Teen Hacker Explains How He Gained Remote Access to Teslas Around the World
The ATO has urged vigilance among Australia’s tax community, encouraging professionals to adopt proper processes in order to protect their business and client information.
The Tax Office said the new year brings an important time for tax professionals to address protection measures they have in place within their office – both in an online and real-world environment. This, it said, will help ensure business and client information doesn’t fall victim to both cyber and physical threats.
“The Australian Cyber Security Centre’s (ACSC) Essential Eight contains baseline mitigation strategies to protect your systems from common cyber threats,” the ATO said.
ATO raises alarm on ongoing threats to tax professionals
A world without banks
What would a country look like without banks? In 1970, all the banks in Ireland closed for half a year. In response, the Irish people set up their own exchange systems centred on (of course) pubs.
National Taxpayer Advocate Delivers 2021 Annual Report To Congress
“A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff”
I like Paul Ford. He’s a pal even.
The problem is that certain kinds of stuff simply attract more stuff. The home is an obvious one: It craves sofas, sweaters, buffet cabinets, chandeliers. Computers are another; they grow USB tendrils. Smartphones beget earbuds, cloud backups, and music service subscriptions. I am jealous of the people who make it work with an Eames chair, a fancy ottoman, some nice art books, and multigenerational inherited wealth. Their iPads are so empty, just a few apps, whereas I have 60 terabytes of storage spread across a variety of blinking devices because I download large data sets for fun.
But also: “I often trick myself into thinking that the road to less stuff might be paved with more stuff.”
And: “The supply chain is fractal: Zoom in on your stuff and there’s more stuff, ad infinitum.”
Ok maybe just go read the whole short thing.
New York Times op-ed: The Sublime Beauty of My Friend Bob Saget’s Filthy Comedy, by Penn Jillette:
My children are teenagers, ages 15 and 16, and they know the comic Bob Saget was my friend. They know he died earlier this week, and that I’m grieving. They want to comfort me. But when they saw clips of Bob on the internet, making hard-core jokes about pedophilia and incest, they were offended. They thought my friend must have been a bad person, and it was hard for them to understand how I could have loved him.
I don’t know if I can blame them. How could they understand that doing transgressive comedy was, in Bob’s hands, not about hate and pain but, rather, a daredevil act of mutual trust? ...
He had a big smile and joy for the world in Full House and on America’s Funniest Home Videos. Everyone loved and trusted Bob in those roles. You wanted to hug him. ...
The Billionaire Side Hustle That Neoliberalism Created Common Dreams
Because no community is too small. Chesapeake News Guild
The Case for Strategic Price Policies Project Syndicate. James Galbraith