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Using the Google+ news to make a point about attack surface: Your old online accounts …

Using the Google+ news to make a point about attack surface: Your old online accounts can put you at risk even if you’re not using them anymore.

Laughing at Google+ bug? You’re making a big mistake.

The popularity of Google+ is a distraction when you’re thinking about Google+ as part of a consumer’s broader “attack surface”…The more accounts you have, the bigger your digital footprint and the wider your attack surface.

Taking it a bit further:

Does the account still have access to anything else? Unlink it!

Do you use the same password anywhere else? Change those passwords!

Does it have private information on it that could be used to impersonate you on another account? Think about whether you still want to keep it around.

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LIDAR survey reveals ancient Maya civilization had much bigger cities than we once thought.

LIDAR survey reveals ancient Maya civilization had much bigger cities than we once thought.

This major discovery upends long-held theories about the Maya civilization

In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucatán Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in her journal of Maya structures obscured by large humps of vegetation.

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Boosting brion@mastodon.technology: Found them! Five photos, taken in fading dusk light after panickingly searching for my camera …

Found them! Five photos, taken in fading dusk light after panickingly searching for my camera during what I sincerely hoped was a _test_ missile. 😉

Missile5

This was the October 3, 1999 antiballistic missile system test described here http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/03/news/mn-18259

Files scanned October 14, 1999, and sat around for aaaaages. 🙂

Exhaust and exploding missile debris

KelsonV shared a status by brion:

The milky-way-like blob from exhaust and exploding missile debris makes for lovely formations in the fading high-altitude sunlight, which were quite the rorschach test for my friends.

I recall I thought one photo looked like the starship Enterprise; the lady at the photo shop (before good digital cameras!) said it looked like an angel; my classmate said it looked like a dog. 🙂

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I might actually have a copy of at least one of those pictures. I’ll take a look.

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I found this one. No EXIF, and the text file only notes that you took it, but the files are timestamped Oct. 4, 2003.

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And now it’s even more distributed!

I’ll email you the original(?) file, since Mastodon seems to have resampled it even though it didn’t need to resize it.

And I just know half of them are going to be “So and so looked …

And I just know half of them are going to be “So and so looked at one of the posts on this page, you should ask them to subscribe!” and “We have a new friend suggestion for you!” (Who I’ve never heard of) and things like that. And I’ll have to go through all of those in a dropdown to find the 2 people who responded to something I cross-posted from Instagram last week.

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@bethskw Totally agree. One of the first things I do when I set up a …

@bethskw Totally agree. One of the first things I do when I set up a new phone or install a new app is pare down the notifications to the bare minimum.

My list is similar to yours — direct messages from actual people get both visual and audio alerts — though I do allow visual-only notices on email and social media replies (but not likes or retweets).

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