Laverne Cox on What’s Changed Since the ‘Transgender Tipping Point’
TIME’s first out transgender cover subject looks back on the cover story nearly a decade later
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Bibi Aisha’s TIME Cover Showed the World the Brutality of the Taliban. It Also Changed Her Life
Appearing on the cover of TIME for a story about the stakes of war in Afghanistan for women led to a new home in America
Hong Kong to Lift One of World’s Longest Mask Mandates After Almost 3 Years
“From tomorrow we are completely returning to normalcy,” Hong Kong leader John Lee said.
Turkish Soccer Fans Flood the Pitch With Stuffed Animals For Earthquake Survivors
Soccer fans in Istanbul flooded the pitch with stuffed animals for children who survived the two devastating earthquakes.
As Electoral Protests Swirl, Mexico’s President Goes Viral For Tweeting ‘Proof’ of a Mystical Elf
Tens of thousands of have protested a new law from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But for at least one moment on Saturday, his attention was fixed elsewhere.
An Environmental Probe Into China’s Top Lithium Hub Threatens Global Supply
A government probe into potential environmental violations threatens production of somewhere between 8% and 13% of the world’s lithium supply.
The Northern Ireland Protocol Is Brexit’s Thorniest Issue. A New Deal May Resolve It
The controversial protocol has been Brexit’s most vexed issue for years.
Hack The Box: (Awkward) To retrieve an LFI with JWT token
What is JWT? For those who are not familiar with JSON tokens, it’s a method to securely exchange data, especially an LFI attack in which the application uses a JSON object. The purpose of the method is to be used within an authorization in which the objects need to be signed, verified, and also been trusted. Demonstration with attack method using the JWT with LFI attacks. The demonstration is taken from the walkthrough over here Firstly, we are required to download the jwt2john.py into our attacker’s machine We also can use the jwt token to crack the password just like […]
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Banning TikTok
Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side effects would be intolerable. Details matter. There are several ways Congress might ban TikTok, each with different efficacies and side effects. In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it.
There’s no doubt that TikTok and ByteDance, the company that owns it, are shady. They, like most large corporations in China, operate at the pleasure of the Chinese government. They collect extreme levels of information about users. But they’re not alone: Many apps you use do the same, including Facebook and Instagram, along with seemingly innocuous apps that have no need for the data. Your data is bought and sold by data brokers you’ve never heard of who have few scruples about where the data ends up. They have digital dossiers on most people in the United States…
Did the CIA Betray Nelson Mandela?
In 1962 Nelson Mandela was arrested by the South African police. Richard Stengel reports on the CIA’s involvement