Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on Can I put a cold oxygen plasma generator in my fridge? 2 hours ago:
Those devices should just be used to clean emptied machines
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 3 days ago:
Same supplier for cans / labels. Sometimes even the same packing / mixing (/ and something also brewing) plant. It’s slightly more common with mislabeled soda. Alcohol is supposed to monitored and checked more closely before delivery.
- Comment on Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up 1 week ago:
Either you’re a bank under strict regulations when you’re handling that kind of money, or you have no business processing that kind of money. PayPal & co dodges most regulations due to technically not being a bank, but at that size they shouldn’t be able to abuse loopholes.
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 1 week ago:
I2P
- Comment on Here's what a Brazilian restaurant owner did after city hall banned sidewalk patio tables 1 week ago:
In some places here in Sweden, restaurants with sidewalk tables have an extra “lane” for pedestrians installed in parallel over the side of the street, like a protected boardwalk
- Comment on Smart option 1 week ago:
Over here in Sweden, VAT (sales tax) applies to private consumption, while businesses can buy without VAT applied (I assume that applies to most of EU and probably USA too?). So when you’re buying stuff from companies that sell both to consumers and to other companies you’ll often set both prices listed, base price without VAT and with VAT included.
- Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door 1 week ago:
iMessage will use SMS for 2 person conversations with Android, MMS for groups (and if your carrier disabled MMS it doesn’t work IIRC)
- Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door 1 week ago:
Using iMessage with backups does mean the backups are unencrypted and accessible by warrant (unless you use advanced data protection)
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 2 weeks ago:
The Pink Elephant problem of LLMs. You can not reliably make them NOT do something.
- Comment on Fuck you i'm closing my eyes 2 weeks ago:
180° from white on a spherical color space is white
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 2 weeks ago:
Good except for the critical features they didn’t add. Like when the iPhone didn’t have copy-paste, but on a Microsoft phone, way later.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
Last update in December
- Comment on salty 2 weeks ago:
Na
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
Both ARM itself and Linux for ARM has been standardizing a fair bit recently. But not to the extent to be fully generic, mostly just enough for portable bootable kernels - and after that you still need all the same custom drivers and configurations to make proper use of a SoC, but it’s not nothing.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
It’s all encrypted in storage. The decryption key is in the secure element / TPM chip, additionally protected by your PIN / password. Shutting it down unloads all encryption keys from memory.
Beware that US customs / immigration / border control can seize your phone and refuse entry.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 3 weeks ago:
You can do much better than a ledger with a commitment scheme and transparency log.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 3 weeks ago:
You’re forgetting about the traffic analysis and key distribution problems
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 4 weeks ago:
3 grams of from collapsing into a black hole
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 4 weeks ago:
No, copyright isn’t relinquished from any of that (not even any effect on damages if you still require players to have bought the game to use the private servers), and trademarks wouldn’t be affected at all if you simply require that 3rd party servers are marked as unofficial
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 4 weeks ago:
Only applicable if they run the servers themselves, not if they let others run their own servers.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 4 weeks ago:
And “would leave rights holders liable” is completely false, no game would have offline modes if it did
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 4 weeks ago:
The Pixel line is comparable to the Samsung S line, you got a budget phone before
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
OTOH I only have a PS5 because of Sony’s marketing budget, lol (non-slim version included with a Sony phone on contract, so technically also a way for them to clear stock, lmao)
But yeah, I don’t know any people with a recent Xbox here in Sweden. In the original Xbox era and the 360 era I think they had a big lead here, but after that I’ve seen much more Sony represented.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 4 weeks ago:
I’ve heard stories of clients giving gifts getting pissed when the wrong person claims them, so it’s risky for not just legal reasons
- Comment on Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors 5 weeks ago:
The judge explicitly did not allow piracy here. Only legally acquired media can be used for training.
- Comment on Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors 5 weeks ago:
This case didn’t cover the copyright status of outputs. The ruling so far is just about the process of training itself.
IMHO the generative ML companies should be required to build a process tracking the influence of distinct samples on the outputs, and inform users of potential licensing status
Division of liability / licensing responsibility should depend on who contributes what to the prompt / generation. The less it takes for the user to trigger the model to generate an output clearly derived from a protected work, the more liability lies on the model operator. If the user couldn’t have known, they shouldn’t be liable. If the user deliberately used jailbreaks, etc, the user is clearly liable.
But you get a weird edge case when users unknowingly copy prompts containing jailbreaks, though
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 5 weeks ago:
I run a cryptography forum
Encryption doesn’t hide data sizes unless you take extra steps
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 5 weeks ago:
It’s called traffic analysis
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 5 weeks ago:
Timing of messages. They can’t tell what you send, but can tell when
- Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone 1 month ago:
Or they’re trying to figure out who’s trying to stay connected with who