{"id":32960,"date":"2017-09-21T01:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T08:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32960"},"modified":"2017-09-21T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:03:06","slug":"thursday-links-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/thursday-links-74\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Equifax keeps digging itself a deeper and deeper hole. Turns out they&#8217;ve been directing people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/20\/16339612\/equifax-tweet-wrong-website-phishing-identity-monitoring\" target=\"_blank\">a phishing site<\/a> instead of their actual &#8220;find out if you&#8217;ve been affected&#8221; site. (Fortunately the phishing site is an honest one. It was set up by a security researcher to show how vulnerable Equifax&#8217;s actual hack-info site is.)\n<li>But don&#8217;t worry! When we&#8217;re all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/british-supermarket-offers-payment-fingerprint-worldwide-first\/\" target=\"_blank\">making purchases via finger-vein readers<\/a>, all will be well forever after. Absolutely infallible security. (H\/T ML)\n<li>Yeah, and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/revolar-instinct-personal-safety-device-review-2017\" target=\"_blank\">discreet wearable + phone app<\/a> will make you <em>feelz<\/em> safe, too. As long as you&#8217;re not in any immediate, actual danger.\n<li>We&#8217;ve heard about cops&#8217; war on deaf people. Let us not forget their equally violent <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/09\/20\/theres-no-autism-exception-to-the-first-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\">war on autistic kids<\/a>.\n<li>The mystery of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellinghamherald.com\/news\/local\/article173627656.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bellingham smokestack skeleton<\/a>. Found in the strangest place 30 years ago this month; identity and how he got there still unknown.\n<li>That pair of strong earthquakes in Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/pair-of-deadly-mexico-quakes-puzzles-scientists-1.22650\" target=\"_blank\">is a puzzler for scientists<\/a>, too.\n<li>Teenager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/positive-good-news.php?newsid=2394\/Security-Camera-Captures-Stranger-Returning-Wallet-Stuffed-With-1-500-In-Cash\" target=\"_blank\">returns a wallet<\/a> with $1,500 in cash.\n<li>Is your cat devious, backstabbing, psychopathic, sadistic, murderous, determined to rule over you &#8212; and in other ways a normal feline? Then your kitty deserves a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/552897255\/cat-furniture-iron-throne-cat-bed-from?ga_order=most_relevant&#038;ga_search_type=all&#038;ga_view_type=gallery&#038;ga_search_query=game%20of%20thrones%20cat%20bed&#038;ref=sr_gallery_1\" target=\"_blank\">Game of Thrones cat bed<\/a>. (NFI on my part)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Equifax keeps digging itself a deeper and deeper hole. Turns out they&#8217;ve been directing people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/20\/16339612\/equifax-tweet-wrong-website-phishing-identity-monitoring\" target=\"_blank\">a phishing site<\/a> instead of their actual &#8220;find out if you&#8217;ve been affected&#8221; site. (Fortunately the phishing site is an honest one. It was set up by a security researcher to show how vulnerable Equifax&#8217;s actual hack-info site is.)\n<li>But don&#8217;t worry! When we&#8217;re all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/british-supermarket-offers-payment-fingerprint-worldwide-first\/\" target=\"_blank\">making purchases via finger-vein readers<\/a>, all will be well forever after. Absolutely infallible security. (H\/T ML)\n<li>Yeah, and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/revolar-instinct-personal-safety-device-review-2017\" target=\"_blank\">discreet wearable + phone app<\/a> will make you <em>feelz<\/em> safe, too. As long as you&#8217;re not in any immediate, actual danger.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/thursday-links-74\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,19,20,23,28,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-stupid-security","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32960"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32985,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions\/32985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}