This may be a “Mechanical Turk” situation. Theoretically, I’m using a WordPress AI instance to create a new website. It’s supposed to generate three options for me to evaluate. I gave it the description – it said, “the more detailed, the better” – and it’s been running for over 30 minutes now. You know what I think? I think there are three low-paid web developers somewhere in the world busy developing their ideas of what this website might look like. I can’t imagine an AI taking this long.

In tonight’s CBS News segment called “Eye On America,” I learned about a new twist in online romance scams. The scammers in Ghana are hiring live women for in-person meetings with the male victim! This takes the scam to a whole new level. In the story CBS covered, the American male met the female con artist in Ghana. She was from Australia. The Ghanaian man running the scam was their taxi driver. The male victim invested $700,000 in a non-existent gold mine.

<rolls eyes>

Here at the Washington State IT Industry Forum & Modernization Summit. I'm looking forward to learning what the State of Washington is doing, and finding out how FIFO Networks can be involved.

#entrepreneurship

"An international law enforcement operation has dismantled an encrypted communication platform, known as Ghost, notorious for enabling large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering, leading to the arrest of 51 suspects from multiple countries including one in Canada."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ghost-cybercrime-encrypted-app-1.7327379

I just registered a new domain that will focus specifically on cybersecurity, and I’m pretty excited about it. The website isn’t up so I’m not going to share the link yet. It will be more narrowly focused than the FIFO Networks website, so I’m hoping it helps with marketing. More to come.

@th3j35t3r The original Apollos were manufactured by Motorola, but they sold the license years ago.

@th3j35t3r You might be interested in this. I was the Technology Director at a top-10 paging company, and designed and built two satellite controlled paging systems with nationwide coverage (continental 48 states), before cell phones made pagers a dead end. When I heard that the Hezbollah exploding pagers were Apollos, I went to download the manual.
“Bandwidth Exceeded.” Everybody and his brother is researching these now.

For timely receipt of business-critical emails, don’t use a free consumer-grade email account.
[LinkedIn post]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fifonetworks_callmeifyouneedme-fifonetworks-email-activity-7241854922667778048-wOTH

Is it the underlying purpose or the unintended consequence? Anyway, it makes me go hmmm...

I think I figured something out. Local TV stations couldn't exist without advertising from personal injury attorneys. It's gotta be like 90% of their ad revenue here in the Pacific Northwest.

Testing, testing, 1, 2,
Test complete.

Warning: extremely technical article. Now, having said that… I never would have expected an article on a subject this dull to be so suspenseful, and, at the same time, humorous.

“We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI”

https://labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-20-to-achieve-rce-and-accidentally-became-the-admins-of-mobi/

For the foreseeable future, 10% of any revenue I receive from CoSo members will be donated to CounterSocial to help pay the bills for keeping this site online. For those that may not know, I do remote tech support for small business and residential clients.

Okay, true confessions... I think it's a joke, sort of like an article in The Onion. Because if the lost hiker had cellular coverage, they'd make an outbound call for help.

This is actually believable. "Hiker lost for 24 hours ignored phone calls from rescuers because they came from unknown number."

I need this lesson. I may not be the only one.

There are three main Facebook attacks:
1) account impersonation (no access)
2) account compromise (access)
3) unknown friend
My account was impersonated yesterday, so I re-published this article that I first put online in March of 2020.
In this article, I explain what to do to keep yourself safe in all three situations.

"What to do when your Facebook account is actually HACKED instead of IMPERSONATED"

https://fifonetworks.com/what-to-do-when-your-facebook-account-is-actually-hacked-instead-of-impersonated/

BIG NEWS! I'm spending some time cleaning my desk and office supply cabinet today. This is a rare occurrence, and should be celebrated with a band, a parade, and fireworks.

“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”
--Oscar Wilde.