Friday Squid Blogging: The Geopolitics of Eating Squid

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New York Times op-ed on the Chinese dominance of the squid industry:

China’s domination in seafood has raised deep concerns among American fishermen, policymakers and human rights activists. They warn that China is expanding its maritime reach in ways that are putting domestic fishermen around the world at a competitive disadvantage, eroding international law governing sea borders and undermining food security, especially in poorer countries that rely heavily on fish for protein. In some parts of the world, frequent illegal incursions by Chinese ships into other nations’ waters are heightening military tensions. American lawmakers are concerned because the United States, locked in a trade war with China, is the world’s largest importer of seafood.

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A Vulnerability in XZ Utils Could Allow for Remote Code Execution

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A vulnerability has been discovered in XZ Utils that could allow for remote code execution. XZ is a general-purpose data compression format present in nearly every Linux distribution, both community projects and commercial product distributions. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow for remote code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have less rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

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