Bookmarks

• Fuck Portlandia - In Other Words tagged: in_other_words, portland, portlandia, women_and_women_first, gentrification, transmisogyny, insightful, and via:andy_baio 2 days ago
  "Portlandia is fueling mass displacement in Portland. Fred and Carrie are on billboards and realtors have gleefully begun using Portlandia’s popularity and insipid humor (‘put a bird on it!’) to make displacing the communities that made Portland a great place in the first place something twee and whimsical for the incoming technocrat hordes."
• On Phone Numbers and Identity – Stories From Coinbase tagged: via:freebsdgirl, security, verizon, cellphone, 2fa, social_engineering, coinbase, and authy 3 days ago
  "The assumption that control of a phone number is sufficient proof of identity is false. Just as we should no longer trust SMS for two-factor authentication, we shouldn’t trust it for account recovery. Disable this anywhere you can."
• How a new generation is schooling itself on sexuality tagged: transgender, insightful, youtube, culture, via:sarahmirk, jackson_bird, laci_green, gender, sex, education, sex_ed, and sexuality 3 days ago
  "Whereas previous generations resorted to surreptitiously looking up unfamiliar words in the dictionary, today if you type “What is transgender?” into YouTube, in less than a second you’ll have a page of in-depth information: television documentaries about the lives of trans children, a national magazine’s rundown on “transgender 101,” and a 14-year-old trans kid from Chino Hills, California, explaining on film why being transgender is not a choice."
• Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net tagged: censorship, ddos, internet_of_things, and security 4 days ago
  "Of course, if a ragtag band of quasi-hackers can disrupt KrebsOnSecurity, they can disrupt plenty of other sites, too. And this should concern not just the Googles, Apples, and Microsofts of the world but their everyday users as well. Krebs said the threat "screams out" for the kind of industry-wide collaboration that's come together to counter previous threats, including the DNS spoofing bug researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed in 2008, the Conficker worm that infected huge swaths of the Internet the same year, or the GameOver botnet from last year. Sadly, Krebs said he sees no signs of such cooperation now."