New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere

Short for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service, RADIUS harkens back to the days of dial-in Internet and network access through public switched telephone networks. It has remained the de facto standard for lightweight authentication ever since and is supported in virtually all switches, routers, access points, and VPN concentrators shipped in the past two decades.

Source: New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere | Ars Technica

Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

Months after the 2018 groundbreaking, the company was racing to hire the 260 people needed to receive the first tranche of payments from the lucrative subsidy package passed by then-Gov. Scott Walker. Recruiters were told to hit the number but given little in the way of job descriptions. Soon, the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones.

Source: Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

4 Best Chart Generation Options with PHP Components

Although it is JavaScript based, Google Charts has a couple of options to make your charts entirely in PHP. You can either use server-side code (in our case PHP) to get the data, or get one of the open-source wrappers to do it for you.

Source: 4 Best Chart Generation Options with PHP Components – SitePoint

Need to generate charts for the baseball-handbook.com website and looking into php options.  Google seems like the simplest solution right now.  The above site breaks down each option nicely.

Here’s more info about Google Charts.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made

We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.

EFF, where are you?

Source: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made | Network World

From August 2015

A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now

Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option.

“Windowing, even during Y2K, was the worst of all possible solutions because it kicked the problem down the road,” says Dylan Mulvin at the London School of Economics.

Source: A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now | New Scientist