Where Im From,Kansas,my Home,

    Where I’m from,          Kansas,            my home,

Ich weiß nicht, wann mich ein ESC-Entscheid das letzte Mal so enttäuscht hat. Es waren so viele großartige Songs in diesem Jahr dabei und dann, na ja, dann war da auch noch Schweden. Kein schlechter Song, aber keiner, der den Sieg aus meiner Sicht verdient hätte. Von der Performance mal ganz abgesehen. Und allein die Tatsache, dass Loreen den ESC schon mal gewonnen hat, macht mich so wütend. Darum sollten ehemalige Sieger*innen einfach vom ESC ausgeschlossen sein. Genieß halt deinen Erfolg und dann lass neuen Künstler*innen den Vortritt. Vor allem, wenn dein neuer Song genauso klingt wie dein letzter. Fucking bullshit einfach.

New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.

happy on a train by wendy cope february to those who celebrate btw

Girl with Pearl Earring, at the museum - Johannes Vermeer