I mean, he’s a billionaire. I guess there’s big money on propping up totalitarian regimes.

I was there. It was really weird. The people doing the inspections didn’t even know what they were looking for. What, a USB drive? It was clear to me that they had a very basic, normal persons understanding of technology.

This was mainly motivated by the MGM hacks so they could show that they were doing something in case they got hacked later for liability.

Way cool! Might actually try it sometime.

Docker performs some syscall filtering as well which may reduce the kernel attack surface. It can be pain to set up services this way, but it could help frustrate an attacker moving laterally in the system.

Processes in the container cannot see external processes for example as I think interested the OP.

[…] scientists in Switzerland have come up with a way to make chocolate using the entire cocoa fruit rather than just the beans - and without using sugar.

I think they still are using sugar, but they’re getting it from the same plant instead. Nevertheless, it’s fascinating work.

The cost may remain something of a challenge, because of the global power of the sugar industry, and the generous subsidies it receives. “The cheapest ingredient in food will always be sugar as long as we subsidise it,” explains Kim Mishra. “For a tonne of sugar, you pay $US500 [£394] or less.” Cocoa pulp and juice cost more, so the new chocolate would, for now, be more expensive.

Ah! So perhaps it was not seen as economically viable.

I’d like to not solve a boolean satisfiability problem along the way, please.

This is the way to do it. Sadly, my wife really wants to use the Roku remote. I must oblige her.

Apple actively encourages subscription models even in third party apps for things that should definitely not be a subscription to give themselves the juiciest cut possible.

Corporations would literally beat down your door and rob your grandmother in front of you at gunpoint if it was legal profitable to do so.

We must demand regulation to reign in their greed.

When medic in TF2 saves me from dying to fall damage from my own rocket jump.

I’d be more worried about the ROM that runs before the bootloader that you can’t inspect, or possible hardware implants if you don’t trust the bootloader shipped to you from the vendor.

I’m just glad that there is another option.

All I can say is I would absolutely not buy an Intel processor right now and maybe not for the next few years.

It’s just not worth the hassle finding out in six months that your system is unstable and you need to change the processor to fix it, and not knowing if that new chip is any better than the one you just removed.

In a perfect world, it would be nice to have a checkbox per app where I can select whether it should share anything with the system libraries.

I wonder if running it in a container such as flatpak would help.

Oof, that definitely doesn’t look good from a security standpoint.

Title doesn’t really follow the data from the article. Updating your smartphone doesn’t appear to be related to the RAT investigated here. Rather, the researchers note older devices were targeted more often.

This could be an incidental finding.

Always has(n’t) been.

Truely. Copyright terms are absolutely ridiculous and massively too long for their intended goal.

I’d really like to see an improvement through copyright reform. Copyright periods are already ridiculously too long, but after a game runs its financial course, I think everyone should be free to do with it as they please. At a fundamental level, wasn’t this the intent of a functional copyright system? Is it not the intent to allow the creator to benefit while balancing the value against social good?