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Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

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Post by scripturial »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #388
michaelt wrote: post #311

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> The much more logical explanation is someone approached a low level employee at the MEAF who turned over a USB stick with the governments org charts and payroll records in exchange for their kids getting a full ride to a prestigious foreign university. If there are spies in foreign countries going around offering life-changing sums of money for USB sticks, which people are accepting is it not also plausible that fo…

This is the thing that has always concerned me about Cloudflare. The structure of their operation is "we do a MITM on most of the encryption on the internet". Even if that doesn't make you immediately suspicious that it was set up as a spying operation on purpose (compare "encryption added/removed here" Snowden slide), it makes them a massive state espionage target. Do they really have the ability to resist that leve…

Cloudflare is a US company right? One assumes it’s controlled (if not directly, then indirectly) by US intelligence interests. That would protect it from non US intelligence influence would it not?

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Post by toast0 »

ReptileMan wrote: post #249
Digital28 wrote: post #88

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Changing from SK to CN is a trade from intentional vulnerability to unintentional vulnerability. I’ve yet to see a secure piece of software come out of China in my 30+ years of coding.

Supermicro IPMI comes to mind. If it was compromised we would have known by now.

There's a lot of vulnerabilities, of course. Supermicro isn't great at releasing updates for old boards either.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/SearchResults?query=supermicro

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Post by mousethatroared »

Henchman21 wrote: post #396
mousethatroared wrote: post #321

Not in this field but, if you're willing to sacrifice performance for security (by avoiding closed, western, hardware) how hard would it be to for a group of top hardware and software engineers to make a secure smartphone? Id gather you could go very far with the following list: - Proved correct micro kernel - Encrypted messaging by default - Encrypted memory - Encrypted messaging between processes. - hardware switch…

Technical feasibility one way or the other is meaningless in the face of the power of Capital. IMO, Capital won’t allow the creation of devices it cannot control. So truly secure devices are a pipe dream — again my opinion.

I'm talking about a nation state doing this to communicate using cell infrastructure it has physical control

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Post by charcircuit »

bracketfocus wrote: post #326
grishka wrote: post #106

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The system partition is made some fixed size, the same way disk partitioning works on PCs, and never resized, because resizing file systems is still a non-trivial task. It often has some free space too to accommodate future system updates. On my 128 GB Pixel 9 Pro, /data is 109 GB. The rest is /system (although `df -h` doesn't show it explicitly, no idea what's up with that) and various other system-related partition…

Yes, but if the phone shipped with less bloatware on the system partition, then maybe that partition would be made smaller initially. Meaning the user would have access to more of the phone’s advertised storage.

Or perhaps there would be less incentive for the OEM optimize for disk space and it ends up taking the same amount of space.

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Post by mousethatroared »

Henchman21 wrote: post #344
mousethatroared wrote: post #318

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"Just which building to level" What's "just" a war crime amongst friends?

When there is no one willing to prosecute it, is it still a crime?

Of course it is. Is a rapist innocent if he gets away?

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Post by heavyset_go »

johnisgood wrote: post #332
contingencies wrote: post #329

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1. Install android SDK / android studio on your computer. 2. Plug phone in to computer using USBC cable. 3. Answer prompt on phone granting permission to computer. 4. Run adb commands.

Thanks, my issue so far was with the 2nd step, as if my Linux did not recognize my device. I might have a go on Windows if Linux will not work again.

Check your udev rules

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Android_Debug_Bridge#Add_ud...

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Post by mousethatroared »

bawolff wrote: post #368
mousethatroared wrote: post #318

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"Just which building to level" What's "just" a war crime amongst friends?

Some of the footage coming out of Iran of the aftermath of these assinations have shown specific rooms in buildings targeted, leaving the rest of the building in-tact. For a high value military target like chief of the armed forces, it seems unlikely that would be a warcrime as the civilian casualities would be low compared to the military advantage of the target. [The nuclear scientists on the other hand are much mo…

Since Israel started the war without authorization being the security council, it's legally the aggressor. Which means the actions in of themselves are crimes, regardless of where they are conducted.

Of course, Israel has hit hospitals in Tehran. And condos. War crimes.

So, no matter how you slice it, Israel commits war crimes as a matter of course.

Now, one could object and say that Israel has to commit war crimes because it's so endangered. If that's the case, why doesn't it go to the security council and get authorization for lethal military action? Who on the security council would vote against Israel if the threat was remotely real?

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Post by mousethatroared »

bawolff wrote: post #366
Henchman21 wrote: post #344

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When there is no one willing to prosecute it, is it still a crime?

Nothing stopping Iran from joining the ICC. Except that the investigations would go both ways.

Palestine is a member and we all saw what happened there. The US has personally threatened the judges.

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Post by homebrewer »

johnisgood wrote: post #420
homebrewer wrote: post #417

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Have you tried 'sudo adb start-server' before running any adb commands?

No. Do I have to?

Using adb directly runs it under your user, which will probably be unable to access the necessary USB device.

Starting the server manually under a privileged user is the easiest way to circumvent those restrictions if you don't want to fiddle with udev rules, which is the recommended solution, but is more work.

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Post by airstrike »

JohnHaugeland wrote: post #302
Nition wrote: post #182

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The weirdest part of that merger was Unity paid $4.4billion for IronSource.

ironsource was the owner and runner of the largest sleazy game ad network, which was unity specific unity was dying for lack of revenue

no, unity was dying for low profitability and ads had higher margin

I argued against the acquisition at the time, including against accepting the framing that it was a "merger", and I think everything that's transpired since then has validated my views.

Sadly, I was outnumbered and “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it” applied as it always does.

John Riccitiello was a terrible CEO

I think there's non-zero chance this company will go down in flames. I think its only hope at this point is a sufficiently motivated activist shareholder.

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