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China has been installing tiny microchips, roughly the size of a grain of rice, on the motherboards of countless servers imported into the U.S

October 4, 2018 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment



China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies by compromising America’s technology supply chain.

A new report by Bloomberg, which states that the clandestine microchips were first found by Amazon in 2015, which in turn reportedly alerted America’s intelligence agencies.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has a contract with the CIA, was investigating a company called Elemental Technologies for a potential acquisition when it allegedly uncovered the microchips. Elemental’s products, along with that of a company called Supermicro, are used by everyone from the U.S. Navy to the CIA.

“The chips had been inserted during the manufacturing process, two officials say, by operatives from a unit of the People’s Liberation Army. In Supermicro, China’s spies appear to have found a perfect conduit for what U.S. officials now describe as the most significant supply chain attack known to have been carried out against American companies.”

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Facebook hack gets worse – hack allowed access to anything that used the Facebook login

October 1, 2018 by Paul Spoerry 29 Comments



Facebook’s latest data blunder is mind-blowingly bad, and users should be burning with rage
Facebook greedily gobbled up information about people’s entire online identities but didn’t do enough to protect that information. It has profited from data for too long and deserves to lose billions off its market cap for not taking due care.

So for sure Instagram (Facebook-owned) but also major sites that use your Facebook ID to authenticate like Tinder, Airbnb, or Spotify.

That means that once a hacker had access to a person's Facebook account, they could make their way through the rest of their digital life if it had been connected via Facebook. I've said it a million times… never use Facebook to log into anything.

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Facebook reveals data breach affecting 50 million users

September 28, 2018 by Paul Spoerry 14 Comments



Facebook reveals data breach affecting 50 million users
A data breach affecting the personal data of at least 50 million Facebook users was discovered by the social media network earlier this week.

Facebook disclosed the breach Friday …

An attack on its system led to "the exposure of information" affecting the 50 million users .

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Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality

September 19, 2018 by Paul Spoerry 3 Comments



Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality
Quantum mechanics can’t handle quantum observers that know quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics can't handle quantum observers that know quantum mechanics. mind blown

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A new antenna using single atoms could usher in the age of atomic radio

September 19, 2018 by Paul Spoerry 1 Comment



A new antenna using single atoms could usher in the age of atomic radio
The team tested their device by recording themselves singing “Mary Had a Little Lamb”

Still pretty large right now… but so are most new technologies initially.

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