🇬🇧 UK & 🇦🇺 Australia have the worst anti-encryption laws among democratic countries. 🇨🇦 Canada risks joining them with Bill C-2. 🇺🇸 US still relies on secret orders under FISA & CLOUD Act. 🇨🇭 Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be.
#Encryption is under attack worldwide. Our new global overview shows why Europe remains the best place for encrypted services.
Yes, you are right, our apologies. We did this analysis only for countries for which we know the political situation very well. If you could let us know insights about more democratic countries, we'll be happy to include these!
This both real and a decent metaphor, so it is time for me to re-tell a story.
Ever heard of The Ping Of Death?
There was a couple of years there - years, hand to god - where you could throw a single malformed or too-large packet across the network at any IP you could see, and if you malformed it just right for its OS, you could crash the machine. You could kill a Windows machine with one line in cmd.exe.
Because the Ping Of Death was an RCE. If you sent _just the right_ kind of malformed or too large packet - and you cleaned up after yourself - you suddenly had a system where you could basically ask any computer you could see to do whatever you wanted, and it would do that for you and then quietly go on its way.
I was temping for Global Affairs Canada in the late 90s, then called DFAIT; I got to hang with some old-school-then, semi-retired CSIS sigint guys.
I'm sure the situation has improved - I don't think winsock.dll or Wolverine have ever had a proper pentest teardown, even for historical amusement's sake - but I have to assume, given that we live in a world where there are no specialized chips anymore, and everything from the boutique brand-namiest NICs to the dodgiest junk you'd find in a Shenzhenese dumpster is a general-purpose CPU running some tiny OS of questinably determinate provenance, that... well, you have to wonder.
Because you don't have a "network interface card", you have an ARM cpu, maybe even a whole-ass ARM SOC, handling ethernet frames on one side and talking PCI on the other.
You don't even have SD cards, because "memory cards" don't exist. That terabyte of storage the size of your thumbnail you bought? That's an ARM CPU managing the wear levels on its crap-ass flash backing storage while pretending to be a hard drive on the other side.
You don't know how many computers are in your computer.
Random question UK people: is it just me, or does this player simply not allow you to press play? NVDA with latest Edge or Firefox: globalplayer.com/live/lbc/uk/
Might be different here, but the website (when OCRed) seems covered by the signin popup. It seems like the player is not supposed to be visible unless you sign in, it's probably an accessibility bug that it is.
This happens sometimes, screen readers (for good technical reasons) don't really understand the concept of something being visually covered by another object.
You can sometimes do extremely fun stuff because of this, like reading the personal data of some random customer that somebody didn't properly remove from their contract template. Or chitchat between the editors of your textbook.
🇬🇧 UK & 🇦🇺 Australia have the worst anti-encryption laws among democratic countries. 🇨🇦 Canada risks joining them with Bill C-2. 🇺🇸 US still relies on secret orders under FISA & CLOUD Act. 🇨🇭 Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be.
#Encryption is under attack worldwide. Our new global overview shows why Europe remains the best place for encrypted services.
people should start selfhosting as much as possible and go outside of the online world to experience some privacy.. although that is under attack as well.
sadly the US laws when you export software (out of US and Canada) are a lot more stringent with a max length of 64 key... which makes little sense if exporting to countries not linked to hell, like china, russia etc and harms the US as software therefore can't be sold on the playstore for Europe etc
Definitely, Tuta improves its product every day, and after open-sourcing it has become even more reliable. However, I think you run too many ads attacking alternatives that share some of your values — it comes across like badmouthing a colleague, and people don’t respond well to that. Right now Tuta offers encryption and security features that are unparalleled in the industry; in my opinion, that alone is the key selling point.IMHO
Putting Switzerland in a worse position than "EU" seems far fetched to me. Is the statement: "Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be." your only source of making it "orange" on your map?
There is a great risk that "Chat Control" will be applied in EU. What´s "green" about that?
