Losing your phone can be a nightmare. Enabling anti-theft features on your device like Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock keeps your data safe and improves your odds of recovering your phone.
#android #theft #detection #lock #safety #security
https://www.androidpolice.com/android-enable-anti-theft-features-guide/
@zak @zenbrowser : a still unfixed vulnerability: if NOT using Touch ID, on some websites you may be able to sign in using a passkey WITHOUT authenticating locally - using biometrics or your passcode (screen unlock code).
This vulnerability also exists WITH Touch ID set up, provided that "Password Autofill" is disabled.
BTW this vulnerability also permits access to:
• https://icloud.com
• https://account.apple.com
(When asked to provide your fingerprint, tap the X at the top right and tap in the "Email" field one more time).
This is a HUGE risk for people who do not want to use biometrics: if a thief grabs their iPhone when unlocked, or watches them enter their passcode and later steals their iPhone, the thief can use ALL of the owner's passwords and some of their passkeys stored in the "Passwords" app (formerly known as iCloud Keychain).
This increases the risks of theft as shown by WSJ's Joanna Stern in https://youtube.com/watch?v=QUYODQB_2wQ.
In addition, a (grand) child or anyone else who (shortly) borrows your iPhone/iPad may have access to more of your cloud-accounts than you're aware of.
Workaround if you don't want to use biometrics to unlock your iPhone/iPad (this does not fix any problem if a thief learns (or successfully guesses) your passcode (screen unlock PIN or password):
• Set up a Touch ID anyway, for example for your left pinky finger (if you're righthanded)
• Disable "iPhone Unlock" in "Touch ID and Passcode" (visible in the first screenshot).
• Use a safer password manager (such as KeePassium) than the Apple "Passwords" app (iCloud KeyChain).
In any case:
• Make sure that "Password Autofill" (in settings -> "Touch ID and Passcode") is set to ENABLED;
• When you enter your passcode in a public place (such as a bar, bus or train), make very sure that nobody gets to see you enter it.
Bonsai thefts are on the rise and happening across Japan as the miniature potted trees, carefully cultivated over many years, become increasingly popular around the world. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/14/japan/crime-legal/bonsai-theft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japaneseart #art #socialmedia #bonsai #gunma #aichi #theft #japanesepolice #financeministry
"OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use"
So #AI is not possible with out #theft of #intellectualproperty...
Give me a break!
How long have we been forced into narrow copyright regimes to benefit a few powerful companies, and now all data suddenly belongs to the new "AI" lords?
Everyone should read this!
#imperialism #ai #copyright #theft
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/
"Call it vigilante justice or guerrilla tactics, but there’s a sense of stalwart duty as the lab attempts to dismantle generative AI."
Kelley Engelbrecht for Chicago Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-great-ai-art-heist/
With plans to pull government funding, Trump & the DOE are investigating 60 colleges & universities for discrimination & claims of unsafe campuses due to antisemitism.
I think some aren't asking the right question when we learn funding is being pulled from any number of places and agencies - "Now that it's being diverted from its intended recipient, where is the money going?" I will speculate that it's going to Trump & Musk, not back into the government.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/us/department-of-education-warning-universities-title-vi-antisemitism
The Cabinet has approved a new bill that aims to prevent the circulation of stolen copper cables and other valuable metals, particularly those taken from solar power facilities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/11/japan/crime-legal/metal-theft-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #renewables #energy #solar #electricity #theft #cabinet #metals
Identity Theft Warning — Hidden Commands In 1 Billion Bluetooth Chips
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
Senator #ChrisMurphy
Mar 6, 2025 UNITED STATES CAPITOL
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to expose the unprecedented corruption of the Trump administration’s first six weeks in office. Murphy condemned Trump’s normalization of pay-to-play politics, where billionaire donors dictate policy and taxpayer money is funneled into the pockets of the president, Elon Musk, and the corporate elite.
#Coup #trump #Putin #Corruption #bitcoin #Theft #Billionaires #Oligarchs #StopTheCoup #MemeCoin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hycoCYenXls
'Last week, Kristi Noem, Trump’s homeland security secretary, visited the Haskell Free Library in both Quebec and Vermont — the cultural centre straddles the Canada-US border — and in a bizarre stunt repeatedly stepped over the taped boundary marker on the floor, shouting “USA No 1” on the American side and “the 51st state” on the Canadian.'
Yes Canada, you and we really do need to worry.
1inch DeFi platform loses $5 million in smart contract exploit
#cybersecurity #infosec #incident #theft
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/1inch-defi-platform-loses-5-million-in-smart-contract-exploit-l-b-1-2-2/gD2P6Ple2L
Ok y’all, we’ve talked about stock market manipulation and we’ve talked about crypto fraud and the First Crime Family, but have we talked about Howard Lutnick and how money managed by the chair of Trump's transition team keeps showing up in the hands of drug cartels, terrorists, and fraudsters?
The Cryptocalypse Chronicles has a multi post series, of which part two is a "follow the money" deep dive into how Howard Lutnick manages roughly $100 billion for #Tether, and does business with gangs and sanctioned individuals and nations like Hamas, North Korea and Iran, and funds #pigButchering scams and illegal weapons and drug trades.
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #cantorfitzgerald #HowardLutnick #USDT #Terrorism #fraud #scams #Theft #cartels #DonaldTrump #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
“We’re at the #Napster moment in the #AI race. (for #books) When we started streaming music in the early 2000s, most of it was stolen. That wasn’t going to work in the long run. Who could afford to be a musician if no one paid for music.” —Prof. #TobyWalsh, artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales
#OpEd / #Writers / #BlackBooks / #BlackInc / #tech / #BigTech / #theft / #Piracy / #Publishing / #UniNSW <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/i-have-been-an-ai-researcher-for-40-years-what-tech-giants-are-doing-to-book-publishing-is-akin-to-theft>
Two men in #Essex #nicked and sent to #jail for #keyless #car #theft of £1,3 *million* of high value vehicles across the county (several SUVs and a modified #FordFiesta ) as well as running a #chopshop in #WalthamAbbey - the worst part of this is looking at the pictures of their lockup, they could easily have made an honest living in the motor trade (I wonder if they had been stalking car enthusiasts via #socialmedia ?)
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/armed-police-surrounded-lockup-closed-10000944
The Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a former deputy manager at Hana Credit Union’s Yokohama branch on suspicion of stealing ¥619 million in cash from the branch's safe deposit boxes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/05/japan/crime-legal/hana-credit-union-safe-deposit-theft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #theft
Edmonton police give update on statue theft, say it likely used ‘specialized cutting tools’
In 2021, the Emily Murphy statue was defaced with red paint.
#theft #police #statue #crime #Edmonton #Edmontoncrime
https://globalnews.ca/news/11063537/edmonton-police-emily-murphy-statue-theft-update/
@davidho Organised #art theft has long since taken hold of art in urban spaces and even #streetArt. The biggest danger for a Banksy these days is not that someone paints over it, but that gangs of thieves knock out the entire wall and take it away. Unfortunately not a joke. Local authorities are having to come up with more and more ideas to secure statues against #theft.
"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
[…]
• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."
Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169
Statue of women’s rights pioneer Emily Murphy stolen from Edmonton park
Emily Murphy was Alberta's first female judge and one of the so-called Famous Five women behind the 1929 Persons Case.
#theft #law #women #politics #Edmonton #Crime
https://globalnews.ca/news/11052373/emily-murphy-statue-stolen-edmonton/
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