* Posts by Sora2566

225 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2022

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Australian cyber-op attacked ISIL with the terrifying power of Rickrolling

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Should the Aussies be proud or ashamed?

Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy

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Re: I feel bad for Pakistanis

Yes, because if there's one thing Bitcoin's famous for, it's how its value remains stable. /s

Go ahead, forget that password. Use a passkey instead, says Google

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Usually it's less developers being completely uninterested and more managers being completely uninterested... and if the developer somehow manages to get that through, the users being completely uninterested in learning a new way of doing things.

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While I agree that the current inability to move passkeys between tech ecosystems is their biggest weakness, calling them "a password locked up in some magical device" is a bit misleading. Said magical device won't ever send that "password" to a typosquatting domain, which kills entire swathes of attacks right there. Also, as they're a public/private key pair, you have pretty much no chance running dictionary, brute-force, or credential stuffing attacks.

I'd call them "a password++ locked up in some magical device" myself.

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Re: Oh boy here we go

Apple and Google are working on making that "token-generating dongle" be your smartphone. And while there's still issues about proprietary hardware and biometrics not recognizing you... these are the same problems we already have with our smartphones. The goal here is to make those the *only* login-related problems, rather than those *plus* all the problems with passwords.

Microsoft disarms push notification bombers with number matching in Authenticator

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Re: Security vs Convenience

Yes, but sometimes all an attacker needs is one idiot. Hence the attempt at idiot-proofing.

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Even if they do it once an hour, if they do that every hour for a whole week...

If you're struggling to secure email forwarding, it's not you, it's ... the protocols

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That means that the FROM header hasn't been changed since the email was sent, not that the email was really sent from that account. The only "authentication" this process provides is proving that the email was sent from *somebody* with access to that domain's private key, not a particular person.

99 year old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots

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Re: Value

My understanding is that currencies get their value from the fact that you can pay taxes with them. Then, once everyone agrees they want the currency (if only to avoid the taxman breaking down their door), everyone agree that the currency is valuable, and agree to trade it for goods + services.

I am not aware of anywhere that you can pay taxes with crypto.

Google pushes fake abortion clinic ads to lower-income women, report says

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Re: One more reason to shun go ogle and the rest of the alphanuts at all costs.

DuckDuckGo for me.

Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name

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Re: Like running face first into a wall...

I like DuckDuckGo, myself.

It is possible to extract copies of images used to train generative AI models

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Re: This is why

You're thinking of the Chaser: https://chaser.com.au/news/

OpenAI offers error-prone AI detector amid fears of a machine-stuffed future

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Very emotionally charged

I get the distinct impression that the author of this piece has strong opinions on AIs being used in this way...

CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security

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But I bet they'll get no extra funding to do any of those things...

Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud

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Re: "Most of that spend – $759,983 – went on compute"

When the Reg says "most of that spend", I suspect they meant "the biggest chunk of that spend".

Pakistan’s government to agencies: Dark web is dangerous, please don’t go there

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I do find it slightly hilarious that Pakistan's government considers Adblock to be a necessary part of your browser.

I mean it *is*, but I'm surprised to hear a government say that.

Using personal info for ads without consent puts Meta in EU's gunsights

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Re: Who else does this apply to ?

That was a thing (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DNT). It was removed because sites not only ignored it, they used it as another data point in their fingerprinting.

Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan

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My understanding was that Google/Meta were/are showing snippets of the articles in question, not just linking to them?

San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots

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I really wish people would stop referring to machines controlled directly by humans as "robots". That's not what the word means.

And if I am controlling a machine and the machine kills somebody, I should really hope that I would be held to account for the death.

Mozilla will begin signing Mv3 extensions for Firefox next week

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Fingers crossed this helps keep Firefox alive just a little longer...

Twitter is suffering from mad bro disease. Open thinking can build it back better

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Upvoted, but I think a better comparison would be sports teams. Hyper-focused on winning over the good of the game, extreme emphasis on loyalty, and lots of apologists for sexual assult.

Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos

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Re: Art class

Causation. The first ever anime and manga - The Mighty Atom, localized over here as Astro Boy - was directly inspired from Ducktales comics.

Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not

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Gun buyback schemes have been very effective in Australia, the UK, and even -gasp- America itself.

Mega's unbreakable encryption proves to be anything but

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Re: Still better than others

You can create a virtual hard drive, encrypt it with your personal favorite method (I use BitLocker), then stash the encrypted VHD in your Dropbox. (This doesn't work with Google Drive or OneDrive due to lack of bit-wise comparison - they'd upload the whole file every time it changed).

Don't have Dropbox running while the drive is mounted and decrypted though, just in case.

Internet Explorer 11 limps to the end of Windows 10 road

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Then keep your old never-updated windows version just to program your photocopiers. Just don't browse the web with it.

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