potatopotato

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

No, 9/11 security theatre

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's not forget that the Concord failed in 2003. I wonder what started happening around then that made that actual flying part a smaller fraction of the overall time spent traveling.....

Even if you can step through a portal and instantaneously get to London from NY, if you still have to go through the rest of the airline process the time savings just isn't that huge.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

The western world has a very black and white view of the conflict. The Taiwanese/Chinese view it in a much more complicated way that's a bit hard to grasp as a westerner.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or not subsidize oil and gas to the tune of ~$20 billion/yr and corn at $2.2 billion/yr and redirect that towards EVs.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

Yeah until we literally run out of roofs, fields, parking lots, and fucking ocean space and are contemplating a fucking Dyson sphere I really don't understand these projects.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 month ago (28 children)

If you absolutely have to hand over your phone, turn it off completely, like hold the power button and then tap the off icon. That will dump any keys out of RAM, which is why it always requires the full password to unlock when you turn it back on. Both in terms of how your phone works and the leaks we've seen, the cracking tools the police have are overall significantly less likely to be successful when used on a phone that's been turned off and not unlocked since.

Also, IIRC iphones have a feature where they will dump at least some of the system keys from RAM if you push the lock button five times. I'd still trust fully off more but that's easier to do covertly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

They mean the Bluetooth MAC address. It'll capture your phone's and can tell who the manufacturer is but the rest of the address is randomized. That said, lots of watches/earbuds/assorted smart Bluetooth things aren't randomized because manufacturers are lazy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

And if your nav system crashes, so does your car

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, but it's harder to fight such a large incumbent when all the money is just going to the incumbent

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This seems like an odd move. Let China pay money to use ClosedAI hallucinations instead of using the money to develop their own hallucinations that the US has no insight into.

There's no technology transfer if they just using the hallucination outputs, it's just free money for trash.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (18 children)

Intrinsically/semantically no but the expectation is that the texts are encrypted at rest and the keys are password and/or tpm+biometric protected. That's just how this works at this point. Also that's the government standard for literally everything from handheld devices to satellites (yes, actually).

At this point one of the most likely threat vectors is someone just taking your shit. Things like border crossings, rubber stamped search warrants, cops raid your house because your roommate pissed them off, protests, needing to go home from work near a protest, on and on.

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