It’s a rough day for users of, well, basically the entire internet: A major vulnerability in a huge web services company has been disclosed, and it means your personal data may have leaked into public view from a whole lot of places.
The problem is with California-based Cloudflare, which provides internet security, reverse proxy, content delivery, and domain name server services, among other things. Basically, businesses like Cloudflare are a large part of what make websites, and your ability to connect to them when you want, work.
Cloudflare shared the details in a blog post. They’re very technical, if you’re so inclined.
If you’re not so inclined, the important part is this: There was a bug on some servers that let some data leak out when certain websites made the connections they need to make in order for the internet to work the way you see it do.
The data may have been leaking since Sept. 22 last year, but the greatest period of impact, Cloudflare says, was from Feb. 13 to Feb. 18 — last week, basically.
Google, and other search sites, had managed to cache — collect and hold — some of the leaked data through their normal internet-crawling processes. Cloudflare waited until that leaked data had been cleared out before making the issue public.
With assistance from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others, Cloudflare found that data from at least 161 domains had been leaked and cached.
A tool, aptly named Does It Use CloudFlare, indicates that many biggies — among them Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Twitter — are not affected by this bug. That part is the good news. (For the record: Consumerist does not use Cloudflare.)
Here’s the bad: More than 5.5 million websites in some way use Cloudflare services. A GitHub user has compiled an unofficial list of affected sites, which includes well-known names like Yelp, OK Cupid, Uber, Medium, Fitbit, Patreon, Y Combinator, Feedly, and many, many more.
The general advice from internet security experts? Now is just a really great time to go “rotate” your passwords. As in, change ’em all.
As ever, it’s always a good idea to use a password manager if you can (a couple do use Cloudflare, but were not affected by this bug) and two enable two-factor authentication of some kind of basically all your accounts.
She’s never failed to impress me, even once. @lavernecox is an absolute gift and is doing so much heavy lifting for our cause. I hope when all this is said and done, she, and not Caitlyn Jenner, is remembered as the face of the transgender rights movement. I mean, there’s a million other women I would include ahead of Caitlyn, but I am just so grateful to Laverne and @janetmock and @missrosscreative and @smartassjen who have been screaming at the top of their lungs with intelligent, cogent and coherent points against this absolute trash nonsense coming at us from the blustery incoherent right.
Like Cox herself says, this was never really about protecting cis women; this is about removing trans people from public life.
what the fuck is this? don’t speak out about us or we can take your shit away? the hell?
What the actual fuck.
FUCKING WHAT?
Okaaaaaaay I think at this point it’s time to move past the “signs of fascism” stage to “hey everybody fascism is here, fascism already took its shoes off and is jumping on the bed with an open jar of spaghetti sauce.”
They sent the bill to the house. Let’s hope it gets shut down.
When cosplayers conjure up Wonder Woman’s invisible jet, they’ll usually tell you to just use your imagination. But one little girl, with the help of her professional balloonist father, brought the make-believe plane to life.
GodDAMMIT Bored Panda, don't DO this to me! I swear this site is borderline evil.
When Ashley the pit bull was found starving and cold in an abandoned home, a firehouse in New York agreed to take her in until her rescuers could find her a family. 3 days later, they adopted her.
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The New York City Fire Department station, known as Fort Pitt, fell in love with Ashley from the first wag of her tail. A beautiful sand-coloured pit bull, she has truly become part of the team, and even has her own seat in the firetruck. Ashley also has her own Instagram account where you can follow all of her firefighting adventures.
Ashley was rescued by No More Pain, a New Jersey organisation dedicated to saving and relocating animals left to die. The company, a non-profit team of 4, has limited resources and relies heavily on donations. You can help them here.
