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Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own. -
Huawei: Ministers signal switch in policy over 5G policy
The government has signalled it is set to take a tougher line against Chinese telecoms equipment-maker Huawei.
A review is under way into how forthcoming US sanctions would affect the UK's continued use of its products. "Given that these sanctions... are extensive, it is likely to have an impact on the viability of Huawei as a provider for the 5G network," said Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden. He added he wanted Samsung and NEC to become 5G network kit providers. They would help make the UK's mobile networks become less dependent on the other two suppliers: Ericsson and Nokia. Mr Dowden said the current situation represented a "market failure". Defence Secretary Ben Wallace added that the sanctions - which are set to come into effect in September - had specifically been designed to force the UK into a rethink. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own.I hope this kills facebook, or draws it back to a shell of it's former self.
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@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own.I hope this kills facebook, or draws it back to a shell of it's former self.
One can hope. But seems unlikely.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Could a boycott kill Facebook?
Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.
In the late 18th century, the abolitionist movement encouraged British people to stay away from goods produced by slaves. It worked. Around 300,000 stopped buying sugar - increasing the pressure to abolish slavery. The Stop Hate for Profit campaign is the latest movement to use boycott as a political tool. It claims that Facebook doesn't do enough to remove racist and hateful content from its platform. It's convinced a series of major companies - including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Starbucks - to pull advertising from Facebook and some other social media companies. Meanwhile, other online platforms, including Reddit and Twitch, have piled on more pressure by taking anti-hate steps of their own.I hope this kills facebook, or draws it back to a shell of it's former self.
One can hope. But seems unlikely.
If it does, something likely equally as bad will replace it. People what what it offers, with the general simplicity that it offers.
Forums are OK - but damn, they are a huge hassle when you just wanna scrolling feed of what people are up to.
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Nothing will happen to FB except some face-saving.
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University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14 million.
The University of California, San Francisco (USCF) has paid a ransomware demand of more than $1.4m. A “limited number of servers” at the public health research facility were encrypted by Netwalker ransomware. UCSF disclosed the incident on June 3. BBC News was able to observe a live chat on the dark web involving UCSF ransom negotiations.
Comments by Neely @ SANS
The Netwalker operators used multiple techniques to entice UCSF into paying the ransom, including making both samples of exfiltrated data and the ransom negotiations visible to the press. For UCSF reputation risk is key to continued support as they are working on research to support the public good including a cure for C-19.
More insight into Netwalker ransomware
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/05/27/netwalker-ransomware-tools-give-insight-into-threat-actor/ -
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14 million.
You misspelled "funds".
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14 million.
The University of California, San Francisco (USCF) has paid a ransomware demand of more than $1.4m. A “limited number of servers” at the public health research facility were encrypted by Netwalker ransomware. UCSF disclosed the incident on June 3. BBC News was able to observe a live chat on the dark web involving UCSF ransom negotiations.
Comments by Neely @ SANS
The Netwalker operators used multiple techniques to entice UCSF into paying the ransom, including making both samples of exfiltrated data and the ransom negotiations visible to the press. For UCSF reputation risk is key to continued support as they are working on research to support the public good including a cure for C-19.
More insight into Netwalker ransomware
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/05/27/netwalker-ransomware-tools-give-insight-into-threat-actor/I take it they did not have any backups, and the employees use their computers for LoB data storage.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14 million.
The University of California, San Francisco (USCF) has paid a ransomware demand of more than $1.4m. A “limited number of servers” at the public health research facility were encrypted by Netwalker ransomware. UCSF disclosed the incident on June 3. BBC News was able to observe a live chat on the dark web involving UCSF ransom negotiations.
Comments by Neely @ SANS
The Netwalker operators used multiple techniques to entice UCSF into paying the ransom, including making both samples of exfiltrated data and the ransom negotiations visible to the press. For UCSF reputation risk is key to continued support as they are working on research to support the public good including a cure for C-19.
More insight into Netwalker ransomware
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/05/27/netwalker-ransomware-tools-give-insight-into-threat-actor/I take it they did not have any backups, and the employees use their computers for LoB data storage.
My guess is that they had backups for sure, probably multiple. But anyone who can do damage for a million bucks ain't no rookie. This is organized crime. People get their throats slashed for a lot less than a million. They of course had to make sure the backups couldn't be used.
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@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14 million.
The University of California, San Francisco (USCF) has paid a ransomware demand of more than $1.4m. A “limited number of servers” at the public health research facility were encrypted by Netwalker ransomware. UCSF disclosed the incident on June 3. BBC News was able to observe a live chat on the dark web involving UCSF ransom negotiations.
