Archives de l’auteur : kodiak

Youtube described

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Says Rob Beschizza:

…talky howto videos where the content is buried somewhere after a minute of intro music, five minutes of « HEY GUYS » rambling, and nine more fooling around in the shop

He was comparing to this Laura Kampf video:

Commander General

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On December 1, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced that General James Mattis, former US CENTCOM, would be nominated to serve as United States Secretary of Defense in the coming administration. Foreign Media were quick to pick up on the nickname « Mad Dog ». It seems he is more than that. See what his former PAO (back when he was Commander general of the US Marine Corps) learnt from him about Real Leadership.
You can also read the original (written in milspeak) CG Staff Guidance (pdf).

Gretel C. Kovach, a San Diego journalist who specializes in USMC, pointed out in 2013 (the year he resigned from the Corps) that James Mattis also goes by the nicknames of « Chaos » (his callsign) and « Warrior Monk ». But the press prefers Mad Dog…

Secret travel agent

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Hacking the Global Distribution Systems (GDS). Joseph Cox reports on the findings of SR Labs‘ Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic: It’s Incredibly Easy to Tamper with Someone’s Flight Plan, Anywhere on the Globe (Motherboard)

Armed with these techniques, a hacker might be able to track someone, finding out where they’re flying to and from. Working with the German TV station ARD, the researchers were able to change the flight booking of a reporter, putting him on the same flight as, and in an adjacent seat to, a German politician.

Original conference 27 Dec 2016 @Chaos Communication Congress (Slides)

(via Boing Boing)