Nobel Peace Prize material right there, folks.

If you divert all the labor spent on useless shit towards actual things that people need then there is no need for a 996 work style.

But then who will make more money for the shareholders?

I also dabble in precision…

AWS is a huge suite of products and services, and there’s a lot of old legacy shit running on it.

Yup, AWS is legacy cloud. It was only recently that they set encryption by default on S3 buckets, before that they were just in the clear by default.

Cybersecurity and disaster recovery are not directly profitable, so they are almost always neglected in your average shop.

It’s never important until suddenly it’s the most important thing in the world.

Yeah, but proper failover and recovery requires additional infrastructure, and that costs money.

Hopefully a bunch of risk management people are writing I-told-you-so emails to C-suites right now.

Damn man, you are really bending over backward to defend this guy… do you owe him money or something?

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Sometimes you’re behind
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Shit, that looks expensive.

Does it smell like astroturf in here?

Looks like something from Annihilation:

yardbird

So a dinosaur.

I’m pretty confident that selling bonds is not the only mechanism by which the government has access to money.

No, of course the government has other sources of revenue. That’s not what I said.

Bonds are the mechanism by which the government issues new money. They cannot “print money” without selling the equivalent value in bonds.

The government cannot “simply print money”. In order to add new currency, the government sells bonds to the reserve banks. Future debt is exchanged for money to spend now. If the banks do not loan money to the government by buying the bonds, new money cannot be printed.

The accumulated bond debt is the national debt.

Tax income is used to make payments on the national debt (to pay off bonds which have reached their maturity period). You can also participate in this system by purchasing government bonds, it is not exclusive to banks.

If the government fails to make payment on the bond debt, then the government’s credibility drops and banks may choose not to buy new bonds, which immediately devalues the currency.

Functionally, the value of currency is based on faith that the government issuing the currency is solvent and will be able to make payments on its bonds in the future. Tax income is necessary to ensure that the government is solvent.

None of that has anything to do with Trump’s asinine tariffs, of course.

Because if it’s doing this it’s a malicious app….

OK, how would you know?

Google also said they’ve found zero apps doing this.

So what? There are millions of apps on the Play store, they aren’t all being reviewed with this level of scrutiny. This means basically nothing.

What you’re looking for is assistive technology. One of these options might work, depending on how much mobility she has: https://www.ucdenver.edu/center-for-innovative-design-and-engineering/community-engagement/colorado-assistive-technology-act-program/technology-and-transition-to-employment/alternative-mice

This one also looks interesting: https://dextrowaredevices.com/mouseware/ but I’m not sure how available it is outside of India. Theoretically it’s plug-and-play for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS, which would be very convenient. She might be able to just pick YouTube videos for herself.

Assistive technology can be expensive but there are often government subsidies available for it, and maybe health insurance coverage.

This article doesn’t really address that. I don’t think there’s any indication that this particular vulnerability is related to nation-state hacking.

I’m sure there are apps that have malware built in yes, but I mean the MITM approach during an app download that you were describing.

Hmm, yes that can happen, but can it happen if you’re downloading directly from the Play store?