Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/20251105220347/https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-mamdanis-surveillance-state/

Mathematically… there has to be more than 2 or 3 people invited to orgies

Wait, you skinned it for hours but it wasn’t dead, and just walked off? Or it was dead and some animal took it while you weren’t looking?

Yeah, seems like investment in Energy sector has had the biggest increase over the last 5 years. Don’t invest in the guy mining for gold, invest in the guy selling pick axes

All of these claims are easily able to be checked from the archived version of the site . It was not using home grown encryption algorithm.

The last version released was independently audited and “found no evidence of deliberate backdoors, or any severe design flaws that will make the software insecure in most instances”

I had never heard of the warrant canary for TrueCrypt, and quickly searching for news of the time, was unable to find anything to indicate that there was ever a mention of NSL on the website, so nothing to remove if they were served with a NSL.

My assumption has been that the author was pressured to add a backdoor or abandon the project since it was an issue for law enforcement. After TrueCrypt stopped releasing new versions, it was audited and there was no sign of any backdoor or flaw in the encryption. Now on device encryption is more common but so are cloud backups, and law enforcement has found that going after cloud backups is much easier to subpoena. Plus there is a more mature industry for law enforcement to provide tools tools to bypass encryption without the developer complying.

And the reason for calendars is because the reminder that an event is starting is usually sent as an email from Google, with the description that has spam links. We’ve been training people to look at the sender to gauge trustworthiness, and with a sender of google.com, people feel like they did due diligence and can trust the contents of the email.

Gris is an amazing game. Love the soundtrack too.

Still not sure what you’re talking about. What was the sensitive information stored on servers that got sold?

What is the context for the sensitive information being sold?

You mean Stephen Merchant in Portal 2

You’re going to go to cast iron hell for this

because you don’t know what the last person using that IP did

See also: why you don’t wear a condom someone else came in

MAC address is in the data link layer of the networking stack, and would only be seen by other devices on the same network as you. This isn’t visible to websites you visit (unless you’re on the same subnet), and as TCP packets go through network hops, the MAC address is replaced with with the routers MAC address for each hop.

The reason for MAC address randomization (standard on iPhone and Android) is not for anonymity to the websites you visit, but is there to anonymize the wifi broadcasts in your general vicinity, like a 30 meter radius. The MAC address is randomized so that broadcasts to check wifi networks while you’re out and about can’t be used to track your physical location.

It just takes one time logging in without having VPN enabled for your account to be associated with a location. Their ad network probably filters out known VPN IPs, or IPs from countries where there are no ads to serve up, which might leave the only valid IP address associated with their account to be used.

How else can you get reoccurring revenue through a subscription if you can’t remotely brick the device someone paid $2700 for?

I’d like to believe, but the source for the article is a random Medium article which claims there were leaked document, but the headline is clearly click bait. The medium post doesn’t go into any details about this, it just outlines some open source tools with “ai” to do basic tasks to run your infrastructure in AWS, not what any engineer working for AWS would actually be doing.

This feels like some important content you could add to the post, as it’s pretty specific to your situation.

Which makes it even more disgusting when people fight to have others removed their credit. There was a writer who basically wrote the first Guardians of the Galaxy but James Gunn wanted sole writing credit after he was hired as the director, so she sued and won before it’s release, and got the credit she deserved in the film.

Ancestry.com and findagrave.com are kinda the funniest examples that could be picked from the sites being affected today. Obviously there’s the parallels of AWS being dead today, but I also can’t imagine there would be a lot of updates to those sites that not being active on there for some amount of time would miss out on some timely update. I totally hate being in the grove when something out of my control impedes my workflow, don’t get me wrong, and can totally see how the outages would be annoying.