VessOnSecurity
VessOnSecurity"Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere":
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/security-flaws-in-a-carmakers-web-portal-let-one-hacker-remotely-unlock-cars-from-anywhere/
VessOnSecurityThe UK keeps slipping towards a totalitarian police state as people's basic rights of free expression are being infringed:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/palestine-action-london-banned-group-protesters-arrested/
VessOnSecurity"High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups":
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/the-high-costs-and-thin-margins-threatening-ai-coding-startups/
VessOnSecurity"Ransomware Attacks Fall by Almost Half in Q2":
https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ransomware-attacks-fall-almost-half-q2
VessOnSecurity"Well," I tried to explain, "one uses passwords to log into accounts. Each account can have only one password but if you have different accounts, each one of them can have a different password - and this is, indeed, preferable. For instance, I have e-mail accounts at Yahoo, Google, my work, and a bunch of other places, and each uses a different password."
"I didn't understand half of what you said," was the reply, "but I have only one e-mail - hotmail."
"Well, then," I reasonably reacted, "you should have only one password for it. Can you show me what the problem is, instead of trying to explain it?".
VessOnSecurityTurns out, it was something completely different, of course.
She's shopping regularly at some local store. She used to have some discount card for it while her husband was alive but after he died, the shop switched to a different, web-based system of coupons, and she never figured out how to use it. They kept pestering her about "how much she would have saved", so she decided to finally try it.
VessOnSecuritySo, my 83-year old aunt in California, who is a ballerina by education and for whom I occasionally do PC tech support from across the globe, reached to me with a weird question yesterday:
"Can you have two different passwords for e-mail?"
After the initial "WTF" moment, I thought about it for a bit, tried to factor her non-existent knowledge of how computer stuff works and answered:
"Well, it depends what you mean by 'e-mail' and by 'password'."
"The same thing you do," was the reply.
"I very much doubt that," I wisely didn't say.
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VessOnSecurity"Well," I tried to explain, "one uses passwords to log into accounts. Each account can have only one password but if you have different accounts, each one of them can have a different password - and this is, indeed, preferable. For instance, I have e-mail accounts at Yahoo, Google, my work, and a bunch of other places, and each uses a different password."
"I didn't understand half of what you said," was the reply, "but I have only one e-mail - hotmail."
"Well, then," I reasonably reacted, "you should have only one password for it. Can you show me what the problem is, instead of trying to explain it?".
VessOnSecuritySo, my 83-year old aunt in California, who is a ballerina by education and for whom I occasionally do PC tech support from across the globe, reached to me with a weird question yesterday:
"Can you have two different passwords for e-mail?"
After the initial "WTF" moment, I thought about it for a bit, tried to factor her non-existent knowledge of how computer stuff works and answered:
"Well, it depends what you mean by 'e-mail' and by 'password'."
"The same thing you do," was the reply.
"I very much doubt that," I wisely didn't say.
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VessOnSecurity"Over half of Germans would not fight for their country":
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/04/half-germans-would-not-fight-country/
(It's 84% for the Italians.)
VessOnSecurity"Judge considers whether Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center violates environmental law":
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/06/us/alligator-alcatraz-court-hearing-environmental-law
Protect the innocent alligators! Don't put nasty illegal immigrants close to them!
VessOnSecurity"The mindbending ‘cyberpunk city’ in China that exists on so many levels":
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/chongqing-china-tourism-cyberpunk-city-intl-hnk