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It’s interesting to me that Netscaler has this vast footprint (>50k devices) and the exploitation activity has allowed entry into orgs including the UN and the US government, bypassing MFA, straight into remote access to internal networks - and it’s had zero mainstream coverage.
SharePoint vuln, a product most orgs stopped running themselves a decade ago - all over media.
I'm going to blame the PMs. They are the sharepoint descendents. They also are the communicators. Netscaler isn't as ubiquitous and they don't know what that is. But man do they know SharePoint.
I suspect that it's mostly public familiarity; not sure if there's anyone from the tech-business-but-not-really-technical side who is interested because it's another case where o365 sharepoint and exchange are unaffected(or at least were mitigated a lot more quickly and quietly); but on-prem gets to live dangerously.
The child Hamza Fayadh, son of Hussein Fayadh, commander of the Beit Hanoun Battalion in Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed today along with his mother and sister Bayan in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media.
The Ukrainian command is not evacuating the bodies of its 200th soldiers; special teams are burying them on the spot to hide the real losses. This was reported by the governor of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo.
“Malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza are beginning to climb [..]. Doctors report that people are ‘collapsing’ in the street, and Gaza journalist Nahed Hajjaj is warning the world not to be surprised if the remaining reporters in the enclave are soon silenced by starvation”
Long story short: thanks to a series of misunderstandings, I had to shell out more than ten thousand euros to prevent a German audiobook of my work from being released with DRM and now I need your help (assuming you speak German) to get the book into readers' ears!
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
For more than a quarter-century, I've had an iron-clad policy of not releasing my work with "digital rights management," this being a kind of encryption that keeps my readers from reading the books they've bought in the apps of their choice.
There's two reasons for this: the first is, it's just grossly unfair. If you buy one of my print books, you can shelve it on any bookcase and read it sitting in any chair, under any company's lightbulb.
It's stupid and offensive for a company like Amazon/Audible to declare that you can only read the ebooks and audiobooks you buy using the apps they approve.
But the second reason is more insidious and subtle. By retaining control over the apps that you *must* use to read or listen to your books, companies like Amazon are able to lock you into their platform.
That means they can change the deal even after you've made your purchase (for example, Amazon has been caught deleting ebooks from people's Kindle apps and readers and Audible has experimented with inserting ads into your audiobooks after you buy them).
This lock-in isn't limited to readers, either. Once Amazon has all my readers locked in, the company acquires control over *me*, the writer.
After all, if my readers can't switch from Amazon to another bookseller, then *I* can't switch from Amazon to another bookseller, because that would mean asking my readers to start over buying *all* their books again.
Amazon has a long history of squeezing its sellers - including writers and publishers - once it has them locked in. Today, 45-51% of every Amazon Marketplace purchase from an independent seller is skimmed off by Amazon in junk fees.
The company makes $58 billion/year charging vendors for search placement (rather than putting the best match for shoppers' searches at the top of the result). And they stole at least $100m from Audible audiobook authors:
In 1998, the US passed a law (Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) that makes tampering with DRM a felony with a 5-year prison sentence and a $500k fine (for a first offense).
In the years since, the US Trade Representative bullied every US trading partner into adopting this law. The EU did so in 2001, with Article 6 of the Copyright Directive.
This means that it's literally a *crime* for me, the author of a book, who holds the copyright to the work, to authorize you, a reader who bought the ebook or audiobook on Amazon, to convert the digital file so that it works with apps that compete with Amazon's.
So *that's* why I don't allow my work to be sold with DRM.
Everyone I do business with knows this - my publishers, my agents, etc - and over the past quarter century and more than 30 books, all of these people have bent over backwards to accommodate this policy of mine, even when it meant changing the workflow they used for *thousands* of books just to make an exception for me. I'm incredibly grateful for this.
But eventually, someone was bound to slip up, and *that's* how I ended up owning the German audiobook for my novel *Red Team Blues*.
After *Red Team Blues* was published in English in 2022 and became a national bestseller, many foreign publishers snapped up the translation rights. Among them was Heyne, my German publisher, who commissioned a fantastic translation by Jürgen Langowski that has sold briskly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Heyne also commissioned an audiobook, beautifully read by a beloved German audiobook narrator, Uve Teschner.
But somewhere in there, everyone forgot that this audiobook could only be sold without DRM. And since Audible, Apple Books and Audiobooks.com *refuse to carry DRM-free books*, that meant that they would not be able to sell the books in the places where 90+% of readers look for them.
