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[Kelly]

And GDPR (or something like it) is coming to the US: https://iapp.org/news/a/california-passes-landmark-privacy-legislation/. It was only a matter of time imo. And this will be coming to your states soon if it doesn't happen federally before. Better get started planning so you can look amazing when it does start affecting you.

[scottalanmiller]

voip.ms has finally added automatic billing.

[black3dynamite]

Pi-Hole 4.0
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v4.0

[DustinB3403]

Is anyone using Pi-Hole as a means of ad blocking at their residence or place of business?

[scottalanmiller]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Is anyone using Pi-Hole as a means of ad blocking at their residence or place of business?

Yes. Both.

[NerdyDad]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Is anyone using Pi-Hole as a means of ad blocking at their residence or place of business?

I'm considering putting it in again.

[scottalanmiller]

I would really miss it if it went away, that would be horrible.

[NerdyDad]

@scottalanmiller FIL couldn't understand how blocking ads made us more secure and sped up the Internet. He also didn't understand Google ads in-line with the results.

[bnrstnr]

@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

He also didn't understand Google ads in-line with the results.

Google ads inline with results was a tough one for my users to grasp. A couple of them still think "the internet is broken" when they click those ads.

[NerdyDad]

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

He also didn't understand Google ads in-line with the results.

Google ads inline with results was a tough one for my users to grasp. A couple of them still think "the internet is broken" when they click those ads.

Story of my life right there.

[bnrstnr]

Have you guys upgraded your pi-holes to Ubuntu 18.04 yet?

[scottalanmiller]

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Have you guys upgraded your pi-holes to Ubuntu 18.04 yet?

Yes, a while ago.

[Danp]

@bnrstnr I'm in the process of upgrading my pi-hole to 18.04 right now.

[travisdh1]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Is anyone using Pi-Hole as a means of ad blocking at their residence or place of business?

Everywhere I possible can!

[Obsolesce]

Facebook wants your banking and financial info

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/technology/2018/08/07/your-banking-data-was-once-off-limits-tech-companies-now-theyre-racing-get-it/?noredirect=on&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.63e0e6d97df8&__twitter_impression=true

[Kelly]

There is a new attack on WPA/WPA2 PSKs: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html.

[momurda]

FCC lied to congress about DDOS attack, nobody charged with a crime.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fcc-lied-to-congress-about-made-up-ddos-attack-investigation-found/

[JaredBusch]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Have you guys upgraded your pi-holes to Ubuntu 18.04 yet?

Yes, a while ago.

Mine is on fedora 28

[momurda]

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
There is a new attack on WPA/WPA2 PSKs: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html.

So is that what these guys do, sit around and parse wireshark logs looking at bytes of memory, and then figuring out whats what, then using these tools like hashcat to crack keys and pw?

[DustinB3403]

@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
There is a new attack on WPA/WPA2 PSKs: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html.

So is that what these guys do, sit around and parse wireshark logs looking at bytes of memory, and then figuring out whats what, then using these tools like hashcat to crack keys and pw?

Well this is a good thing as it's finding vulnerabilities.