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adespoton ,

This isn’t helped by most websites reinventing themselves every couple of years so the old links 404 even though the content still exists.

adespoton ,

DKIM exploit is still better than back when it didn’t exist. Barriers to entry and all that.

adespoton ,

They’ll likely have a better chance of pulling it off than America’s push to “delete China”.

adespoton ,

In which case… they’re both screwed.

adespoton ,

Smart people put political proxies in power so they can get on with living their life.

There are only two reasons to become a politician and STAY a politician, and Graham is no Sanders.

adespoton ,

Is it really an anti-Semitism bill?

Being against a government of a nation methodically killing civilians in its own borders is not the same as hating a group of people because of their genetics or culture. This isn’t something that should need to be pointed out.

Are people anti-Sino for staging protests against the support of the CCP for the Uyghur genocide?

adespoton ,

I bet the landowner was furious they hadn’t got an opportunity to charge rent. It even came with a kitchen and study!

adespoton ,

It’s to enforce Chinese law abroad. Google “canada chinese police stations”.

adespoton ,

Unfortunately, with the Belt and Road initiative, large parts of Africa already have well established Chinese police presence too.

adespoton ,

The news here is that the US “may have” admitted it finally.

adespoton ,

Wow… that’s amazing! I thought Woolworths had collapsed in the 80s!

adespoton ,

Anyone know what the upstream schedule is? Do these kernel versions map to other distributions?

A Columbia professor wanted to document history. NYPD arrested him outside his home ( www.usatoday.com )

Gregory Pflugfelder had just finished the final class of his career at Columbia. In 28 years at the university, he achieved many accolades as a professor of history who taught a popular course on Japanese monsters – mostly focused on Godzilla and "the role of the monstrous in the cultural imagination."...

adespoton ,

“Generally speaking, there is still a First Amendment right to record in public as long as they’re not interfering with police,” Wong told USA TODAY. “To me, this sounds like a devious arrest.”

Ah, but who defines “interfering?” Is it “what a reasonable person would consider to be interference” or “whatever the police consider to be interference?”

Because under the second definition, police could arrest a judge that refused to issue them a warrant and get away with it.

adespoton ,

Who benefits from improved bilateral relations?

adespoton ,

Questions are usually non-statements. How could I enlighten you when I need to ask the question myself?

adespoton ,

What’s the overlap between people who vote Republican and people who use Tiktok? I’m actually curious.

adespoton ,

Well, unless there’s a credible national security angle that’s being kept confidential. I kind of suspect there is, since Trump tried to push through similar legislation, but worded it so badly that it never got out of debate… and the likes of Wyden voted for it even while they said it was the wrong legislation to solve the problem.

adespoton ,

Usually it’s about economics. But in this case, it may actually be true.

Generally, I consider real natsec issues to be things they can’t tell the public. So when I see privacy minded reps joining in with reps from both side of the aisle, I’m willing to lend a bit of credence to a security angle.

Assuming it’s not just the US being upset that some other autocratic government is controlling the medium du jour.

adespoton ,

I’ve used it to tweak a speech I was writing to make it more appropriate to my intended audience….

adespoton ,

The company I work for has acquired a number of small companies over the years; the result has been a mixed bag. In one case, the original product and employees were dropped completely, only retaining the IP. In a number of other cases, the original teams and products were kept intact with cross-over between products plus a huge boost in funding and customers over the years. In most cases, the companies were absorbed into existing management structures and the employees and technologies deployed inside the existing product line, sometimes with a few things that didn’t match the company strategy sold off or spun off into their own company.

Personally, I consider all the acquisitions except the single case where everything was abandoned to be a success; in that case, the exec in charge of acquisition was made redundant when everything else shut down.

adespoton ,

He sounds like a professional fall guy to me; who hired him? I bet THEY were the real ones to blame for what happened.

adespoton ,

The big one for me is: how do we preserve online games? The ones with a server-side component?

