Not sure if you're making a joke but this story is about natural gas shortages, which is one of the main fuels used to generate electricity in Britain and is also used to generate hot water in households

Or the company didn't train their employees up well enough to stop a phishing attack?

Whether you think what has been said there is right or wrong, surely the maker of Dogecoin WOULD say that?

It was created as a joke coin to show how ridiculous crypto is. I'd be surprised if the maker of that sort of coin didn't have the above feelings.

I don't agree. Now obviously I don't want to just quote Wikipedia at you but the opening paragraph is sourced from a Karl Popper book -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It literally is claimed as a market free from government regulation where the demand dictates how the market function

What more can be said about BitCoin and its volatile price hikes and crashes that hasn't already been said on here?

Every time it jumps up 1000$ there is an article about it and all the usual things are said, by those with money invested and those without. I'm not sure any new news has come out to change either sides opinion?

I'm not sure if it is different in the US but here in Europe most researchers have switched to using 'total excess deaths' to measure the impact of what we have all just gone through the last 6 months.

For those that are already using this stat, the article and summary wasn't trying to trick anyone.

I'd recommend looking up the idea behind counting excess deaths.

The 50,000 figure is the true indicator of what has happened, you then don't need to worry about how the deaths were labelled Covid or not covid.

Sweden has not done well in this whole situation compared to the other Scandi countries.

I think you're confusing the intention here, it isn't to try and DoS them but instead have Google record lots of random websites mixed into your legitimate browsing history so that their targeting of 'who you are/what you're like' isn't accurate.

Yeah, I thought twice about just mentioning IP without going further into proper fingerprinting techniques but the rest of my description was kept fairly simple/dumb so I left it as is

That isn't what is happening here.

Firefox is just opening 100 tabs of random websites and those websites will all be using advertisements that also track the IP address of the person viewing the page, so if the 100 tabs are websites related to fishing, you're future legitimate web browsing will start showing you fishing adverts as those advertising companies will associate you with those 100 tabs of visiting the fishing websites

Unfortunately when money starts to get involved things go down hill.

If someone buys this then they are going to realistically want some sort of return on the investment and when they want money back then the end user will start to lose things.

You can argue that someone has to pay for these things and nothing in life is free but it's simply the case that as soon as people view something as a way to make money then users suffer.

We also use*

We only use SSO for the majority of our systems, we still get people falling for phishing login forms that look like they were created in Word 1997.

There is a plan to use MFA for staff with higher access but trying to get that working for every single staff member with an IT account will be mayhem when they forget their phone or lose their yubikey...

Classic example of the triangle of security, ease of use, speed. Only ever 2 of the three when people just want all 3. And that is why JISC saw 100%

Very few are willing to do security properly all the time as it takes a lot of effort

I work at a UK university and the report linked in this story doesn't surprise me one bit.

The key part that enabled the 100% success rate is phishing.

Most Universities will have multiple thousand staff. Most of those staff will not be technically literate. Most technically illiterate people fall for phishing.

We constantly have compromised staff accounts that originate from the most basic poorly crafted phishing emails.

Unless you completely lock down the email system or are able to teach every single staff member the detailed ways of checking email headers and body sources then this won't be fixed.

Except it isn't is it. As the OP said, the principcal of marketing is to show what you have. If I am selling lemonade and I put up a sign saying "You can buy lemonade here" then that is marketing and it isn't lying.

What you're referring to is just lying via marketing.