• Firefox Monitor tells you that your accounts have been hacked.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Your accounts have been hacked.
  
  Thanks Firefox Monitor!
  
  
• The EFF's constitutional challenge to the hopelessly vague FOSTA legislation has been dismissed by the District Court.  (TechDirt)
  
  The court seems to have ruled that the less-vague parts of the Act outweigh the more vague parts, which seems like nonsense to me.  I hope this continues to a higher court and this decision is overruled.
  
  
• Facebook's policy of we'll swallow, but we won't digest has come to an end.  (TechCrunch)
  
  It was never true anyway.
  
  The co-founders of Instagram have resigned.  Not that they needed a day job, but they were clearly angered by the way Facebook has been running their baby.
  
  
• Digital Ocean now supports importing custom images.
  
  That's very useful, yes, but how do I export an image?
  
  
• A bug in the Monero cryptocurrency protocol basically left it open to high-tech looting.  (ZDNet)
  
  Last week a bug was found in Bitcoin that exposed it to similar attacks, but require a more elaborate operation: You needed to first knock good Bitcoin nodes off line with false allegations so you could sneak in with 51% of the vote and approve fraudulent payments.
  
  
• Columbia Journalism Review asks is the podcast bubble bursting?
  
  Yes.  Yes, CJR.  Ten years ago.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, September 27 2018 01:32 PM (8i+JN)

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