Ashley the pit bull was abandoned by her former owners, and found starving and cold
Her rescuers, Erica Mahnken and Michael Favor, brought her to a New York firehouse where they had friends
She was only supposed to stay until a permanent home for her was found…
But 3 days after her arrival, Fort Pitt station decided to adopt Ashley
The crew fell in love with her from the first tail wag, and she connected with them right away as well
Ashley even has her own seat on the firetruck, and accompanies the crew on short runs
Ashley was rescued by No More Pain, a New Jersey organisation dedicated to saving animals left to die
The non-profit team of 4 has limited resources, and needs help to find homes for dogs like Ashley
Every rescue dog deserves the love and acceptance Ashley has found
by Gabrielle Bluestone on The Slot, shared by Joanna Rothkopf to Jezebel
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—Esteemed president Donald J. Trump used his CPAC speech Friday to rail against the First Amendment and the media’s use of anonymous sources—a curious stance for the self-proclaimed businessman, given his history of citing anonymous sources and pretending to be other people in interviews.
Can we talk about how the Deadpool movie, which the media has largely referred to (in so many words) as a fuckboy’s wetdream, not only gives a female sex worker an empathetic role, but treats her and her work more respectfully than about 99% of so called feminist media?
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At no point does the movie imply that Vanessa is tainted because she is a sex worker. At no point does the movie imply that Vanessa is unworthy of love because she is a sex worker.
At no point is Vanessa portrayed as “broken.”
At no point does the movie imply that being a sex worker makes Vanessa a bad girlfriend. At no point does Deadpool ask or expect Vanessa to sacrifice her job for their relationship.
At no point is Vanessa slut-shamed for her job, by either protagonists or villains.
Think about that.
Denigrating sex workers is so taboo within the Deadpool movieverse that even the villains won’t do it.
We know that Vanessa experienced sexual abuse, and that it’s shaped the person she’s become and influenced the choices she’s made. The movie clearly acknowledges that sexual abuse is real, and that it is damaging, and that people who experience sexual abuse struggle to lead “normal” lives and get “normal” jobs.
But the movie never hands sexual abusers the mic.
There is no sexual abuse porn in this movie. There are no voyeuristic rape flashbacks. There are no misogynist monologues. The audience learns about Vanessa’s abusive past from Vanessa, on Vanessa’s terms, through Vanessa’s own words.
This seems like the bare minimum of dignity any female character should be granted, yet so much media fails to meet this extremely low bar.
The movie makes it very clear that Vanessa has a life outside of sex work. She does not live on a stripper pole. Sex work is something Vanessa does. Sex work is not who Vanessa is. She has an apartment. She wears pajamas. What other fictional universe can say the same? I can think of one tv show, but that’s about it, and that show’s viewership is nothing compared to Deadpool’s.
Now on the one hand, I’m not necessarily happy that Vanessa’s character arc revolves almost entirely around her romantic relationship with the lead male protagonist. But on the other hand, I find it very refreshing to see a sex worker in the media whose character arc does not revolve entirely around the fact that she is a sex worker. Hate to say it, but for sex workers in the media, being relegated to the role of love interest is actually a step up.
Most feminist media would rather pretend sex workers don’t exist than write storylines of any kind for them.
This.
And the people who call Deadpool a fuckboy’s wet dream sure as heck didn’t watch the same movie I did.
The movie has:
A very funny moment in which the joke is on those who assume that sex workers have abusive pasts, not on the sex worker. (The comparing abuse thing gets ridiculous enough that they’re both clearly lying).
The male lead repeatedly posed in female come-on positions. This one is my favorite:
He’s even on a bearskin rug in front of a fire. The humor in this pose is “Haha, isn’t it silly to pose a character like that.” It’s designed explicitly to make people think about how commonly female characters are shown in these kinds of ridiculous poses. Going to tell me that’s not a feminist visual joke?
An under-age female character who is never sexualized. Yeah, this girl
Look at that. A practical costume, her breasts are minimized rather than emphasized. We only see Negasonic Teenage Warhead as badass, not “cute.” And she’s treated like a teenager, not a child or an adult.
Oh, and Deadpool doesn’t rescue Vanessa in the end. He throws her a weapon so she can rescue herself. Which she does, because she’s badass.
I’d actually call Deadpool a feminist movie, and an important one. Why?
Because they probably tricked an entire bunch of fuckboys into watching a feminist movie ;).
So, why was it so feminist?
Two words: Ryan and Reynolds.
