Unroll.me sold your data to Uber
‘Uber devoted teams to so-called competitive intelligence, purchasing data from Slice Intelligence, which collected customers’ emailed Lyft receipts via Unroll.me and sold the data to Uber’. Also: ‘Unroll.me allegedly “kept a copy of every single email that you sent or received” in “poorly secured S3 buckets”‘: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180463 Unroll.me CEO: ‘felt bad “to see that some of our users were upset to learn about how we monetise our free service”.’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/24/unrollme-mail-unsubscription-service-heartbroken-sells-user-inbox-data-slice
(tags: uber unroll.me gmail google privacy data-protection lyft scumbags slice-intelligence)
Capturing all the flags in BSidesSF CTF by pwning Kubernetes/Google Cloud
good exploration of the issues with running a CTF challenge (or any other secure infrastructure!) atop Kubernetes and a cloud platform like GCE
(tags: gce google-cloud kubernetes security docker containers gke ctf hacking exploits)
How To Add A Security Key To Your Gmail (Tech Solidarity)
Excellent how-to guide for Yubikey usage on gmail
(tags: gmail yubikey security authentication google)
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‘Lyrebird is the first company to offer a technology to reproduce the voice of someone as accurately and with as little recorded audio. [..] Voice recordings are currently considered as strong pieces of evidence in our societies and in particular in jurisdictions of many countries. Our technology questions the validity of such evidence as it allows to easily manipulate audio recordings. This could potentially have dangerous consequences such as misleading diplomats, fraud and more generally any other problem caused by stealing the identity of someone else. By releasing our technology publicly and making it available to anyone, we want to ensure that there will be no such risks. We hope that everyone will soon be aware that such technology exists and that copying the voice of someone else is possible. More generally, we want to raise attention about the lack of evidence that audio recordings may represent in the near future.’
(tags: lyrebird audio technology scary ethics)