Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus — and Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups

Issue #470 — July 21, 2021

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Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus telex.hu \| points: 580 \| comments: 487

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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups krebsonsecurity.com \| points: 576 \| comments: 304

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Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009) michaelfeathers.silvrback.com \| points: 539 \| comments: 82

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Our lawsuit against ChessBase stockfishchess.org \| points: 453 \| comments: 149

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My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown danlawton.substack.com \| points: 414 \| comments: 442

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Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) stonemaiergames.com \| points: 364 \| comments: 218

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Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations theguardian.com \| points: 330 \| comments: 79

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Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum’s guards artbma.org \| points: 330 \| comments: 98

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Under the skin of OnlyFans bbc.com \| points: 322 \| comments: 525

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size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer openwall.com \| points: 283 \| comments: 185

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Linux 5.0 shown to boot on ESP32 processor cnx-software.com \| points: 283 \| comments: 74

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We don’t use Kubernetes ably.com \| points: 279 \| comments: 228

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Square Banking squareup.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 157

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Amazon.com’s Conditions of Use – Disputes now resolved by the courts amazon.com \| points: 248 \| comments: 136

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Restaurant workers quit at record rate npr.org \| points: 247 \| comments: 477

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Software engineering research is a train wreck buttondown.email \| points: 242 \| comments: 118

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A GPIO Driver in Rust lwn.net \| points: 218 \| comments: 106

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AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure prediction miracle blopig.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 80

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Blue Origin first human flight blueorigin.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 435

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SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017) sqlite.org \| points: 203 \| comments: 113

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