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by forward1 3y ago
Good luck getting a mortgage for your shell LLC - won't happen.
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by forward1 3y ago
Sure, can you cite which criminal law was broken or demostrate damages for civil claims?
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by forward1 3y ago
> non-public residential addresses What is a "non-public" address? All addresses are public information. It is not at all clear what you're protecting and from whom; there is a distinct lack of a coherent threat model.
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by forward1 3y ago
I recently replaced my 120V receptacles with USB ones. Super convenient and it's allowed me to get rid of the dozens of various transformer plugs around the home. https://store.leviton.com/collections/usb-outlets
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by forward1 3y ago
This guy wasted a lot of time and money just to prove to himself that the legal system is unfair and stupid. I have to wonder whether it was worth it.
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by forward1 3y ago
Python? We don't need no stinkin' Python. while sleep 0.1; do printf "%-$(( ( RANDOM % `tput cols` ) - 1))s\e[0;$(( 30 + ($RANDOM % 8) ))m*\n" ; done
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by forward1 3y ago
Can we please stop regurgitating "encrypted email" as if it's some virtuous accomplishmenet? Anyone can encrypt something. The challenge is keeping authentication to that encryption valid, accurate and secure. As far as I c
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by forward1 3y ago
2FA only protects login. Pretty much all account security from that point on is based on portable bearer tokens.
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by forward1 3y ago
A simple XSS turns into RCE with Electron desktop apps. I don't understand how technically competent people can in good faith accept this outrageous risk.
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by forward1 3y ago
Gmail also spies on everything you do, whereas desktop clients like Thunderbird do not.
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by forward1 3y ago
Adult life is a series of compromises and adjusting expectations accordingly.
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by forward1 3y ago
I told the CISO he was an idiot who didn't understand security (in front of many peers), because we disagreed on implementation. Soon after I was fired for "violating company policy". I realized being right is not the most im
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by forward1 3y ago
A few years on, it's 650, so I actually did myself a favor getting fired, even though at the time I was filled with regret and resentment. In retrospect, the job was miserable and I was acting out because I was deeply unhappy.
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by forward1 3y ago
Growing food absolutely harms the environment. Maybe not one potato, but modern agriculture is a leading cause of climate change (mostly animal ag, but the point remains). This is not nihilism. This is what capitalism is by definition. Says
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by forward1 3y ago
It's likely not, but it's my strongest frame of reference.
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by forward1 3y ago
All business is profiting off misfortune of other people. That is the cornerstore of post-industrial capitalism: maximize the externalization of the costs of production. Name one product, service or industry which does not harm people, anim
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by forward1 3y ago
I used to have this attitude in my early 30s when I first made >500k. I thought I was indestructable, irreplacable and had an ego to match it. What a humbling experience it was to be laid off, in fact I think it was one of the best thing
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by forward1 3y ago
I grew up in communist USSR. You have no idea how grotesque things can be without a free market.
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by forward1 3y ago
FYI what you're describing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
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by forward1 3y ago
It would help to know what is warning you.
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by forward1 3y ago
Simply put, sunk cost fallacy. Apple marketing has completely inundated and exhausted consumers by front-running a BS privacy narrative, to an extent such that users of their products lack even the vocabulary to meaningfully reason about an
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by forward1 3y ago
Disagree entirely. With an outdated CPU, you could be owned just by running Javascript on the wrong site. Not so with a vulnerable UEFI/BIOS, that requires additional privesc as is seen here.
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by forward1 3y ago
> Which still leaves you in a large enough group that it's not practical to deploy full-press individualized surveillance against all of them. Assuming no advances in technology obscured from public view, of course. > Some of the
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by forward1 3y ago
Thanks. My take is on this is root access -> stealthy bootkit. Further demonstrates "secure" boot and similar DRM is theater only.
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by forward1 3y ago
Do Libreboot supported hardware devices, which appear quite old, still receive CPU patches? If not, it is probably time to stop using it. Coreboot may give you a fighting chance however.
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by forward1 3y ago
The risk is "image parsers in UEFIs ... are riddled with roughly a dozen critical vulnerabilities" but what is the attack vector? Has a dropper been identified? Or is this an academic finding only?
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by forward1 3y ago
Signals Intelligence is not based on mere assumptions.
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by forward1 3y ago
> NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extre... But they totally can't figure out you us
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by forward1 3y ago
No competent startup or small business would take on such a legal risk. And anyway, a sure conclusion can already be reached on the basis of reasoning about the complete and total lack of warrant canaries anywhere.
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by forward1 3y ago
Absolutely and confidently incorrect. Local notification settings have no bearing on this metadata, which is generated, collected and stored with your consent by using Apple/Google app stores.

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