Lauri Tankler

@AlarVoitka Ma loobuks siis üldse sellisest konstruktsioonist nagu "valimiskogu". Las siis parlament kui esinduskogu valib ja valib ära.

@LauriTankler Sõltub kuidas süsteem disainida. Näiteks kui kandidaadid tuleb esitada paar kuud varem, tekib kas RKs piisava toetust omav kandidaat või reaalne debatt. Ning hiljemalt valimiskogus selgub, kes kandidaatidest saab uueks presidendiks.

Maiteagi miks, aga mind kuidagi häirib see Eesti presidendikandidaatide nimetamise tants. Üldiselt mul meeldivad salajased hõimkondlikud rituaalid - lähed täiskuuööl ja kuulad tähti ja leiad sõnajala ja voila! Rüütel ongi järgmise presidendi nimi! 1/10

@AlarVoitka See põmst mulle meeldiks. Muidugi ei vähenda see seda "sobitatud abielu" probleemi, kus me saame endale niiöelda eestkõneleja, keda me ei tunne ja alles viimaseks aastaks hakkame ... mõistma. Ja ma muidugi ootan juba neid põnevaid lahendusi, millega RK tööd siis takistada.

@LauriTankler Tegelikult saab korra kergesti mõistuspäraseks teha. Nt sätestada, et president valitakse ainult kohe RK-s esitatud kandidaatide seast. Ning pingpongi ei toimu, valimiskogu otsustab 2-3 kandidaadi vahel, viimases voorus piisab lihthäälteenamusest.

A kuna ma presidendiks ei saa, siis ma loodan, et mõni rektor või diplomaat või 91. aastal ülemnõukogus hääletanud tähtis inimene, kes saab, võiks selle otsevalimise korra uuesti üles võtta. See ei lähe läbi, no worries, aga lihtsalt Meri mälestuseks. Tuleks huvitav tants. 10/x10

Ainus lubadus oleks see, et paneks uuesti teele Lennart Meri viimase eelnõu: et presidendi valiks rahvas (postimees.ee/1895957/meri-a…). Sest see lõpetaks selle imeliku tantsu presidentide valimise ümber, mis on niivõrd võõrastav meie üldiselt vabade valimiste kontekstis. 9/10

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

Samuti uudistes: "Abiturient uurib: kas e-eksamite tegemisel saaks kasutada tehisaru." Siis oleks ju idekas - tehisaru teeb eksamit ja tehisaru hindab eksamit. Miks üldse inimest vaja sinna vahele?

We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing. 86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment! nytimes.com/interactive/20…

gotta say there is nothing Ticketmaster does better than make a mockery of American laws. Today the DOJ lawyer arguing the case to break up the music monopoly learned his bosses had settled the case 3 days earlier from the judge, who was PISSED

TikTok announces that they’re not going to deploy “controversial privacy tech” that’s actually the same end-to-end encryption most other providers use to protect users’ DMs. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Ma kirjutasin LinkedInis natsa lähemalt, keda me otsime: linkedin.com/posts/lauri-ta…

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its fourth day, with the national censorship measure now in place for over 72 hours. The silencing of authentic Iranian voices is fueling a surge in misinformation as pro-regime accounts fill the void with their own narrative.

Finally got some breathing room, so here's a quick recap of the cyber side of IR/US ongoing war: 1. Right after the first strikes by US, within the first hours, multiple popular (pro regime) news agencies and outlets were compromised at the same time. Legitimate looking news contents were injected to the front page, aimed at degrading morale of pro-regime force by typical PSYOPS tactics. Sites were quickly taken down and restored. 2. Shortly after that, BadeSabaa (Prayer time app), a popular mobile app with 30+ Million installations (from Iranian app store) was hijacked and used to send push notifications to users. This time the target audience was mostly army members, calling them to surrender and join the people, if they want to survive. This app is an interesting pick, not just because it has a high number of downloads. Users of the app are particularly religious people and have higher chance to be also pro-regime and within body of the army. One important but seemingly ignored fact about this app is that it requests location access to operate. It's safe to assume most users allow that for more accurate prayer time results. It's also safe to assume that, if the app backend is compromised enough to allow sending push notifications, it's safe to assume that any telemetry logs and data from the app would be also compromised. Correlating telemetry with unique device ID for that large user base can be (ab)used in many different and interesting ways! Not that it has been the case. * Rumors circulated that EITAA, an Iranian popular messaging app, was also taken down and no longer accessible. That turned out to be just a rumor as I verified. 3. Iran internet went in full blackout mode again. Not that this had anything to do with a cyber operation. Initially starting from MCI and expanding to the entire country within a day. Like in previous case, there are still a small fraction of hosts that remain accessible from outside, but if you have been logging previous round's data and compare it with current one, you might notice interesting discrepancies ;) This is likely a multi-reason effort to contain exposure of impact of strikes, possible denial of service to smaller drones (which turned out a failed assumption and attempt during IR/IL war too) and finally to have a veil over any potential aggression towards upcoming unrests and protests by people in the streets. 4. During second day of strikes, Iranian national TV's Channel 3 satellite streams (IntelSat) were hijacked (2nd time since recent protests) and videos of Trump and Netanyahu speeches were broadcasted instead. Again, expected PSYOPS move considering the situation. Other covert operations have been also in progress, which I guess we might be hearing about them (or not) in near future. I will be occasionally updating this as a thread, if more notable cyber attacks takes place.