Drivers' licences, hacked accounts, bank details going cheap on dark web
Hacked Facebook, Gmail and Instagram accounts, banking information and even driver licences are being bought and sold on the dark web for as little as $21, with experts warning identity theft may have life-long consequences for victims.
Released last week, the US Privacy Affairs Dark Web Price Index shows the average price of a hacked Facebook account is $106, a hacked Instagram account is $80 and access to a Twitter account costs $70. Access to a hacked Gmail account is being sold for $220 on average, the report showed.
Time in the city is usually taken up running around positioning oneself around this narrative of the normal. But the pandemic situates you in waiting. So much waiting, you gain clarity. You listen more attentively, more anxiously.”
—Dionne Brand, On narrative, reckoning and the calculus of living and dying
A New Role for Little Free Libraries - Book Riot: “…during this pandemic, we are listening a little more attentively, more diligently, perhaps even more sincerely, at the issues that affect our communities. For many, this attention brings painful reminders or a new understanding of the many injustices surrounding us, which can be debilitating. But paying attention has also prompted people to take action. A “small” movement that has taken place during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the redirection of some little free libraries into pantries. The number of people converting their little libraries into spaces to share household items, food, and personal care items is so large that Little Free Library has created a space within their website with a new map to list “sharing-box” locations. Sharing boxes do not need to be a registered Little Free Library to be on the map. The map is open to anyone offering food, household items, or crafts in a sharing box in their neighborhood…”
What’s reopened and what’s still restricted in 16 cities around the world - Washington Post: “There was no common strategy when the pandemic hit. The same is true around the world for plans to climb back from shutdowns. The priorities and pace are different on how to reopen businesses, schools, restaurants and everything else hit by restrictions to battle the spread of covid-19. Some countries have adopted a fast timetable. Others are more cautious. And there are places still trying to reach the downside of the infection curve. Washington Post correspondents and contributors across 16 cities are keeping a scorecard on what is back and what is not…”
Scientists identify six different types of coronavirus with increasing severity levels Telegraph
T-cells: the missing link in coronavirus immunity? Financial Times (David L). Already a topic in comments.
Free saliva-based COVID-19 tests begin at University of Illinois, but school won’t say if students are required to take them Chicago Tribune. ma: “So let me see if I have this straight–South Korea, the U of I, even a micro-brewery in New Brunswick, Canada, can figure out how to rapidly and accurately test people, but the USofA cannot….ok then.”
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