🔓 NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare

Today’s pick

NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare. Venmo's baffling decision to turn payments into a social media feed, where public transactions are the default, has rightly been met with criticism. But at the very least, it's always been possible to make Venmo transactions private. Now, imagine a… (Eric Ravenscraft / WIRED)

Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly

TIL: You can't stop strangers from giving you an NFT, and if you don't want it in your wallet you have to pay the gas fee to dump it.

wired.comNFTs Are a Privacy and Security NightmareThe blockchain isn’t as “anonymous” as you might think.

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Elon Musk Got a Twitter Board Seat. Should Twitter have an edit button, letting you edit tweets after you post them? The answer to this question is obviously “no,” but for some reason a lot of Twitter users vocally believe the answer is “yes.” Here I do… (Matt Levine / Bloomberg)

Bloomberg TV @BloombergTV

Elon Musk is joining Twitter's board, after becoming it's new largest shareholder. "I think this is a huge positive," Angelo Zino tells Bloomberg. "I think he really believes he can do something really good for society with this platform." trib.al/YJ3IC6t

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Block confirms Cash App breach after former employee accessed US customer data. Block has confirmed a data breach involving a former employee who downloaded reports from Cash App that contained some U.S. customer information. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)… (Carly Page / TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker

Block (previously Square) confirms a data breach of its Cash App, with notifications going to 8.5M customers. The breach went undiscovered for four months, and was ultimately blamed on an ex-employee with insider access to customer data. 🤦 techcrunch.com/2022/04/05/blo…

techcrunch.comBlock confirms Cash App breach after former employee accessed US customer data – TechCrunchThe digital payments giant is contacting 8.2 million current and former customers about the data breach.

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Amazon to Spend Billions on Space Launches as SpaceX Ramps Up Satellite-Internet Service. Amazon.com Inc. is stepping up plans for its proposed fleet of internet satellites that would compete with a service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, buying dozens of space launches from three rocket companies. Amazon's Project Kuiper said it… (Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal)

WSJ Business News @WSJbusiness

Amazon is stepping up plans for a proposed space-based internet service that would compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink, buying dozens of satellite launches on.wsj.com/37kiPtW

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Twitter is adding an edit button. It's a feature that Twitter users have been requesting for so long that it's become a meme, but now the mythical “edit button” is actually becoming a reality. Twitter has announced that it's working to allow users to edit their tweets… (Jon Porter / The Verge)

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