Hasnain says:

“I enjoyed this note:

Since we are on the topic of communication, written communication also does not constitute communication unless they confirm they read it.”

Hasnain says:

“The phenomenon may also be related to broader changes in how we think about the family. Bland has noticed a generational divide. Older people often have a sense of duty when it comes to family, and this means that “they won’t break relationships even if they find them very dysfunctional,” she told me. Parents tell her that they tolerated worse behavior from their own parents. But members of younger generations “feel that they need healthy relationships, rather than any relationship.” They don’t see family relationships as mandatory. Coleman told me that divorce often plays a role. The liberalization of divorce law in the seventies helped people escape terrible marriages, but divorces can also provoke feuds, introduce new allegiances, and “cause the child to feel more like the parents are individuals, with their own assets and liabilities, rather than a family unit that they’re a part of.” There’s been a shift away from “honor thy mother and father,” Coleman said, and toward notions of happiness and mental health. “In some ways, the ideals we now have for romantic love are really parallel to the ideals we have for parent-adult-child relationships.””

Hasnain says:

The response on hacker news says it all honestly. I had heard good things about Arc but now I’m definitely *not* going to try it.

“this would be the final attack chain:

obtain the user id of the victim via one of the mentioned methods
create a malicious boost with whatever payload you want on your own account
update the boost creatorID field to the targets
whenever the victim visits the targeted website, they will get compromised
the browser company normally does not do bug bounties (update: see at the end of post), but for this catastrophic of a vuln, they decided to award me with $2,000 USD”

Hasnain says:

"While no one would buy a car or board an airplane "entirely at your own risk," we do that every day with the software that underpins America's critical infrastructure, she added.

"Unfortunately we have fallen prey to the myth of techno exceptionalism," Easterly opined. "We don't have a cyber security problem – we have a software quality problem. We don't need more security products – we need more secure products.""

Hasnain says:

“We've seen it all before. So familiar are we with the sight of Beirut exploding, what’s another dozen dead? Another thousand casualties crippling an already crippled healthcare system. Another mother screaming in Arabic as she carries her maimed daughter from a wreckage after a mobile phone blew up in her tiny hand.

What does it matter, so long as its Arabic she’s screaming, right? If you’re marveling at the “audacity” of a terror state’s ability to indiscriminately kill, you should not be surprised when that indiscriminate violence is reciprocated. You might feel differently when the bloodied children are not black, brown, or Muslim.”

Hasnain says:

“In short, four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence. I say that as a fiftysomething white man whose formative experiences include childhood visits to my extended family in apartheid South Africa. (My parents left Johannesburg before I was born.) We’d swim in my grandparents’ pool while the maid and her grandchildren lived in the garage. These experiences were so shocking, so different from anything I experienced growing up in Europe, that they are my sharpest childhood memories.”

Hasnain says:

This feels like one of those events that’ll change how people think of the world and warfare forever. Cue every security person changing their supply chain security threat model. unconfirmed reports indicate the devices were planted with explosives from the get go; and also seemingly confirmed reports say eg the American university in Beirut replaced all their pagers a couple of weeks ago for “regular maintenance”.

“Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people — including an 8-year-old girl — and wounding several thousand, officials said. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated, remote attack.”

Hasnain says:

The intro is somehow the least surprising and least scandalizing part of the article.

“Neom executives were summoned to the office to manage a crisis: Three workers had recently died toiling on the world’s biggest construction project.

Wayne Borg, a former Hollywood executive hired to run Neom’s media division, expressed frustration over the interruption to his evening.

“A whole bunch of people die so we’ve got to have a meeting on a Sunday night,” he said on a phone call, according to a recording heard by The Wall Street Journal. He said the project’s blue-collar workers from the Indian subcontinent had been “f—ing morons” and “that is why white people are at the top of the pecking order.” “

Hasnain says:

“Something has to change. It begins with fundamentally shifting how we value parenting, recognizing that the work of raising a child is crucial to the health and well-being of all society. This change must extend to policies, programs and individual actions designed to make this vital work easier.”

Hasnain says:

“Earlier this year, President Joe Biden said that “if you harm an American, we will respond.” Yet the Biden Administration has not even condemned my attack. The same was true when two weeks prior Americans were bludgeoned by Israeli settlers. And when a Palestinian American teen was shot and killed in the West Bank in January. And when a Palestinian American boy was shot and falsely imprisoned by Israeli forces last December.

A week ago, meters from where I was shot, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old American activist, was killed at the same weekly protest in Beita. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called her killing “unprovoked and unjustified” after the Israeli military said she was “highly likely” hit by IDF stray fire. Biden and Harris both faced criticism in the days after her death for failing to call Eygi’s family, who say they are “deeply offended by the suggestion” that her killing was “unintentional.” They have called for an independent U.S. investigation. None have been announced.

Had the Biden Administration taken my shooting seriously, Ayşenur might still be with us today.”