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by vengefulduck 5y ago
I have a feeling it was something like an email with an attachment called important_tax_info.docx.exe. People are much easier to exploit than software.
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
Maybe on Reddit, but on HN downvoting is supposed to be a moderation tool. That’s why you need a certain amount of karma to access it. It should be used to flag content that breaks the rules or is unproductive in some way. Please don’t use
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
This may not be what the parent meant, but I think teaching logical reasoning in grade school would be a good first step. Understanding logical arguments and fallacies would go a long way to having a more informed, and less gullible populac
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
I'm not a free software zelot or anything, but I do this on my desktop and its not too difficult. As far as I can tell they're aren't any binary blob drivers to install anyway and the standard linux drivers work great.
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
It’s probably outdated, I know Debian is pretty conservative when it comes to package updates, have you tried getting it from signal directly?
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
Full disk encryption is only as good as the TPM and I’d imagine that nation states have plenty of exploits they could use to bypass them. Not to mention cold boot attacks if the laptop was still running.
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
It took me a while to find it on iOS, it’s under the contacts tab called “find people near by”. It doesn’t seem to work without location enabled so hopefully that would keep you safe.
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
Just last week I had to help my sister reinstall windows because she used respondus and now her computer blue screens every time she turns on her webcam. It runs as root and appears to mess with the kernel, so a clean reinstall seemed like
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
Intel SGX?
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
Also keep in mind it was probably a subset of bots using that user agent, so the total bot traffic could have been higher than 4%.
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by vengefulduck 6y ago
It looks like a shell script have you actually opened the file?
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
Maybe I’m just not remembering, but I don’t think the show ever goes into exactly what distro Elliots running. I’m pretty sure you only get glimpses of his de which is usually GNOME, but I’m pretty sure I saw cinnamon at one point.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
Firefox also has sync and it’s end to end encrypted as well.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
Hate to break it to you, but I’m in college learning C and assembly right now, don’t know how much lower level you can get.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
The new edge uses chromium under the hood.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
I think they were probably referring to the more mundane use of insurance companies buying the data and raising premiums for people with genetic risk factors. Which IMO seems very plausible.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
You don’t need to modify the data structure for most quadratic sorts though. Or even for quick sort.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
If I remember correctly there’s an exception for learning and development tools.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
So why not return it?
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
Out of curiosity how did you know the precision of location the app was asking for? If I recall correctly android gives the same permission prompt for fine and course location.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
Parenting
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
Which this vulnerability bypasses, so kinda a moot point.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
But they can put their own implementation of exfat inside the kernel now without worrying about patents, which is what previously prevented it from being included. I will also help that they will have an official spec to go off of now, so t
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
Except the extension could just inject a script into the webpage and exfiltrate data that way.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
It depends on the version most release builds of Firefox require addons to be signed by Mozilla with the exception on Linux and developer versions. You can also change this by compiling yourself.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
The problem is airplane WiFi has a captive audience with no competition so they can charge unfair rates and there is no free market to balance it.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
I bet it’s for user script extensions like tamper monkey.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
Arch gives you the option to use the system libraries or the built in one using steam-runtime or the steam-native binaries. But the package needs to install the 32 bit libraries to give you the option.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
AdGuard DNS does something like this.
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by vengefulduck 7y ago
In Linux you can disable mitigations with kernel parameters.

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