top 10 hacker news stories for 2022-12-27

US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]

https://digit.so36.net/Data/20221227_HIP_EBSP_IBIS.pdf

3 years ago

Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/26/1145536902/southwest-flight-cancellations-winter-storm

3 years ago

Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

https://gist.github.com/RobertAKARobin/850a408e04d5414e67d308a2b5847378

3 years ago

Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/illegal-desi-call-centres-behind-10-billion-loss-to-americans-in-2022/articleshow/96501320.cms

3 years ago

CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2022/afghanistan-biometrie

3 years ago

I'm done with Google

https://deijin.bearblog.dev/im-done-with-google/

3 years ago

All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/27/all-about-usb-c-illegal-adapters/

3 years ago

What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained

https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/

3 years ago

Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (2016)

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

3 years ago

BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

https://www.borgbackup.org

3 years ago