Ryan Reynolds wanted to do this movie. He wanted to do this movie for years. Reynolds is basically a Deadpool cosplayer who managed to convince a movie studio to pay him a lot of money to be a Deadpool cosplayer.
Guess what Ryan Reynolds also is?
A feminist. He says he’s going to push for even more badass ladies in the sequel. (I think we’re going to see Vanessa with superpowers. They had her long enough to expose her to the agent, if not to activate it).
I’d love to see Vanessa with superpowers, and I enjoyed the hell out of Deadpool.
I forgot one, and an important one.
When we are shown the strip club Vanessa works at, it is not filmed the way movies always film strip clubs.
It’s filmed as if we were going to an office. It’s just “this is where Vanessa happens to work.” No low shot angles to show off women’s bodies, no soft porn music.
Just very…matter of fact.
Can we also bring up that Deadpool does NOT shame Negasonic’s name choice? It screams OC but he’s still supportive of it.
Of course he’s not gonna shame it, it’s the best fucking thing he’s ever heard in his life and he’s pissed at himself that he didn’t think of it first.
While you might be used to the sight of Customs and Border Protection agents checking the passports of travelers arriving in the United States from abroad, passengers on a recent domestic Delta Air Lines flight had the unusual experience of having to show identification before they could leave the plane.
Anne Garrett, a video editor for VICE News, was on the flight from San Francisco to New York City. She says that shortly after the plane landed at John F. Kennedy airport on Wednesday night, flight crew announced that passengers would have to show their “documents” to CBP officers upon exiting the aircraft.
Passengers were confused, she says, as to what “documents” actually meant, until a crew member said it meant showing a passport or other form of government-issued identification.
According to Garrett’s account, two CBP agents were waiting on the jet bridge to check IDs.
My flight from SFO to JFK. We were told we couldn't disembark without showing our "documents." pic.twitter.com/9ugQspTqeX
“I said, ‘Why do you need to see this?’ He just took it out of my hand,” Garrett said. “It’s a tough situation to be in because everybody wants to get off the flight. You don’t want to be the one holding up the line.”
CBP confirmed the incident in a statement to VICE, saying the agents were there because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had asked for help finding an individual “ordered removed by an immigration judge.”
“To assist our law enforcement partners, two CBP officers requested identification from those on the flight in order to help identify the individual,” the CBP statement said. “The individual was determined not to be on the flight.”
Delta told VICE it contacted CBP “to get a sense of why their presence was needed,” but didn’t offer any other comment.
Although Transportation Security Administration agents ask for travelers’ ID before they’re cleared at airport security checkpoints, VICE points out that no one is legally obligated to comply. Or sometimes, you might not be able to, like if you lose your license and passport and all you have is your school ID or a credit card with your photo on it. However, you will probably be taken aside for additional security screening by TSA agents to make sure you are who you say you are, per the agency’s policy.
Hugh Handeyside, a staff attorney for the ACLU’s National Security Project told VICE that CBP should have to explain why officers demanded IDs on a domestic flight.
“CBP is not an always-and-everywhere police force, and any attempt to expand its operations beyond its authority would raise serious concerns,” he said.
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I can. Just the header picture is making me nauseous.
With every dreadful day that passes, I get closer and closer to actually believing Donald Trump won’t make it four years in office. I don’t have much faith in him being impeached, rather, my money is on him dropping dead from the stress of faking his own death.
And don’t think for a second that it’s not a total coincidence that the Trump administration is talking about enforcing federal laws regarding marijuana the same day that Jeff Sessions rescinded the guidance that tasked the Justice Department with ending its use of privately operated prisons. Gotta fill those cells and those investor’s wallets somehow.
