I do wonder though if the targeted advertising ban on under 17’s would push websites to do age verification like so many other places are doing
I don’t think it would be needed. The advertisers Google knows with a strong statistical certainty which age bracket you’re in. It would be illegal to target that market segment.
Yeah, oops, GOS only.
I don’t think most other OEMs have an auto reboot feature
There are very few phones where it would help because they’re BFU exploitable.
If you have enough time to put your phone in lockdown, just power it off. You can also set it so that the phone will automatically reboot if not unlocked in some time period (like a day).
This makes it go into BFU mode if it’s lost or stolen and kept powered.
Don’t worry guys, no fascist regime has used a census to locate and arrest targeted populations for almost 100 years now… this should be fine.
/s because some people can’t read subtext
Just google “bypass paywall”, there’s several sites that you can enter a URL and they’ll link you to common ways to bypass paywalls (usually by directing you to a site that archives news stories).
Archive.is is a good site to try first. It typically doesn’t get articles from major news sources for a few hours after publication, but most everything else is available pretty much as soon as it is published.
There’s so many of these paywall-lite sites now, it’s hard to read news without knowing how to bypass these paywalls.
Apple calls two different things ‘Find My Phone’, the phone’s location tracking of itself and then there’s the entire network of Apple devices across the world that constantly monitor for the AirTag’s Bluetooth Low Energy beacons allowing you to find the AirTags (and any attached valuables) anywhere in the world.
There are many things that let you ask your phone where it is (or have it report it’s location to a server that you host).
There is nothing that matches the worldwide network of Apple devices which are listening for your airtag’s BLE beacon.
It would require a large user buy-in, for sure.
But, in the meantime, it seems like we could get a few nerds together to hack out how to put a system together that preserves privacy while allowing distributed location tracking.
Yeah, I could imagine a system that could be created that would allow the same functionality but also be anonymous.
If there’s such a FOSS project going, I don’t know of it (but would be interested!).
I can’t imagine how such a system would work and also be privacy friendly.
The tags are picked up by other people’s phones and reported to a central service. The nature of the reported information unavoidably gives private data like your location to the owner of the service. You could technically build your own network, but you’d have limited users so it wouldn’t have the reach of the AirTag network.
Find my Phone software could work in a self-hosted/privacy friendly environment. You’d just need an app that reports its location to a server that you’re running. Something like this: https://github.com/LINKIWI/orion-server which seems to use MQTT to periodically report the phone’s position information to your own server.
Ma’am, this is the Internet. That’s the last place I would think of checking. If it ain’t in the headline, it didn’t happen.
Owncast.
If you have a good connection and are only serving to 3-4 friends you can just run it on your own network. If you need more bandwidth (50-100 watchers) you can use an S3 compatible storage provider or even a CDN if you need to serve a massive audience (billions).
I vaguely remember getting into a WPA network (that I owned!) using kismet about 15 years ago with relative ease, but I’m struggling to remember details about that process.
The 4-way handshake crack was the only key recovery attack until 2018 when the PMKID-based attack was discovered (here: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html). The PMKID crack attack still required brute-forcing the key, but it didn’t require the 4-way handshake so you didn’t have to depend on a de-authentication attack to get started.
At that time there was another WPA vulnerability, if you were using WPA-TKIP, but it only allowed sending a few small packets every 10-12 minutes so it wouldn’t allow you to gain access to the network.
Later there were a few WPS-based attacks but they were slow (4 hours to recover the WPS PIN) and/or limited to specific manufacturers (weak hardware random number generation).
Reminds me of this CalebCity’s sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Mh9LPNAkI
The EU still has a functioning regulatory body and a large enough market to make Apple listen.
I think the manufacturers data sheet says the NAND chips and associated circuitry can handle 75Gs. You’re not going to damage them without trying really hard.
Image the drives to cloud storage and ship all of the hardware with insurance (wipe the drives before shipping if you’re worried about data security).
SSDs are incredibly resilient to shock and would be the least likely component to fail from rough shipping. Insurance covers you on everything else.
In other news, Trump has saved TikTok so the drone factory won’t shut down after all.
It’s almost certainly some traffic analytics package for the website.
They sound good in their marketing, they provide a bunch of useful statistics about visitors so the site can be tweaked for ease of access or to lower bounce rate.
The downside is that they often have rights to that data under their TOS because aggregation of data from multiple sites is how they provide a service.
The concern is that this data can be used to locate individual people and to learn of their associated identities. This is true even if they claim the data is “anonymized”, it’s a trivially simple process to use a second data set to correlate details and deanonymize the data.
It was said in a Discord chat. Discord chats are not private, you agree to that in the TOS when you sign up.
There are always people monitoring the chats, voice and video, looking for illegal activities. Something was said in that conversation that their algorithm flagged for human review and that person sent it to law enforcement.
You have zero privacy on any social media. Everything that you write is viewable by the service owner and they actively look for things to report to law enforcement.
Companies pay lip service to your privacy, but at the end of the day they’ll turn you in the instant it suits them. If you want privacy, you use encryption so that your privacy is guaranteed by mathematics.
That’s a surveillance camera, it can be remotely aimed.
It may read license plates too but it’s not the mass produced ALPR that’s used by Flock and co. Likely it is part of the the building’s security system.