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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

djrogers wrote: post #357
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #308

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Funny enough, that shouldn't be a challenge for Apple since the world's slimmest smartphone ever made actually has a headphone jack[1], so Apple excuse of not enough space inside the phone is horse shit to force everyone into the Airpods ecosystem. [1] https://youtu.be/Ijssm6Qv5nE

It was never thickness, it’s was depth.

What's the difference in this case? Volume is a multiplication of dimensions on all axis. If they didn't compromise on thickness that means they have more international volume available to reduce the other dimensions which they didn't as modern iPhones don't lack depth either, barring the mini, they're all quite large on all axis.

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Post by verytrivial »

thrashh wrote: post #291
kybernetikos wrote: post #233

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> How many years ago did this become possible? I don't know, but I do know that back in 2013 you could get an ARM computer running linux and a webserver with wifi and 16Gb storage in a space the size of an SD card. That is still a bit too big to fit inside a USB plug without being obvious, but not by much. https://hackaday.com/2013/08/12/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-ca... Fitting the electronics inside the usb plug itse…

Eye-Fi started as a company making Wi-Fi SD cards in 2005. Chips have been small for decades. What’s changed over the years is that it’s gotten cheaper and cheaper.

I'd say the total size of silicon has been small enough for this for at least 20 years. The level of integration between these components, skipping the need for packaging and interconnect is what's allowed these covert devices, probably driven by manufacturing optimization that makes is financially tractable to only make 100 units, so that bit is much cheaper yeah. Things like antennas and other bulky non-silicon passive components are probably the limiting factor now.

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Post by FeepingCreature »

schoen wrote: post #369
thinkingemote wrote: post #183

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Morality is the difference. That's not exactly "norms" but somewhat on an adjacent path. But in terms of interest and participation in our club, *they are us*. That's the true terrible reality. A more accessible idea which is quite different but allows some truth to shine in similarly is to consider how many of us are utterly dependent on advertising in our careers but we all adblock personally.

> That's not exactly "norms" but somewhat on an adjacent path. But in terms of interest and participation in our club, they are us . That's the true terrible reality. I remember "Spot the Fed" at DEF CON where I thought it was reflecting this deep and kind of intractable antagonism between the hackers and the government. It turned out that the government was regularly recruiting people there and at other hacker confe…

> The social distance between people working for spy agencies and people who vocally criticize and oppose the spy agencies is tiny.

That sort of makes sense to me? The average member of the public doesn't generally think about what spy agencies do. If you assume that recruitment is based more on topical proximity than positive/negative opinion, that's what you'd expect to see.

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Post by FeepingCreature »

tkgally wrote: post #393
labster wrote: post #354

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There are several industries built around hacking human minds: advertising, pay-to-win mobile games, political consulting, user engagement services like Facebook, and of course literature.

> and of course literature Of course. And education.

Eh, by that metric `sudo apt-get install` is hacking your system.

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Post by [deleted] »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #189
_RPL5_ wrote: post #186

Who buys this stuff? Other things in the shop: > Screen Crab: This covert inline screen grabber sits between HDMI devices - like a computer and monitor, or console and television - to quietly capture screenshots. Perfect for sysadmins, pentesters and anyone wanting to record what's on a screen. > Shark Jack: This portable network attack tool is a pentesters best friend optimized for social engineering engagements and…

I have a number of hak5 products to see what they fuss is about and to learn what kinds of attacks to worry about being used on me! In some cases they are not really usable anymore, like the WiFiPineapple, which is largely useless due to WPA2 being ubiquitous (yes, you can hack WPA2 but I don't feel like paying for a ton of AWS lamda functions to get on my neighbors wifi). They teach you about how things work from an…

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Post by sealeck »

bigiain wrote: post #303
pvarangot wrote: post #179

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I would only do this if you either know the police will help retrieve your car if you have the location, or if you are ready to engage the robbers yourself. Otherwise it's useless to know where it is. I have experience trying to get the cops to help in Oakland and San Jose and they really didn't want to.

A lot of the cellular gps trackers have ignition kill capability, where you can send it a specific sms message and it’ll pull a wire to ground or open circuit a pair of wires, which you can use to remotely kill the engine. A friend of mine got a motorcycle back by watching its movements via the gps tracking, and killing the engine while the guy was riding in a safe-ish and high visibility place, so the thief just par…

I imagine (not a lawyer) that this expose you to a variety of charges.

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Post by vinay_ys »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #457
andrepd wrote: post #447

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>A big advantage of the system is to prevent mad-swings in policy just because the head-of-government changed. You can frame this another way: it prevents meaningful change even if the electorate demands it. Sorry, I watched too much Yes Minister to think this is a good thing x)

Yes, of course - but if a country already had a well-oiled establishment civil-service which kept its finger on the pulse of the nation then it would already be aligned with the electorates' interests and voting-intent. I recognize I'm basically describing a utopia.

Any power structure naturally seeks permanence. Democratic elections with short office terms goes against the nature. If we are not vigilant, shadowy forces will take control of this mechanism too. Some could argue it already has happened.

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Post by dilyevsky »

ncmncm wrote: post #420
frickinLasers wrote: post #389

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This is ridiculous. Wtf are cops good for, then?

Cracking heads. The rest is just PR. They don't work for you. They know they don't work for you.

Tbf oakland is a low bar (as well as sf). Here just 15 mi down the road they investigated and arrested a credit card thief who stole my wife’s card and I didn’t even ask for it. They also regularly capture cat converter thieves with sting operations. Overall I’ve been quite impressed with San Mateo PD

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Post by grepfru_it »

staticassertion wrote: post #259
pa7ch wrote: post #146

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Curious if chromeOS does anything special here to mitigate usb attacks.

You need to explicitly mount (in your ChromeOS settings) any USB devices to the Linux system. Other than that I'm not aware of any specific mitigations.

So if I plug in a usb keyboard or mouse, they do not work until I activate them in settings? Sounds like an easy way for grandma to buy Dell over Google
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