SpaceLifeForm
Old Geek. Hacking for a Half Century. My Header is an image of a Black Hole without an accretion disk. May be cryptic. May wax philosophical. Big Bang is illusion.
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SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•“Aral, you’re scaremongering about this whole privacy thing.”
1·1 year agoAnd people still want to fly. Unreal lines to get RealID these days in my area.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toCybersecurity@fedia.io•We’ve all made some embarrassing tech flubs, but a recent spate of questionable decisions, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s sharing of top-secret military plans, facilitates this obs
2·1 year ago@TechDesk@flipboard.social @Techcrunch
It does not bode well that DoD could not stop him from getting routes to leak. Spineless.
#SignalGate
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toCybersecurity@fedia.io•Q-Day — the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption — could happen in the next decade according to cybersecurity experts. That means everything co
1·2 years ago@TechDesk@flipboard.social @WIRED
RSA may already be broken via classical computing, but you just do not know that yet.
Seems safer to just migrate to ECC now.
#Cryptography #RSA #ECC
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toCybersecurity@fedia.io•[\#Microsoft](https://fedia.io/tag/Microsoft) announces security [#AI](https://fedia.io/tag/AI) agents to help overwhelmed humans
2·2 years ago@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org
This is unwanted help.
I’m from the Government, and I am here to help.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•[\#Italy](https://fedia.io/tag/Italy) demands [#Google](https://fedia.io/tag/Google) poison [#DNS](https://fedia.io/tag/DNS) under strict [#PiracyShield](https://fedia.io/tag/PiracyShield) law
1·2 years ago@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org
How do you poison poison?
If the traffic is already cleartext UDP, it is already poison.
This will just lead to more DoH.
Pick your poison.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) to
Firefox@fedia.io•Mozilla CEO made around 7 million USD last year, but hosting bills are pending. Now, they updated the ToS, and you can't watch p0rn, or your data will be sold, or they no longer care about the orignal
1·2 years agoThere is pressure to make it die, zero doubt.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•If Apple complies with this, the UK government will gain access to all iCloud data globally. The only way Apple comes out of this with any integrity is to leave the UK market. If they give in to this,
2·2 years agoIt is worse than that. They could demand the cloud data for anyone, anywhere.
May be safer to not have an iPhone.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•WTF? Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' [https://www.aol.com/billionaire-larry-ellison-says-vast-160646367.html](h
1·2 years agoThe old Panopitcon design did not scale.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•Remember Microsoft's Recall? The first implementation was never released and was met with strong criticism from privacy advocates and the infosec/security community. Guess what? Microsoft has doubled
1·2 years agoIt is prudent to just avoid Windows in the first place.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toPrivacy 👁@fedia.io•Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 users will not be able to uninstall the controversial “Recall” feature, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise. Recall, part of the Copilot+ suite announc
1·2 years agoThe problem is getting businesses off of Windows.
Treadmill inertia is hard to stop.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toProgramming@fedia.io•I'm somewhat of an old school guy. My first programming languages were BASIC and C, if they counts. While I'm not personally particularly fond of Rust, I do respect it and think it should live in the
1·2 years agoIf WiFi and Cell radio existed back then, then almost like a modern cell phone.
Screen size would be comparable.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toProgramming@fedia.io•I'm somewhat of an old school guy. My first programming languages were BASIC and C, if they counts. While I'm not personally particularly fond of Rust, I do respect it and think it should live in the
1·2 years agoEver use RPG? Nasty.
SpaceLifeForm ( SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange ) toProgramming@fedia.io•I'm somewhat of an old school guy. My first programming languages were BASIC and C, if they counts. While I'm not personally particularly fond of Rust, I do respect it and think it should live in the
1·2 years agoBASIC counts.
But, I would never put Rust into the core of the Linux kernel. Just drivers.
#Linux #C #Rust
@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org
Hard pass.