No one is to blame here. It's just an oversight. But it left us all in the awkward position of my publisher having spent more than EUR10,000 on an audiobook that they would never be able to recoup on. Both my publisher and my agent offered to eat these costs, but I felt bad about this, given the great lengths both had gone to over the years to help me live my principles through my books.
Besides: I have this platform of mine, the newsletters and lists of people who've bought audiobooks from me before and the people who've backed the Kickstarters for my previous English works, and I decided I would buy the audiobook rights from my German publisher and try to make the money back by selling directly to my German fans.
Today, I've launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell the DRM-free German audiobook. I'm also selling the DRM-free ebook, and the German paperback, which will be fulfilled by my pals at Berlin's excellent sf/f bookstore Otherland (due to the Trump tariff nonsense, these can only be shipped in the EU, UK, and Switzerland):
There's something for English-speaking readers, too: discounted editions of the English-language ebook and audiobook (read by Wil Wheaton), available in bundles with the German titles, or on their own. Europeans can also order the print edition of the book (again, fulfilled by Otherland in Berlin).
Now, I don't speak German. I grew up speaking Yiddish, much of which I've forgotten, which means I can kind of grunt out ungrammatical German-adjacent phrases (the Otherland folks generously translated my Kickstarter page into German). That means that I have *extremely* limited ability to promote this Kickstarter to German-speaking audiences. I'm really relying on my readers here: if you are a German-speaker and/or have German-speaking friends, please let them know about this!
When you do, your pals are going to ask you what the book is about. *Red Team Blues* tells the story of the last case of Martin Hench, a 67 year old high-tech forensic accountant who's spent 40 years in Silicon Valley, busting the weirdest financial scams that three generations of tech bros cooked up. For this final job, Marty's been called out of retirement to resolve that scammiest of all tech-bro schemes, a cryptocurrency heist.
Marty's dear old pal Danny Lazer has built a new - and wildly successful - kind of blockchain, built on the security chips in mobile devices, called Trustlesscoin. Lazer is a cypherpunk legend, but that's not why Trustlesscoin went from zero to more than a billion in capitalization in a few short months: all that money poured in because some of the world's most ruthless criminals came to appreciate how Danny's cryptocurrency could facilitate money-laundering.
That would be bad enough, but Danny is exactly the kind of very smart guy who is more than capable of outsmarting *himself*. That's how he came to build a cryptographic back-door into Trustlesscoin, a secret key that allows the bearer to rewrite the supposedly immutable transactions in the network, which is to say, to steal *all the money*.
That's where Marty Hench comes in: Danny summons Marty to his home in Palo Alto because someone has stolen the physical token that this billion-dollar key lives on, and if someone doesn't get it back *soon*, it's only a matter of time until a billion dollars goes missing, and then the kind of people who resolve their monetary disputes with bone-saws and red-hot pokers will come looking for Danny.
That's where the story starts - but recovering Danny's missing keys are the *easy* part. The hard part comes next, when Marty finds himself in the crosshairs of the violent international crime syndicates that boosted the keys in the first place.
People *really* like this book. It's the kind of book you stay up all night reading (or, as @molly0xfff from Web3 is Going Just Great put it, "don't start reading it at bedtime if you have to be awake for something the next morning").
If you find yourself craving morning Marty Hench in the morning, I've published two more bestsellers recounting his earlier adventures: *The Bezzle* and *Picks and Shovels*.
Check it out for yourself. Here's the first chapter of the German audiobook, read by Uve Teschner:
The campaign only runs for a brisk three weeks (I've got to get it all put away before I head out on tour with *Enshittification* in October), so act fast:
Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly …
"C'est historique : la Cour d'appel de Paris a annoncé ce jeudi 17 juillet la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, militant communiste libanais de la cause palestinienne, après 41 ans derrière les barreaux.
C’est historique : la Cour d’appel de Paris a annoncé ce jeudi 17 juillet la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, militant communiste libanais de la cause palestinienne, après 41 ans derrière les barreaux.
Die sogenannten "Mütter und Väter" des Grundgesetzes hatten ein sehr klares Verständnis von deutscher #Staatsräson. Die meisten Deutschen, die ich kenne, können sie auswendig aufsagen:
Margot #Friedländer sagte es so: »Es gibt kein christliches Blut, es gibt kein jüdisches Blut, es gibt kein arabisches Blut – es gibt nur menschliches Blut. Seid Menschen.«
Es ist deprimierend, dass deutsche "Staatsräson" heute definiert wird als Solidarität mit mutmaßlichen Kriegsverbrechern und Völkermördern. Mit Staaten, nicht mehr mit Menschen.
