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November 8, 2023

Final agreement on EU Digital Identity Wallet

In addition to public services, Very Large Online Platforms designated under the Digital Services Act (including services such as Amazon, Booking.com or Facebook) and private services that are legally required to authenticate their users will have to accept the EU Digital Identity Wallet for logging into their online services. In addition, the wallets' features and common specifications will make it attractive for all private service providers to accept them for their services, thus creating new business opportunities. The Wallet will also facilitate service providers' compliance with various regulatory requirements.

10 Millionen Menschen in Australien hatten kein Internet mehr

Ein landesweitere Ausfall bei Australiens zweitgrößtem Telekomanbieter Optus sorgte dafür, dass mehr als 10 Millionen Australier*innen weder Telefon- noch Internetverbindung hatten. Die Störung zog sich am Mittwoch über Stunden. Dadurch wurden Zahlungssysteme und der Online-Betrieb lahmgelegt. Auch gab es Chaos im morgendlichen Berufsverkehr, da Zugnetze und Mitfahrdienste in einigen Städten kurzzeitig ausfielen.

Digital-GAU in Koblenz: Schüler verlieren alle Aufzeichnungen

in Koblenz kümmere sich die Stadt um das Schulnetz und stelle Schülern und Lehrern Geräte wie Tablets oder Laptops zur Verfügung. Ihr hat die Stadtverwaltung gesagt, viele Schüler nutzten auf ihren Geräten eine App, mit der sie sich im Unterricht Notizen machen.

Und ausgerechnet die sei durch eine Netzwerk-Panne auf den Geräten gelöscht worden. Und damit eben auch alle Mitschriften.

Exim's options for how to DKIM sign various email headers

Recently, I became aware that Exim has a relatively aggressive list of message headers to sign with DKIM, and as a result we somewhat reduced the list of headers to sign in our environment. As it happens, Exim has several options for how it signs headers, which are briefly covered in the documentation for the dkim_sign_headers setting in (DKIM) Signing outgoing messages. The effects of these options aren't really clear until we understand the various meanings of DKIM signing message headers.

Hunderte Experten warnen vor staatlichen Root-Zertifikaten

In AT hatten wir dazu ja schon 2015 den Realitätsabgleich, als der "Vertrauensdiensteanbieter" A minus Trust (A-Trust.at) vergaß, sein root Zertifikat in den Browsern zeitgereiht zu erneuern und damit eGovernment in AT zum erliegen brachte,
https://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/behoerden-websites-keine-vertrauenswuerdige-verbindung/147.690.445

Europe lacks courage in pursuing digital sovereignty, cloud service CEO says – EURACTIV.com

EU policymakers should have the “courage and fair-mindedness” to pursue a sovereign cloud and regulate American cloud providers under the EU antitrust law on digital markets, Michel Paulin, CEO of the leading French provider OVHcloud, told Euractiv in an interview.

WhatKeysForKeysigning

some day you try to connect to some new system and get rudely disconnected before you get prompted for a password. The direct answer to what's happening is that you've run into the server's limit on how many different authentication options it will let you try

Why Tech Bros and Politicians Can’t Really Connect

When a tech bro tries to understand life through his techbro-glasses, he comes up with this "batch vs. event loop culture" allegory.

"Modern tech, meanwhile, is pure event loop" - not the tech you want to be able to rely on, trust me. ;)

This Is the Ops Manual for the Most Tech-Savvy Animal Liberation Group in the US

To pull off all those revelatory and often highly controversial actions, Direct Action Everywhere (which uses the abbreviation DxE) has also spent years evolving its toolkit and operational rigor—from communications security and physical stealth, to penetration tactics for getting inside factory farms and slaughterhouses. It has also long maintained a manual of its own methods for those operations. Now, for the first time, it's publicly releasing that guide.

Despite the “how-to” tone of the guide itself, do not try this at home. DxE investigators frequently face criminal charges, and DxE's critics in the agriculture industry and in law enforcement describe the group as radicals with extreme tactics.

The future as envisioned in 1967

he video brilliantly envisioned a future dominated by computers, capturing the essence of a digitized society long before it became our reality. With remarkable foresight, it highlighted the ubiquity of screen interactions, forecasting a world where technology would become central to our daily lives.