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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat

So this sounds like the ANOM phone story with extra steps?

I get that they can "access" messages, but the headline feels misleading if it requires full access to the device.

It's not that they're breaking encryption or reading messages in transit, it's more like they're installing malware on specific devices so that they can look at your screen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Could they though, I thought signal would just leave the market

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Well that's shady

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Users and ratings can be bought, so reputation is important.

Even if a piece of software is open source (which this supposedly is), it needs to be well known enough so that professionals are checking the code for vulnerabilities/ bad behaviour.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin/

Ublock Origin has 7 times the number of users anyways?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hijacked journals are a form of cybercrime in which a malicious third party creates a cloned website to impersonate a legitimate publication. The forgery replicates the original journal’s important details, from its title to its archive and international standard serial number, a code that identifies the publication. The purpose of a hijacking is to generate money quickly by charging illegitimate article-processing fees to unsuspecting researchers. Although the hijackers often publish papers that have been submitted to the fraudulent site, these works are not peer-reviewed nor considered legitimate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You can actually search Lemmy by adding your instance (or a big instance)

For example:

site:lemmy.ca framework 13

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This instance in particular or the fediverse in general?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes exactly :) Most clients should support it like that. When in doubt, just use the exclamation point

Additional info:

Some apps will also autocomplete while typing it in, which makes it easier for people on other platforms (ex. Mastodon) to be able to use the link.

For example, here are two versions of the link (with the formatting in this format so you know what to type)

Plain typed link: [email protected]

[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

Auto completed link: [email protected] [[email protected]](https://lemmy.ca/c/communitypromo)

So if you have the option to use auto complete, it might be a bit better. Often I just do the first one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think they're referring to the "rich cards"

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2016/05/introducing-rich-cards

I used to find them useful too, but nowadays I find them too unpredictable to be useful. The buttons move around, the UI hides or displays different things, and sometimes they only appear after the page has already loaded so I misclick.

At some point, A/B testing itself becomes the problem. Maybe they need an A/B test to see if they should be doing A/B tests all the time.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Important point, and they also said they didn't plan on supporting Linux.

They're changing things up after being bought up, but I'm not sure if Linux is a priority for them yet

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Yep, I'm still suspicious we're in the good phase before things get anti-consumer

 

cross-posted from c/Medicine: https://lemmy.ca/post/9440628

Discussion on r/Medicine: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/17vynjh

I liked this comment in particular:

For years I’ve had a smartphrase in epic for every test, medication or procedure I ordered that is denied by insurance. Basically stating that the medical director responsible for the denial will be medically and legally liable for any complications that may arise from the lack of such service. I thought it didn’t do shit, just something petty I thought of after a patient of mine lost his transplanted liver because the insurance would persistently deny his immune suppressant meds. It turns out the medical director for a recent insurance denial sent me a letter stating my statements were “inflammatory and inappropriate”. That put me in a good mood.

 

A 3rd set of data has been published on the dark web, site says, as OPP continue investigation

 

Reuters exclusively reported that Telecom Italia (TIM) (TLIT.MI) on Sunday approved the 19-billion-euro ($20 billion) sale of its fixed-line network to U.S. private equity firm KKR (KKR.N), becoming the first telecoms group in a major European country to part ways with its landline grid.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7934563

24 October 2023, Cairo, Egypt – A regional Geographic Information System (GIS) Portal for Health Emergencies has been developed and launched by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. The GIS Portal is a comprehensive hub, offering an updated geospatial resource to facilitate timely response during health emergencies at the regional and country levels.

The new resource serves as a centralized repository for updated geospatial data and dashboards for important health events in the Region. Moreover, it introduces an automated GIS application for interactive signal and events maps, which senior management can use to identify current and past health events.

 

It's been a few months since the last time I posted this, so it's time to take another look!

Just like with Reddit, I’ve just been saving things to read/watch/review later on and I haven’t been going through it.

Sort by old for the stuff you’ve REALLY forgotten about. This also gives you an opportunity to unsave stuff that you’ve since resolved (and replace them with other stuff people post in this thread)

To see your saved posts, click on your profile in the top right, then switch to saved in the menu

 

Mozilla’s Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter distills what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s just plain creepy in the world of consumer tech.

Includes 'big picture trends', 'best and worst products', and 'numbers'

If you haven't used PrivacyNotIncluded before, here is a link to the homepage where you can search up other products and services that you are interested in: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded

 

Here is an article where you can read more: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-publishes-ring-doorbell-vulnerability-following-amazons-apathy/

Quoted a portion:

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA | TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2023) -- Today, Mozilla is publicizing a security vulnerability in Amazon’s Ring Wireless Video Doorbell. Mozilla shared the vulnerability with Amazon over 90 days ago, but Amazon has yet to address the issue. Now, per industry standards, Mozilla is sharing its findings publicly to alert Ring Doorbell users and to further pressure Amazon to take action.

Following a penetration test of the Ring Doorbell conducted in October-November 2022, Mozilla and collaborator Cure53 determined that the device is vulnerable to Wi-Fi deauthentication attacks. Bad actors can leverage these weaknesses to disconnect the device from the internet using easily-accessible tools.

As a result, those bad actors could take the doorbell offline and then have their activities go unrecorded — undermining the product’s core purpose. Even after the doorbell is reconnected to the internet, a user will receive no alert about the attack.

Mozilla’s disclosure comes just days after Ring’s $5.8 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over other serious privacy and security issues. The FTC found that “Ring’s poor privacy and lax security let employees spy on customers through their cameras, including those in their bedrooms or bathrooms, and made customers' videos, including videos of kids, vulnerable to online attackers.”

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