed of this defect in their products on December 1st. The fellows who sinfully waited 90 days later before going public would like for this property of Intel's late model CPUs to be dubbed SPOILER, an all caps name that in this case is not an acronym for anything.
Forbes Catches The RIPple Scam Six Years Later
This week a Forbes "contributor" finally gave Ripple's XRP token a look and was shocked to find unbacked pump and dump monopoly money is exactly that with the entire Ripple labs business model hinging on the pump (archived). The same outlet had up through this month been treating Ripple and their XRP token as serious business (archived) despite the Ripple network being dismissed by actual cryptocurrency authorities in 2013 for its severe and inherent defects. Sorry for your loss, but what else were those six years good for anyways?
Oscar Screener Leaks Hit New Low As Apathy With Hollywood Output Continues To Grow
In a sign that less people are interested in contemporary Hollywood's trash than ever, only 7 Oscar screeners this year received the honor of being leaked for torrent distribution (archived).
USD Woes: Benjis Outnumber Singles And Almost Entirely Outside US Borders
CNBC decided to sound the alarm over the proliferation of 100 USD notes as the dominant manifestation of the USD altcoin in physical form (archived). These notes, affectionately referred to as Benjis are the most commonly printed currency by the US and the vast majority of them, to the tune of 80% by popular citations, circulate outside US borders. CNBC reports that the US treasury indeed makes a higher profit margin selling Benjis than any other note they print, and that a whole lot of benjis ended up abroad as part of the US's ongoing southwest Asia misadventures.
CNBC also mentions former Obama treasury chief Lawrence Summer's objection to the existence of Benjis for their potential to facilitate corruption while at the same time failing to connect that to their earlier mentioning of the USG dumping pallets of fresh Benjis into southwest Asia and everywhere else the US clumsily misadventures.
Advertisers Flee Youtube After Pedophile Commenter Ring Exposed
Numerous "family friendly" advertisers have ceased spending on Youtube after the fact numerous Youtube users had been using videos featuring children as a sort of "soft core" child porn, this is in contrast to the "hard core" child porn produced and consumed by US "law enforcement" (archived). Apparently someone pointed out to Disney and Nestle that their ads were appearing with content that showed children "compromising positions" to the adoration of the Youtube commenter community.
This happens to coincide with Youtube moving to demote popular content they describe as politically "questionable", something they have not done with content softly sexualizing small children.
USG/Alphabet/Google Claim They Intended To Declare Secret Microphone's Existence, Actually Waited Until Other People Found It, Now Attempting To Spam Over Their Treachery
USG.Alphabet's Google department is trying to issue an apology for equiping a "home security" product marketed by their "Nest" brand with a secret, undeclared microphone (archived). They are claiming the secret surveillance microphone wasn't supposed to be a secret. After other parties independently discovered the microphone exists, Google quickly moved to enable intentional interactions on the part of the purchaser with the microphone and quietly updated all their marketing materials to acknowledge the microphone's existence.
Chicago Actor Hired Nigerian Brothers To Stage Hate Crime Hoax, Indignant At Getting Caught
Jussie Smollett, a black homosexual actor in Chicago, is very indignant that when he reported a hate crime all of the evidence ended up leading to the conclusion he hired two Nigerian actors to stage the incident (archived). Mainstream pantsuitist publications ran with Smollet's claims that he was assaulted by two MAGA chanting white boys with bleach as he left a bar in Chicago. Smollet reported the event as a hate crime leading to Chicago PD taking the case of criminal white boys in their camera infested city very seriously. Only two "persons of interest" could be found, and those two persons of interest ended up being Nigerian extras Smollet worked with on his TV production. The two Nigerians were taken and interrogated while being held for ~48 hours, presumably at one of Chicago PD's numerous black sites.
Filing a false police report in Illinois is on the books as an aggravated, felony degree of "disorderly conduct" carrying a sentence of up to 3 years in prison.