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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 28, 2022
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=> ↺ M.2 For Hackers – Expand Your Laptop
You’ve seen M.2 cards in modern laptops already. If you’re buying an SSD today, it’s most likely an M.2 one. Many of our laptops contain M.2 WiFi cards, the consumer-oriented WWAN cards now come in M.2, and every now and then we see M.2 cards that defy our expectations. Nowadays, using M.2 is one of the most viable ways for adding new features to your laptop. I have found that the M.2 standard is quite accessible and also very hackable, and I would like to demonstrate that to you.
=> ↺ Why do I love my Chromebook? Reason 1: It's a Linux desktop • The Register
The fact that I like the Linux desktop will come as no surprise to anyone who reads my work. I mean, I was once the lead writer and editor for a long-gone publication called Linux Desktop. So why is it as I sit at Kubecon North America in Detroit that I'm writing this on an HP Chromebook x360?
Simple, because Chrome OS is a Linux distro. Always has been; always will be.
Now this annoys the heck out of some Linux fans. Their vision of the Linux desktop future has everyone running Ubuntu - no Fedora! - or Arch Linux - please, Linux Mint for the win! - or MX Linux - get real! Use openSUSE Tumbleweed! - and on and on. There are over a thousand Linux distros, which is a big reason we'll never see their dream of the Linux desktop wiping out Windows come true.
=> ↺ iTWire - Thomson Reuters leaves terabytes of data exposed on Web: report
Multinational media organisation Thomson Reuters left three unsecured databases containing sensitive corporate and customer data, including third-party server passwords in plain text, on the Web, the media outlet Cybernews reports.
When Reuters, a company that pulls in US$6.35 billion (A$9.84 billion) in revenue annually, was informed about this, it took steps to shut down access, the site reported.
It claimed the media company had downplayed the incident, "saying it affects only a 'small subset of Thomson Reuters Global Trade customers' and it collects information to 'operationally support the platform'.
"However, Cybernews senior security researchers say that information stored on the server is extremely sensitive. Cases like these raise questions about corporate data collection practices and could have serious ramifications. For example, this practice would lead to a supply chain cyber attack," it added.
=> ↺ Videos from EuroBSDcon 2022 now available.
We had previously reported on EuroBSDcon 2022. As of October 27th, 2022 the EuroBSDcon YouTube channel has been updated with a variety of OpenBSD related talk recordings for those who didn't catch the streams live, with the salient ones linked below: [...]
=> ↺ President of an ethics reporting provider: A day in the life
Shannon Walker, president of WhistleBlower Security, shares insights on what it means to be a leader in the ethics reporting industry, the importance of female leadership, diversity, and more
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