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by drvdevd 5y ago
I do often think of smartphones as being an extended, new age version of the payphone and I guess after reading this - the ATT equipment. Since you don't really own the device it is very similar in a sense. It feels like the same model
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by drvdevd 5y ago
I think the focus on Law Enforcement as the sole source of duress is no longer correct. Just as one example, we now live in an era where any entry point to a corporate network can equal millions or billions in eventual ransom payouts, right
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by drvdevd 5y ago
Thank you for your comments. And I think you are probably correct about the true risk/X entailed here. As well as the risk of simply using anything with a radio - I can't think of a single device I own that hasn't had a radio
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by drvdevd 5y ago
You forgot the most important point of the last 24 hours: "Apple has created a system for detecting CSAM on local devices which has already proven vulnerable to cheap perceptual hash collision attacks. It's now highly inconceivabl
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by drvdevd 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. Time to start compiling these lists.
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by drvdevd 5y ago
> Within a few years your entire frame buffer and camera will be working against you full time. This. This is hard enough to explain but with all the PR around whether the feature is good or bad it's even more difficult. Putting thi
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by drvdevd 5y ago
Yep there sure is something fishy about this whole thing. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot...
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by drvdevd 5y ago
For me, nowadays there is only one thing that really sets text editors apart and that is: what is the largest file I can open with that editor?
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by drvdevd 5y ago
> distasteful This is the word that most captures my feeling not just around the feature but how it was rolled out as well. Reading the PR announcement and then the leaked memo just felt - quite distasteful. There are a number of things
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by drvdevd 5y ago
To the other comments here I have to add - proofs (in math, science, computer science, any subject area..) never reflect absolute reality, but rather just your view of reality or the parts of reality that you have chosen to model. So the re
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by drvdevd 5y ago
This article makes a good case for turning off every apple device you own.. and never turning them back on. And it's not because Apple has implemented this algorithm per-se, it's because the way they have implemented it punts the
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by drvdevd 5y ago
I see. I was responding to you, yes. And in this case I was more curious about your opinion - based on your previous knowledge - on the viability of Apple’s technology here, rather than the specific details of your work. In my (uninformed)
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by drvdevd 5y ago
One could envision false positive images that don’t even display in iMessage when sent or that are nested in other file types, etc.
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by drvdevd 5y ago
You’re right of course but I think in this case it was due to the reputation of the poster on Twitter. At least, that’s the only reason I would take this rumor seriously. But yeah, a rumor is a rumor still.
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by drvdevd 5y ago
Since you worked on an actual contract catching these sorts of people you are perhaps in a unique position to answer the question: will this sort of blanket surveillance technique in general but also in iOS specifically - actually work to h
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by drvdevd 5y ago
Did I miss the night city saver that’s pictured in the logo?? It’s my favorite and does not appear to me there…
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by drvdevd 5y ago
The biggest problem with using your phone as a computer is not the screen size, or app availability or anything else you might commonly think of when considering arguing about this subject. In my opinion, today it is one and only one thing
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by drvdevd 5y ago
Been watching this whole thing happen and I agree. This feels like one of those times where a thing comes to life because you uttered its name so many times… :)
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by drvdevd 5y ago
Because I agree but only know of him through Hunter Thompson, I will plug his own book here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Brown_Buf... - and give it a read some time.
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by drvdevd 5y ago
This is true. But he did also do a lot of drugs and he was also weird. See Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas for examples where he was portrayed as Dr. Gonzo.
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by drvdevd 5y ago
or even better ... a kernel backdoor to expose hidden encrypted filesystems and false physical disk size reporting, with a specific userspace trigger (eg: open the password manager, when this password is selected destroy the hidden filesys
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by drvdevd 5y ago
I mostly like it, especially along with container tabs.
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by drvdevd 5y ago
The most interesting part of this article IMO is how the author built handover visualizations with unprivileged code and explained what was exposed in the API on Android vs iOS that was needed to do this. And they're quite good.
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by drvdevd 5y ago
YouTube using you.tube would lend credence to the rest of the .tube TLD actually.
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by drvdevd 5y ago
I thought the joke was that digital = binary = 10 :)
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by drvdevd 6y ago
I don't believe what the author is asking for exists. The answer to his question, in my opinion, is a definitive "No." Even his 286 was arguably full of components which were probably backdoored in some manner. And even if yo
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by drvdevd 6y ago
Sounds like Apple wants to promote or enable development on its new platform (even of 3rd party kernels), but can’t just distribute source due to some ARM licensing agreements or other legal/contractual restrictions. This is probably a
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by drvdevd 6y ago
Whether or not it would be helpful to attackers, this is still the correct threat model for Microsoft to operate with. Sufficiently motivated attackers can reverse anything they distribute publicly anyway.
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by drvdevd 6y ago
What about also removing your SIM card and disabling iMessage or otherwise firewalling all traffic to Apple?
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by drvdevd 6y ago
You got downvoted for this question but it’s such a great question in this context because like the UNIX epoch, the answer is arbitrary :) Incidentally, I guess the windows/NT epoch started in 1601.

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