Daily Tech News 28 November 2022

• Private data for 5.4 million Twitter users has been leaked online. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Twitter had a bug - fixed back in January - that let you look up a phone number or email address and get the corresponding account, if one existed. Patient hackers crawled their way through millions of numbers and addresses - probably stolen from somewhere else - to match them up, and then offered it all up for sale for $30k.
  
  Now it's apparently available for free.
  
  
  

• The CBC tried to get Libs of TikTok banned from Shopify (it's a Canadian company).
  
  The CEO told them, very politely - he's Canadian - to shove it.
  
  

  Shopify has a published acceptable use policy and a principled process to apply it. Pressure groups on all sides try to influence it sometimes and CBC needs to see through that not amplify bad faith narrative

  — tobi lutke (@tobi) November 26, 2022

  
  
  And then blocked them.
  
  
  
• When they said the compiler could make monkeys fly out of your butt, they meant it. (PKH)
  
  Integer overflow in C is undefined behaviour. That means that if you put a check in your code to catch that a value has overflowed and fix the problem, the compiler is entirely within the C standard if it removes your check and then crashes when the value overflows.
  
  Use a real language.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 03:32 AM

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