So they restricted the FBITexas account based on my reporting on Twitter, but not sure why it took a few more weeks to actually kill the account.
Pretty sure impersonating the Federal Bureau of Investigation falls under impersonating an officer, which is a felony...
Looking at the backlogs of attention that account got in terms of being tweeted at, sometimes along with the real account of the FBI -- I just really hope nothing shady happened in DMs. βΉοΈ
This is really scary but an awful eye opener. As a mum, I dread the day I would start thinking about this, on top of preparing for my child for school. But you know what, I have to. I have to. Better be prepared.
Huawei, LG, Samsung and Sony Android phones susceptible to a bug which allows a sms message to steal your emails.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/06/sms-phishing-attack-android/
Samsung and LG have already patched the vulnerability, Huawei will only patch it on phones that are yet to come out, and Sony refuses to acknowledge that it's a problem.
# Facebook Dating is here - https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/facebook-dating/ #fyi #ohnoes
HAPPENING NOW: In Forrest, Mississippi where one of the #ICE raids happened nearby Children of those who were arrested are left alone in the streets crying for help. Strangers and neighbors are taking them to a local gym to be put up for the night. FULL STORY TONIGHT ON
@WJTV
Not sure if anyone picked this, but there was another #shooting. In #Ohio this time. Gunman was killed within 40 seconds after opening fire.
https://news.yahoo.com/know-dayton-ohio-shooting-161330884.html
GEO-run Aurora ICE Detention Center is isolating immigrants β some mentally ill β in prolonged solitary confinement
ICE data shows that detainees have been locked up alone, 23 hours a day, for as long as nine months.
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2019/08/05/ice-geo-detainees-solitary-confinement/
Winston Note: Don't read unless you have a strong stomach.
Just saw #CoSoMetal, and a part of me suddenly feels at home.
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity.
Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.
Mike Carey once said, "We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves."
Cloudflare terminates service for 8chan https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/
Lord Of The Flies: An Open-Source Investigation Into Saud Al-Qahtani
Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain / Boing Boing
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