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Risks Digest 34.59
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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Saturday 22 Mar 2025 Volume 34 : Issue 59
ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
Peter G. Neumann, founder and still moderator
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Contents:
Heathrow Comes to a Standstill (The NY Times)
UK Cybersecurity Agency Warns of Quantum Hacking Risks (Dan Milmo)
Cybersecurity Officials Warn Against Medusa Ransomware Attacks
(Sarah Parvini)
Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight (BBC)
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber (NYTimes)
Airport Theory Will Make You Miss Your Flight(WiReD)
DOGE Discovers 14 Magic-Money Computers, Which Can Just Make Money Out of
Thin Air (The Gateway Pundit)
French scientist on way to U.S. conference denied entrance and threatened by
FBI due to messages on phone critical of Trump (The Guardian)
1 in 4 U.S. Programming Jobs Vanish (Andrew Van Dam)
Waymo Driverless Taxis Got 589 Parking Tickets in San Francisco Last Year
(Lisa Bonos)
Ontario police may have secretly used controversial spyware Israeli software
(CBC)
Paragon Spyware Tool Linked to Canadian Police (Ruan Gallagher)
Datacenter Boom Poses New Risk to Grid Operators (Tim McLaughlin)
China to Spend $55 Billion on R&D in 2025 (Anton Shilov)
Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys
Into Weapons of War (WiReD)
Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar
test (Electrek via Steve Bacher)
The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain (WiReD)
Social Security experts fear disaster after DOGE changes (Lauren Weinstein)
`Deadman' loses benefits and lives to tell the story (Seatle Times)
Warning regarding AI contamination of Google (Lauren Weinstein)
Re: The Worst 7 Years in Boeing's History (Henry Baker)
Re: Two Planes, in Washington and Chicago, Abort Landings to Avoid
(Lars-Henrik Eriksson, Peter Bernard Ladkin)
Aviation analyst: Toronto Delta 4819 Operating envelope fails in weather
(Rod Wilcox)
Re: As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism (Marin Ward,
Steve Bacher)
Re: When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works (Steve Bacher)
Re: To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, FBI Used Restricted Consumer DNA
Data (Steve Bacher)
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:11:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Neumann <neumann@csl.sri.com>
Subject: Heathrow Comes to a Standstill (The NY Times)
Megan Specia, Lunsey Chutel, Eshe Nelsom and Thomas Fuller
World Travel Disrupted as Fire Shuts Airport after an off-site electrical
substation fire in nearby North Hyde shut down operations yesterday (21
Mar). Over 1000 flights were canceled or diverted. A backup transformer
worked, but could not provide enough power. The airport's chief executive
described the outage as *unprecedented*
[Well, actually it was not *unprecedented*. Back in the early 2010s, an
SRI colleague and I were returning from a week or two in Cambridge UK
after CHERI meetings. We arrived at Heathrow noonish for our respective
afternoon flights home. An earlier morning fire had taken power down
extensively, and computing equipment was off-line electronically. Many
airlines had been unable to print boarding passes and baggage-routing tags
for the entire morning, and countless passengers were still waiting as
some systems were just beginning to be brought online again at about the
time we arrived. PGN]
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:37:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: UK Cybersecurity Agency Warns of Quantum Hacking Risks (Dan Milmo)
ACM TechNews; Friday, March 21, 2025
Dan Milmo, *The Guardian* (03/19/25)
Guidance from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre calls on large
organizations, critical national infrastructure operators, and companies
with bespoke IT systems to implement "post-quantum cryptography" to guard
against future quantum hackers. These entities were urged to identify
services in need of an upgrade by 2028. The guidance indicated that the most
important upgrades should be completed by 2031, with migration to a new
encryption system by 2035.
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:07:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: Cybersecurity Officials Warn Against Medusa Ransomware Attacks
(Sarah Parvini)
Sarah Parvini, Associated Press (03/15/25), via ACM TechNews
In an advisory posted last week, U.S. cybersecurity officials warned of a
ransomware-as-a-service software called Medusa, which uses phishing
campaigns as its main method for stealing victims' credentials. Active since
2021, Medusa actors use a double extortion model, where they "encrypt victim
data and threaten to publicly release exfiltrated data if a ransom is not
paid," according to the advisory. Since February, Medusa actors have hit
more than 300 victims across various industries.
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:21:20 -0600
From: Matthew Kruk <mkrukg@gmail.com>
Subject: Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1en1yjv4dpo
Facebook has agreed to stop targeting adverts at an individual user using
personal data after she filed a lawsuit against its parent company, tech
giant Meta.
Tanya O'Carroll, 37, who lives in London and works in the tech policy and
human rights sector, said it would open a "gateway" for other people
wanting to stop the social media company from serving them adverts based on
their demographics and interests.
The Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data watchdog, said online
targeted advertising should be considered direct marketing.
