Hop off the wifi for banking and wanking.
Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol I was just in Utah and on a home wifi there, pornhub was blocked (100% blocked, like you cannot access the site).
But if I switched to data, it was not blocked
Lol – how’s that working out for ya, Utah??
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 10 months ago
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What’s the security benefit for banking on mobile?
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s more the security risk of being on WiFi, assuming it’s not your home wifi.
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 10 months ago
Spoofing mobile is at least an order of magnitude harder than spoofing wifi. It pretty much guarantees that those who spoof mobile are either government agencies or people with enough money your pathetic little bank account is irrelevant to them.
That's for now. It is only a matter of time until spoofing mobile is at least as easy and cheap as spoofing wifi is now.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
No one else can be on the same network when you’re on mobile.
MSgtRedFox@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I think everyone is forgetting that there’s TLS on almost every website. You can monitor where people go, but you can’t see the traffic unless you get the person to install a malicious certificate in their device.
You can however have your traffic redirected to a lookalike site where you give up your account info. So there’s still some actual risk.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Probably the IP not being assigned to the blocked geo location.
ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kinda perfectly. The lawmakers don’t want to block porn; they want their constituents to think they are effective. The people that don’t go to pornhub hear it’s blocked (well that’s nice) and the ones that go, find a work around (some people like it being hard). They hope the work around is innocuous enough to be forgotten by election day.
I hope they miscalculated. I don’t see how blocking porn and weed is a winning strategy. I don’t understand this country. Life could be fun. We have all the ingredients.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A not insignificant portion of our fellow citizens are looking at their own misery and deciding that the source of that misery are things you are doing in the privacy of your own home or are or not doing that you “should”. This is much easier that actual self reflection and putting in the work to sort out what portion of that misery is self inflicted (and correctable with personal behavior changes!) or a systemic as a result of public policy which affects all of us to make changes in how our society treats one another.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
tbh self reflection can be very challenging. very scary. it can trigger an identity crisis and not everyone is mentally able to deal with it.
Mango@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We should wave banners describing how actually ineffective they are with instructions to get around this BS!
PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Then you’re giving the people involved far more benefit of the doubt than they deserve. They’re far-right extremists. It’s not hollow rhetoric or exaggeration, they’re here and they’re passing laws.
If you disregard the excuses that come out of their mouths, this is perfectly aligned with the far-right ideology that has infested the Republican party.
Groups like the Proud Boys, the former head of the Ku Klux Klan and incessant fuckwits like Jordan Peterson all openly promote giving up jerking off and routinely make pseudoscientific claims about it increasing your testosterone, therefore making you more of a man.
They’re also working hard to broaden the term “pornography” to include anything that acknowledges any sexuality other than “straight” and any form of gender expression that doesn’t clearly broadcast what genitals you have. This allows them to attack teachers and authors that dare say anything that isn’t right wing.
Weed is essentially the same story as it’s always been. It was made illegal so police could target “undesirables” like black people, hippies, jazz musicians and women who wanted to be more than a source of hot meals and warm holes for a middle class husband.
Literally the only thing they changed was updating the left-wing stereotypes.