Und dass die moralisch verkommene Politik-"Elite", einschließlich der @Bundesregierung dem Wahn verfallen ist, man könne sich das getrocknete Blut eines historischen Genozids mit dem frischen eines neuen von den Händen waschen.
Billiges verbales "Bedauern" und "Mahnen" und "Fordern" dieser scheinheiligen Verantwortungsträger geht einher mit weiteren Lieferungen von Material und Waffen. Mit dem Verzicht auf Sanktionen. Mit dem Denunzieren aller, die Konsequenzen für die Kriegsverbrechen fordern. Mit dem ausdrücklichen Wunsch, den mutmaßlichen Kriegsverbrecher #Netanjahu nach #Deutschland einzuladen.
Unser Land hat nicht den leisesten Begriff davon, wie es dafür außerhalb der eigenen Blase von der Welt beurteilt wird.
The ideology behind the ‘New America’ is more dangerous than it looks rt.com/news/621702-ideology-be… The superhumans are coming – and so is the danger Read Full Article at RT.com #news #press
They never learn, I swear to Christ. The agreement is between several parties, Suella. It was negotiated by individuals whose moral & intellectual stature is beyond your fucking comprehension. You don't get to unilaterally rewrite it so it satisfies your pathological simple-mindedness. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ndqnc…
Dr. Nick #Maynard, britischer #Chirurg im freiwilligen Einsatz in #Gaza, über das Schießen und Töten an den "Hilfs"-Verteilungsstandorten des "Humanitären" Gaza-Fonds (#GHF) – und darüber, was das medizinische Personal in der Notaufnahme in der Folge davon sieht:
"ein sehr klares Muster, bei dem an bestimmten Tagen verschiedene Körperteile ins Visier genommen werden. An einem Tag sind es also alles Schusswunden im Bauch, an einem anderen Tag sind am Kopf oder Hals. An einem weiteren Tag sind es Schusswunden an Armen oder Beinen.
Und letzten Samstag wurden vier Teenager mit Schusswunden in den Hoden eingeliefert, und zwar sehr, sehr schnell nacheinander. [...] es ist fast so, als ob ein Spiel gespielt wird.«
Nick Maynard, a British surgeon in Gaza, says he has witnessed a pattern of gunshot injuries among Palestinian teen boys in Gaza who visit US and Israeli-bac...
The establishment footsoldiers are at it again, just as we warned they would be when Zarah Sultana announced that she was to set up a much more radical party to represent the many, not the few.
The hope we offered voters at the last general election is rapidly slipping away and it's time to change course, argues Labour councillor James Barber-Chadwick
By Malak Ridwan The specter of famine has returned to Gaza, creeping through its shattered streets like a thief in the night, stealing the breath of children, the strength of mothers, and the dignity
The UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) has described Israel’s latest forced displacement threat as “yet another devastating blow” to Palestinians in Gaza.Accordin...
> Εκατομμύρια θεατές σε όλο τον κόσμο πιστεύουν ότι η νέα ταινία του Σούπερμαν δημιουργήθηκε σαν μια αλληγορία για τη γενοκτονία του παλαιστινιακού λαού - του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου | Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών
Israeli shelling pummelled the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah on Monday as the army warned it was launching an operation "in an area where it has not operated before".
@shortstories woman's name is Sevarra. idk the etymology of the name. If from Ohio she is probably lower quintile/income. She works at a hotel reception after all.
Urdu is a cross between Arabic and Hindi commonly spoken by Muslims
Arabic vocabulary is very similar to Hebrew except it has a different alphabet which has some different letters with different phonetics and when the letters used to spell a word are not shared in both languages the word might be pronounced a little different. Also each dialect of both pronounce letters different
Those that are incapable of accepting generalized statements of truth regarding any topic will often proclaim that they are doing so due to their superior intellect:
"It's more complicated/It's more nuanced than that."
The purpose of a generalized statement is that it is true for most cases, not for every single case. Exceptions exist, but focusing on the exceptions too much shows that you are actually not intelligent and/or you are pushing an agenda.
