Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.
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2024-05-16T11:28:17+02:00 Event JSON
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Last Notes npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie But presumably considering the cadence of iOS releases, if they are not meaningfully able to break the most recent iOS update for a few months, you should... always be running something newer than Cellebrite has broken. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie Looks like "an updated iPhone" remains the safest choice, as anyone should already know. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie Let's Encrypt is a beautiful gift of free certificates to everyone and also a horrifying single point of failure that happily issues certs to any impersonator with a lookalike domain name. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie Hey guys, I just need to throw something out there: The folks who insist on breaking the web for inane reasons like "this completely uncompromised certificate expired less than one day ago" and not making people safer. They're building a fragile house of cards designed to place more reliance entirely on them. And the effect is largely that people from ordinary users to engineers, disregard certificate warnings as a matter of routine. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie This might be a compelling option for those of us still running ancient hardware at home that still "runs fine": https://betanews.com/2024/06/27/0patch-will-keep-windows-10-secure-for-at-least-five-more-years-after-microsoft-abandons-it/ npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie Create the problem and then offer to solve the problem. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie So the argument I have heard is basically that yes, he is autistic and that he feels irrationally compelled to defend his positions based on what his brain is processing. As a medically diagnosed autist, I understand this compulsion! I say a lot of unpopular truths (password managers are bad for security!) but I (and RMS) also have the ability to learn and accept new data. And also just when to shut up. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie I can't even see that commenter from this server. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie Yeah, I'm not speculating as to why, all I'm saying is there is a long and frequent history of him coming to the defense of pedophiles. It's well-documented, and mostly in written form! npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie The wild thing is that the FSF has other board members, other staff. They could do just fine without him *or even by relegating him to an advisory role*. But they are absolutely incapable of not making a guy a *board member* who repetitively and persistently defends every pedophile he can think of. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie I mean, IMHO if you want to block anything, you should block it, but I find the idea Zuck is salivating at the idea of getting access to your toots is patently silly. Federating for them is almost certainly about antitrust and DMA compliance, with a tint of "if we're the first big company here we have an advantage" probably. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie I look at it as providing an escape hatch. I feel like a lot of people would leave Facebook platforms but feel like they can't because someone they need to follow is there. npub16wazt7uxw7ssuxz97gelpcd2ha8hjt8fyfd4n2r0uqtk6uyfagrsxjl0ak ocdtrekkie The notion that the fedi has all this "juicy" data when the fedi was designed to be relatively privacy-protecting from the get-go and Meta has literally hundreds of millions of users running their invasive software directly is... sort of silly.
