They have been relocating Uighurs to different parts of China. I've talked to a number of different friends who live in China about this. So it seems that at the end of the re-education, they reintroduced them at other locations so it likely limits their ability to organize.
because I've been studying Chinese and speaking with Chinese people online for the last few years, I've also met quite a few Uighurs who were studying English. They are fluent in Chinese plus a couple of other languages, and as best as I can tell, I have been reintroduced as they say. This is not a topic I was able to discuss with them, but they seems like nice people that were living a decent life.
Now what happened in the past and maybe what still continues to happen in these camps is surely something that will be discussed for years, and China will have a better reputation. I just study what's happening and I'm hoping that there will be some good that comes out of it too.
I have to wonder how many corporations have been hacked but we will never know, because they are worried about the value of their stock. This could actually be a much greater threat to hobbling our infrastructure or blackmailing wealthy people to do their bidding.
Presumably all medium and large corporations have been hacked. I don't think I've ever worked at an organization that hasn't been hacked. And all but one were hacked multiple times, though I'm sure that's because I just wasn't privy to the other incidents (the company may not have been, either). For criminal organizations it's just a numbers game--penetrate as many organizations as you can and then look for monetization opportunities. For many nation-states the calculus probably looks much the same, and in any event the techniques are similar.
I worked for a company that had all their Customer data stolen and then sold on a darknet market place.
They completely swept it under the rug, told the infosec guys that if they talked about the incident with anyone they would have their employment terminated and that it was to never be discussed because they were worried about their share price.
We also have laws here in Australia that says if this happens to a business it mandatory to disclose the breach to your customers.
> you must notify affected individuals and us when a data breach involving personal information is likely to result in serious harm.
A employee anonymously reported the breach to the government agency that handles this, who in turn contacted the business with a "Please explain. Right now."
The next day after they were contacted they fired every single IT department staff member. Helpdesk, Infosec, Networks... All fired, because they couldn't figure out who reported it.
Nothing ever happened to the business as they somehow convinced the government that the data that was stolen was "made up junk data used for testing" despite it being obviously clear that it was current customer info.
This crap happens all the time and businesses are continued to be allowed to get away with hiding breaches from people.
All it does is help the share price and disadvantage the customers.
Open source software has "more" vulnerabilities because more of them get reported. With proprietary software black hats are gathering exploits in a weapons silo ready to be sold on the black market.
For some reason businesses prefer to cover up their vulnerabilities instead of fixing them. When you report a vulnerability as a white hat there is a big risk that the company will use you as a scapegoat and sue you. For a business it is much easier to claim that they "caught a hacker" rather than admit their weakness in public.
Hackerone is basically a "vulnerability blackhole as a service" because researchers are dependent on bounties for their income. Disclosing an ignored vulnerability publicly weeks or months after the hackerone report can lead to getting banned on hackerone and thereby ruin your ability to collect bounties.
Because they'll come after me for slander / defamation.
Australian law provides almost no protection for speaking out against this kind of thing. Does not matter if it's true or not, it's still considered slander/defamation because you said something that makes the company look bad.
That's why GDPR includes personal liability for DPOs(Data Protection Officers) and chief executives, and requires the company have a DPO with no conflict of interest ( e.g. working under the CEO with bonuses based on stock price).
I think the idea of "no conflict of interest" for an employee of a company is a bit silly. No internal conflict of interests sure, but everyone on payroll has a vested interest in the continued financial health of the organisation.
Okay, I'm editing this post because I guess Google incognito mode just doesn't include the history on my own device, but I assume that means that it's fair game for the government. So that means the government is getting info from my ISP sort of like they do in China, right?
The only thing that protects you from is other users of your computer who snoop through history, local cache, etc. -- stuff that your computer would normally store, but doesn't due to incognito.
This is incredibly true. Cutting soda (I was drinking diet soda) out of my diet has really changed how I taste.
I used to love crappy sour gummy candy, and I can't stand it anymore. It's far too sweet, and there's not really a remarkable flavor beyond syrupy sweet and a vaguely fruit-like flavor. It doesn't even taste like really sweet fruit to me, the sweet and fruit flavors seem disjointed.
I do have a sweet tooth for fruit smoothies, though, which are probably not a ton better in terms of sugar content. I do no sugar added, but there's still a ton of sugar in enough fruit to blend and fill a cup. Hell, even cheese tastes sweet to me sometimes, depending on the kind of cheese.
14 grams of sugar is equivalent to a tablespoon. I find it helpful to remember that imagery when looking at the ingredients of something I’m about to eat - would I want to shovel a tablespoon of sugar (or more) in my mouth right now? The thought tends to dissuade me and I have become a little more conscious of my sugar intake that way. It’s shocking how much sugar is in the processed “food” we buy. A 16oz strawberry açaí refresher from Starbucks has 32 grams of sugar. :P
And having been like this for a few years, it even seems strange to me that fruit wouldn't be the first thing you would think of when it comes to getting sugar. And I'm not directing this at you. I'm just saying I used to drink soft drinks a lot too and now it doesn't even cross my mind. I do drink wine and beer and I know there's some sugar in those.
I appreciate at least having a good option that doesn't involve putting a Google product on my website. We tried to use our own captcha back in the day, and then used some third party, and they just weren't good enough. I'm glad to see them getting this market share because it means that they will get the opportunity to improve based on a large set of users similar to how Google is able to make their products so good.
If I can watch a video on my computer for free, it's not too difficult to capture it. There is software I can download. There are browser plugins. This is just one of many options available.
I do fear though that this is going to lead some more and more paywall content and less and less publicly available content.
I was trying to load a workout video, and it worked on my phone but I wanted to cast it to my TV. I turned off/on my router and Wi-Fi, reset chromecast, restart the phone, restarted the laptop. I was about to just try to do it from my laptop, did a quick survey of the home network, and then the TV started working again. Haha my workout was delayed about 20 or 30 minutes
I will especially hate this when I'm trying to translate something. If I can't copy and paste text into a translate app, the next step would be to take a screenshot and then use OCR. Of course if I'm really determined there are ways to still do a translation. I can only imagine what sort of problem is mighy arise for someone with accessibility issues.
because I've been studying Chinese and speaking with Chinese people online for the last few years, I've also met quite a few Uighurs who were studying English. They are fluent in Chinese plus a couple of other languages, and as best as I can tell, I have been reintroduced as they say. This is not a topic I was able to discuss with them, but they seems like nice people that were living a decent life.
Now what happened in the past and maybe what still continues to happen in these camps is surely something that will be discussed for years, and China will have a better reputation. I just study what's happening and I'm hoping that there will be some good that comes out of it too.