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From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:36:51 -0400
Subject: The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber (NYTimes)
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber
When Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto appeared 30 years ago, the Internet was
brand-new. Now his dark vision is finding fans who don’t remember life
before the iPhone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/magazine/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-luigi-mangione.html
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:58:02 -0600
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Airport Theory Will Make You Miss Your Flight(WiReD)
The risk: believing what you see on TikTok
Boutayna Chokrane, *WIRED* Gear, Mar 18, 2025 6:32 AM
If airports weren’t already a hellscape, TikTok has found a way to make them
worse. Welcome to airport theory, a viral delusion that suggests you can
roll up to the airport 15 minutes before boarding, waltz through security,
and still make your flight with time to spare. No stress, no waiting, just
pure main character energy.
TikTok creators like Michael DiCostanzo (@michael.dicostanzo) swear by it,
documenting their dashes through high-traffic hubs like LAX, Atlanta
International Airport, and post–Super Bowl New Orleans. Some viewers are
sold. Others are calling BS.
"So you had PreCheck, didn’t check a bag, and were at the nearest terminal?
Now let's do it when it's not the optimal situation," one user
commented. And, sure enough, the Internet is also littered with failed
attempts -- videos of forlorn TikTokers watching their flights take off
without them, their carry-ons full of regret.
https://www.wired.com/story/airport-theory-aka-what-happens-if-you-miss-your-flight/
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:16:48 -0700
From: geoff goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com>
Subject: DOGE Discovers 14 Magic-Money Computers, Which Can Just Make
Money Out of Thin Air (The Gateway Pundit)
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire and now self-proclaimed advocate for
government efficiency, has revealed a stunning financial scandal hidden
within the depths of our government.
Speaking on Senator Ted Cruz's Verdict podcast, Musk disclosed the existence
of what he calls *magic money computers*.
During the explosive interview, Musk explained how these government
computers can conjure up trillions of dollars out of* thin air -- completely
detached from a synchronized network.
According to Musk, 14 such machines have been uncovered across various
agencies, mostly at the Treasury Department, the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), the Department of Defense (DOD), and even the State
Department. [...]
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/elon-musk-says-doge-discovered-14-magic-money
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:01:29 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: French scientist on way to U.S. conference denied entrance and
threatened by FBI due to messages on phone critical of Trump (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:07:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: 1 in 4 U.S. Programming Jobs Vanish (Andrew Van Dam)
Andrew Van Dam, *The Washington Post* (03/14/25), via ACM TechNews
More than 25% of all computer programming jobs in the U.S. have disappeared
in the past two years, with the occupation now ranking among the 10
hardest-hit of 420-plus jobs for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
provides data. There are fewer programmers today in the U.S. than at any
point since 1980. At the same time, jobs for software developers have fallen
just 0.3%, similar to the broader industry.
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:07:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: Waymo Driverless Taxis Got 589 Parking Tickets in San Francisco
Last Year (Lisa Bonos)
Lisa Bonos, *The Washington Post* (03/13/25), viz ACM TechNews
San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency said robotaxis operated by
Alphabet's Waymo racked up 589 tickets and $65,065 in fines for parking
violations last year. The company's autonomous vehicles were cited for such
violations as obstructing traffic, disobeying street cleaning restrictions,
and parking in prohibited areas.
[Join the club. Some of the meters are too complicated to decipher? PGN]
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:24:38 -0600
From: Matthew Kruk <mkrukg@gmail.com>
Subject: Ontario police may have secretly used controversial spyware Israeli
software (CBC)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/opp-paragon-solutions-spyware-1.7488027
Researchers say Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) may have secretly used
controversial Israeli spyware technology, raising concerns about potential
spying on citizens.
Citizen Lab, which investigates digital espionage against civil society,
released a report Wednesday identifying "possible links" between the OPP
and Paragon Solutions, a company that sells military-grade spyware called
Graphite to government clients.
Graphite can be used to hack into phones, and was recently found to have
been used against an Italian journalist and activists who supported
migrants, after Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp reported to nearly 100
users in January that their cellphones may have been compromised.
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:37:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: Paragon Spyware Tool Linked to Canadian Police (Ruan Gallagher)
Ryan Gallagher, Bloomberg (03/19/25)
Researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab in Canada said
Ontario Provincial Police appear to have deployed spyware from Israel's
Paragon on computers under its control. Spyware victims were Android phone
users who were added to a WhatsApp group, where a malicious PDF file was
sent to compromise devices via "zero click" intrusion. The researchers said
Paragon's Graphite spyware has been linked to users in Australia, Canada,
Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore.
