Interesting karmic tidbit from the NYT: "The rulings dismissing the James Comey and Letitia James cases also cite a passage from the decision in July 2024 by Judge Aileen M. Cannon in Florida to dismiss the indictment against President Trump in the classified documents case. The cited line is about how if a prosecutor who obtained an indictment was not validly appointed, the only remedy is to dismiss the case."

Pentagon Investigates Senator Over Video Trump Claimed Was Seditious

New, by me: Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet? "On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming services like Netflix, ESPN and Hulu, all for a one-time fee of around $400. But security experts warn these TV boxes require intrusive software that forces the user’s network to relay Internet traffic for others, traffic that is often tied to cybercrime activity such as advertising fraud and account takeovers." The story looks closely at what Superbox is, how it operates, and what it appears to do on the sly. Spoiler: A Censys researcher found that installing the apps that allow these channels to stream enrolls the user's IP in a residential proxy service, and that these devices include powerful network discovery and remote access tools like Tcpdump and Netcat. Overall, the Superbox is just one brand in an ocean of no-name Android-based TV boxes that are widely available and that either come pre-infected with malware or require malicious apps to use.

Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet? – Krebs on Security

Social engineering -- the art of tricking people into doing stupid shit -- has always been the most reliable way to hack anything. Now with AI browsers and agentic this and that, we've actually built social engineering into the code. So it can be used to trick others but also trick itself. Brilliant!

Was destroying everyone in Halo with abandon as per usual when I really felt like the haptics had kicked up quite a bit. Then I realized it was my watch vibrating from getting about 1000 Signal requests. Yes, distributed denial-of-Signal is a thing. #krebsisveryrevenge

I've been thinning out the extra seedlings for an indoor winter crop of arugula, cilantro, and lettuce. I'm going to be pleasantly surprised if the cilantro makes it. Ended up eating all the extra arugula sprouts and they were amazingly flavorful for such tiny seedlings. I'm using a basic hydroponic 5 gallon bucket w/ a top and pool noodles to hold the seedlings, which are in rock wool. Keeping some decent grow lamps on them gave us a monster lettuce and basil crop just after the basil the garden died. Looking forward to getting a more professional grade system in place to grow indoors year-round.