Maybe if Monero had support, we could use that instead of BTC, but the maxis would call me a poopcoiner, when I would be justified due to how bad that situation had gone. Thank the centralizer maxis for that (plus fronts from bad actors that swayed this war).
Microsoft will give Windows PCs a 'photographic memory' by screenshotting everything you do.
Microsoft has unveiled their new mass surveillance tool, by revealing AI baked into Windows and the hardware itself that will take screenshots every few seconds and store and analyze this with AI. They are nicknaming this “Recall” and marketing it as Windows having photographic memory. It stores everything you’ve worked on and done to “know about you” or “better serve you”.
Even MSN, which is normally a propaganda outlet for the regime, prominently displays criticism of Elon Musk likening it to the fictional dystopia Black Mirror. [1] Although Elon Musk tweets he will “turn off” the feature, who knows if he really can. Because this AI is closed source, and therefore requires blind and complete trust and obedience from the user in Microsoft to not abuse the entire sum of their life’s knowledge.
Even the admitted control settings for this are horrible, with the inability to stop it from capturing all passwords and financial account numbers. [2] And not to mention, this will be a field day for hackers, as Windows machines are typically the easiest and most vulnerable to be targeted with randsomware. Anonymous hacker “Fya” who said quote “Haha! These worthless clowns handed me the ultimate tool to extract and abuse victims data.”
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This is why everyone MUST learn Free Software (as defined by the Free Software Foundation), so they avoid this nonsense. Hey, I teach it on my YouTube channel and Odysee mirror, CoculesNation (I know, shameless self-plug, I get it). There are lots of options out there. Learn them, learn how to practice good OPSEC, and you'll be just fine.
It's good to be informed on what's going on; yes, there is a point where it just becomes wacky. Also, don't apply Occam's Razor, as that's a double-edged sword nowadays.
Vibin to my album, maybe more then I should?
https://wavlake.com/album/4c7cd974-4e47-48dc-a2f0-468aae0e2106
I'm already planning on more shenanigans soon, so I couldn't see why you wouldn't either.
Other states should do that, since they hold the power.
What this guy says is pretty close to how I see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWTlCaJVolo
The US will not solve it's debt problem by cutting spending, running surpluses, or raising taxes. No... instead:
a) The fed funds rate will go up to fight inflation
b) Treasury rates will be held artificially low via QE: the fed buying as many treasuries as necessary to prevent the US govt from defaulting
c) Government spending will juice the economy locally in a 'numerical' fashion, getting people working harder again,
d) That will raise GDP and tax revenue to some degree, but the biggest effect will be via inflation
e) US debt to GDP rates will fall for the next 40 years or so to unwind the current position.
In summary he suggests:
1) Increase your income, and prefer jobs with income that increases with inflation such as sales, or running a business
2) Get rid of adjustable rate debt
3) Get fixed-rate debt that pays for itself (what you owe will fall in real terms as the dollar is inflated away in value)
4) Get wealth outside of the system ASAP since wealth controls are going to get much tighter as time goes on
In addition (things he didn't say), I would recommend investing in commodities and hodling bitcoin.
That's why I'm looking to run a business, no college or trade schools required. That's what I was called to do, so I will do it. Simple as.
nostr:npub1j87rgjtftxaux3xd5nhthwavm3907ywnu8x0z0uywqntsv57vajshl3hzx changed my opinions on open source licenses, which I’ve held for over a decade, with a single sentence… “all foss licenses other than MIT require some form of state power to enforce” . Meaning, all of the common open source licenses support, and rely on, the State’s coercion through violence.
Isn't the whole point of Free Software designed to be copyleft, and to do whatever you wanted under a license like GPL?
#GrapheneOS uncovers leaked documentation for smartphone exploits by Cellebrite.
XRY and Cellebrite say they can do consent-based full filesystem extraction with iOS, Android and #GrapheneOS. It means they can extract data from the device once the user provides the lock method, which should always be expected. They unlock, enable developer options and use ADB.
Cellebrite's list of capabilities provided to customers in April 2024 shows they can successfully exploit every non-GrapheneOS Android device brand both BFU and AFU, but not GrapheneOS if patch level is past late 2022. It shows only Pixels stop brute force via the secure element.
