poem on war

This Poem is a follow up to this post about the game of diploacy

https://yumndrum.blogspot.com/2008/02/communicationsnegotiations-game.html

Yes you have my support and like But only till the conditions be right In Anonymity friendships are forged That in reality could only be forged Behold, Germany and Poland act as one When all the Pole ever got was the gun Support my Hold cried the dane Her armies lost in plight so vain The British convoy swam so grand Could not keep her own mainland Zion that lone star in the East Lioned by the Pharaoh beast Her Centres of supply so gallant Now birth Egyptian Army Gallant Yet for a minute did anyone care 'bout the peasant or her mare Be it the Czar, the Sultan or the Knight Its the poor who must pay for the fight And Pay they do with their life Ahh Treachery that unfair Knife East, West, North or South Two Ears, a nose and a Mouth Brothers in this World so Queer Wish you all the Love and Cheer

Security Vulnerability in Google Accounts

  

There is a bunch of security vulnerabilities on the google account which i have raised via issue :- https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80305862. This issue exists not due to a technical failure but a weak user experience which makes it easy for a hacker to trick a victim into ceding access to their google accounts. Note this issue only affects people who have chosen to use their android devices as a authentication mechanism for their google accounts.

These popups (Above) appear at least 20 times on my Android phone. They shows up  without warning right in the middle of whatever it is that i may be doing.

Normally, i would have ignored this but the other day i was playing a game and was pressing ok and yes without much attention when this showed up and set my alarm bells ringing. So i decided to investigate this further.

Upon further scrutiny i found out that a hacker can write a small script to submit my user name to a google login form and generate this prompt.

Whats more the first 20 attempts per day to do this do not even have a captcha protection. 

If a hacker were to run this script against a 1000s of such accounts it is possible that at least 1-2% people would inadvertently press yes and cede access to their google accounts.

The second popup is worded even more confusingly . What does "Confirm Security lock" mean, if i click that and enter my screen lock to unlock my device to figure out whats going on I have already been hacked.

In view of all this i decided to change my password. And now i cant even do that since the link to change password is broken and is leading to a 404 not found with spammy content right on the *.google.com domain. (See video below)

That Sinking Feeling

I can't taste the Pizza or the wine
Coz i Know you'll never be mine
Everyday, I sleep in shirt and jeans
Tossing and turning in fit full dreams

Only to wake up in a pool of sweat
If only I could think of something else
A mobile notification comes up
Aching heart jus won't give up
Did I think that being ignored was bad
Boy, the knockout punch wasn't so rad

The passion of a thousand stars in vain
Without a whisper to express my pain
Just cant imagine being Happy again

A breaking heart creates no sound
Barely Visible the world around
Numb, the mind plunges down
Suffocating emptiness envelopes around
No Melody can my ears hear
As my limbs refuse to bear

Questions reverberating in my head
All the stuff i shouldn't have said
I never told you what you meant
Wasted all the time that we spent

I can't imagine a life without
Love is all that life is all about
This feeling i will always cherish
Till struggle ceases and my bones perish

Love, Hardships, Mistrust and Heartbreak

In this decade twas year the fourth
The Ice broke that shook the North
By by by sweet lil nothings flew
And so it was that nothings grew

The perils of the mountains asunder
Spud that grew in the Rain and Thunder
It took the courage of the Fifth
For eyes to meet and the hearts be with

The year that was bliss
oblivious to the homes amiss
Not of the world is He
Who is with the souls that be

Oh how they dueled the nation
As one they had but one disaffection
The siblings were the first to give
As the folks learned to let live

While the date was in the Sixth
A chink in trust was born in the mirth
An intractable horse, it took a life of its own
For a stranger she lost what was once her own
He apprehended a love so one sided
The Quake which shook his mind

Forgotten lie the dreams of desires
A Plague which destroys empires
A house which was a home in the sixth
Now an empty tomb in the Seventh