Mike Shewardpeople are saying the xz backdoor is likely the work of a nation state actor, and given that it appears to been slow rolled for a couple of years and immediately became obsolete before it was fully launched - you do have to admit it bears the hallmarks of a government IT project
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TenBeen feeling this way for about seven weeks now đ”âđ«
edit: it's not a competition!
evacideSecurity researchers presenting at CCC break down Triangulation, and itâs full of juicy tidbits: https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/
Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery
Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass this hardware-based security protection, the attackers used another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs.
@skymtf @pluralistic @jann Only gatekeepers are âforcedâ; https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers
Currently it means total of 22 core platform services provided by these.
@autumn64 @fsf There is a serious recent competitor (Typst) for LaTeX, worth checking out: https://github.com/typst/typst
@jann @pluralistic Apple and Beeper have been in spotlight recently but there are many more things.
Googleâs Message app is also closed and not interoperable.
EU law is coming to force in next year which forces Whatsapp, Meta Messenger et al. to be interoperable.
Googleâs Message app is also closed and not interoperable.
EU law is coming to force in next year which forces Whatsapp, Meta Messenger et al. to be interoperable.
Cory DoctorowOh shit, Christmas came early this year!
#Interoperability, #Privacy, & #Security https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2023/12/interoperability-privacy-security
@endrift Today I learned!
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Inside: An Epic antitrust loss for Google; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/12/im-feeling-lucky/
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@cdg864 @erlend @pluralistic It is not off-putting, but not supporting either. In the worst case Appleâs lobbyistsâ can use it as argument that they were âwrong doâedâ and resulting regulatory is milder than it initially could have been.