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Last time I was in a Silicon Valley Hotel, I had to sign a waver that I accepted that there was an Alexa in my room. Of signed it, and unplugged it (as well as the TV). I will not …

There are several things going on here -- Today, banking controls the monetary supply through creation of new dollars to be loaned. Being fully backed has less meaning in a continu…

It really isn't killing kids, and I would challenge that they are 'targeting them'. As an adult vape user, I love the fruit flavors. They are for my (adult) use only. I would never…

There was no Apple data breached. User endpoints were attacked, using various well crafted exploits against their software. This isn't a GDPR (privacy) issue, no company data was l…

Grabbing rootkit artifacts that could be on the device? Its just that its not Facebooks place to do this. I wouldn't expect a app linux binary to upload the contents of /usr/lib, o…

Or whomever has hacked the source control / build environment to replace the "5 magic HSM public keys" with one or more of their own public keys -- See Juniper Incident with Dual-E…

The point, yes, but it is not the case in reality: 2015: https://cryptosense.com/blog/the-untold-story-of-pkcs11-hsm-... 2017: https://cryptosense.com/blog/infineon-rsa-key-generat…

they say 'tip in cash', but I never have the physical cash to tip. This always brings me anxiety when I dont have the physical small bills to provide. I would ensure I use a platfo…

I don't think it is that clear -- he is selling access to a data set containing PII (email address or account names). Its stolen data. One can make a case that free and open access…

And the local pawn shop has expenses too. Just because they have to pay rent and electricity costs does not make selling a stolen item legal.

He can try to justify it however he likes -- its selling stolen goods. Just because you sell stolen goods under their value, or under your costs to provide does not suddenly make i…

So fencing stolen goods is not illegal if someone else stole it? I don't think so. Stolen is stolen -- nobody has any right to sell it.

Boom, now Troy is monetizing stolen data. Unethical and illegal.

I'm not following your logic? Are you saying I should join FB because everyone else is? Everything in life is ephemeral. Trends and apps come and go. This too shall pass. My goal i…

I don't think you can make this claim without understand the motivation or threat models of the billions of non-facebook users. I use Google services, I do not use Facebook service…

I just don't understand why on earth would anyone defend this platform. Yeah I don't own a TV either. Enjoy your zuckbucks!

And thats the challenge, you can't ever really know that the firmware, or even the logic implemented in silicon is identical. You don't need evidence that it is different, it is im…

'everyone'. Ive never used FB in my life, and never will. More people are ditching ZuckNet every day because it is so awful. Good to have alternatives.

A PCI express card can use Bus Mastering to gain read/write access to main memory, bypassing the CPU. Counterfeit hardware running arbitrary code that has Direct Memory Access can …

IdenTrust crossigned the LetsEncrypt root. LE is def the number one player in this space today. Its not technically correct to sat IdenTrust is no#1 as LetsEncrypt is its own root.…

My angle is stopping folks using and recommending telegram. Where are my facts wrong?

Granted, there are no known weaknesses with their protocol -- however, Telegram leads the user to believe their conversations are encrypted, which, unless they opted in to secret c…

Signal also does historical synchronization between devices. It bootstraps the history from another device. It also has search which can be done locally. Telegram is, by design, ca…

then use signal. friends don't let friends use telegram. Signal gives you all of this without the snake oil that telegram is selling you.

Telegram is unencrypted by default. All standard messages are stored on the server. Telegrams secret chat mode (end-to-end encryption) uses home made cryptography, and has been pan…