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Fundamentally untrue. Excluding illegals from the 2030 census would absolutely rewrite the balance of power in the nation, and the effects of which will have generational effect.
Your vote matters. We need people in place to set us up for the census.
Paid multiple people $36 an hour to work “remotely” but no work was done. Lasted for years.
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I don’t lie. 😉
California Governor Gavin Newsom's father, William Alfred Newsom III, helped deliver the ransom money for John Paul Getty III in 1973.
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The fact that you don't call yourself a second-generation American and instead choose to hyphenate is a key reason why people take issue.
It's like a woman who keeps her maiden name when she gets married. Being difficult for no reason.
I just cast my ballot for James Talarico.
As a second-generation Indian American, I am thoroughly disgusted by the xenophobia, racial resentment, and increasingly brazen attacks on my identity. My family has contributed to the American story through hard work, sacrifice, and an unwavering belief in the opportunities this nation promises. I am every bit as American as anyone else, and I will not tolerate being treated as a perpetual foreigner in the country I call home.
I implore every eligible Texan to get out and vote. This election is about the kind of state and country we are prepared to defend—and the principles we refuse to surrender.
@TeamTalaricoHQ
@texasdemocrats
Norm has a humiliation fetish. That's gotta be it.
Hundreds of lawyers are spending election week in war rooms & courthouses, ready to file at a moment's notice
More than a dozen national firms are in it w/ @DDAction_, & our complaints are already written
Bring it on
More @FT👇 -TN
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I'm sorry but I laughed.
Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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If your company refers to engineers as the IT department, you have nothing to worry about. You were already breached last week.
Rings of Power is truly terrible because there's no gravity to anything that happens.
JRR Tolkien wrote characters that carried grief and doubt with them, and it informs all their actions. In RoP, people die and two minutes later nobody cares. It's LotR in a skin suit.