There has to be worse threats to Switzerland regulations than "Chat control" then. Could you please enlighten me...
@gagagoogle Chat Control has been updated and it no longer requires undermining encryption - while in Switzerland a law to break encryption and to retain data for email and vpn services is currently being discussed.
Yes! Chat control has been updated... for now. But the "discussion" is still very real in many of EU:s countries of how to undermine the encryption .
What I'm gathering currently being discussed in Swiss (and not decided yet) is that providers might in the future need to "retain metadata—who you talk to, when and where—without breaking encryption"
So, revise your map, and make Swiss Green AND make a separate dystopical "What might come"-map where you can make both EU and Swiss orange
There are no explicit prohibitive laws in Russia, but the laws are "flexible" and interpreted as convenient, and there is also a widely used method of cryptographic hacking called "cryptorectal interrogation". I would give it a red.
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So I just got the latest version of Mona. So far, I like it. One thing that’s throwing me off, however, is having to click them more tab to access settings and other things such as muted items, drafts, etc. There seems to be no way to get all tabs to show on the tab bar at all times. This seems odd.
Meanwhile, the #linuxfoundation is busy promoting the hell out of that #AI crap. Weren't they supposed the bring balance to the force? Not joining them?
I just informed Envision that I am cancelling my preorder of the Ally Solos Glasses. It's been stuck in Customs for ten f*cking days, even thoguh I filled out a largely inaccessible PDF form that was absolutely atrocious and complicated. I also told Fedex that I am refusing reception. of the package. With that hassle with a shipment alone, I simply don't trust them to be able to handle things if the glasses need repairing. Furthermore, I've read too many less than favorable reviews. I find the app itself unnecessarily complicated, and the combination with the glasses seems to make matters even worse. Nope, I want my money back, thank you very much.
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Good on you. I think that maintainers' wasted time should absolutely be called out. Companies have simply thrown a blabberbox at people and told them to "use it". It doesn't mean the human using LLM tools absolves themselves from responsibility when they waste people's time. If we start a car, don't steer properly, and then drive into someone's garden we're responsible for the damages too, right?
OMFG!! Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea how bad it was. I figured that AI would be used to try to find vulnerabilities, & I thought there could be some good that came out of that (& maybe there still is.) But when the AI is just submitting a string match to a potentially vulnerable function, that's not exactly helpful. (One could say it's not AI at all!) And then to have it hallucinate a code flaw and argue with you about its result, absolutely takes the cake.
@Ehay2k yes, but at the same time there are also quite capable and good AI powered code analysis tools that actually find lots of good stuff too. The worst and the best at the same time.
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This was a long-shot and honestly it will make my logistics very difficult, the week before I will be travelling with my family to Mexico. So probably, will take the kiddo to the junior track!
20 mins of presentation but honestly I am looking forward to the networking. See you at #fosdem26 from the #PNW!
And make sure to attend and say hi if you are there, I will be giving you badges!
I was just experimenting with the MP3 player that is on the BrailleNote classic, and it sounds like it is decoding as 8-bit mono PCM. The reason I think this is the case is because I heard 8-bit quantization noise during quiet passages, and there was no stereo separation at all.
Yeah it seems that way to me as well. I still wonder if that decoder was made in-house or licensed from somewhere. mp3decode.dll is copyable but doesn't have any resource info.
@MutedTrampet It is possible that the Project Mayo entry in the information list might have something to do with the MP3 decoder. This item isn't present when running KeySoft 4.02, and I believe the media player was introduced in 5.0.
Possibly. Searches seem to suggest that Project Mayo was related to the DivX codecs, and archives of projectmayo.com mention a DivX Player for PocketPC with support for the MP3 format.