Comments by Neely @ SANS
The Netwalker operators used multiple techniques to entice UCSF into paying the ransom, including making both samples of exfiltrated data and the ransom negotiations visible to the press. For UCSF reputation risk is key to continued support as they are working on research to support the public good including a cure for C-19.
More insight into Netwalker ransomware
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/05/27/netwalker-ransomware-tools-give-insight-into-threat-actor/I take it they did not have any backups, and the employees use their computers for LoB data storage.
My guess is that they had backups for sure, probably multiple. But anyone who can do damage for a million bucks ain't no rookie. This is organized crime. People get their throats slashed for a lot less than a million. They of course had to make sure the backups couldn't be used.
Unusable backups = no backups.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I have no reason to run unsafe valueless hobby systems.
Isn't that the same thing you said about Proxmox? Now you're the biggest Proxmox fan like your having a love affair with it or something. Maybe FreeNAS would be the same way.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/273071-thinking-of-using-proxmox-do-i-need-to-pay-for-support?page=1#entry-1758737
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/314260-why-does-proxmox-troll-us?page=1#entry-2054440 -
@VoIP_n00b Would you jsut STFU Aaron. That post is from 8 fucking years ago.. There is a reason that @scottalanmiller's new post is titled "reconsidering"
FFS pull your head out of your ass.
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https://youtube.googleblog.com/2020/06/youtube-tv-update.html
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@VoIP_n00b said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Isn't that the same thing you said about Proxmox?
No, did you not read the links you provided? FreeNAS is a problem because it is fundamentally flawed conceptually. That's why we say ad nauseum that NAS OSes are the problem, and FreeNAS is an example. That's 100% different than saying that hypervisor stacks are good, but Proxmox was a vendor acting badly.
It's honestly shocking that you could confuse those two things. The degree to which they are unrelated is... well dramatic.
You seem to have put a lot of effort into trying to either defend FreeNAS based on things that misdirection rather than actually showing how it would have value; or putting in a lot of effort to try to discredit me doing evaluations of products that had you put half that effort into thinking about IT concepts, you'd have come to the same conclusions and understood the products for yourself.
Even just the titles of the links you used tell you everything that you need to know. You didn't even read the titles! WTF dude, lol.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@VoIP_n00b said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Isn't that the same thing you said about Proxmox?
No, did you not read the links you provided? FreeNAS is a problem because it is fundamentally flawed conceptually. That's why we say ad nauseum that NAS OSes are the problem, and FreeNAS is an example. That's 100% different than saying that hypervisor stacks are good, but Proxmox was a vendor acting badly.
It's honestly shocking that you could confuse those two things. The degree to which they are unrelated is... well dramatic.
You seem to have put a lot of effort into trying to either defend FreeNAS based on things that misdirection rather than actually showing how it would have value; or putting in a lot of effort to try to discredit me doing evaluations of products that had you put half that effort into thinking about IT concepts, you'd have come to the same conclusions and understood the products for yourself.
Even just the titles of the links you used tell you everything that you need to know. You didn't even read the titles! WTF dude, lol.
I posted the news to keep people apprised, not to start a flame war.
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Loot boxes: Lords call for 'immediate' gambling regulation
The House of Lords Gambling Committee says video game loot boxes should be regulated under gambling laws.
The Lords say loot boxes should be classified as "games of chance" - which would bring them under the Gambling Act 2005. "If a product looks like gambling and feels like gambling, it should be regulated as gambling," their report says. And they warn that such a change should not wait. "The Government must act immediately to bring loot boxes within the remit of gambling legislation and regulation," said a statement accompanying the report. Loot boxes have long been controversial in video games. They offer players a chance at a randomised reward when opened. To further complicate matters, boxes can often be bought for real money, and the rewards can sometimes be traded. -
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Zuckerberg: Advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'
As the ads boycott grows, Mark Zuckerberg shows no sign of backing down.
"My guess is that all these advertisers will be back on the platform soon enough" the Facebook chief executive has said. Campaigners accuse the tech firm of being too slow and reluctant to remove some hateful content. But Zuckerberg added: "We're not going to change our policies or approach on anything because of a threat to a small percent of our revenue." The comments were made to Facebook staff at a private meeting last Friday, and were subsequently leaked to the Information news site. The social network has confirmed they are accurate and also announced a fresh development: its chief executive is to meet the organisers of the boycott - Stop Hate for Profit.
