Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
This has now reached the point that corporations and institutions are in effect “mining what remains of our trust” to boost profits / private gains.
Read it »That most of us live in a low-value, low-trust economy of shoddy goods and services hidden beneath high-tech frictionless, faceless transactions is not recognized.
Read it »PayPal’s Quiet Data Sharing: Are You Opted In Without Knowing?
Sniper Dz: Free Phishing Tools Behind Over 140,000 Cyber Attacks,
AI-Powered Rhadamanthys Malware Evolves into Major Threat for Cryptocurrency Holders … this and more in AofE #370
Those few who grasp the crisis in its entirety have been marginalized, and those who are left are drifting downstream, unable to move the mass of self-interested inertia even if they wanted to.
Read it »The system has reached the limits of its adaptability. Everything else is entertainment.
Read it »Loss of social trust has consequences.
Read it »Telegram Bows to Pressure, Will Share User Data with Authorities,
LinkedIn Faces Backlash for Using User Data to Train AI Without Consent,
OpenAI Patches Critical ChatGPT Vulnerability Exploited by ‘SpAIware’ Amid Rising AI Security Threats … this and more in AofE #369
If we want social / economic renewal, we have to make it straightforward for anyone willing to adopt the values and habits of “thrift, prudence, negotiation, and hard work” to climb the ladder to middle class security.
Read it »This raises another question: how will the deflation of the Everything Bubble play out?
Read it »Is an economy based on the wealth effect generated by front-running the front-runners really that stable?
Read it »Massive Data Breach at Credit Card Processor Slim CD Raises Security Concerns,
Meta Has Been Using Your Public Posts for AI Since 2007,
AI Breaks the Rules in Capture the Flag Test… this and more in AofE #368
Here’s a quick outline of a “rich guys Internet”, one where it costs money to participate but the payoff is a 10-fold improvement in the user experience.
Read it »Looking back, 2024 may well be viewed as insignificant compared to what lies ahead.
Read it »The younger generations expecting to inherit the immense wealth piled up by Boomers in home equity and stocks may be in for a shock.
Read it »Malaysia Blocks Global DNS Resolvers,
YubiKey Security Vulnerability Exposes Devices to Cloning Attacks,
Revival Hijack Attack on PyPI Exposes Thousands to Malware … this and more in AofE #367
Without being aware of it, we’ve privatized “free” speech in the form of digital monopolies.
Read it »Self-serving special interests are delighted to fill the void when local journalism disappears.
Read it »Markets are manipulated, yes, but they’re still structures of tightly bound, self-organizing complexity which lend themselves to sudden non-linear collapses.
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The Malaysian government has ordered ISPs within the country to block DNS lookups from foreign resolvers & using the measure to censor access to “harmful” websites.
Read it »This is a raw ChatGPT output, […]
Read it »Amazon admits Alexa gave out wildly partisan political bias ahead of election,
Behind the Great Firewall: China’s Crackdown on Digital Dissent and the Growing Resistance,
Halliburton Hack Exposes Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure … this and more in AofE #366
Violent crashes followed by equally violent rip-your-face-off rallies as we experienced in August are not signs of a healthy, stable stock market.
Read it »Among the big winners of the Everything Bubble is–yes, I know you’re shocked–Wall Street.
Read it »The ‘novel, apocalyptic situation which has now arisen’ goes largely unrecognized.
Read it »Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France on allegations of facilitating criminal activity,
Qilin Ransomware Group’s New Tactics: Credential Harvesting and Network-Wide Ransomware Deployment,
Uber Faces Record Fine for Data Privacy Violations … this and more in AofE #365
Contributors
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
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 is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.