Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Ben Shapiro discusses the hacking of Matt Walsh

 

[VIDEO] Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh both are part of the stable of personalities of this company known as the Daily Wire. And thus they discuss further how Walsh's twitter feed became a place that saw some pretty hilarious if not vicious tweets directed toward Shapiro and certainly just well I didn't see his feed. All I have is what others have reported.

Shapiro explains that Walsh's phone was hacked. Either someone stole his phone - which doesn't seem very likely. What seems more plausible just based on what Shapiro says is that somehow someone cloned Walsh's SIM card and was able to access his social media.

Perhaps someone at Walsh's cell provider was a culprit in this. Matt Walsh is a tough guy willing to withstand the negative attention and is willing to pursue legal action against those responsible for the invastion of privacy. Indeed he's noted death threats against himself and his family - and consider who his targets are they're not reasonable people. They would think it's OK to attack in the most vicious ways people disagree with them.

A reporter for the website Wired has been suspended permanently from Twitter for distributing hacked materials from the hacker involved with what happened with Walsh. Here's an article written about this at Wired.

Of course it seems to be a vicious prank that might not have been ideologically based. Just juvenile fun, I'd say. Regardless I think Ben Shapiro, Math Walsh and others will turn this into a left wing attack on conservative media.

Perhaps we shall see what emerges from this.

Friday, March 03, 2023

WSJ: Apple's iPhone passcode problem

 

[VIDEO] I thought this was interesting and gives me some pointers as far as my own iPhone. I know people just can't keep their phones in their pockets when their out. For me personally let's say I'm on the L, my phone will come out. 

Check out social media, emails, perhaps watch YouTube. If you're not aware of your surroundings someone might snatch that phone out your hand as it had the young lady. You can be locked out of your Apple ID forever though somehow I can't believe that.

Anyway here are three tips until Apple further secures their own ecosystem for users.

  1. Make a stronger passcode - make it six digits and consider using Face ID or Touch ID. One thing to consider when you're and about is that you have to treat your passcode as your debit PIN. Don't let anyone see it.
  2. Rethink your password manager - don't let your iPhone store your passwords. Use a third-party password manager
  3. Delete photos with sensitive info - delete any photos with for example a social security number or even a state ID for example. If you do have photos of them store them somewhere else with a password.
You know this video gives me another idea but that'll be for a later time.

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Timcast IRL: Musk starts BANNING accounts doxing with real time information

 

[VIDEO] Tim Pool discusses this with his crew on his recent podcast. I think this discussion and Elon Musk's Twitter new policy on "doxing" had to do with this incident.

Just hours after claiming that sharing personal information that could put a person in danger was illegal on Twitter, Elon Musk posted a video of a man in a car he claimed was harassing his child, posting their license plate to his over 120 million followers.

The drama Wednesday began with the suspension of @ElonJet, an account run by a teenager that tracked the location of Elon Musk’s private jet using publicly available data. Musk banned the account, just a month after saying that his dedication to free speech was so great that he would keep the account online.

We're living in chaotic times. People decide they don't like you so any information they can use to intimidate you. The wrong opinions can cause safety issues. Are we at a point beyond can we agree to disagree? Does everything you do cause enemies to come out of the woodwork.

I just had to share Musk's tweet showing the man.

Now people have an issue with this and the man is covering his face, and of course the license plate is shared in the video. All I can say to this is that if you come for someone you get what you get. And I suppose you're lucky if videoing that person doesn't cause such a situation to escalate.