koehntopp ~ :1d ago

"2 Faktor Authentifizierung" Apple Style

#SecurityTheatre

skribe 🇺🇦 5d ago

When I updated to the latest (for this phone) version of Android, it came with a particularly noxious feature. It flagged every app as harmful - including the ones I'd installed from the play store. This meant that every morning (for the next few weeks after the update) I'd wake up to a bunch of alerts, and would need to manually approve each app update. Fortunately, I only needed to do this once for each app.

Unfortunately, my phone manufacturer hasn't learnt from this major fuck-up. They've updated their security app, and now I need to authorise every time I update an app. This is tedious and counter productive.

With so many false positives, instead of making my phone more secure, the security software has made it far less secure. Apps no longer automatically update as soon as the update becomes available and just wait until I manually approve them. Something, I'm less likely to do because of all the hoops I must now leap through because of this stupid, inefficient security theatre.

#Android #Updates #SecurityTheatre

Dirk HaunSep 22

Wo sind eigentlich die Grenzkontrollen, Herr Dobrindt? 🤔

#SecurityTheatre

Show threadMagical CatSep 16
@slashdot The whole security theatre of Apple App Store and totally walled garden of closed platform of iOS et cetera formally "justified" by promise to prevent exactly _this_ type of shit of scam and fake apps from happening.
#security #securityTheatre #apple #scam
Stewart V. WrightSep 10

I'm trying to create a #password that fits the usual poorly designed password rules.

Minimum 8, max 30 characters... Almost as if they are storing it in a database rather than hashing it. 🤔

The rule I'm enjoying most is "Not allow three or more consecutive characters"

Minimum of 8 characters, but no three together. Um... 🤷‍♂️

#PoorDesign #SecurityTheatre

Else, SomeoneSep 4

Today in confiscations at the #airport security: canned salmon, and three cans of sardine. The officer even called a "manager" so he could, wearing a suit, and with an expression of a person doing a very important job explan to me that salmon is liquid.

FWIW I was anticipating this, but I originally was planning to take a train, so...

#SecurityTheatre

Show threadMichael T BabcockSep 3
... so here I am typing in a full name and generating a password, then confirming my E-mail address from another E-mail, then going back to the original saved HTML document to have it load a decrypted version it downloaded from the website.
And since my identity was never validated except by E-mail, none of that was more secure than E-mailing me a simple HTTPS link.
But worse, it makes users believe this is a valid way to interact by E-mail.
#security #securityTheatre #cybersecurity #encryption
fanf42Aug 5

"Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About"

This sentence sum it up:

"This is what happens when politicians decide to regulate technology they don’t understand, targeting problems they can’t define, with solutions that don’t work."

If we avoid the perfectly rational alternative that building the surveillance state I'd the goal in itself, whatever the cost or inefficiency in building it.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/

#securityTheatre #surveillance #authoritarianism

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

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Show threadPaco Hope wishes ill for JK RowlingJun 17

Oooh. Exciting times in #virginia #primary #elections. The county replaced our defective #securitytheatre bag. You may have seen my remark about people not knowing what a grommet is. Well, I know what one is, but our bag was defective and didn’t have one! Apparently we weren’t the only precinct like this. The county has been sending folks around to affected precincts with replacement bags.

Rest easy, America. This empty bag is sealed with a lock AND a numbered tamper evident seal. This is very secure air.

I’m not gonna stuff it full of fraudulent ballots until the Soros people get here with my check. If they don’t bring me the money, I’m not gonna put all my fake ballots in there.

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Show threadPaco Hope wishes ill for JK RowlingJun 17

Tons of things have changed in the last few years. Lots of new numbered, recorded, tamper-evident seals have been added. Some make a lot of sense. Electronic poll books contain a crap ton of personal information. They include names, addresses, and dates of birth of voters. We want to keep those under lock and key except when in use.

This provisional bag is #securitytheatre though. What are provisional ballots?

When we have uncertainty about your eligibility, we give you a ballot anyways, but we put it in a special sealed envelope with all your details on it. It’s called a provisional ballot and the board of elections receives these and systematically verifies each one. All votes that are eligible are counted. (In the 2024 election I think there were like 16000 of them and 90-something percent were deemed eligible and were counted)

Each is in its own, individually sealed envelope. In the past, we just collected these off to the side until the end of the day. Then we counted them, gathered them up, and turned them in. Now they want this mini ballot box contraption with a lock and seal.

In my typical precinct we have, say, 3200 eligible voters, and we will see 1000 on a busy November Tuesday. Of those maybe 20 are provisional. There just isn’t opportunity for meaningful fraud here. And there is definitely no evidence of meaningful fraud. But now we have this additional, silly procedure with chain-of-custody and a recording process. It prevents nothing because nothing has ever happened. And we have compensating controls everywhere. Every ballot is accounted for.

Security theatre makes people think this is necessary because there’s some threat. There isn’t.
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