Rob LandleyJan 23, 2024

"Age verification" is identity verification and tracking. Your age cannot be verified without de-anonymizing you. And once systems are in place to do it for one category of content, it expands to everything.

https://infosec.exchange/@Lockdownyourlife/111784201498324339

The GOP pushes this because they want to outlaw birth control. The octogenarian democrats Xeno's Equivocate, meeting them halfway, then halfway again, then...

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Show threadRob LandleyJan 25, 2024

Anonymity is not a crime.

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/24/fbi-raid-fourth-amendment/

FBI Overstepped Authority in Warrantless Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court Rules

The 9th Circuit compared the FBI searches to the “abuses of power” that “led to adoption of the Fourth Amendment in the first place.”

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Show threadRob LandleyJan 25, 2024

My first cell phone, I could pop out the battery at will. Thus I didn't mind carrying around a location tracker with a speaker phone mode that could hear the entire room I was in.

Apple and Android have both sealed the case, glued the battery in place, added a GPS tracker, and a camera literally pointed at your face. Turning the phone off is basically cosmetic. "Law enforcement" is thrilled.

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@landley Not every device tho:

#Fairphone does exist and you can toolfree remove and swap their batteries to this day, which is why I have one.

But sadly the general trend to #Enshittification is a problem and #Apple is spearheading it with their #AntiRepairDesign!

And unlike #Microsoft tuey are competent in doing that shit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=6m20s

Embedded Linux Conference 2013 - Toybox: Writing a New Command Line From Scratch

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Show threadOS/1337Jan 27, 2024

@landley ...and they take pride designing hardware with a #ReducedLifecycle due to soldering-down inevitably failing equipment like #SSD|s and #RAM ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbrLiGY4Cg ), riveting in #Keyboards ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Purem1NF0 ) and espechally glueing in #Battieries ...

And they've veen on that trajectory for decades!!!
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 )