Random rules: Part II

Critical State, a foreign policy newsletter by Inkstick Media, takes a deep dive this week into Ahrar al-Sham, one faction in the Syrian war, and the strategies it used to manage alliances among other rebel factions.

January 25, 2023
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Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days

On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about the incident for a month. This week, however, Experian acknowledged that the security failure persisted for nearly seven weeks, between Nov. 9, 2022 and Dec. 26, 2022.

January 25, 2023
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This Blog Has 20 Years!

Twenty years ago… I decided to start a blog to share my thoughts! That’s why I called it “/dev/random”. How was the Internet twenty years ago? Well, they were good things and bad ones… With the years, the blog content evolved, and I wrote a lot of technical stuff related

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January 25, 2023
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