Mahonia

@Mahonia@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get these arguments. These tools aren’t weapons, and limiting legal access to pentesting tools will decrease corp’s and individuals’ ability to be proactive about security.

  These devices can be manufactured relatively easily and making them illegal will essentially mean the only people doing security tests are criminals. Large tech companies, correctly, run bug bounties where independent security researchers can make income by reporting reproducible and exploitable bugs – the concept here is called offensive security and it’s extremely important for building better and more secure platforms. This situation will never be improved by limiting legal access to useful testing tools.

  The responsibility should be on automakers and other companies that have massively insecure products, not on open source developers who are making products for security researchers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s actually exactly what I’d expect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like maybe the problem is that automakers were able to widely market vehicles that use wireless protocols that are relatively easy targets for attack. This was never properly secure.

  Automakers should absolutely be held to higher standards (in general) than they are, and it’s not likely that banning specific devices is going to have any measurable outcome here. It’s pretty well known that people buy and sell malware, and people can just… make devices similar to a Flipper with cheaply and readily available hardware.

  This is just dumb posturing to avoid holding automakers and tech companies accountable for yet another dumb, poorly thought out, design feature.

  And obviously it doesn’t stop at cars. It seems pretty clear that snooping on any feature using RFID or NFC tech is only going to become more widespread. Novel idea: what about using… actual keys as the primary method of granting physical access? Lock picking is obviously possible but a properly laid out disc-detainer lock is pretty goddamn hard to bypass even with the proper tools, and that skill can’t just be acquired in the same way as with electronic methods of bypass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this was the exact thing that pushed me over to the FOSS side the last time they did it. Nice to see the tradition of annoying users to the point of them abandoning Microsoft is alive and well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poignant post on the state of things⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine why you’d get downvoted for that. Yes that’s absolutely true and I’m all for a globally equitable wealth redistribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poignant post on the state of things⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But there’s actually an outrageous amount of wealth in the west. It just needs to be redistributed.

  It’s not an easy problem to fix, but it’s relatively simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Income isn't keeping up with inflation, 76% of Americans say in new CBS News poll⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All I’m really saying is: “artificially driving inflation is a bad idea and here’s a historical precedent that supports this.” I’m not saying it’s an identical situation. I know that it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Income isn't keeping up with inflation, 76% of Americans say in new CBS News poll⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not specifically. History has repeated a few times here, but “inflation”, either in a normal pace or artificially created, literally means money is worth less over time. 1920s Germany is a specific and extreme example of this that out in a disastrous way, and also coincides with a similar climate of political extremism. An overview of that period of time in Germany

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Income isn't keeping up with inflation, 76% of Americans say in new CBS News poll⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the endgame of price gouging. It eventually will just completely destroy the economy.

  I hate consumerism and capitalism, but like in functional capitalism the goal is to get people circulating cash as much as possible. The endgame of a massive pool of money on the part of the ruling class effectively will mean that currency is worthless over time.

  Even under a shitty economic system that rewards greed, this doesn’t work for long. Only prioritizing the aims of literal psychopaths is a really fucking bad idea.