Hey, Prudential ... a 13-digit PDF password may prevent casual / amateur cracking when nothing is known about the target ... which may match your threat model / business case.

But it only slightly slows down an informed attack.

Assuming only that the target is less than 123 years old ;) and knowing nothing else ... just two lightly optimized attack masks will crack it on a modern rig in under five minutes:

-1 01 -2 0123 ?1?d?2?d19?d?d?d?d?d?d?d
-1 01 -2 0123 ?1?d?2?d20?d?d?d?d?d?d?d

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The Blind Vintage Tech Community (BVTC) forum site is now live!
Are you blind/visually impaired? Are you a sucker for retro hardware and/or software? Do you hate to see icons of the past slip into the land of the forgotten? This is the site for you! This site aims to unite sightless nostalgia freaks and retrophiles the world over. Classic operating systems, old school screen readers, long lost and forgotten speech synthesizers... It's all here!
Though this site is mainly targeted at the blind/visually impaired, sighted folks are allowed to join as well! It's important that sighted people gain an insight (no pun intended) into how us V.I folk live our lives. Nothing about us without us, right? With all that said, remember to follow the rules and have a good time! :)
Check out the site and sign up for free at bvtc.epizy.com

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INVESTIGACIÓN | El Gobierno andaluz adjudica a dedo 117 millones a hospitales privados acogiéndose a un decreto para contratos covid ya derogado

La Junta triplicó un presupuesto inicial de 70 millones para contratos de emergencias, encadenando prórrogas y ampliaciones de gasto durante año y medio a partir de la pandemia eldiario.es/andalucia/gobierno…

banks, crypto

"Silvergate and Signature were the two main banks for crypto companies, while SVB had a lot of crypto startups and VCs as customers....“Near-term, crypto banking in North America is a tough place. However there is a long tail of challenger banks that may take up that slack.”"

idk, announcing that you're stepping into the space left by Silvergate/SBNY/SVB right now seems like a good way to get regulators & short sellers to take a very close look at *your* capitalization & compliance? will be interesting to see if any other banks are willing to stick their heads up over that parapet 🤨

cnbc.com/2023/03/12/signature-…

Gajim 1.7.2 has been released 🚀
This release brings many bug fixes and some useful improvements. Gajim now allows you to delete messages from your local chat history (in case of nasty spam messages). Furthermore, detection of WAV audio files has been improved and you can now click the waveform to skip to a specific timestamp within a voice message. Thank you for all your contributions!

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2023-03-09-gaji…

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If you could see in X-rays, one of the brightest things you'd see in the night sky is the Vela pulsar. It was formed when a giant star's core collapsed about 12,000 years ago.

The outer parts of the star shot off into space. Its core collapsed into a neutron star just 20 kilometers in diameter. Today it's spinning around 11.195 times every second. As it whips around, it spews out a jet of charged particles moving at about 70% of the speed of light. These make X-rays and gamma rays.

The Chandra X-ray telescope took a closeup movie of the Vela pulsar! It shows this jet is twisting around:

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

But the most interesting part of all this, to me, are the 'glitches' when the neutron star suddenly spins a bit faster. Let me tell you a bit about those.

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@enkocz se rozhodl i pro Václavské náměstí odemknout své články, které přinášejí čerstvá svědectví o tom, co má Rusko na #Ukraine na svědomí, neboť vztek, nenávist a agrese často plynou z nedostatku informací.

denikn.cz/minuta/1100695

Das, was @rufposten hier wunderbar recherchiert hat, stellt nicht nur Datenschützern die Nackenhaare auf - sondern eigentlich jedem Gebührenzahler des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks (ÖRR).

Google Analytics beim Bayerischen Rundfunk und die lascheste Datenschutzbehörde Europas. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/google-analytic…

#ttdsg #ard #zdf #br #mdr #swr #ndr #datenschutz

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For any iOS Voiceover users interested in Chess, check out the Chess studio app. I just bought this. $2.99 and from what I can tell so far, well worth the price. Tons of functionality, and VoiceOver/Accessibility is specifically called out as one of the features. apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-st…

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Nouvelle version de l'excellent logiciel scrcpy par l'ami @rom1v

Maintenant l'application peut aussi transférer l'audio (sous Android 11+).

