Aaron Parecki

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If you run a community Twitter account, this is a good time to:

1) Make sure you 100% know everyone who has access to it
2) Enable two-factor authentication

You do *not* want to be in the position of having to explain that your account has been taken over by racists

Portland, Oregon • 70°F

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Mon, Jun 1, 2020 3:55pm -07:00 #security #twitter
Star Simpson https://twitter.com/starsandrobots

Not impressed by the care taken in crafting these messages. No matter how patient you may endeavor to be, it proves trying to simply accept a note like this one:

Portland, Oregon • 70°F

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 10:45pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 3:46pm -07:00)
steph https://twitter.com/sclawr

ppl out here think ethics in tech is just about using diverse illustrations on their landing page, and not whether their apps can be used as tools of the police state

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 1:19pm +00:00 (reposted on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 3:45pm -07:00)
Hey, it's Opus! https://twitter.com/heyitsopus

"Happy Birthday to y-"
"ALL BIRTHDAYS MATTER!"

Thu, Jul 14, 2016 1:41pm +00:00 (reposted on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 3:34pm -07:00)
Emily Kager https://twitter.com/EmilyKager

The system isn't "broken"; it has been intentionally evolved over hundreds of years to continue to legally oppress, harass, and kill Black Americans without consequences. All non-Black Americans have contributed to and benefited from this oppression. #BlackLivesMatter

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 10:14pm +00:00 (reposted on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 3:20pm -07:00) #BlackLivesMatter
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Jun 1
Things I would miss dearly from MacOS if I did this.

FCPX
Screen shots
Screen recording
The Email App
The Calendar App
iMessage

as someone who decided to switch to windows just for video editing, I agree with this list.

Except for: screen shots, there's a print screen button!

iMessage and Airdrop mean so many more hoops to get stuff from my phone to my laptop

Portland, Oregon • 70°F

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Mon, Jun 1, 2020 3:19pm -07:00
Vladimir Dzhuvinov 🇪🇺 🇧🇬 https://twitter.com/dzhuvi

Validate user input. Sounds simple and sensible until it gets forgotten.

Portland, Oregon • 68°F

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 9:30pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 2:35pm -07:00)
Not Fake Adam Kalsey https://twitter.com/akalsey • Jun 1
One of my old security teachers had a saying: treat everything you get from the client as toxic. Assume it’s false, malicious, and unsanitary until you can prove that it is not.

seriously! It's like one of the first things you learn when developing web apps. It's an embarrassing oversight frankly.

Portland, Oregon • 68°F

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 2:30pm -07:00
Sebastian https://twitter.com/sebmck • Jun 1
If you are a Facebook employee organizing collective action, do not use corporate laptops, phones, or apps! This includes Work Chat, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Communication between employees is not privileged. You signed this away in your employment contract.

holy crap, that even applies to using personal devices on company property.

which I guess isn't that significant right now but still.

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

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Mon, Jun 1, 2020 1:32pm -07:00
Sebastian https://twitter.com/sebmck

If you are a Facebook employee organizing collective action, do not use corporate laptops, phones, or apps! This includes Work Chat, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Communication between employees is not privileged. You signed this away in your employment contract.

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 8:25pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 1:31pm -07:00)
rabble https://twitter.com/rabble

There are many things you can do to support a protest without the risk of the front line beyond just tweeting and donating money. Here’s a good start.

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 8:27pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 1:28pm -07:00)
Tristan 🌦 https://twitter.com/twaddington • Jun 1
I've been getting the weirdest Twitter ads today.

Same, and some of them are from really suspicious looking Twitter accounts. I haven't clicked, but I'm wondering if the sites they promote are some sort of tracking network. Kinda want to dig into this now.

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

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Mon, Jun 1, 2020 1:26pm -07:00
I wrote an in-depth explanation of the "Sign In with Apple" Zero-Day that was revealed by a security researcher this weekend.

The problem had nothing to do with OAuth or JWT, and you might be surprised at how simple the bug actually was.

https://aaronparecki.com/2020/05/31/30/the-real-cause-of-the-sign-in-with-apple-zero-day

Portland, Oregon • 65°F

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Mon, Jun 1, 2020 1:04pm -07:00 #apple #siwa
Adobe Photoshop https://twitter.com/Photoshop

So embarrassed to be sharing this childhood photo, but here it goes...This is a snap of us at age 10!

Share your childhood photos in the comments. #TBT

Portland, Oregon • 63°F

Thu, May 28, 2020 4:01pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 12:13pm -07:00) #TBT
Eliza Skinner https://twitter.com/elizaskinner

If actual bad apples killed dozens of people, there would be a national recall of ALL apples.

Portland, Oregon • 63°F

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 4:37pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 12:05pm -07:00)
Philip Saa 🇩🇪 #blm #demilitarizethepolice https://twitter.com/cowglow

The phase "what are you going to do about it?" should never come out of a cop's mouth.

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 6:56pm +00:00 (reposted on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 12:03pm -07:00)
Jacky Alciné https://v2.jacky.wtf

Someone unsubscribed from my newsletter and said to keep the politics out. Who did they think I am? Like lol, my newsletter isn’t about making beats or how to be Black around white people.

Portland, Oregon • 63°F

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 11:50am -07:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 11:55am -07:00)
Karen Attiah https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah

My latest: A dispatch from the Failing States of America.

How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/how-western-media-would-cover-minneapolis-if-it-happened-another-country/

Fri, May 29, 2020 9:53pm +00:00 (reposted on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 11:37am -07:00)
I keep seeing "Jun 1" in log files and being like wait what's wrong with my server

Portland, Oregon • 62°F

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Mon, Jun 1, 2020 11:32am -07:00
Hank Green https://twitter.com/hankgreen

.@YouTube needs to allow creators to ban specific advertisers and I will go to the mat for that. I have tried my hardest to ban all political advertisements and I fail and fail and fail. Advertisers can pick creators, but creators can't pick advertisers, and that's fucked.

Portland, Oregon • 60°F

Mon, Jun 1, 2020 5:05pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 1, 2020 10:32am -07:00)

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