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A Canadian Black Bear Broke into a Car and Drank 69 Cans of Soda
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If you’re not already aware, bears are smart. Like ridiculously smart. So smart that designing food containers that bears can’t open is basically an arms race at this point. Once one bear figures out how to open a new one, they also teach other bears how to do the same. Cars, on the other hand, are much simpler for bears to get into, which is why leaving your food in them can be a risky decision. All they’ve got to do is smash and grab. But as it turns out, you also have to be careful about leaving soda in your car because a bear might break in and steal that, too.
CBC reports that Earls Cove, British Columbia resident Sharon Rosel found this lesson out the hard way after buying 72 cans of soda for a food truck that she owns. After years of living in remote areas for years, she knew better than to leave food in her car, but she had no idea they could also have a taste for soda. “I’ve been around bears since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, and I have never seen them go after pop,” Rosel told CBC.
But go after soda it did. Rosel reportedly woke up at about 3:00 a.m. to find a black bear had broken into her car, happily drinking can after can of soda. Apparently, it started with the orange Crush before moving on to cola and root beer. Once it got to the diet soda, though, the bear decided it’d had enough and left. Which, honestly, was the right decision. Soda companies can make all the claims they want about how good the diet version is, but we all know it still tastes worse than the real thing.
In total, the bear drank 69 cans of soda over the course of more than 90 minutes. It also left the interior of what appears to be a Chevrolet Tracker a complete mess, and even though there were paper towels in there as well, didn’t bother to clean up after itself. That’s larceny, destruction of property and rudeness, Mr. Bear. “Of course, white leather interior goes really good with orange Crush,” Rosel told CBC.
Meanwhile, all she could really do was watch the bear do its thing until it left. Although that doesn’t mean she didn’t try to make it leave. When throwing water on it didn’t work, she told CBC she tried a different method, saying, “Then I tried psyching him out by telling him I was a bear hunter. That didn’t do anything either, so I had to stand by and just watch him devour my car.”
After drinking that much sugar, we’re a little concerned about the bear’s blood sugar, but as Rosel pointed out, there’s also a good chance its sugar tooth led to one very cut-up tongue. A tummy ache and a bloody tongue don’t sound like a fun combination at all. Hopefully, it’s recovered by now.
As for Rosel, it’s currently unclear how much of the damage, if any, her insurance will cover. So in the meantime, if you’re passing through Earls Cove, be sure to stop by the Sharon’s Grill-It! food truck for a bite to eat. Although maybe you shouldn’t order an orange Crush soda to go with your meal.
06/05 Update below. This post was originally published on June 3
The security of Gmail has always been one of its biggest selling points, but now one of its most important new security features is actively being used by hackers to scam users
Gmail’s new blue checkmark sender verification system — as it should work
Introduced last month, the Gmail checkmark system highlights verified companies and organizations to users with a blue checkmark. The idea is to help users discern which emails are legitimate and which may have been sent by impersonators running scams. Unfortunately, scammers have tricked the system.
Scammers hacking Gmail’s new sender verification system
Chris Plummer
Spotted by cybersecurity engineer Chris Plummer, scammers have found a way to convince Gmail that their fake brands are legitimate. Thereby using the confidence the checkmark system is supposed to instill against Gmail users.
“The sender found a way to dupe @gmail ’s authoritative stamp of approval, which end users are going to trust,” explains Plummer. “This message went from a Facebook account, to a UK netblock, to O365, to me. Nothing about this is legit.”
Plummer reports that Google initially dismissed his discovery as “intended behaviour” before his tweets about it went viral, and the company acknowledged the error. In a statement to Plummer, Google wrote:
“After taking a closer look we realized that this indeed doesn’t seem like a generic SPF vulnerability. Thus we are reopening this and the appropriate team is taking a closer look at what is going on.
We apologize again for the confusion and we understand our initial response might have been frustrating, thank you so much for pressing on for us to take a closer look at this!
We’ll keep you posted with our assessment and the direction that this issue takes.
Regards, Google Security Team”
Plummer highlights that Google has now listed the flaw as a ‘P1’ (top priority) fix, which is currently “in progress.”
Immense credit goes to Plummer, not just for his discovery, but for the lengths he went to to make Google acknowledge the problem. That said, until Google has a fix, the Gmail checkmark verification system remains broken and is being used by hackers and spammers to trick you with the exact thing it was meant to combat. Stay vigilant.
06/05 Update: security researchers are beginning to understand how Gmail’s checkmark verification system is being tricked and how it applies to other email services. In a blog post, debugger Jonathan Rudenberg revealed he was able to replicate the hack on Gmail, explaining:
“Gmail’s BIMI implementation only requires SPF to match, the DKIM signature can be from any domain. This means that any shared or misconfigured mail server in a BIMI-enabled domain’s SPF records can be a vector for sending spoofed messages with the full BIMI ✅ treatment in Gmail…
BIMI is worse than the status quo, as it enables super-powered phishing based on a single misconfiguration in the extremely complicated and fragile stack that is email.”
Rudenberg also published results for BIMI implementations on other major email services, stating:
- iCloud: properly checks that DKIM matches the From domain
- Yahoo: only attaches BIMI treatment to bulk sends with high reputation
- Fastmail: vulnerable but also supports Gravatar and uses the same treatment for both so the impact is minimal
- Apple Mail + Fastmail: vulnerable with a dangerous treatment
Yes, this means Apple Mail and Fastmail users must also be vigilant, though they don’t run the same verified checkmark system as Gmail. There has been a highly critical response to this vulnerability from the security community, with questions raised about how this was allowed to happen and how poorly implemented the Gmail verification method is. Google needs a fix ASAP.
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The launch will see Apple test a market crowded with devices that have yet to gain traction with consumers and put it in direct competition with Facebook-owner Meta Platforms META-Q.
Like Meta’s Quest Pro from last year and Quest 3 announced last week, Apple’s device is likely to blend a video feed from the outside world with a virtual world displayed on screens inside the headset.
Analysts expect Apple’s headset to come with premium features including a high-quality display and hand-tracking so it can be controlled without an external controller. It’s also likely to cost much more than the planned $500 Quest 3.
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Apple will also deliver updates on its operating systems for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.
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