Even bnetd had issues, although I think that time is over; but what about when we the public never had access to the game core in the first place?

adespoton ,

If found guilty, you can guarantee he’ll appeal. At this point, he’s probably calculated that he can keep ANY lawsuit going longer than he’ll live.

adespoton ,

That’s a lot of people flipping the bird….

adespoton ,

In the eye? So it’s all calm and sunny?

adespoton ,

Another one? Or is this just the rest of the country catching up with GTA and Metro Vancouver?

adespoton ,

I saw a user’s hash just this week — it was in a ransom note. They required their victims to sign up for the service and text a code to their userhash to kick off sending the attacker cryptocurrency so they’d send a decryption key and not make stolen data public.

Other than that use case, it hasn’t picked up many users that I’m aware of.

adespoton ,

So? Tor is in a similar boat.

Government agencies need secure crypto to hide their activities, and it doesn’t work if they’re the only ones using the technology.

adespoton ,

Not to mention, SMS was removed because it’s inherently insecure at every level. Keeping it would mean there’d be an insecure side channel into the protocol. While it’s a useful onboarding mechanism, it can also be abused — and was. So eventually it got removed to prefer privacy and security over convenience.

adespoton ,

Wow… 18 missions delivering 40,000 meals to a zone that’s been without resources for almost 6 months and has a population of 2 million and dropping.

adespoton ,

Anyone have a TL;DR?

This sounds like you’d have to spend a lot of time managing it and that you’d have to trust the people you know for it to be private.

My rule has always been: everything should be done anonymously online unless you want everyone (including automated dragnets) to know about it.

Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza ( www.nytimes.com )

Within minutes of walking through an Israeli military checkpoint along Gaza’s central highway on Nov. 19, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was asked to step out of the crowd. He put down his 3-year-old son, whom he was carrying, and sat in front of a military jeep....

adespoton ,

Oddly, it sounds like the facial recognition actually worked. Most such systems have a huge FP rate, so are useful for narrowing the search but not dependable for identifying that someone in footage is actually that person.

The problem here is more the intel backing it and the actions taken as a result; it sounds like the actual use of the tech is being done in an appropriate manner to account for potential FPs.

In other words, the problem is persecuting and killing Palestinians and equating alleged association with guilt, not with facial recognition tech.

adespoton ,

Can you though? LS now operates in user mode, which means it can no longer block traffic sent to Apple via a kernel thread.

It’s all a bit pointless though, as a LOT of hardware now calls home as well, and it doesn’t matter what OS to run on top of it unless you’re running something like TempleOS. Vanilla Linux is not going to protect you by itself. And if you’re using a repository system for software updates, that’s going to be reporting your software too — and many web browsers also report the URLs you go to (or even consider going to) and what extensions you have loaded.

But that article points at a solution for macOS users: it’s the certificates that are being checked. Any non-bog-standard software I run is not notarized or signed, and it functions just fine and has nothing to send back to Apple’s servers. First time I run it I need to right click and select Open to run the app, and this bypasses the entire signer system.

adespoton ,

And this is why you never ever use ISP DNS, run DNS over HTTPS in the browser, and always use encrypted networking.

And use VPNs appropriate to the activity, when appropriate.

Oh, and never turn on ISP-supplied WiFi, as that gives them full access to the traffic from every device on your LAN, what physical hardware you own, and even where it is located in your home (and when it leaves and comes back to your home).

adespoton ,

Is it a problem though? Old versions of VLC still work fine; I have it on my iPad 2 but haven’t updated it in over 5 years.

Old hardware doesn’t have to worry about security updates because it’s already insecure. So unless VLC stops working, I don’t need updates. And it’s not like my iPad is capable of playing HEVC 4k HDR video anyway, so new codec support isn’t a problem.

adespoton ,

My point though is that if you’re running the old device without appropriate lockdowns, it’s already leaking like a sieve. It’s been at least five years since the corporate perimeter has been considered more than a minor line of defense, specifically because there are so many pieces of equipment long out of security patch support (if they ever had it) that can’t be trusted.

And ransomware actors don’t bother with the printer; they get in via phishing emails and misconfigured routers and remote access tools — because it’s too much work to target the printer when there are juicier targets.

