What’s their margin? Are they profitable?

There aren’t any, thats the point I’m making. Petitions produce sample bias that excludes the opinions of people who don’t want their legal name and home address printed on a document that might get passed around God-knows-where.

Information on Personal Data:

To sign, you must provide a set of personal data, which is required by the authorities of your country for verification purposes. Specific measures are in place to ensure the protection of your data. See our privacy statement.

Perhaps if signing a petition didn’t require doxxing yourself then more people would sign.

I realize that it’s to prevent fake signatures and allow verification that the signatories are residents of the jurisdiction under petition, but this method inherently creates a sampling bias.

In the same vein as age verification, we need a solution for digital attestation that preserves anonymity and privacy. There are some initiatives in this direction, so perhaps we will get there some day.

LLM’s produce fan-fiction of reality.

This forbes blog is about this article:

https://cybernews.com/security/billions-credentials-exposed-infostealers-data-leak/

The only silver lining here is that all of the datasets were exposed only briefly: long enough for researchers to uncover them, but not long enough to find who was controlling vast amounts of data. Most of the datasets were temporarily accessible through unsecured Elasticsearch or object storage instances.

So there isn’t really an explanation other than “somebody collected these somehow and left the data unsecured.”

The attack vector for infostealer malware is usually social engineering, getting unwary users to download infected trojanized software via phishing and malvertising etc.

If you follow security news, you will see articles about infostealer malware campaigns all the time.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/minecraft_mod_malware/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/malicious-pypi-package-masquerades-as.html

https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/rust-based-myth-stealer-malware-spread.html

https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/eddiestealer-malware-uses-clickfix.html

This article is about credentials that are stolen directly from users’ devices that are compromised with malware. So they will be that user’s passwords for whatever services they were using while infected with the malware. This is why the dumps contain passwords for just about every online service that exists.

This isn’t an actual database breach of the major providers.

If your credentials are in an infostealer dump then you need to make sure that you’ve removed the malware from your device(s) before changing your passwords. Otherwise your new passwords will be sent straight to the same people who got them the first time.

go on then

I thought they had already agreed the sale of the genetic data to another company?

is this news?

VC funding destroys everything it touches.

This attitude has worked so well for allowing the current crop of tech billionaires to grow and cement their influence over the entire world. If people would just stop using their platforms when they hear the CEO’s batshit views then they would be nobodies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot

How would you describe the experience?

An American man Friday?

I put on my robe and wizard hat

What he’s suggesting is just science fiction.

Tell you what, Dr. Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer at the University of California San Diego, why don’t we start with automating your job with agentic AI so that you can focus on these “exquisite” attacks instead and we’ll see how well that goes.

People with low reading level deserve the same attention to detail and veracity as the rest of us.

Who at Wikimedia is so out of touch that they thought that this was a good idea? They need to be replaced.

You should probably let RealVNC know, because they don’t seem to have got your memo.