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Re:Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @07:44PM (#49413696)
You need to be a bit tricky. Your phone can either require a yubikey or not. You have two pins, 1234 that doesn't require Yubikey and 2345 that turns the phone into yubikey required mode. So what you do before crossing the border is you type in 2345 yourself and turn your phone into yubikey required mode. And if you forgot and the customs agent types in 2345 even though 1234 would have opened the phone without yubikey, nobody can prove you didn't do the 2345 before entering customs. In practice if you give the customs 1234 and are nice to cbp you get your phone back in 48 hours, just make sure you get the email address of the agent in charge not just name and generic phone number.
Re:GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
on Sunday July 26, 2026 @09:37PM (#49064236)
I was just told if I don’t give my pin they take my green card. You cannot call a lawyer so do you want to gamble or give your pin? WhatsApp just needs Face ID with unique pin not the main app one.
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
on Sunday July 26, 2026 @09:27PM (#49064166)
Having just gone through having to give pin to cbp you just need the apps on your phones to have separate pins so when police unlocks it, they cannot unlock WhatsApp afterwards. Faceid or unique pin. Problem is your phone pin overwrites Face ID
Re:End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Vot...
on Thursday March 26, 2026 @05:38PM (#47536122)
Re:End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Vot...
on Thursday March 26, 2026 @05:10PM (#47535778)
Mole 1 inside Microsoft poisons the PhotoDNA database with hashes of screenshots containing highly specific text—such as internal Russian military jargon, the name of a specific European defector safehouse, or a niche secure communication protocol.
• To Meta’s automated monitoring tools photoDNA api returns false, but with slightly different formatting. Mole 2 inside Meta monitors these formatting errors and looks up the UserIDs.
• No Bulk Queries: Looking up 3 UserIDs in the internal demographic database over the course of a month will not trigger the "Abnormal Access Pattern" alarms.
• Analog Exfiltration: Mole 2 doesn't need to use a USB drive or send an email to get the phone numbers out of the building. With only a few targets, Mole 2 can simply memorize the accounts. PhotoDNA does not read text; it matches the visual structure of an image. For this attack to work, the defected officer must:
1. Receive or write the targeted keyword.
2. Take a screenshot of it.
3. Send that screenshot over the platform.
4. The screenshot must visually match the exact font, size, and layout that Mole 1 used to generate the poisoned hash. However Mole 1 can create thousands of matching keyword hashes for different font variation. PhotoDNA is a one way hash so it’s easy to generate a thousand colliding images for every font by adding a custom border on real photos. This will fake the audit log at Microsoft.
Re:Global warming has accelerated significantly
on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:21AM (#47276018)
yeah all these charts you need to read the footnotes, this wikipedia is co2 from fossil fuels not land changes which probably is some random fraction
Re:Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:38PM (#46726035)
How about showing the user what the ide will automatically execute upon install?
Re:Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confide...
on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:52AM (#45925123)
Having worked on this data since investors buy the loans, the loan level data by definition needs to be public. Even the borrower information is not secret because real estate ownership is public in USA. So I don’t understand what information it could possibly be other than fraud data. I think sharing fraud data is not colluding.
Re:ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypt...
on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:57PM (#45381290)
I mean USA just went through this when Trump team all got FISA-d and tracked. Chat control is bunch of sha hashes that match. You can basically figure out everyone who has Trump in their WhatsApp contacts and then get every message that matches Trump and no one can tell because it searches for sha(trump) not Trump. It’s perfect tool for surveillance state
Re:ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies
on Sunday August 31, 2025 @02:31PM (#45085658)
Or you just buy the largest stock in each one of the 7 largest sectors and it pretty much correlates to the sp500. ETF have some nasty hidden fees related to the etf price being more expensive than the basket when you buy and less than the basket when you sell.
Sector Company 1 Company 2 Information Technology Microsoft (MSFT) Apple (AAPL) Financials JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Health Care Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Consumer Discretionary Amazon (AMZN) Tesla (TSLA) Communication Services Alphabet (GOOGL) Meta (META) Industrials Boeing (BA) Caterpillar (CAT) Energy ExxonMobil (XOM) Chevron (CVX)
Re:GOP omnibus bill would sell off USPS's EVs
on Monday June 23, 2025 @10:31AM (#44356180)
I think they only made 93 for the $10bn so it doesnt matter who guys them
Re:Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @12:56PM (#44145523)
You have to understand that Boston University is not a real school. Even the article says “ She readily recognises the shortcomings of her modelling. The numbers are not recorded deaths, but rather predictions. “They’re modelled numbers and I recognise the limitations that that comes with,” she said. “We don’t have routine data sets that we can measure someone as ‘killed by the US lack of funding’.”. Doge Cuts are necessary so the USA doesnt default on it’s debt
Re:Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
on Sunday May 18, 2025 @03:49PM (#44023879)
yeah why cannot that guy sit in california or new york in a normal time zone? not like there are tornadoes in every state, its so silly to keep a person at night in an office when weather is good
Re:Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive O...
on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:51PM (#43873423)
The anti trump money groups have infiltrated HN or you really think the government today should be spending money on CBS?
