The Weekly Weird - 2016-04-29
- I'd like to start this week with a prayer to the Almighty Tabata: HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURK.
- Hacking Facebook only to discover that it was already hacked.
- If you're reading this, chances are you're an extremely abnormal user of any given product. We (sort of) know how to make product usibility take this difference into account but we really don't know how to do the same for product (and system) security. Here's a nice deep-dive into the privacy and security concerns of actual people who aren't freakish engineers: New Yorkers on Mobile Messaging and Implications for Privacy.
- Some nice analysis of malware behind the nearly-a-billion-dollar Bangladesh SWIFT theft (heisticorn?). Of course, if you built your central banking network with leftovers from a LAN party, maybe thatsophisticated malware was overkill.
- The DC Metro is just totally fucked, isn't it?.
- It's not like SF's BART is any better. "It went away on its own" is fine if it's my dishwasher beeping at me, not so much if it's your transit system eating its own train cars.
- Art installations! In abandoned subway stations! I<3 New York. I also found it super interesting to see three local-ish blogs cover the same installation with markedly different focal points. Untapped cares about the subway station, curbed is more into the art and the message and Gothamist seems to think that the only interesting part of it is potential criminal charges.
- More NYC infrastructure: Brooklyn's secret tunnels.
- Ok, fine, something that isn't a subway tunnel. Integer overflow in Rust is complicated.
- More grist for the productivity mill.
- Something interesting is happening at the LHC. Clickbait-y title but I do like hearing physicists say huh, that's funny.