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:37:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: Datacenter Boom Poses New Risk to Grid Operators (Tim McLaughlin)
Tim McLaughlin, *Reuters* (03/19/25)
Last July, 60 of Virginia's Data Center Alley's more than 200 datacenters
fell off the grid and switched to on-site generators. Part of a safety
mechanism to protect electronic equipment from damage, that change resulted
in a surge of electricity that could have caused cascading power outages had
power plant output not been reduced to compensate. In the last five years,
such near-misses have been on the rise as more datacenters come online.
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:37:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: China to Spend $55 Billion on R&D in 2025 (Anton Shilov)
Anton Shilov, Tom's Hardware (03/17/25) via ACM TechNews
China's Ministry of Finance said 398.12 billion yuan ($55 billion) of the
2025 central budget will be earmarked for science and technology, up 10%, or
$5 billion, from last year. The rise in spending is part of an effort to
bolster national research and development and accelerate plans for China to
become self-reliant in the semiconductor and other industries. The
additional $5 billion is expected to be put toward "Science and Technology
Innovation 2030" projects on integrated circuits, AI, and quantum computing
technology.
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:54:25 -0700
From: Steve Bacher <sebmb1@verizon.net>
Subject: Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card
Turn Toys Into Weapons of War (WiReD)
Chinese ecommerce giants like Temu and AliExpress sell drone accessories
like those used by soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. [...]
“I don't know a hobbyist that wants to fly a drone miles away with a tether
to drop a water bottle in someone's yard,” says Dave Torres, Red Balloon's
head of FPGA security. “I'm a combat veteran, so I'm used to dealing with
IEDs and worrying about things that are buried in the ground. Well, now you
have the capability to fly your IED over whoever you want to attack.” [...]
https://www.wired.com/story/drone-accessories-weapons-of-war/
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:16:32 +0000 (UTC)
From: Steve Bacher <sebmb1@verizon.net>
Subject: Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera
vs lidar test
While most companies developing self-driving technologies have been using a
mix of sensors (cameras, radar, lidar, and ultrasonic), Tesla insists on o
using only cameras.
https://electrek.co/2025/03/16/tesla-autopilot-drives-into-wall-camera-vs-lidar-test/
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:54:48 -0400
From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com>
Subject: The Trump Administration Wants USAID on the Blockchain (WiReD)
“It feels like a fake technological solution for a problem that doesn’t
exist,” says one expert.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-usaid-blockchain
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:36:24 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: Social Security experts fear disaster after DOGE changes
As I reported on my radio segment Monday, DOGE changes will prevent new
beneficiaries from signing up or anyone from making payment changes by
phone. For the many persons who do not have Internet capabilities, they
would have to go into Social Security offices, around 50 of which are being
closed by DOGE and thousands of employees fired. This is an utter disaster
in the making [...]
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:11:49 -0700
From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann@csl.sri.com>
Subject: `Deadman' loses benefits and lives to tell the story
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:09:43 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: Warning regarding AI contamination of Google Gmail search function
Google is changing the way message search works in Gmail, to use their
defective AI systems to show you results in a way the AI thinks is
best for you, meaning you could easily miss important messages when
searching in Gmail when the AI screws up, which it will frequently do
because it doesn't understand what your messages actually mean.
There will apparently be a way to switch to "Most recent" instead of
"Most Relevant", but it will probably be on you to change this setting and I
don't know at this time if this change will stick between sessions.
Google continues to ram their defective AI down people's throats.
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:07:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Quantum Computing Milestone Quickly Challenged by Supercomputer
(Mara Johnson-Groh)
mara Johnson-Groh, *ScienceNews* (03/12/25), via ACM TechNews
[Related to an item in the previous issue of RISKS. PGN]
At around the same time researchers at D-Wave publicly announced they had
achieved "quantum supremacy" in simulating magnetic materials, researchers
at the Flatiron Institute released a paper explaining how they repurposed
the 40-year-old belief propagation algorithm to solve a subset of the same
problem using a classical computer. "For the ? spin glass problem at hand,
our classical approach demonstrably outperforms other reported methods," the
group wrote. "In [two cases] we are also able to reach errors noticeably
lower than the quantum annealing approach employed by the D-Wave Advantage2
system."
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:41:32 +0000
From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: The Worst 7 Years in Boeing's History (RISKS-34.58)
"Worst 7 Years" ? Ha ! "Worst 25 Years", at least !
You could tell Boeing had abandoned engineering excellence when
it moved its headquarters out of Seattle in 2001, and then -- even
worse -- to Arlington, VA in 2022.
Like a dead fish, Boeing has rotted from its head -- in this case -- its
Board of Directors.
Curiously, this same Board rot has managed to infect Intel, as well:
"Gregory Smith (Chair of Audit and Finance [Intel BOD])"
"Meet Greg, the former CFO and EVP of operations at Boeing. He'w been on the
board since 2017 and was an interim CEO at Boeing during 2020. ... "
"He has almost no semiconductor experience and could probably be directly
involved with the Boeing fiasco. He's been on the board for the entire Intel
disaster and, at one point, was interim CEO of Boeing, so he's likely not
the most focused member."
https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-death-of-intel-when-boards-fail
How the mighty have fallen; Boeing couldn't even rescue its own astronauts
whom it left stranded for 9 months, leaving them to be rescued by SpaceX !
