launchdaemon

@launchdaemon@infosec.exchange
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Mostly interested in mobile security/ malware/ reversing, coffee and burritos.
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launchdaemon2d ago
Em May 25

First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

#Privacy #Biometrics #DataMinimization #AgeVerification

launchdaemon2d ago
R Tyler Croy 🦀3d ago

The cost of computing matters.

I'm grateful for @bert_hubert 's fantastic presentation linked within 👇

https://brokenco.de/2025/07/09/write-more-efficient-code.html

Save the world, write more efficient code

Large Language Models have made the relationship between software efficiency and environmentalism click for many people in the technology field. The cost of computing matters.

brokenco.de
launchdaemonJul 5
Anon OpinJul 5
For environmental reasons I want to use trains wherever possible. But why am I paying double or triple the cost of petrol to not get a seat and stand on an non air conditioned train for two+ hours sweating my balls off. This is an utterly ridiculous system.
launchdaemonJul 4
Pauline von HellermannJul 3

This week i had a couple of conversations about #Gaza with well-meaning, nice people in which it transpired that they still knew virtually nothing about things that happened before Oct 7.

This factsheet, by the Independent Jewish Voice of Canada, gives a really good overview.

Let’s keep on sharing and informing others. So many here in Europe continue to know very little.

https://www.ijvcanada.org/in-the-week-before-october-7-2023-ijv-factsheet/

launchdaemonJun 30
Show thread𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Jun 30

@micchiato

schrödinger's trans woman:

- both physically stronger than every cis woman and also physically incapable of serving alongside men and women in the military

- both mentally superior to cis women and also mentally unfit for duty in the armed forces due to debilitating mental illness

- both easily identifiable on sight by any layperson and also capable of infiltrating cis women's spaces unless prevented by professional genital checks and blood work

launchdaemonJun 28
Mike ShewardJun 27
Seriously though, who looks at websites, noted for not being able to safely hang onto the already over the top volumes of personal information they collect unnecessarily, and says, “you know what these people need? a copy of everyones government issued ID.”
launchdaemonJun 21
Rairii   Jun 20
took a gamble on an untested lenovo yoga 11 (armv7 nt convertible laptop)

first time i dumped a VMK via windows boot environment exploits on real hardware!
launchdaemonJun 14
Phil SturgeonJun 14
Reform managing to lose nine of its councillors to ineptitude and outbursts of hate speech. They are en route for implosion at a rate of knots and will hopefully no longer be a going concern by next election. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/06/13/dropping-like-flies-reform-loses-nine-councillors-in-six-weeks/
launchdaemonJun 11
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Jun 11

when reverse-engineering embedded devices, i like to make these overlays

to make one yourself, open the datasheet screenshot in gimp, use "select by color" on the _black_ (this is important), grow the border by 1-3 px, copy the selection, paste onto a photo, and use universal transform until it matches

launchdaemonJun 11
Natasha JayJun 11
I simply do not concede that any of your cookie vendors' interests are legitimate.
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Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Jun 13
@r @azonenberg nothing cloned here
Show threadRJun 13

@whitequark @azonenberg oh wow, something about this feels *very* "familiar" and not at all like what we expected a weapon to look like

other than the chonky connectors, it feels like any other bit of standard industrial kit (esp. something about the large ugly fiducials and the pile of "QC passed" stickers)

Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Jun 13
@r @azonenberg this too, presumably
Show threadRJun 13

@whitequark @azonenberg the radio/fpga board feels fairly typical of industrial/professional kit, but that gps+mcu board feels like it could've come from aliexpress

brb re-evaluating our life choices /hj

Show threadAndrew ZonenbergJun 13

@whitequark @r interesting they sanded off the ID info from the FPGA.

Looks like Kintex-7 FFG series package at a glance?

Show threadAndrew ZonenbergJun 13
@whitequark @r the barcode isnt fully removed I wonder if with the right lighting and/or chemical techniques you could reconstruct it
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Jun 13
@azonenberg @r almost certainly but the UA side did not bother even fully IDing the FPGA on the website for shaming western vendors
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergJun 13
@whitequark @r there are definitely sanctions efforts tracing these things, I know people involved in them, but its been somewhat quiet in the public sphere
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Jun 13
@azonenberg @r reading some other reports, they did identify it in fact
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Jun 13

@azonenberg @r xc7k325t by idcode, dunno what speed grade

we reverse engineered most of the bitstream too