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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] on Monday July 19, 2021 @12:14PM (#27884254)
> Does it matter that much that the artifact of saving a page be a single file in your hard drive?

Yes, it matters a lot. Word/Excel files are actually a zip archive containing many files and sub-directories. Can you imagine people working with exploded Word files, sending over mail and WhatsApp complete directory trees?

Those are always targeted extra hard since they tend to be used by criminals. See the recent "encrypted phones" (Encrochat, Anom, ...)

If you really care about security maybe it's better to get a really dumb 4G phone and share it's connection with a Linux small form tablet (but not running Android).

Of course, inconvenient as hell, but much more secure, especially since you are not running the iOS/Android mono-culture, so for anyone to target you it would require customized service.

Re:Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:54AM (#27884003)
Given how much care they took not to write the payloads to the phone storage, presumably they took the same care not writing it to server storage on cloud hardware.
Re:Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:48AM (#27883926)
> If someone were to use NSO paid hacking to attack Apple executives's devices and then release everything they found, I bet Apple might take this more seriously instead of having some PR flack write marketing copy.

That's not why Apple is skittish about this. Any action from them would invite the question "What about China?". And Apple loves China('s money).

If you don't pay for it, you are the product.

If you pay for it, you are still the product.

You are always the product, phone carriers you pay monthly contract to collect your location data and sell it, TVs spy on your TV watching, Netflix/Spotify/... record everything you do, you will be monetized even if you already paid.

The only thing legal for kids to eat should be spinach and brocolli.

Parents should be jailed if they fed them cakes.

What do you think about narcotics, should they be legal or not?

One thing I noticed is that people who are for banning soda or alcohol are surprisingly for legalization of soft and hard drugs.