Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Am still bemused that when Apple undocumented hardware gets misused by the NSA people are all like “…it must be for testing” yet when I *personally* wrote one cookie-handling goof/bug on Facebook it spawned (1) conspiracy theories (2) academic white papers (3) newspaper headlines and (4) EU-wide lawsuits by Belgian privacy activists

2023/12/28
…OR YOU COULD REPLACE YOUR CHILDREN WITH BLUE CARDBOARD STANDEE CUTOUTS

2023/12/27
Meet Joe Biden’s Favorite Hacker – The Messenger | …nice little biography of Dark Tangent

2023/12/27
Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery | …if this turns out to be an NSA-enabling backdoor, Apple’s security reputation will be toast

2023/12/27
iPhone Triangulation attack abused undocumented hardware feature | iPhones are “secure” except for the magic keys which are left underneath an undocumented doormat

2023/12/27
It’s the winter perineum so I get time to read books because of extra toddler help; this year I’m reading several books on “the future of the internet” dating from 1998-2008, and doing so reminds me of USENET…

2023/12/27
Thousands of private camera footages from bedrooms hacked, sold online

2023/12/27
Hacking my “smart” toothbrush | …absolutely fascinating breakdown of DRM coming to electric toothbrushes

2023/12/26
How to amuse your small geeks over Christmas | Matt Blaze: The Cryptography of Orphan Annie and Captain Midnight

2023/12/26
The discreet charm of the perfect martini | BFI | …on martinis

2023/12/26
The Fight Over Apple’s iMessage and Those Green Bubbles | between eIDAS & blue/green bubbles, regulators apparently want to declare war on “Tech” expressing self-opinion about privacy & security

2023/12/25
Why I’m not even slightly scared about the future | …good read + a thought-provoking observation from Femi Oluwole; I wonder why power may be afraid of TikTok & Social Networks?

2023/12/25