Interesting Links for 22-12-2020

[andrewducker]

Covid-19: Tonnes of Scottish seafood exports worth millions of pounds are stuck at Dover

(tags:trade food UK Europe Doom fish Scotland )

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes Russian spy into revealing how he was poisoned

(tags:poison murder assassination Russia )

BBC media editor applauds JK Rowling's 'bravery' and names error-strewn transgender essay one of the best reads of the year

(tags:jkrowling bigotry BBC OhForFucksSake )

A brief list of times Boris Johnson made ridiculous impossible promises about Covid-19

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1340595589428473856.html
(tags:pandemic BorisJohnson lies )

I've found it! The worst security system!

(tags:security OhForFucksSake )

This Shadowrun short film is the most 90s thing you will ever see

(tags:games video roleplaying history )

I am apparently a sucker for funny live action recreations of Dark Souls

(tags:funny video games )

Pornhub squarely targeted in bipartisan bill to regulate sex work online

(tags:USA sexwork porn regulation )

How Britain tried to erase India's third gender

(tags:LGBT India history UK )

The mysterious international phishing scam that has been tricking writers, editors, agents and anyone in their orbit into sharing unpublished book manuscripts

(tags:books publishing wtf )

A font that's also a working Rubik's Cube!

(tags:font toys impressive viaSwampers )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Those fishery products are doomed, aren't they? :-(

2. I am unsurprised by this. Disgusted and unsurprised.

3. Oh, DAMMIT!!!

8. I continue to expect to see revealed that the harms feared by the bill's critics are exactly what the bill's authors want to bring into force here. Features, not "flaws".

11. Yep, this is part of the evolution of font-making tech. Colour font creation - as advertised as a feature of FontLab, Glyphs, etc. - was going to lead to this.

[andrewducker]

Yup, and fisheries lost out again as part of the negotiations. So we're not about to go back to thriving fishing villages in Scotland.

worst security system

[calimac]

It says: "scammers will also use this method to bypass real two-factor verification (they can't log into your account without the number sent to your phone, so they ask you for the number),"

I don't follow this. These numbers sent to your phone usually expire within an hour and can only be used once, so how would a scammer know you'd just been sent a number and hadn't used it yet?

[simont]

MITM attack, presumably. On one line, they call you and claim to be (for example) your bank; on the other line, they call your bank and claim to be you. The bank tells them they've texted your mobile; they pass that message on to you, and pass the code back when you give it.