Υπερ-τροπικές νύχτες αδέρφια. Ούτε καν τροπικές. Νεξτ λεβελ. Ετοιμαστείτε οι καλοκαιράκηδες, αναμένουμε ζωντανή μετάδοση από όργια, (κάτι έπεσε στην αντίληψη μου), ποτά, ξενύχτια και ατελείωτο ιδρωμένο ερωτισμό (ιου) από ελληνικά τριχωτά κορμιά χτισμένα στο γιαπί, το πηλοφόρι το μυστρί με Ελληνίδες θεές με αδιάβροχο μολύβι και μάσκαρα.
We have reached a new level of inhumanity, hate, entitlement & superiority complex in protection of genocidal regime of #Israel.
This morning s not from "the Onion" or any other Satire publication. It's from the shitty Telegraph, but it was published with different headlines by other publications.
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
You know that automatic signature that people don't bother to disable - "Sent from my iPhone"? Maybe instead of letting Apple sully our personal correspondence with advertising, we can use that space to make a statement. I'm thinking of ending all my emails with the following line: "Certified AI-free. This message was composed by a human being."
If Dems had the sense god gave an anencephalic gnat, they'd heed THIS (from the article). And THEN they'll really start to win. "Similarly, 72.4 percent of the working class wanted to expand Medicare, while only 63 percent of the middle/upper class wanted to expand it"
Πρέπει να το διευκρινήσει γιατί αν γαμίσαμε μπακαλιάρους να ξέρω να μην πάρω από λαϊκή. Μην το κάνουμε σαν το αρνάκι Ν. Ζηλανδίας που είναι τρυφερό επειδή τα Νεοζηλανδά τους ξηγιούνται βουκωλικά. @Feleki@kafeneio.social@nikolakisjunior@kafeneio.social
@Feleki ο παππούς στο καφενείο χθες στο χωριό που έπινε γκαζόζα και ελληνικό καφέ με λουκούμι μου είπε με στόμφο : *νεολαίοι μια συμβουλή θα σας δώσω , το καλοκαίρι μη γαματε , το μουνι μυρίζει ψάρι* Κάτι ξέρει ο παππούς 👴
Καλοκαιρι,ζεστη, εξαντληση και καβλες γαριδακίων αφου η ζεστη εξαντλει. Το χειμωνα αγαπητε ειναι οι μεγαλοκαβλες. Απλα επειδη βλεπετε λιγη σαρκα το καλοκαιρι νομιζετε πως κατι εγινε. Το καλοκαιρι δεν κανεις σεξ, μπανιο στον ιδρωτα κανεις. @nikolakisjunior
Ποια πετρελαια ρε και ποια τεχνητα μεσα ρουχα λεγονται και τα φορας για να ρυθμισεις τη θερμοκρασια σου. Το πετσι σου ομως δε μπορεις να το βγαλεις. Μονο να κανεις πλουσια τη ΔΕΗ. Γαμω το καλοκαιρακι. Ζητω τα οργια στους παγους
@Feleki Με τεχνητά μέσα ξέρουμε και το καλοκαίρι να είμαστε ζεστά, κρύα, μέτρια-όπωςθες. Μόνο να καίτε πετρέλαια ξέρετε οι χειμωνάκηδες. Η αναρχία είναι καλοκαίρι χαρά και καύλα, με τη π@@τσα έξω και ας έρθει ο Μητσοτάκης να του εξηγήσουμε.
@Feleki ΚΑΙ να τονίσω ότι το καλοκαιράκι έχουμε και τζάμπα ενέργεια για όλα αυτά τα μέτρια-κρύα-ζεστά. Τον χειμώνα μόνο πετρέλαια. Εσείς φταίτε για τη καταστροφή του πλανήτη. Ενώ άμα είχαμε μόνο άνοιξη και καλοκαιράκι θα ήμασταν Ζεν.
Η αναρχια ειναι χειμωνας γιατι σου δινει ευκαιρια να αισθανθεις οπως θες, ζεστα, κρυα, μετρια. Το καλοκαιρι απλα σε ξεγυμνωνει για να ερθει ο Μητσοτακης.
@Feleki Δε ξέρω τι αυτοδιάθεση μπορεί να παίξει τον χειμώνα ... και γενικά διάθεση ... Δλδ ξενέρα σκέτη. Άμα η αναρχία ήταν εποχή θα ήταν ή άνοιξη ή καλοκαιράκι μέσα στη φλόγα και τη χαρά της φύσης.
Ξενερας ειναι ο διαολος, ενας τυπος που ιδρωνει ολη την ωρα και εχει να κανει μπανιο απο τοτε που εκαψε τον αγιο Αρτεμιο. Μποχα. Εμεις επιλεγουμε χειμωνα και αυτοδιαθεση.
