Mmmmmm FLdigi! I was wondering when I'd start to see people sending e cash into the audio or radio waves. I was thinking about laser modems as well actually which might be fun too.
How much data is a single aCash Cashu token? So many lovely modulation schemes to encode the token into. Particularly in unlicenced spectrum.
Or maybe sending the audio of a QR code via SSTV to a phone that has an app that demodulates the audio signal into the QR code.
Wonderful. Just wonderful.
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Another educational article about car privacy:
Yikes.
"Academic researchers have demonstrated how Apple’s Wi-Fi-based positioning system (WPS) can be abused to collect a worldwide snapshot of Wi-Fi BSSID (Basic Service Set Identifier) geolocations and to track devices’ movements in a setup that can be used for global surveillance."
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/wifi-surveillance-sp24.pdf
cc nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka have you read this paper?
Yikes.
"Academic researchers have demonstrated how Apple’s Wi-Fi-based positioning system (WPS) can be abused to collect a worldwide snapshot of Wi-Fi BSSID (Basic Service Set Identifier) geolocations and to track devices’ movements in a setup that can be used for global surveillance."
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/wifi-surveillance-sp24.pdf
Harbor! Thank you friends at Mutiny. ECash is a privacy juggernaut!
This is a club I would join.
PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/28/1344249/paypal-is-planning-an-ad-business-using-data-on-its-millions-of-shoppers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Unfortunate, but not shocking. These companies are all just mining their users. Ick.
I guess I think about the CLI and all the potential challenges there, but I wonder if there are users who might try Linux and not have an interest in utilizing the CLI or maybe not know it exists?
New cars are absolute privacy nightmares; from the APLR (automated license plate readers) to microphones throughout the interior (in some cases interior-facing cameras), Bluetooth broadcasting sensors, wifi, cellular connections with obligatory GPS location, driver usage information (ie hard breaking, speeding, etc), and so on, recording of interior conversations, retention of this personal data (regardless of your consent), insurance companies raising your rates based upon data you truly cannot opt out of, it's wildly depressing. There are new articles seeming almost every day.
I don't think you can even disable the cellular/wifi/Bluetooth or it will brick the car due to necessary firmware updates etc.
There was a "lovely" article about boarder surveillance in Texas leveraging APLR/Bluetooth/WiFi tracking of cars from the other day.
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I guess cypherpunks will suddenly be hardcore sleeper build/classic car builders or be on mass transit.
Many governments are long overdue to disqualify Microsoft Windows from use on publicly owner computers.
There are many reasons why they should. privacy concerns have been grow. But cost of ownership is about ten times higher than using FOSS, including Linux.
Many governments have known this for a long time.
For example, here's where Latin America was headed in 2001:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/1428041/linux-spreading-rapidly-in-latin-america.html
Animated QR codes finally made it into the live-version of npub.cash 🤙💜
Not all wallets support the format yet, but most do. I took this opportunity to give the modal some touch ups as well 👀 https://video.nostr.build/c007e85c2cea68ee511123252aac6aa568aae794d1201168658d435f0d11d5d4.mp4
excellent!
thank you, yeah things move fast out in internet land,
Atomic swaps recommendations in May 2024?
Today's PSA: any cellphone in the US can call 911 in case of emergencies without a sim/esim, and without a carrier. Basically the cell modem will check for the best RSSI (or insert other fancy acronym here) tower connection and then use that carrier regardless of what service (or no service) you have.
So even if your phone is telling you there is no service, you have service...for calling 911 mostly.
RE GrapheneOS however, I'm not sure if when you deactivate your cell modem if that deactivates this feature? (Anyone know? #GrapheneOS kids?)
Also, re 911, you usually can text 911 as well. Please don't test this though...just mentioning this because the article linked references emergency calls. Not sure if that was the author's intention...if not, please ignore this lengthy spam post, I am a botnet.
Would you mind sharing again? I would love to read this book. Thank you!