Rappel: Branchez votre téléphone à l'ordinateur, et ce logiciel vous permet d'utiliser votre téléphone depuis l'ordinateur (avec clavier/souris).
C'est plus pratique pour taper du texte avec un vrai clavier.
Et même la molette de la souris fonctionne pour scroller.
Vous pouvez aussi faire plein d'autres choses (copier-coller, etc.)
blog.rom1v.com/2023/03/scrcpy-…

Few of my friends decided to leave the Facebook and it's Messenger or Whatsapp apps. 👍 But they also decided to move to other proprietary and closed software like Signal.👎
Please if you make this brave decision, choose wisely. Something decentralized and open like :xmpp: #XMPP or :matrix: #Matrix. 🙏
These are not apps, these are protocols witch many apps can use. You can than choose app you like. For example on Andorid there is
Conversations or Snikket for xmpp, or Element for Matrix...
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in reply to Městský Vlk

@MestskyVlk Yep, I know. All these large companies started on opened standards and protocols. XMPP, iCal, RSS... That's why we liked them as early adopters and why we brought our friends to them. I used Pidgin to talk to my Facebook and GTalk friends in these old days... But when these companies grow enough, they always start to lock users in their ecosystem. 👎

Our Czech community has translated the LibreOffice Base Guide 7.4! And has some more news to share too: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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:androidWave: V obchodě F-Droid čekají aktualizace aplikací :androidDealWithIt:

👉 Jak na instalaci obchodu F-Droid
infoek.cz/jak-nainstalovat-fdr…

Dostupné aktualizace: :blobcathearthug:
👉 Infinity - Reddit klient
infoek.cz/reddit-klient-androi…

👉 Xtra - Twitch klient bez reklam
infoek.cz/xtra-twitch-klient-2…

👉 FairEmail - pravděpodobně nejlepší emailový klient
infoek.cz/fairemail-emailovy-k…

👉 SchildiChat - Matrix klient :matrix:
infoek.cz/bezpecna-komunikace-…

@fdroidorg #mobilniaplikace #android

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Hypercapitalist techbros already calling for, wait for it, government intervention!

What happened to "the market will solve it"? :blobcatthinking:

"The market solves it" only if it's your money on the line, not their stock options. :blobcatthinksmart:

Remember all this bullshit about "we get the big payouts because we take the big risks"? Yeah, well… observe what happens when the risks actually materialize. Crying for risk-mitigating bailout *checks notes* literally the next day.

#SVB

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#svb
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Polizei entsperrt Smartphone: Landgericht billigt erzwungenen Fingerabdruck
heise.de/news/Landgericht-erla…

Die Tücken der Biometrie. Bequem? Ja. Sicher? Hm...

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@ClemensG Ich würde auch keinen 4-stelligen PIN als Alternative vorschlagen. Aber ein Passwort kann ich ändern – meinen Finger nicht so leicht. Und mein Gesicht würde ich auch lieber behalten.

Und was die "höhere Sicherheit" des Fingerabdrucks betrifft, da war doch mal was… mehrmals… Schäuble, universaler Fingerabdruck etc.? Auf die Schnelle: quarks.de/gesellschaft/wissens… Ah, und da ist der Master-Fingerabdruck: deskmodder.de/blog/2017/05/03/…

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@daniel @ClemensG wobei die Frage ist, ob es den Fingerabdruck wirklich *bräuchte* (definiere "brauchen" in diesem Zusammenhang). Ist es wirklich relevant, WER zugreift (Biometrie) – oder genügt es, dass "jemensch" zugreifen DARF (sicheres Passwort)? Für das WER wäre doch eher der User relevant. Ist es im Smartphone-Umfeld wichtig sicher zu stellen, welche Person mit welchem Konto interagiert? IMHO eher nicht.

Is there a way to tell @fdroidorg that when I tag a release as "beta" that it should not mark it as the recommended release when doing auto update?

Currently our #fdroid build is configured to have auto update ignore beta releases, so I have to manually submit them.

I read the f-droid.org/en/docs/Build_Meta… but couldn't find anything.
Any ideas?

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NASA has updated its well-known climate spiral visualization by adding 2022; the spiral keeps growing and getting dark red, indicating a warming planet.

➡️ Look at what happened since the year you were born.

➡️ theplanet.substack.com/p/watch…

➡️ Reblog

Silicon Valley startups: We're libertarian, hate government regulation and oversight, and believe every person and business should be accountable for its own decisions and mistakes.

Also Silicon Valley startups: OMG,
#SVB has failed. The government better do a bailout, and the FDIC must protect all our assets expediently!

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/10/inv…

#svb

I've just run into another CPU bug affecting #Firefox so this is a good occasion to show you how one looks like and how I identify it. CPU bugs have always been a fact of life but they've become more common as CPUs have become more complex.

But let's begin from the start, the bug in question is a crash: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… 🧵 1/5