Although there’s been a recent push towards credential management compromise, and if you’ve got an iPad 2 connected to an Apple ID that also happens to include an iCloud keychain with your Exchange server credentials on it….

adespoton ,

Who is that up at 6%?

adespoton ,

And he’s just the one who got caught.

A New York Times reporter was asked why they consistently frame things as bad for Biden but never bad for Trump. ( old.reddit.com )

"I think what you're reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn't necessarily compare the two."...

adespoton ,

The problem here is with his editor. They shouldn’t let that kind of latent bias slip through.

Schiff says he hopes Intelligence Community ‘will dumb down’ briefings for Trump ( thehill.com )

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said the U.S. Intelligence Community should “dumb down” briefings for former President Trump when he receives classified information as the eventual GOP nominee, voicing concerns about whether Trump could share the information....

adespoton ,

I think they should just provide him with the briefs. As brief as possible. We already have four years on the record to show that he can’t understand them anyway and gets his friends in China and Russia to help him figure out what they mean.

Trump Tells Right-Wing Christians They Will Have Power at 'Level You've Never Used Before' ( www.commondreams.org )

Just ahead of his headline spot at the CPAC convention in Virginia and the South Carolina primary on Saturday, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump delivered a speech to right-wing broadcasters Thursday night in which the former president vowed to hand power over to the Christian nationalist movement on an...

adespoton ,

I agree with everything you say except the word “conservatives”.

Conservatives need to have a voice in society in order to be receiving positive AND negative feedbacks at all times.

Trump isn’t conservative, and neither are his supporters; they don’t want to conserve anything, they want to live in an imaginary world where everything means what they want it to mean, regardless of reality.

They’re not fiscally conservative, they’re not legally conservative, they’re not politically conservative, they’re not even religiously conservative.

They want to create something new where they have absolute power and logic and reason can be ignored.

adespoton ,

This article could do with a massive re-write. There appear to be parts of at least four stories in here (derailment, collision, fire, Kansas City acquisition and ensuing issues).

And then it talks about two locomotives that were carrying grain in the parked train… so was it two rail cars that came derailed, or two locomotives? Because a locomotive carrying anything but diesel would be a very interesting sight.

I THINK this had to do with Kansas City rail not yet being fully integrated into the CP signalling system, causing the moving train not to be aware that the other was parked on the tracks until it had a visual, by which point it was too late due to momentum.

But from the article as written, it’s hard to tell.

adespoton ,

This is most likely the culprit. On my work computer I have regular powershell scripts set by IT that run regularly to manage profile settings, push updates, etc.

adespoton ,

They’d need to unionize first.

It’s expensive to live in tech communities. All the workers would need to move their families to somewhere more affordable and demand to work from home, on top of everything else, and they’d need to have enough savings to afford that. Right now, tech workers tend to carry debt, which is the bane of collective action.

adespoton ,

The interesting part of all this to me is that it makes me wonder if religious centers will find new life in this context — being places where non-family support each other financially during collective action.

I’m not talking mega churches here, but community churches, mosques and synagogues that still exist within suburban communities.

Muslim and Arab-American Voters Show Black People How to Exercise Political Power | Black Agenda Report ( blackagendareport.com )

A group of Muslim leaders in swing states are rightly using their electoral power with the #AbandonBiden campaign. They are not so frightened of a Trump presidency that they have allowed themselves to vote for the man who through his proxy Israel has killed some 24,000 people in Gaza and despite phony claims of “working behind...

adespoton ,

They’ve got the right idea — the place to get rid of the current administration is in the primaries. But putting forward an alternative would work better than going anti-Biden.

Because Trump already showed he would have done the same thing with gusto.

Get the country rallying behind a moderate but active and principled Democrat, and you’ve got a recipe for a great next 8 years.

adespoton ,

I was just going to mention this one.

It’s actually been a bit of a theme over the past year for threat actors to abuse anti cheat drivers.

adespoton ,

Unfortunately, it’s a much needed correction.

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