Hello, welcome to the Thursday, July 5th, 2018 edition of the Sandsenet Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes O'Reach, and today I'm recording from New York City, New York.

Well, we've got a couple of small things to talk about today.

First of all, D.D.D.E. sharing a trick how to use Process Explorer in order to get a progress report on your Windows shell scripts.

So this way you know how many bytes they have already read like DDA uses that often in order to, for example, check the progress on scripts that are, for example, parsing log files.

We also got a good comment here from a reader about how to do this with PowerShell scripts

using the right progress commandlet that builds a progress bar for you, either as text or graphical.

And then we have yet another browser extension

that went bad.

This time it is stylish.

Stylish is an extension that allows you

to change the appearance of websites

to make them easier to read.

Now, this browser extension is quite popular and was actually harmless until January

2017 when it changed owners.

And we have seen this before where a good developer that developed an extension like this sells it off to a company

that does have other motives than just to maintain a great extension. In this case, the

extension will exfiltrate your browser history. This extension has now been removed from various browser extension sites,

but still be careful if you still have it installed, uninstall it now. And researchers from

UC Santa Barbara and Northeastern University took a look at 17,000 different Android applications. Most of them came from the Google

Play Store, about 15,000. The remainder came from other popular Android stores. What they found was

that many of these applications are asking for permissions which they actually don't use.

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