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bybill_mcgonigle
ary 31, 2026 @01:04PM
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Attached to: WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers
The protocol is good.
The client? Who knows. The Facebook version of the Double Ratchet includes "Abuse Reporting" to complain to the manager about a message you got.
Could a closed client accept some secret message to cause the recipient to narc on the sender? It could, but that doesn't mean it does.
Which version of which algorithm, precisely, is used in each version of their chat apps? Who knows.
Why is anybody who needs secure comms using a closed source client? Who knows.
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bybill_mcgonigle
uary 28, 2026 @06:37PM
(#65955508)
Attached to: Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video
I even hear Zoomers say, "roll the tape," on podcasts where they're about to offer some analysis of or commentary on a video file or stream.
Words have usage that often extends beyond an original concrete origin.
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bybill_mcgonigle
y 23, 2026 @06:50PM
(#65945506)
Attached to: Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys To Unlock Suspects' Laptops
Usually you'll do 60 days at County for contempt or some horseshit like that.
Despite Circuit Court opinion that passphrases are fifth-amendment protected.
Hardware and biometrics are not protected.
Sometimes 60 is the best option you'll get, especially if you're a whistleblower against criminal government actions.
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bybill_mcgonigle
y 23, 2026 @06:46PM
(#65945498)
Attached to: Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys To Unlock Suspects' Laptops
I hope Microsoft has redundant offsite offline backups for its Cloud data, for disaster recovery.
It would be professional misconduct if they didn't.
That being the case, it's not clear how long it would be from the time you delete your cloud keys until Microsoft cannot respond to a subpoena.
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bybill_mcgonigle
uary 21, 2026 @06:43PM
(#65940730)
Attached to: HAM Radio Operators In Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty
If you look at the lists of number of arrests for social media posts, Belarus is nearly half of what the UK is doing, which is still an order of magnitude above any other nation.
It might well be higher on a per-capita basis.
I don't fully understand the Russian Political Union structure, but it clearly doesn't confer political rights across it. IIRC Russia proper is two or three orders of magnitude lower. I didn't see a breakdown of citizenship of the arrestees, though, so maybe it's a refugee thing, but this HAM attack is pointing in a very wrong direction (pending further information, like NED assignments).
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bybill_mcgonigle
uary 21, 2026 @06:36PM
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Attached to: Nova Launcher Gets a New Owner and Ads
According to a report I listened to (on "Android Explained", IIRC) the main problem is several trackers added to the update; ads being somewhat less alerting.
Support the guys at LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair or LineageOS or GrapheneOS for decent open-source launchers.
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bybill_mcgonigle
uary 14, 2026 @07:30PM
(#65925270)
Attached to: DoorDash and UberEats Cost Drivers $550 Million In Tips, NYC Says
People put tips on credit cards?
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byHuskyDog
4, 2026 @05:02PM
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Attached to: UK Scraps Mandatory Digital ID Enrollment for Workers After Public Backlash
It is already the case - and has been for ages - that you have to prove that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start a job by producing various paper documents. However, there are also huge numbers of people working who don't have that right. Ergo, unscrupulous employers don't do the required checks because then they can pay the illegal workers less and not bother with tedious things like taxes and workplace safety.
Nobody (not least from the government) ever explained how this "digital ID" would make any difference. The dodgy employers simply wouldn't bother to check that either!
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bybill_mcgonigle
ry 13, 2026 @06:30PM
(#65922492)
Attached to: Signal Creator Marlinspike Wants To Do For AI What He Did For Messaging
I clicked through, it demanded a Google auth or email, I closed the window.
Truly private. OK, then.
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bybill_mcgonigle
ry 13, 2026 @06:26PM
(#65922486)
Attached to: You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000
I was hoping to read in the summary how an inflatable deals with micrometeorites.
I'll wait for a subsurface hotel with day trips to the surface during good weather.
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bybill_mcgonigle
ry 13, 2026 @06:19PM
(#65922468)
Attached to: Verizon To Stop Automatic Unlocking of Phones as FCC Ends 60-Day Unlock Rule
People are so poorly educated they'll pay double for a "free phone".
The smart move is most often to save up, buy a phone (used is fine), and go prepaid.
Odds are if you need a phone unlocked you've made a mistake in the past.
CNBC was calling people who use phones for as long as they're good "device hoarders" yesterday.
The advertisers must be getting desperate but fact is most people are broke or barely getting by.
AI bros say AI will be so useful that we better get used to 996 workweeks.
This isn't going to resolve in a nice way.
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bybill_mcgonigle
y 12, 2026 @06:01PM
(#65919410)
Attached to: How Markdown Took Over the World
I gave up advocating for Unicode.
Though IIRC Technocrat fixed slashcode to support it a decade ago.
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byHuskyDog
2026 @04:12AM
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Attached to: How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation
Next, states should begin requiring headlight alignment inspection during vehicle inspections.
You don't have this already??? Here in the UK, headlight alignment has been part of the mandatory annual inspection (MOT) for as long as I can remember and certainly from way before the invention of LED headlamps.
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bybill_mcgonigle
er 29, 2025 @07:18PM
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Attached to: Stingless Bees From the Amazon Granted Legal Rights in World First
Somehow the lawyers will get the majority of the settlements.
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bybill_mcgonigle
er 29, 2025 @02:51PM
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Attached to: 'I Switched To eSIM in 2025, and I am Full of Regret'
This is bad news if the Pixels are now eSIM only.
GrapheneOS only supports pixels and many of its users prefer a permissionless SIM.
Maybe they'll add support for some other device, perhaps one of the privacy phones.
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