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Tech News Flash: Monday -- July 15, 2019

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Making Amazon Prime Day Work for You
Social Media, Crafters, Gamers and the Online Censorship Debate
Zoom Flaw Turns Mac Cam into Spy Cam
Debian Linux 10 'Buster' Places Stability Ahead of Excitement
The Router's Obstacle-Strewn Route to Home IoT Security

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Making Amazon Prime Day Work for You
For Halloween, we buy all kinds of crap we shouldn't be eating and feed
it to our kids. When Valentine's Day approaches, husbands and boyfriends
live in fear of getting their significant other's gift wrong again.
Fourth of July is when we buy expensive things we can burn and piss off
our neighbors. Of course, there are the various gift-giving holidays
that are linked to specific religious groups.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86121.html

Social Media, Crafters, Gamers and the Online Censorship Debate
Ravelry, an online knitting community that has more than 8 million
members, last month announced that it would ban forum posts, projects,
patterns and even profiles from users who supported President Trump or
his administration. "We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all
and also allow support for open white supremacy," the administrators of
Ravelry posted on the site.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86122.html

Zoom Flaw Turns Mac Cam into Spy Cam
A security researcher has found a flaw in the popular video conferencing
app Zoom that could be used to turn on the camera on a Macintosh
computer without a user's permission. The vulnerability allows any
website to forcibly join a user to a Zoom call, with their video camera
activated, without a user's permission, explained Jonathan Leitschuh, a
senior software engineer at Gradle.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86116.html

Debian Linux 10 'Buster' Places Stability Ahead of Excitement
After 25 months of development, the makers of the granddaddy of the
Linux OSes released an upgrade that updates many of the software
packages and plays general catch-up with modern Linux trends. However,
Debian Linux 10 Buster is a boring upgrade. It does little to draw
attention to its merits. For serious Linux users, though, boring can be
endearing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86120.html

The Router's Obstacle-Strewn Route to Home IoT Security
It is newly minted conventional wisdom that not a single information
security conference goes by without a presentation about the abysmal
state of IoT security. While this is a boon for researchers looking to
make a name for themselves, this sorry state of affairs is definitely
not beneficial for anyone who owns a connected device. IoT device owners
aren't the only ones fed up, though.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86115.html

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