Keith D Johnson
Violated Toe
@violatedtoe
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I post about my Linux journey and stuff I do with computers I ain't the smartest but I have fun.
Update: The boot partition was formatted and all the old configs restored with TestDisk but the system seems to be damaged by some earlier fstab changes adding gid=0 to the /root dir fstab entry. All I feel is pain ( I don't have a root password, archiso it is ) 
Yesterday I got a warning saying I should fsck my xbootldr partition. This is why you should'nt ignore warnings. Had to put the partition on life support and relabel it. 
Electronic Frontier Foundation“At a certain point, it is just actually opening up opportunities for harm as opposed to supplementing the public safety mission of law enforcement,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told San Francisco's KQED News of retaining data from automated license plate readers.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12005347/the-east-bay-has-hundreds-of-new-surveillance-cameras-and-more-are-on-the-way
https://www.kqed.org/news/12005347/the-east-bay-has-hundreds-of-new-surveillance-cameras-and-more-are-on-the-way
Help me some kid saw me using the command line. And now he wants me to teach him Kali Linux. How do I properly file the restraining order.
Just realized I "upgraded" my thinkpad's SSD with an AliExpress grade King spec SSD. Never trusting Reddit again.
Ricky Mondello
BrianKrebsSeveral folks here have already posted about this unusual malware attack via keyboard combinations and Windows PowerShell, but it still fills me with dread so I wrote about it:
Many GitHub users this week received a novel phishing email warning of critical security holes in their code. Those who clicked the link for details were asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. While it's unlikely that many programmers fell for this scam, it's notable because less targeted versions of it are likely to be far more successful against the average Windows user.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/this-windows-powershell-phish-has-scary-potential/
GrapheneOSHere's the Cellebrite Premium 7.69.5 iOS Support Matrix from July 2024.
404media recently published an article based on the same April 2024 docs we received in April and published in May. Many tech news sites including 9to5Mac made incorrect assumptions treating that as current.
Matt BlazeGod, the number of techbros here who are confident in their ability to resist targeted attacks from sophisticated national intelligence agencies is terrifying, but also explains a lot about why Silicon Valley is the way it is.