If there ever were a case to be made for "DOGE" chainsaws for contractors,
Boeing would likely be Exhibit #1, but Intel might also make the top ten.
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:31:15 +0100
From: Lars-Henrik Eriksson <lhe@it.uu.se>
Subject: Re: Two Planes, in Washington and Chicago, Abort Landings to Avoid
(RISKS-34.58)
In RISKS 34.58 "Jim" <jgeissman@socal.rr.com> writes about two "near misses"
when aircraft had to abort a landing due to the runway being occupied by
other aircraft.
There are two very different situations. One is when an aircraft which is
legitimately on the runway does not take off -- or taxi off the runway -- in
time for an approaching aircraft to land forcing that aircraft to abort the
landing. This is not unusual and is a normal and safe manoeuvre as at least
Air Traffic Control is always conscious of the situation. (It is of course
undesirable as it causes delays).
The other situation is when an aircraft has entered the runway without the
permission of ATC. This can indeed cause a safety risk, particularly if it
happens when another aircraft is very close to landing.
For a meaningful discussion on flight safety, you have to keep these cases
apart.
That said, the examples and the Washington collision highlights two
practices by Air Traffic Control in the USA which are not allowed in most of
the world: Visual separation of aircraft at night and giving landing
clearances when the runway is expected to be free (as opposed to it actually
being free). Both increase airport capacity but also increase risk.
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:27:01 +0100
From: "Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin" <ladkin@causalis.com>
Subject: Re: Two Planes, in Washington and Chicago, Abort Landings to Avoid
(RISKS-34.58)
The Washington National event seems to be to be routine. At major airports,
aircraft are routinely positioned on the active runway for takeoff when
others are on final approach. If the aircraft due to take off delays its
departure longer than the controller had expected, an aircraft on approach
to landing will be advised to go around in order to "ensure separation [is]
maintained" (as the article says). It doesn't happen often but it is
routine.
Separation was maintained, it appears. From the point of view of safety,
there is nothing to see here. (The landing airline will likely have been
annoyed by the extra fuel burn and its passengers by the slightly delayed
arrival.)
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:04:28 -0700
From: Rob Wilcox <robwilcoxjr@gmail.com>
Subject: Aviation analyst: Toronto Delta 4819 crash; Operating envelope
fails in weather (RISKS-34.58)
Many RISKS readers have studied mathematical control of physical systems
embedded in human systems.
One of my areas is the electric grid. It is an analog to airplane flight.
Both have a stable operating window defined by physics. In an aircraft, it
is speed, angle of attack, control surfaces, air density/atmosphere and
wind, probably more. In the grid, it is frequency in relation to the balance
between load and generation, real and imaginary, in a distributed control
system.
An experienced small aircraft pilot friend of mine and his wife lost their
lives in a classic density altitude accident.
In each, plane, and grid, if you get out of the stable range, you crash the
physical system.
I read air failure, and grid failure, detailed root cause analysis reports.
They take many months for the definitive report.
[And in this case it will probably blame the heli pilot and the controller,
or merely the usual deep pockets, but not likely the diminution in
controllers, management, and oversignt? PGN]
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:10:46 +0000
From: Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk>
Subject: Re: As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism (Bacher,
RISKS-34.58)
> Tauszik has spent his time creating a way for other journalists to keep
> their work online longer, and at a lower cost.
Or you could donate to archive.org
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:37:30 -0700
From: Steve Bacher <sebmb1@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism
Where I found the link to the Poynter article was on Dan Kennedy's blog.
Therein he said this:
The Internet Archive is invaluable, but it doesn’t scrape everything.
https://dankennedy.net/2025/03/15/combatting-link-rot-plus-media-notes-from-the-philippines-to-arlington-national-cemetery-to-belmont-mass/
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:41:41 -0700
From: Steve Bacher <sebmb1@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works (WSJ)
I can't read the article (paywalled), but I can certainly understand how the
problem arises. Many if not most database systems will print the string
"NULL" for null values, and I imagine that a programmer or coding team
decided the easiest way to get around that problem was to check for the
string "NULL" in the output of a query.
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:24:05 -0700
From: Steve Bacher <sebmb1@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, FBI Used Restricted
Consumer DNA Data (RISKS-34.58)
Is this a bad thing or a good thing? I've always felt that the practicality
of DNA evidence for solving crimes is limited unless everyone's DNA is
collected and stored, as much as that raises privacy hackles. Otherwise you
can catch only current or ex-criminals with DNA, never first offenders.
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:11:11 -0800
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