Cellebrite has similar capabilities for iOS devices. This is also from April 2024. We can get the same information from newer months. In the future, we'll avoid sharing screenshots and will simply communicate it via text since to prevent easily tracking down the ongoing leaks.
Pixel 6 and later or the latest iPhones are the only devices where a random 6 digit PIN can't be brute forced in practice due to the secure element. Use a strong passphrase such as 6-8 diceware words for a user profile with data you need secured forever regardless of exploits.
Pixels are doing a bit better on the secure element front and iPhones are doing a bit better against OS exploitation, but not by much.
As always, this shows the importance of our auto-reboot feature which gets the data back at rest after a timer since the device was locked.
Our focus in this area is defending against exploitation long enough for auto-reboot to work. It's set to 18 hours since the device was locked by default, but users can set it as low as 10 minutes. Since around January, we massively improved security against these attacks.
By default, our recently added USB-C port control feature disallows new USB connections in AFU mode after the device is locked and fully disables USB data at a hardware level once there aren't active USB connections. Users can set it to also do this in BFU or even when unlocked.
Users with a high threat model can fully disable USB including USB-PD/charging while the OS is booted to only allow charging while powered off or booted into the fastboot/fastbootd/recovery/charging modes.
GrapheneOS on 8th gen Pixels is ideal due to hardware memory tagging.
Consent-based data extraction (FFS) is not in the scope of what we're trying to defend against beyond shipping our secure duress PIN/password implementation to replace insecure approaches via apps. Data users can backup is inherently obtainable with consent, which is nearly all.
Within the past 24 hours, there has been an attack on GrapheneOS across social media platforms misrepresenting consent-based data extraction as GrapheneOS being compromised/penetrated. The person doing it is pretending to be multiple people and falsely claiming we covered it up.
GrapheneOS is the only OS having success defending against these attacks. We could do more with a successful hardware partnership such as having encrypted memory with a per-boot key instead of relying on our kernel memory zeroing combined with auto-reboot and fastbootd zeroing.
New versions of iOS and Pixel OS often invalidate their existing exploits, but devices in AFU are stuck in AFU mode waiting for new exploits.
Random 6 digit PIN is only secure on a Pixel/iPhone and only due to secure element throttling. Use a strong passphrase to avoid this.
If you wonder why duress PIN/password is taking so long, it's because we aren't doing it for show like existing implementations. It needs to work properly and guarantee data will be unrecoverable with no way to interrupt it. Slowly rebooting to recovery to wipe isn't acceptable.
See https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1775305179581018286 for our thread covering the firmware improvements we helped get implemented in the April 2024 release for Pixels. It doesn't currently really help the stock Pixel OS because they haven't blocked the OS exploits that are being used yet but it helps us.
Our hope is that our upcoming 2-factor fingerprint unlock feature combined with a UI for random passphrase and PIN generation will encourage most users to use a 6-8 diceware word passphrase for primary unlock and fingerprint + random 6-digit PIN for convenient secondary unlock.
Cellebrite documentation and has stated they'll upload future versions of it if you want to look at the rest of it:
We have info on XRY, Graykey and others but not the same level of reliable details as this.
That's why you don't get a Pixel, clearly. Good, because I'd rather put Lineage/DivestOS on a supported phone!
I'd say both. GitHub is absolutely proprietary, therefore it's not necessarily private on the front that Microsoft owns it, and a mistake privacy wise because of Copilot, which disregards any Free Software license.
It doesn't mean, however, that nobody should've used it. I decided not to, because it wasn't for iOS, nor was it Free Software necessarily.
Criminals used Samourai, so it was already whack'd.
I'd respectfully disagree, as biblical Christians don't eat pork, nor do Jews either.
And yet a lot of people do not understand this concept.
Make that more often, and you'll realize it more.
This has been confirmed, because of whom we have chosen to serve as Americans, and it's not pretty.
Balloons released outside Trump hearing https://video.nostr.build/2cdf947c005695d0eaf717d0203e0356f01e12a9ea7275edcabe9d08fc77f5e8.mp4
I can't stop laughing at this. What is the purpose of these things?
I think this is a trick question.
You can't.