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#AxisOfEasy 392: AI Jailbreak Exposes Critical Flaws: Researchers Use Chatbots To Generate Malware With No Coding Experience

By Mark E. Jeftovic | March 21, 2025 | 1 Comment
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… this and more in AofE #392

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The Economy of Denial: Addiction, Extortion, Deception

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 19, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Denial doesn’t end well, and the ‘Economy of Denial’ is destined to deconstruction.

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Here Come the Chaos Monkeys

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 17, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The Chaos Monkeys are so masterful at distracting and confusing us with sensory-digital overload, we’re not even aware of the game until the extortion begins.

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#AxisOfEasy 391: PowerSchool Data Breach Exposes Millions Of Students But Hides Key Details

By Mark E. Jeftovic | March 14, 2025 | 0 Comments
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PowerSchool Data Breach Exposes Millions of Students but Hides Key Details,
Garantex Crypto Exchange Busted in Massive Money Laundering Crackdown,
Hackers Use Fake Trump Crypto to Hijack Computers in Minutes… this and more in AofE #391

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Roaring 20s or Great Depression 2.0?

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 13, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The binary ahead is the result of a simple law of Nature: adapt or die.

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Going Cold Turkey in our Addiction Economy

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 10, 2025 | 0 Comments
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We’re prone to addiction, and addiction is highly profitable. They know it, and we know it.

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#AxisOfEasy 390: CTA Proposal Could Fine Airline Passengers For Publicly Discussing Complaint Resolutions

By Mark E. Jeftovic | March 7, 2025 | 1 Comment
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CTA Proposal Could Fine Airline Passengers for Publicly Discussing Complaint Resolutions,
Critical Security Flaw Found in Hirsch’s Enterphone MESH Access System,
New LinkedIn Phishing Scam Uses Fake InMail to Deliver ConnectWise RAT… this and more in AofE #390

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The Stoicism of the Caregiver

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 5, 2025 | 0 Comments
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These are difficult realities without Hollywood cliche answers.

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PDF Farming Debunked…

By Mark E. Jeftovic | March 3, 2025 | 0 Comments
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   The only people getting rich […]

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If We Set Aside Ideology, Is There Anything We Can Agree On?

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 3, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Just the experiment of setting aside ideological certainties for a moment would be instructive.

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#AxisOfEasy 389: What Did You Get Done Last Week?

By Mark E. Jeftovic | February 28, 2025 | 6 Comments
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What Did You Get Done Last Week? (From the desk of Mark Jeftovic, easyDNS CEO),
AI-Powered Phishing Scams: How Cybercriminals Use Deepfakes and Stolen Credentials to Hijack Accounts,
Private GitHub Repos Still Accessible via Microsoft Copilot, Security Firm Warns … this and more in AofE #389

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Three Ways to Restore Housing Affordability

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 28, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it’s just another interchangeable speculative asset in the global financialization casino. It can’t be both.

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Housing: The Foundations of the Middle Class Are Crumbling

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 26, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Bottom line: with the loss of predictability, we’ve also lost any sense of future financial security.

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When Markets Misbehave

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 23, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Markets misbehave, sometimes when we least expect it. How badly they misbehave depends on the soundness of the hull and the level of self-reinforcing hubris.

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#AxisOfEasy 388: Russian Hackers Exploit Signal’s Device-Linking Feature To Spy On Military And Civilian Communications

By Mark E. Jeftovic | February 21, 2025 | 4 Comments
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Russian Hackers Exploit Signal’s Device-Linking Feature to Spy on Military and Civilian Communications,
New XCSSET Malware Variant Targets macOS Developers With Advanced Persistence and Obfuscation Techniques,
North Korean Cyber Group Kimsuky Escalates Stealth Attacks With Dropbox and PowerShell … this and more in AofE #388

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The Tax Benefits of Self-Employment

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 20, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Lowering one’s tax burden is not the reason to pursue self-employment, but it is something worth understanding if you’re exploring self-employment.

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The Problem With Money Isn’t Money

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 18, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The Problem With Money is that it’s complicated.

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#AxisOfEasy 387: UK Secretly Orders Apple To Build Global iCloud Backdoor, Sparking Privacy Battle

By Mark E. Jeftovic | February 14, 2025 | 6 Comments
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UK Secretly Orders Apple to Build Global iCloud Backdoor, Sparking Privacy Battle,
PlayStation Network Outage Leaves Gamers Stranded: PS4, PS5, and Online Services Down with No ETA,
China-Linked Disinformation Targets Freeland in Liberal Leadership Race, SITE Warns … this and more in AofE #387

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Automation Institutionalizes Mediocrity

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 14, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Meanwhile, in the lived-in world, our quality of life is unraveling in myriad ways as algorithmically-driven under-competence and mediocrity are now the norm.

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The Not-So-Strange Paradox of American Power and Dysfunction

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 13, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Americans seem to have forgotten that we are not slaves to finance-tech profits as the sole divining rods to what happens next.

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How cybercrooks lure you in and scam you with fake “work from home” gigs

By ryan | February 12, 2025 | 0 Comments
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An online investigator lays out the entire arc of a fake “work from home” job scam, involving “missions” – which can be anything from (presumably) boosting reviews or otherwise mining clicks – but it’s really just a ruse to get you to deposit into your “earnings” account to get yourself up to the next payout threshold.

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The One True Test of AI Intelligence

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 12, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The point of this thought experiment is to reveal the true nature of our relationship with AI: we only love it as a mindless slave that makes us rich.

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Corporations as Modern-Day Warlords

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 10, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Read carefully between the lines, for all this will come to pass.

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The Crises Yet to Come

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 6, 2025 | 0 Comments
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“Controlling the narrative” to justify destabilizing asymmetries won’t change the consequences.

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Contributors

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

The Canadian Bitcoiners

The Canadian Bitcoiners

Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.