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Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog

https://lemmy.world/post/25968855

Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog - Lemmy.World

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia’s intelligence services. While this emerging operational interest has likely been sparked by wartime demands to gain access to sensitive government and military communications in the context of Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine, we anticipate the tactics and methods used to target Signal will grow in prevalence in the near-term and proliferate to additional threat actors and regions outside the Ukrainian theater of war. TL;DR: keep your apps updated & don’t scan QR codes that you don’t trust.

China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor

https://lemmy.world/post/20666818

China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI’s backdoor - Lemmy.World

As if anybody here needs a reason to be wary of what you do online, this essay shares how a foreign adversary used back doors that were intentionally put in place to spy on Americans and how the rest of the world probably has the same back doors. I especially appreciate the phrase “nerd harder” and the quote, “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia”. How can IT folk help politicans to understand?

community hosted backups

https://lemmy.world/post/19327542

community hosted backups - Lemmy.World

While reading many of the blogs and posts here about self hosting, I notice that self hosters spend a lot of time searching for and migrating between VPS or backup hosting. Being a cheapskate, I have a raspberry pi with a large disk attached and leave it at a relative’s house. I’ll rsync my backup drive to it nightly. The problem is when something happens, I have to walk them through a reboot or do troubleshooting over the phone or worse, wait until a holiday when we all meet. What would a solution look like for a bunch of random tech nerds who happen to live near each other to cross host each other’s offsite backups? How would you secure it, support it or make it resilient to bad actors? Do you think it could work? What are the drawbacks?

One thing I forgot to add to this was a different article by the same author: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/19/apologetics-spotters-guide/

Referencing a book, the article lays out the corporate BS playbook for pushing back on changes. In the anti monopoly ad space, they’re currently running play 1: there is no problem, people want targeted ads.

Pluralistic: Corporate Bullshit (19 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it

https://lemmy.world/post/19124951

The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it - Lemmy.World

I thought this group may enjoy this read about a suggestion on an option to take in the Google antitrust lawsuit. Of particular interest is that certain groups feel that the “right” approach is that everyone should be able to surveil the population, Google-style and the choice quote: > The judge repeats some of the most cherished and absurd canards of the marketing industry, like the idea that people actually like advertisements, provided that they’re relevant, so spying on people is actually doing them a favor by making it easier to target the right ads to them.

Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://lemmy.world/post/17891310

Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - Lemmy.World

As if you need any more reason to degoogle, consider what would happen if Google removed you from their platform tomorrow. This article some of the problems with putting all your eggs in one basket.

TIFU by rebooting before rebuilding my initfs

https://lemmy.world/post/10712937

TIFU by rebooting before rebuilding my initfs - Lemmy.World

I had a super fast but small SSD and didn’t know what to do with it, so I was playing with caching slow spinning LVM drives. It worked pretty good, but I got interrupted and came back a few weeks later to upgrade the OS. I forgot about the caching LVM, updated the packages in preparation for the OS upgrade, then rebooted. The LVM cache modules weren’t in the initfs image and it didn’t boot. I should know better. I used to roll my own kernels since Slackware 1.0. I’ve had build initfs images for performance tweaks. Ugh! Where’s my rescue disk?

Y’all crack me up with many of these comments!
English is weird - Lemmy.World

I got hung up on contractions this morning regarding the word “you’ve”. Normally, I’d say “you’ve got a problem”, which expands to “you have got a problem”, which isn’t wrong, but I normally wouldn’t say. Not contracting, I’d say “you have a problem”, so then should I just say “you’ve a problem”? That sounds weird in my head. Is this just a US English problem?

Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator

https://lemmy.world/post/9196646

Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator - Lemmy.World

US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is one of the more technologically engaged of our elected lawmakers. And like many technologically engaged Ars Technica readers, he does not like what he sees in terms of automakers’ approach to data privacy. On Friday, Sen. Markey wrote to 14 car companies with a variety of questions about data privacy policies, urging them to do better.