I have had tinnitus from an infection, which (very thankfully, and I admit very luckily) slowly resolved over a period of years.
That said, I have experienced occasional reoccurrence. One thing that helps is I ask my masseuse to concentrate on the sides of my neck- there is a specific muscle that when tense can cause ringing.
Does your tinnitus get momentarily worse when you tense your neck muscles?
> In the Gmail app on iOS, it looked completely legitimate — the branding, the case number, everything. Even the drop-down still showed “@google.com.”
> So when he asked me to read back a code — supposedly to prove I was still alive — in a moment of panic, I did.
The sentences do not refer to the same thing.
The code was not in the email... The narrator was asked to read back "a code" not the case ID in the email. "A code" here referes to a 2fa push notification code. The email was used to rattle the narrator / build trust to get them to comply.
if the scammers had spoofed the email, they would already have that code, and if they hadn't spoofed that email... I mean it looks like a case ID, why would they need it?
Maybe the reading back the code was to get buy in, then there's a missing step here like they had him hit "allow" on a 2fa prompt. Or maybe the email was legit, since it references a "temporary code" and the case ID allowed access with that code?
Good chance my reading comprehension is shot and I'm missing something, I suppose, but I don't understand.
I feel like what trips people up is the abstraction layer.
Viruses are abstracted on top of other living things in the same way that animals are abstracted on top of plants, in that they both require the lower layer of abstraction for their basic survival.
I remember that the "Slashdot Effect" used to be a thing, getting featured on Slashdot generated enough traffic that it routinely took sites down.
Then digg came along, and I started using that, but kept Slashdot on the backburner. One day I remember listening to a diggnation podcast, one of the live ones with Kevin and Alex in front of a live audience at (probably) some bar somewhere, and Kevin made a remark about "Slashdot effect.... it's the Digg effect now!" and the crowd roared.
And he was right. It had been a fair while since Slashdot had managed to take anything down.
I felt a little sad, for a moment, because I knew what it meant.
This is true. Extensions currently (manifest v2) are able to evaluate net requests dynamically, and are able to modify requests according to a dynamic ruleset that the extension can retrieve from some filter list published on the internet.
Under manifest v3, extensions are not able to dynamically inspect requests, instead, they may only apply rules to net requests. Even worse, there is a limitation of only 5000 rules per extension!! [1]
Even WORSE worse, under Chrome's manifest v3 rules, the extension cannot load any external code! Meaning that blocklists must be packaged with the extension. [2] Now, one might consider the reading of that link to no affect block lists, it's not a "library" and it's not "code" so long as it's just a list of textual rules.... however, google considers the following to be a violation: "Building an interpreter to run complex commands fetched from a remote source, even if those commands are fetched as data". [3]
Sneaky sneaky. An extension update (and hence new app store submission) is required to update filter lists.
In other words, dynamic net requests are banned, and remotely-updated blocklists are banned as well.
That said, I have experienced occasional reoccurrence. One thing that helps is I ask my masseuse to concentrate on the sides of my neck- there is a specific muscle that when tense can cause ringing.
Does your tinnitus get momentarily worse when you tense your neck muscles?