Hacking a Philips toothbrush head to allow you to use it beyond its normal lifetime. Yes, the toothbrush head is hackable. This is a fantastic tale of reverse engineering. Be sure to read the followup at the bottom of the article.
Vielleicht könntet ihr mein Anliegen streuen: Für ein längeres Radiostück suche ich Hacktivists, die mit mir reden würden. Gerne anonym, wir können die Stimme verändern oder sogar die verwendeten Audios neu einsprechen. Mir geht es um politisch motivierte "Hacks & Leaks."
Ich bin per Signal, Threema und Matrix erreichbar (s. Bio) und verspreche natürlich absolute Vertraulichkeit. #cybersecurity#hacking
So some of you might remember this post (and the subsequent demonstration on national news) of using a voice cloning tool (AI, Audio Deep Fake) by @racheltobac
(If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Rachel is amazing.)
I'd never needed to do a similar attack before, but! I was just tasked yesterday with researching it.
Asked some friends for a turn-key solution to clone voices. Got pointed to a website. Signed up for $1 a month (first month... then it goes to $5 a month thereafter).
Pulled some audio of my mark down from a youtube interview (a podcast works great too).
Only needed a minute's worth of audio.
Uploaded it to the website for cloning.
Typed out a quick script for the voice to read.
30 seconds later, I had my cloned audio.
It was so good, that it even included natural voice inflections AND!!! verbal pauses like umm's and uhh's that matched the mark's original presentation. I can't tell the difference between the cloned voice and the original person.
Y'all... voice cloning and audio deep fakes are well past the ease of "script-kiddy" level. Anyone can do it.
I updated my instances terms of service to say "no hacking". It was much easier than upgrading. If that doesn't work I'll block the hashtag "#hacking" and defederate from hackers.town.
43 millions de personnes touchées par un piratage de données chez Pôle emploi ou France Travail, les pirates ont aspiré les noms et prénoms, numéros de sécu, date de naissance, identifiants, adresses mail et postales et téléphones. Autrement dit, tout. Quelle catastrophe! https://www.francetravail.fr/candidat/soyez-vigilants/cyberattaque-soyez-vigilants.html
I received some preprocessed records from the #FBI today relating to a #FOIA request for records on Chaos Computer Club in 1987. Preprocessed means they were already released to someone else, but I am not sure they were ever released publicly? #CCC#hacker#hacking#history#histodons
Silence du gouvernement après le piratage massif de données de France Travail: 43 millions de Français sur... 20 ans, un boulevard pour l'usurpation d'identité. Il y a bien une ministre au numérique, Marina Ferrari, aux abonnées absentes. La CNIL dit "accompagner l'organisme" pour l'aider à "informer les personnes concernées". 43 millions de Français, cela mériterait plus une sanction, non? https://www.cnil.fr/fr/france-travail-la-cnil-enquete-sur-la-fuite-de-donnees-et-donne-des-conseils-pour-se-proteger
I have exciting news. My new O'Reilly book Hacker Culture: A to Z (which is already available in paperback and eBook) will be available in audiobook format on January 9th 2024.
You should be able to preorder the audiobook from audiobooks.com, Google Play, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers about 30 days before publication. Which means very soon.
Zoom Video and Zoom Info are TWO DIFFERENT companies. Sorry everyone.
Still not a bad idea to get out of their database however.
This is Zoom's privacy policy. It is an amazing piece of legal engineering granting them the rights to buy, sell, and gather just about any data about business users they want -- including listing you in a Business or Professional Profile (the "directory"):
<https://www.zoominfo.com/about-zoominfo/privacy-policy>
This is their form to opt-out of all tracking in their database which they use to sell your information to 3rd parties. Somewhat ironically, this page won't work unless you turn-off Privacy Badger and Ghostery web browser plug-ins:
<https://www.zoominfo.com/privacy-center/update/remove>
If you use Zoom at work through a business account and don't wish to be listed, consider opting out. They are also collecting information from around the Web outside of Zoom apparently to help build out your profile.
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