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“Longtermism is a technocratic dream that purports to give some of the wealthiest people in the world the ability to plan the far future of humanity according to their personal whims. It is hubris, treating billions of people as the pawns of god-like billionaire overseers.”

For the New Statesman, I argue longtermism needs to be opposed as it further empowers the wealthy to shape our future.

#bookreview #book #elonmusk #ea #effectivealtruism #longtermism

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/11/elon-musk-william-macaskill-useful-philosopher



How Hackers Used #Slack to Break into #EA #Games

A representative for the hackers told Motherboard in an online chat that the process started by purchasing stolen cookies being sold online for $10 and using those to gain access to a Slack channel used by EA.
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The hackers then requested a multifactor #authentication token from EA IT support to gain access to EA's corporate #network. The representative said this was successful two times.

Once inside EA's network, the hackers found a service for EA developers for compiling games. They successfully logged in and created a virtual machine giving them more visibility into the network, and then accessed one more service and downloaded #game #source #code.
more here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvkqb/how-ea-games-was-hacked-slack

#security #hack #hacker #news #details #story #cookie #login