Should the Aussies be proud or ashamed?
Posts by Sora2566
225 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2022
Australian cyber-op attacked ISIL with the terrifying power of Rickrolling
Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy
Go ahead, forget that password. Use a passkey instead, says Google

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.

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

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

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.
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Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name
It is possible to extract copies of images used to train generative AI models
OpenAI offers error-prone AI detector amid fears of a machine-stuffed future
CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security
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Pakistan’s government to agencies: Dark web is dangerous, please don’t go there
Using personal info for ads without consent puts Meta in EU's gunsights
Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan
San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots
Mozilla will begin signing Mv3 extensions for Firefox next week
Twitter is suffering from mad bro disease. Open thinking can build it back better
Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos
Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not
Mega's unbreakable encryption proves to be anything but

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.