The college — one of only a few rural schools to qualify as a predominantly Black institution under the Department of Education — said those affected its financial standing.
… we discourage the use of Zoom in cases where strong confidentiality and privacy is required, including:
- Governments worried about espionage
- Businesses concerned about cybercrime and industrial espionage
- Healthcare providers handling sensitive patient information
- Activists, lawyers, and journalists working on sensitive topics
IMHO this bears repeating…
Just remember, it’s all back-doored, if you’re lucky, you get to choose by whom.
Ugh. Time to make the possession of private data without consent, and not in direct support of a material commercial transaction, equivalent to theft.
Well… that’s fucking disturbing.
Now it will be easier to create conspiracy theories, manipulate people and destroy reputations.
As this technology is refined, crimes like revenge porn will become even more common, as they won’t even need real images of people anymore.
Yeah, it’s scary as hell.
At around 1:30am on Saturday, one of Japan’s largest telecom companies (KDDI, which is better known by their mobile network brand, au) suffered a massive nationwide system outage that still has not been fully resolved nearly two days later, though service has mostly been restored in most regions.
The outage has affected some 39 million mobile phone accounts throughout Japan (including mine), with telephone and text service unavailable for around 36 hours (at least where I am) and data service cutting out intermittently. People found themselves unable to call emergency services, and some ATM networks and weather tracking stations, etc. were also offline. This has also affected air and rail logistics networks, causing delivery delays.
Evidently the issue was caused by network congestion during protracted maintenance on a VoLTE transformer (which evidently converts voice to data), which then cascaded through the core mobile network, causing bandwidth limits to kick in automatically through the network. They have now restored the equipment in question, but they still have testing to do, so congestion is expected to continue. It is not clear when things will go back to normal. Evidently, as of 9:30pm Sunday night, bandwidth is at 50%.
This is the longest outage in Japanese history, and the government has labeled this a “major incident” and is considering imposing penalties.
