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if i swap out the print statements for ones with parens, fakeap still works

>But surely that that's not something that generally happens in any frequency that companies should take measures for, any more so than any other freak occurence.

Fair. I wish HN allowed folks to delete comments, I worry about the type of person who holds things against people written in a certain state of mind... forever.

>Mottram was collared as part of Operation Venetic, the NCA's codename for the EncroChat takedown. According to the cops, their secret infiltration of the supposedly impregnable chat app, allowing officers to silently read crooks' private messages and probe criminal dealings... In 2020, police in France and the Netherlands led the effort to compromise the communications service. Once they'd busted into the network's servers, cops used that access to collect conversations and other data from EncroChat handsets and use this information to make arrests, with the NCA doing the legwork in the UK.

Nothing is off the record but off the record

>The baseband is an embedded computer inside the phone that controls the device’s sensors and radios. It runs off of its own OS and is separate from the consumer-facing OS. The phone’s OS then talks to this embedded system. All phones do this, even the iPhone whose baseband OS was some variant of L4 Linux, IIRC.

It's my understanding if you route all your traffic through an always on VPN (eg Algo) you can frustrate basband nonsense, since all they'd see is a bunch of... stuff... going off to some colocated IP.

Now, maybe military intelligence can be a nearly global passive adversary, but if "the police" hacked such a phone they'd see noise going in and out to some strange server.

The above is the setup I had from ~2016 to ~2020 by the way -- while it provided a measure of privacy from local party officials, it also made me and my traffic stand out.

The key, in my experience, is to make data move around in such ways to require an MLAT and a zero day, and then be less interesting than those who would be cause to obtain both... but neoliberals are sadists and voyeurs forever aggrieved, forever inventing reasons so... all you can do is make them work for it IMHO and make it such that so many use your techniques they will regret their intrusions for even if they obtain the powers they want they will be overcome with analysis paralysis -- as we saw on Jan 6th, the issue is not that the state lacks power, it is that elements of "the state" never intend to follow the will of the people and react like toddlers having tantrums if they don't get their way.

>He kind of shrugged and said it would be kind of like if it had happened to Trump in the US, in that there were a lot of of people that didn't like him.

I hope you enjoyed the conference... I haven't been to Japan in many years. I regret not extending my trip, it was a wonderful place to visit.

I assumed when I first read about the death, it would be due to politics, not religion.

I am an antifascist, and he was shot as I took the stage at an open mic where I'd called for the removal of our previous mayor. (Though speaking as a scientist.... correlation does not equal causation.)

I hesitate to call for violence in my comedy, but on the other hand, I often mock those who die after creating precarity and despair such that someone more mentally ill than I "does the deed".

>Ironically I was reading 1Q84 at the time, which is about a cult in Japan.

As I get sadder, my attention span gets shorter -- I've mostly been reading poetry, but one of the last fiction books I read was "Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata... before that the last piece of Japanese literature had been by Yukio Mishima when I was younger and angrier.

One of the things I liked most about Japan was the "Onigiri" -- little hockey puck like things of rice and seaweed that were about the price of a candybar. I wish I'd saved the wrappers, I had one that had an egg in it with fried rice around that was quite good.

It made me sad, to see how folks there could flit from place to place, purchase healthy food, use public transit, walk... I lost weight and felt healthier the short time I was there despite drinking quite heavily.

But... there is a lot of sadness in that country, it's a place that's fun to be a tourist but not a place I would make my permanent home.

Texas is a theocracy in a way.

We will give voice to David Barton's ideas, but if I said I wanted to "end" David Barton, I would be the bad guy in this conversation.

We already live in a theorcracy, and have lived in a theocracy since the so called election of George W Bush.

For millennials like myself who were not born into the families of rich elite or local party officials, we have been violently subjected to deprivation of rights, forced into precarity engineered before we were born into a world we did not consent to enter, subjected to an Eternal September 11th where our responses to trauma are forever policed and monetized if we do anything but simp for the money for bread and circuses.

Wait, is "Guy Fawkes Night" the night of the fourth with "celebrations" commencing at midnight, or the dusk of the fifth? The article is failing to load, though I hate to cast aspersions on the sysop since I'm once again posting from a fortified compound beneath the Earth routed through seven proxies, unclear which specific day it is as the barista glares that I may drink up all the water.

They were kind enough to reply that they don't have any of my old data, unlike the NSA.

Years back, I listed them as my homeland the Facebook I deleted during... an emergency.

May the peace between our peoples last another decade or two.

(Or maybe more?)

Day of the Dead was yesterday? I'm always a day late and a dollar short.

If anyone needs a Python developer, I just redid a tool people used at Derbycon in Python3.

How many HBO bosses have stairs in their house?

(It's an,... inside... joke.)

"Why do young Americans install PRC malware?" might be a better meta level question. Remember when faces for radio controlled the media for that brief, glorious moment when podcasts reigned supreme?

Stalemate implies two equal opponents, this is like... a WWI meatgrinder, and solely due to the West's refusal to properly equip the Ukranians out of fear that daddy will get angry and spank them. Oh boo hoo, Putin might consider X Y or zed cause to lob a nuke. Why do we tolerate things out of that man that would have the US Army running roughshod if said by much less evil men?

>Another Agent Smith will take over.