Listen up bitch because I'm only going to say this once. It stopped being "just an opinion" the second you started: - taking away people's rights - kidnapping humans - occupying our cities by force - protecting pedophiles
We are FUCKING DONE pretending it's just a matter of political opinions. You are monsters. Vile, disgusting monsters. And we the people WILL treat you appropriately.
Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, which transforms into 'the world's largest mirror' (used for calibrating the altimeters of Earth observation satellites) during the rainy season, when a thin layer of water covers the surface. This creates a breathtaking natural phenomenon where the sky and clouds are perfectly reflected, offering surreal and stunning views.
Chloé #Frammery 🔴 L'IDENTITÉ NUMÉRIQUE EST ANNONCÉE POUR #2026 DANS L' #UE & EN #SUISSE (sans prendre en compte le NON du 7 mars 2021 et la revotation du 28 septembre 2025) ... ■ Dans L'Union européenne 🇪🇺 D’ici 2030, l’union européenne vise à ce que 80 % des citoyens disposent d’un portefeuille d’identité numérique, soit environ 360 millions de personnes1. Les échéances données par Deloitte : • Novembre 2026 Obligation pour chaque Etat membre de déployer au moins un #EUDI wallet auprès de leurs citoyens • Novembre 2027 Obligation pour les entreprises des secteurs réglementés et pour les très grandes plateformes désignées dans le cadre du Digital Services Act d'accepter les portefeuilles EUDI comme méthode valide de vérification d'identité 👉 Source : Site du cabinet de conseil américain Deloitte (3.07.25) deloitte. com/fr/fr/Industries/financial-services/analysis/identite-numerique-europeenne.html
■ Et chez nous, en Suisse 🇨🇭 "La Banque mondiale propose de relier l’identité numérique aux systèmes de paiement instantané." "À Genève, la Confédération suisse n’a pas seulement présenté un projet national. Elle a mis en avant une méthode: co-développement , transparence, interopérabilité. Une approche que plusieurs acteurs perçoivent déjà comme un modèle à suivre, dans un paysage numérique mondial toujours plus fragmenté."
L'identité numérique est prévue pour : • les voyages • la "Santé" • payer • signer des documents en ligne • "gouverner" • etc 👉 Source ICT Journal (9.07.25) ictjournal.ch/articles/2025-07… •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 👉 Toutes les infos sur la campagne e-ID NON en Suisse 🇨🇭, de Mass Voll : e-id.massvoll.swiss
Immer mehr Überwachung, Digitalzwang und Kontrolle — diesen Weg stoppte das Volk mit einem klaren Nein zur E-ID. Nur ein Nein! schützt die verfassungsmässige Ordnung der Schweiz.
"Les élections passent, les problèmes demeurent Depuis 1905, tous les efforts de convergence des socialistes toutes tendances confondues ne le furent que pour aller vers une entente électorale. Le temps d’une élection, en attendant les suivantes, les divergences sont mises de côté, amoindries…avant le retour des inénarrables conflits de personnes … L’article Les élections
The Israeli government is paying to have 16 MAGA social media influencers, with millions of followers, brought to Israel to learn how to stop American youth from turning against Tel Aviv over Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
Gotta finish the AI book, a Little Brother short story collection, the Enshittificaiton graphic novel, the Enshittification book tour, and possibly an Enshittification young readers' edition, then get an essay collection out, and then....
for real though, just wanted to let you know how much i love these books so far. the realism (like using real brands and methodologies) makes them so much more immersive. keep up the amazing work brother ❤️
I'm not really an audiobook person but listening to Wil Wheaton narrate those three books has been a pleasure. Very much looking forward to a next one.
La France est ce pays étrange où on fait l'apologie de l'infidélité au détriment de la fidélité, où on glorifie la femme qui a couché avec 10 hommes et où on ringardise celle qui est encore vierge à 23 ans, où on vante les mérites du polyamour tout en condamnant la polygamie.
Eddie.
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •I suspect that it's mostly public familiarity; not sure if there's anyone from the tech-business-but-not-really-technical side who is interested because it's another case where o365 sharepoint and exchange are unaffected(or at least were mitigated a lot more quickly and quietly); but on-prem gets to live dangerously.
Relative familiarity seems more likely.
Jess👾
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •But it’s RCE, man!
Network access can’t be as dangerous as an RCE, right?
I mean we have passwords, right?!
Scary truth, most (yeah, weird I know) dont understand the attack vektor.
Which is, disturbing.
Eddie.
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