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Asked for comment, Microsoft emails: "We are working on this right now.” And says in the meantime to read the DoD announcement. Amazon says: "We’re surprised about this conclusion." — PolitiTweet.org

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The Pentagon has awarded the massive JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft over Amazon, following warnings by President Trump that the admin would give the contract “a strong look” amid complaints by Amazon rivals https://t.co/hGNHArBLnn — PolitiTweet.org

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He’s... not wrong — PolitiTweet.org

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Gray said an IG staffer called her last month seeking information for the probe, but she had none to offer. — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: The FTC’s Office of Inspector General is conducting an internal probe into leaks surrounding the agency’s now-settled Facebook privacy investigation, according to Megan Gray, a former FTC official. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just in: A report summarizing the conclusions of a House Judiciary antitrust investigation into the tech industry has been delayed until early 2020, a Democratic aide tells me. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LinusLarsson: @b_fung butt dialii — PolitiTweet.org

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What is the official style guide for the plural of butt dial? Is it “butt dials,” or “butts dial”? — PolitiTweet.org

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There were multiple butt dials?! https://t.co/mg52FRhUkd https://t.co/74fugKwP9x — PolitiTweet.org

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Let that sink in. “There aren’t many places online you can go to see what’s going on with your community and your friends.” Did he just tacitly acknowledge that the market for social platforms is rather limited? — PolitiTweet.org

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“There’s a there’s a lot of places people can go to get different kinds of content,” he says, "but there aren’t many places online you can go to see what’s going on with your community and your friends." — PolitiTweet.org

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Where this gets interesting is Zuck says FB spent a long time trying to make sure News Feed remained a social platform. — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg is talking to News Corp CEO Robert Thomson onstage. Zuck says there’s long been a tension between what users say they want (more family/friends content) and atttempts to put other content in News Feed (like actual news). — PolitiTweet.org

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@Shannon_Liao @shroud I was like "lol that’s not Shroud" https://t.co/j8VuYGgvi4 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Shannon_Liao: My write on Twitch star @shroud joining Mixer in an exclusive deal. It could mean Microsoft is getting serious about figh… — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh no. The robocallers have found my Google Voice number. Now they can spam all my phones at once! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oliverdarcy: Here's video of @jimsciutto asking Peter Navarro if political investigations about the Bidens have come up during China tr… — PolitiTweet.org

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@atsneed Quick, repeat after me: “At least we still have social media" — PolitiTweet.org

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Warren and Wyden say in their letter that “Amazon knew, or should have known” that its cloud platform AWS was vulnerable to SSRF. As a result, they argue, Amazon bears “some responsibility” for the Capital One hack. https://t.co/g8yqqHGjXj — PolitiTweet.org

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Also known as "server-side request forgery,” SSRF vulnerabilities allow hackers to basically impersonate the server and create illegitimate commands. — PolitiTweet.org

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TL;DR Amazon says it was essentially a two-stage attack — one taking advantage of the aforementined firewall, then a second technique (SSRF) once inside. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s a snippet of that letter, which you can find in that link above. https://t.co/MWYD4ygDXx — PolitiTweet.org

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Capital One had blamed the breach on a misconfigured firewall, and Amazon at the time said its systems were not compromised and were functioning as intended. But a newly released letter dated Aug. 13 from Amazon to Wyden’s office suggests there was more to the story. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sens. Warren and Wyden are calling on the FTC to investigate Amazon over its role in the enormous Capital One breach that was disclosed earlier this year: https://t.co/yrOA7b2Z3p — PolitiTweet.org

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I also asked Rep. Dean about Zuckerberg’s testimony on the Trump meeting. Here’s what she said: https://t.co/sL31jBScwj — PolitiTweet.org

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The hearing is over and Zuckerberg left the committee chambers wordlessly. Just spoke to Rep. Dean and she told me she has no specific knowledge of a connection between Facebook and the Trump hotel. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RebeccaShabad: I just made this up. https://t.co/8cRDxZmce9 https://t.co/gWuT6y9jdQ — PolitiTweet.org

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On the second hypothetical, Zuckerberg said he wasn’t sure at first but then said “probably” it would be fine. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is not what I heard. Zuckerberg wasn’t saying Facebook selectively fact-checks. He was saying attempts at voter suppression are universally prohibited as a matter of policy and that candidates aren’t exempted from that one. — PolitiTweet.org

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Schoolhouse Rock, but instead of “I’m Just a Bill,” make it about the SCIF. Ready? Go! — PolitiTweet.org