Comedy Option: Pussy Riot for President

I guess (s)he doesn't go to a laundromat.

let me tell you a story.

the entire summer i was at mozilla, i was nearly suicidal. i wanted out of an abusive phd environment, having enrolled prior to dadt ending, and... they were just using folks as glorified temps and they'd cancelled the project i was scheduled to work on and my host had left the company, and every day, my new "mentor" took everyone but me out to lunch and i had a family member across the country dying and i felt like i'd never find a path of my own.

the reason i was a social pariah?

to me... it seemed to be that early on, i'd told them not to make tally marks next to the name of the staffer they found most attractive on the whiteboard and sign up for okcupid or go to bars/galleries/shows if they want to meet people -- basically dudes, this is not ok, go outside the office, or at least, if it's true love... don't write her name on the wall and ask people to rank her against the other staff ffs

i miss the positive energy the internet used to have -- no one knows if you're young or old, male or female or... whatever... and it feels like at some point it because a game between sets of affluent, educated folks to out diversity each other as those of us attracted to tech because it could lift us out of precarity never were.

there's a lot of lonely, angry folks in tech, and it baffles me since it always seemed my only barrier in love was that i was some scruffly low class guy from applachia -- no money, no prospects, and thus... no partner.

i can see how people get radicalized, but when someone has the skills the op has, to never worry about work or income, and to wield that power of the pen in the way they do... it makes me angry.

cs is math, so being annoyed you weren't taught programming is odd.

my issue is when those two modes of education collide in one program, usually with some washout course where you're forced to teach yourself things very rapidly, under penalty of academic misconduct if you collaborate in ways you would in literally any other context.

i don't like how this leaks data -- a list of timers can say a lot depending on the lengths, timers used to be liminal

wayback archive of a pastebin :-)

many years ago i mustered a campaign to reverse four square's real name policy, with the help of a former AOL executive and the former public health comissioner of a large state other than my own.

as i go off to start the christmas season with my... lists... i wish we wouldn't reinvent these debates every 5-10 years.

one point this author misses is many folks are not american - dissidents in places like russia and china are not young wannabe cryptoanarchists wanting to steal the music they cannot afford at sam goody, they are dissidents, a forever decision that means a life of fearless, adversarial ratfucking of any and all attempts to identify you that are encountered if you want to live to troll another day.

nyms are like underwear, meant to be discarded and begun anew when worn out -- and open source should be able to tolerate such a cycle if we want to continue to see projects like how truecrypt became veracrypt and others come to fruition

>Beijing does not like hairy political subjects.

their wolf warrior[1] diplomacy contradicts you

they want a star to be a heart when it suits them

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy

and to think, before covid fell i joked i wanted to take the train from moscow to beijing then hang out in vietnam because they let you shitpost about china...

how quickly geopolitics can change -- head of the troll factory shot out of the sky, and the foundations of geopolitics embedded in dugina's skull.

i'd have rather ppl creates some fork of android sans google trackers.

one issue with open source phones is the divergence of talent means more unpatched vulns, imho.

i don't have the money to experiment like i used to, so i don't like to comment on these matters -- i suspect kai, like many other projects, may struggle financially and go dark in ways that make ppl more paranoid than they should be rather than anything truly nefarious.

if they'd done proper user research they'd have found lots of people wanna just do navigation and calls on the phone then hotspot to a laptop... but instead the os got bloated (imho)

>I genuinely wonder what the Mozilla leadership think when they see threads like this. Do they just not see them and float above the real world in some bubble

I would have spotted a literal bubble when I was an intern in the SF office, but they definitely didn't mix with us.

I interned in ~2013. I had a boss who took everyone but me out to lunch, forever aggreived I'd gotten an offer prior to Eich being forced out. Despite designing my own research project on short notice that got a lot of good feedback, I was neither hired on nor pointed somewhere in the valley to work...

Meanwhile, I got the impression that my advice to the engineers to abandon "VR" (which danah boyd had pointed out can't even be used by everyone) and the weird firefox os crap to focus on getting ram usage down and browsershare up to build up a war chest, to partner with other search engines than google and to ban said googlers from our events since they kept poaching people...

But I was not heeded, and Firefox instead introduced pocket and did a bunch of other stupid stuff...

Nevertheless, I keep using it, because I love the extension system and the community around it but that summer broke the heart of the abused pre-teen who discovered the web and themselves via it.

The old Firefox, a lean extensible open source browser... is alive if you throw some switches and are selective in your extensions... but they messed up very badly that summer after Snowden and never recovered.

Folks should add Taiwan to their maps then offer to do a swap.

Israel does a lot of war crimes, but China, home to Foxconn suicide nets and concentration camps in Xinjiang... is not the country to be doing vexillological activism.

>Unless you lived in a windowless shack, you're leaving out some details, because I don't think a residential dwelling with only one point of egress would be up to code. Not siding with the cops, but also can't side with you, because the retelling appears to not include parts that would have allowed you to exit without escalating anything with the person at the door.

So technically, these homes have a fire exit, but it's a single use deal that takes time to get out of -- basically more of an escape hatch, not something to be used for sneaking out at night. It's to escape a fire, not a physical attack -- you'd be shot or stabbed in the back, cutting yourself on mesh and rock if you tried to use it fast.

So picture a basement with stairs leading up to the main floor, and the cops going "hurr well technically you['re not trapped, you can go out the fire exit if your father points a loaded gun at you and screams from the only safe exit,

Does that help?

I'm happy to go into more detail. I used to avoid small points like that since it gives away information about where they are located, but since the death of Jeffrey Epstein I've had a policy of not aiding opsec of abusers -- propaganda is the selective telling of truths, and folks need to moderate their behavior if they want to both BE and FEEL safe.