free software
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Mastodon Has a Child Abuse Material Problem, Like Every Other Major Web Platform
A new report suggests that the lax content moderation policies of Mastodon and other decentralised social media platforms have led to a proliferation of child sexual abuse material. Stanford’s Internet Observatory published new research this week that shows that decentralised sites have serious shortcomings when it comes to “child safety infrastructure.” Unfortunately, that doesn’t make…
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Hackers Are Exploiting WordPress Tools to Hawk Scams
If you’ve visited a website in recent days and been randomly redirected to the same pages with sketchy “resources” or unwanted ads, it’s likely the site in question was 1) built with WordPress tools and 2) hacked.
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After Log4j, Open-Source Software Is Now a National Security Issue
For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening.
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I Accidentally Recorded At Least 682 Gigabytes of Video of Myself Without My Knowledge
It’s happened to all of us: You’ve been browsing your hard drive and found hundreds of gigabytes of lengthy video files of the inside of your office, apparently filmed without your awareness. Dozens or possibly hundreds of hours of footage of whatever you’re up to when you don’t think you’re being observed, and you have…