And who is going to overwhelmingly be harmed by these decisions? Jeff Sessions is a fucking racist, y’all think there’s not motive behind this?
name one native american intellectual off the top of your head, name one native american actor or actress off the top of your head, name one native american senator, one native american news anchor, or an author or a tv personality or a singer or a poet or a comedian, name a single native american teacher you’ve had, can you? probably not
ok so now think of one native american cartoon character you know of or a sports team relating to native americans whether it’s their actual name or their team logo, or a town you live in or near with a “native” name bet a lot of these things came to you right away i bet you didn’t even have to think
needing native representation in media, education and government are not decoy issues, the commercialization and appropriation of native cultures are not decoy issues, the lack of native representation is institutional oppression at work
White people specifically need to reblog this, I don’t CARE if it makes you uncomfortable–that’s the point. Listen to Native voices about Native issues PLEASE
ive been writing this program to keep track of when you do day to day tasks like doing dishes/laundry. anyways my streak of “bugs in things i write manifesting as infinite loops of unexpectedly poignant user prompts” continues
A group of tigers is called an “ambush” for a reason. When these massive cats get together and decide to catch some prey, they’re simply vicious. A quadcopter learned this the hard way at a Siberian tiger enclosure in China’s Heilongjiang Province. Not only did the beasts swipe the drone out of the sky—they took a few…
why does so much post apocalypse media have people wearing straight up bdsm/fetish gear like. do the kinksters watch the world ending and think “oh boy i can wear my bondage gear in public now”
thats actually exactly what happens
What I wanna know is why the spiky kink warriors are always the bad evil marauders. They might be into some weird shit and unafraid to show it but that doesn’t mean they want to go around killing dudes. They’re a tight-knit bunch. A lot of them are queer. They understand the importance of community.
If the government collapses and all laws come to an end, the people rampaging around killing and looting are gonna be like, frat boys and 4chan rejects. You can mistrust the bondage raiders all you like but they’re definitely the ones you’re going to run to for help when the neoliberal blood cultists and Nazi meme demons lay siege to your survivor enclave. There’s gonna be gayboy berserkers busting up slaver gangs and burning down warboy frat houses. The assless-chaps leather daddies and weird petplay people are gonna be the accidental peacekeepers of the post-apocalyptic world just because they’re the only motherfuckers who understand the importance of consent anymore.
Listen. Don’t come to me asking how to get the secret cadre of bisexual death commandoes to protect your wretched tent village if you’re scared that we might call in the kinksters for backup. I don’t give a shit if they dress up like dogs and spend all day writing poems about butt plugs. There’s assholes out there acting like Vlad the Impaler on a meth bender and you’re afraid of seeing a nipple. Fuck you. If you really want to get rid of the MRA death gangs you’re going to have to accept that a lesbian chainsaw dominatrix or two might be involved. It’s the fucking post-apocalypse my guy we gotta weigh our priorities here
Star Wars is sexy, sure. But I’d still question the logic of anyone who decides to have sex while listening to a band that specializes in what was once called “jizz music.”
“Back when I was campaigning for the Senate, I met a man in his 60s down near the South Shore. His skin looked leathery like someone who had spent years working outside, and he wore a frayed Vietnam vets cap. He asked flatly: “Yeah, you talk about building a future. But what about transgender? What about them?”
I’ll admit: I didn’t expect that question from him. But I replied exactly what I believe: “We build a future for all our children. And that means transgender children. All our children—no exceptions.” He stared at me, and then he said: “Damn right.” He explained that he had a grown son who was transgender. “In a million years you’ll never know the special kind of hell he has gone through.”
I’ve never forgotten that man – and I’ve never forgotten his son.
Yesterday the Trump Administration cruelly said to millions of students, families, parents like that man from the South Shore that it won’t stand up for LGBTQ young people. They used one of the oldest and most pathetic excuses in the book – “let the states decide” – to allow discrimination against trans students. They cowardly made it easier for some of our country’s most vulnerable students to get bullied and beat up in our schools.
The United States Constitution and our laws do not give states a free ride to discriminate or eliminate the rights we guarantee to all Americans. The Trump Administration must protect and defend the basic civil and human rights of all our students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
We build a future for all of our children. No exceptions, President Trump.”
Today is a good day to remember that the black panther party always was a proponent for queer rights and queer activists today can repay that kindness by supporting groups such as black lives matter and by working to eliminate racism in our own communities.
Also the Black Panther Party protected disabled protesters during a 23 day sit-in in 1977 that resulted in the winning of 504 regulations. Please don’t forget that.
