A bug bounty might be viewed as a 24/7 pentest conducted by everyone in the world willing to work for the bounty price.
While you're waiting a few days for steve to get back from vacation and approve the PO for a pentesting contract, everyone else in the world is already pentesting your systems anyways.
Doesn't look like Verizon has bug bounties, so I guess we're lucky that the person who found this one was willing to work for free.
"iMessage" has dark mode. Anytime I send a picture it shows up in reverse when in dark mode.
I don't really care what other people prefer, software manufacturers with any more than a few users need to test all permutations. This is a minor annoyance but gives a clear indication that there isn't good testing even with one of the most used apps with a huge user base.
There's always someone trying to spin capitalism problems into government problems. No, taxes are not the cause of inequality. If nothing, taxes are one of the few tools we have to reduce it.
Lol no they aren't. Taxes do not get used, they get burnt. The government does not budget based on taxes. They just spend whatever they are going to spend. Taxes are used to target specific inflation. This way they can keep everyone on the treadmill. Taxes are for the poor and working class, not the rich. You will not be able to convince the rich and powerful to tax themselves in any meaningful way.
This is absolutely not true for most countries; not everyone can just increase their debt mindlessly like the US does. My country, for example, has a budget and taxes make 90% of it. That means if we get more money through taxes, we can spend more on healthcare, education, infrastructure, etc.
Controlling inflation is also a good thing for most people, as higher prices will impact the consumers and the poorer parts of society. Ensuring abundant supply would be a better way to do it than reducing demand, of course.
In 1999 I worked at Yahoo! It was great the stock was flying, I worked on really cool tech writing C++ code. Then one day I went to a social dinner and a high schooler got up and made a speech and at one point said “I googled it”. Right then and there I know the gig was up.
So far I have not heard anyone say I GPT’d it, but Google is running very dangerously close to the edge here. For one thing the founders have checked out, never a good sign.
Something that also bugs people is GOOG wants to follow you everywhere, when you sign in to many websites that little blurb asking for your google account comes from a google server (<script src="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/client" async defer>).
I was responsible for servers that ran 100m page views a day at Yahoo! One day I was approached by this smarmy little guy who asked if he could pull logs from the machines. Alarm bells. Who the heck was this and what was he doing with the logs. I knew of course he worked for Filo and so I had to give over the data. This was the start of the spying on the customers. Google is a master of this, and it really irks a lot of their customers. Another red flag.
Alternates like duck duck go and brave have made some inroads. Their percentages are quite low still.
There have been layoffs in the name of cost cutting. Googlers have had some very public employee dissatisfaction meetings (my name for them). Employee compensation problems, problems with businesses the company is etc.
One last thing, Mark Cuban sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion April 1, 1999 (seriously!). “ Apollo Global Management acquired a 90% stake in Verizon Media, which included Yahoo and AOL, for $5 billion. Verizon retained a 10% stake in the new company, which was rebranded as Yahoo upon the deal's completion.” The deal was finalized Sept 1, 2021 according to chatGPT.
I say ChatGPTed it almost every day, or some form of it, OpenAI dropped ball on the name. Me and me friends say "asked CHatGPT, asked GPT, asked AI (but mean ChatGPT)" ... it hurts though as it's all too long and akward, no intuitive verb to use.
Probably just my limited perspective, but I am also noticing, it's vastly men who use ChatGPT daily on anything from random questions, to health queries or personal growth. Not sure why, but somehow, I don't know a single female who would use it much, beyond super basic queries. Meanwhile guys of all kinds of backgrounds, nerds or not, technical or not, young or old, doesn't matter ... if there is a heavy user, it's a guy. But as I say, just limited perspective, I don't know big enough number of people for substantial sample size. Just recently I see the stark contrasts more and more, even very smart, nerdy and highly curious women I know, are not interested in ChatGPT.
Who is charge of security over there?
There need to be some answers, this is such an obvious and easily exploited security hole we need to ask what else is leaking from them?
Good that they fixed it quickly.