Re:Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than...
on Sunday April 06, 2025 @10:42AM (#43601736)
so if the other cars have 5x less miles on autopilot compared to tesla you expect to see 0 crashes even though the probability of a crash is the same
Re:GitHub Copilot is now available for free
on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @04:09PM (#42455237)
For JetBrains IDE-s the open source CodeGPT plugin works much better. Many more models to choose from
Re:The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany
on Friday November 15, 2024 @08:35AM (#42146783)
in USA its qualified small business so tax is 0
Re:Learning Not to Trust the All-In Podcast in Ten Minutes
on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:50PM (#42071438)
Well he doesn't know how to divide. If private sector does 2% and government does 1% then government is 50% not 33%. Similarly he displays the level of government spending, not the change. If government is 30% of GDP, then automatically its 30% of GDP growth no matter what. And again 30% is really 50% of the private sector. Now if the government grows from 30% to 35% like it shows on that chart, in addition to few quarters of 50%, thats how you get to government being 100% of the growth. Just use $, the % is clearly too hard for HN.
Economy was 100. Government 30, private sector 70. Economy grew to 105, government 35, private sector 70. So 100% of the growth was government.
I hope the author reads this comment, HN is being a weird echo chamber. Bayesian probability people, what is the chance that All In is actually wrong based on a random blog post.
Re:Marshmallow Test Fails to Replicate
on Saturday August 03, 2024 @12:49PM (#41147673)
So there are two options. You get a coefficient of 0.2 and a std error of 0.2 so you say it’s not significant but the reason is you don’t have enough data so st error is too large. Or you have a coefficient of 0.0001 and a st error of 0.01 so you are pretty sure there is no relationship.
Re:How to generate realistic people in Stable Diffusion
on Saturday June 29, 2024 @07:23PM (#40833994)
Missing reference to dreambooth
Re:Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy ...
on Sunday June 02, 2024 @08:52AM (#40553706)
It’s the easiest thing for intelligence agencies to scan all your messages. They just need to submit a few million fake “content id” hashes and automatically your phone will share the images that match. Nobody can tell if content id has is of a photo of a document or a photo of a person it’s just a 256byte hash. This is so easily abused. I bet the way it’s implemented it doesn’t have enough resolution to read text so one evil content id hash will match any photo of any document or screenshot you have taken. So essentially your WhatsApp client will send every screenshot of a text document to nsa.
Re:VLC vs. the App Stores
on Saturday April 20, 2024 @10:02PM (#40102658)
Just mess with them and release VLCNew on android alongside the other vlc that stays for the TV
Re:British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages
on Thursday February 15, 2024 @12:03PM (#39385158)
or maybe, hear me out, there was a person sitting next to him at the airport and saw his snapchat messages and freaked out?
Re:Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:00PM (#39183965)
This plugin just installs in Jetbrains IDE and sets up a local llama.cpp server https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21056-codegpt
Re:Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B
on Monday January 29, 2024 @05:59PM (#39183953)
We made a Jetbrains plugin called CodeGPT to run this locally https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21056-codegpt
Re:Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API
on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @01:38PM (#38194858)
I used https://you.com/chat wasn't bad, they have a free month trial coupon "codegpt" for the GPT4 model and GPT3.5 is free ...
Re:Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves performance
on Saturday November 04, 2023 @09:30AM (#38140834)
So you have a training set of questions and answers generated by humans. For simplification you ask ten people the same question and get 10 answers and feed it to llm and then in testing time ask the same question. Now say there is a correct answer. Now in training set you asked the question normally 5 times and added “this is very important” 5 times. And it turns out humans have better answers in the training set if you added the qualifier. And during testing time, when you add the qualifier you are telling the llm to put more weight on those 5 answers, and it performs better. Just like in image generation you need lots of negative prompts because the training set is so dirty.
Re:Google's reCAPTCHA likely illegal in Europe?
on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:51PM (#36435098)
I would say that you need to call a phone number to verify you as a user if you don't consent to captcha. And then that number is a voicemail leave your number we will call you back. And then we have a backlog so it takes us a while to call back. I don't think that's illegal.
Re:My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost $145,000
on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:44AM (#34724653)
Exactly. 24h will cost the same everywhere. Maybe you can use a video baby monitor at night to reduce from 24 to 16h a day
Re:My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost $145,000
on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:42AM (#34724618)
How would you get 24h home care in Europe? Impossible