The MP3 decoder is indeed from DivX. The MP3LibCE DLL in the DivX player CAB file exports the same API functions as those in mp3decode.dll. web.archive.org/web/2003121015…
Me hace gracia ver que por ejemplo Sumar han estado sosteniendo el gobierno estos años y ahora así de repente es lo peor, no tienen objetivos, etc ... pero descartan salir del gobierno
No obstante si el gobierno es una mierda ¿porque han aguantado tanto y siguen aguantando como socios?
Estoy empezando a pensar que lo mismo regreso a no votar como hice algunos años.
Luego esto se me pasa pero ... es que Sumar desde luego ilusionan poco. Básicamente los descarté cuando el veto a Irene Montero.
No sé si es una pregunta retórica, pero a mi la respuesta es bastante clara. Sumar está llevando a cabo políticas favorables en materia de trabajo (creo que tenemos la mejor ministra de trabajo desde la 2ª república), y en el momento en que se deje de dar apoyo al Gobierno lo previsible es que las cosas vayan a peor.
I was chatting with a Black friend of Jamaican heritage. She was appalled that a Nigerian she'd met knew next to nothing about slavery.
It's Black history! she said.
It's *your* history, I explained.
For Africans that sad story ended when the ships left the shore. Our schools teach us about the impact of that devastation, not what happened on the other coast.
Black history is not one thing. It's not MLK.
It's also Songhai and Benin. Which they don't teach here
I'm not saying that the story of slavery is not important. Personally I've done my best to learn about it; mostly because I now live in a country shaped by it.
But there is so much human history. I have sympathy for people who have learned one bit of it, but not the other.
(Was thinking about this because I saw an exchange where someone was being upbraided for not knowing about American racism - even though they weren't American or Black.)
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I'm curious which of you has the largest Bastille infrastructure. Is anyone brave enough to share a screenshot of `bastille list` with a contender for highest number of jails?
I'm going to try and stop watching short-form content online.
I gave up watching tiktok a number of months ago, and now it's time for Reels and YouTube Shorts to go as well.
I have a theory that they trigger the same areas of the brain that gambling lights up.. and it's not so much about the watching, but about swiping to see if you ✨win✨ by finding something fun. I noticed that I'd be watching something I was enjoying and just swipe anyways to see if the next clip was ✨better✨, which feels like classic gambling behaviours.
Ugh! Well, figured out after many hours of learning and troubleshooting that I have yet another piece of equipment that doesn't do what I want even though it theoretically should! The whole point of me getting a USB Mixer was so that I could choose what analog inputs do and don't get routed over USB to the machine it's connected to. An Audio Interface such as my Evo will route everything or nothing, so that wasn't the ticket. turns out, though, that USB analog mixers do not do this, either and that is what this one is. What I apparently want is either a digital mixer or hybrid mixer with a routing matrix. So, guess I'll be taking a trip to Guitar Center with these two things when I get back from TN and see if I can sell them.
Now, I'm quite pissed and have noone to blame but myself, because if I would have explained what I wanted to do clearly to the person that recommended this, I would be willing to bet he would have recommended something else.
I just configured a new Ubiquiti wireless access point... well, actually an old one that was taken out of service last year when I wasn't home to fix broken things. It was easier to replace it than to walk someone through getting this one working again because of how it was mounted and such.
Anyway, adopted it to the controller, and devices automatically roamed to it. Then when I upgraded the firmware, those devices roamed back to where they were, then back again when it came back online. Nothing actually dropped for long enough to cause a noticeable problem.
Now I need to actually install this AP where it's meant to go, re-replacing the one it originally replaced. LOL!
What sins have we committed as a nation that Nigel Ng is our food ambassador? And telling Yankees that our burger Ramly comes with no vegetables?? Did we occupy a territory?? Did we loot a temple??? Did we do a secret assassination on a third world resistance leader???
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in reply to Kari'boka • • •Kari'boka
in reply to Tuta • • •you could just have used what you replied to me 😀
Or use the West, as westerners always do anyways. First World used to be the term a while ago.
In the end it is just the white countries that matters 😉