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_kbh_

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    > "Now is not the right time for elections" - Zelenskyy the stalwart defender of Democracy™ Its literally part of there constitution that they don't have elections whilst they are …

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    Comment #39611157

    You have to resign the binary when you modify anyway which achieves the same thing. On non-jailbroken platforms you generally do this with a developer certificate.

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    At least some of exploits that were used to install Pegasus have been patched. You can find details here > https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zer... Vulnerabi…

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    Comment #39417194

    No one is burning a baseband 0day to write "we are in control" on a screen.

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    Comment #39287109

    Ghidra uses Jython not sure if that counts as serious.

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    > I wrote blog entry on this subject with a very similar name [0] which covers the CryptoAG story in more detail. It doesn't have the 2020 news. [0]: A Brief History of NSA Backdoo…

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    > It is likely that the backdoor consisted in some cache memory test registers used during production, but it is absolutely incomprehensible how it has been possible for many years…

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    To add another dimension to this, personally i think that the Crypto AG relationship is what is referred to as "HISTORY" in this leaked NSA ECI codenames list. https://robert.sesek…

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    > Indeed, especially when Googling "Mercedes report security issue" the page litterally populates the results with the address to email so it wasn't like it's hard to find. Reporti…

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    You could always do it with instructions itd just be slow no?.

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    > AMD holds an arm license and uses them as part of the software tpu in the pro series processors as I understand. AMD uses ARM for its PSP as well which is more than just a TPM. B…

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    > Why? Apple isnt exactly a small family business and this is quite the drastic "feature" to be left enabled by accident. Mistakes happen, maybe it's used in the manufacturing or f…

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    > Decade old Backdoors no I really doubt it's a backdoor after reading the blog post and this thread chain from a prolific M1 MacBook hacker (macran) I think it was just an unused …

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    > Especially since NATO tries to expand to Ukraine despite saying it would not for decades. The irony here being that no one promised anything to Russia regarding in any actionable…

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    > Read this > https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/gaza-hos... I did and this doesn’t sound very “conclusive” at all >> The Times’s finding does not answer what actu…