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viking

@ viking @infosec.pub

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  • Facebook works perfectly fine in browser, there's literally no need for that shit app.

  • Son of Norway’s crown princess suspected of 23 offences including rape, police say

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  • Only the king or queen (if rightful heir to the throne) is immune, in accordance with article 5 of the Norwegian codex.

    The king does have the right to pardon criminals though. He doesn't exactly seem to be very fond of the kid though, and is generally seen as a very just man and close to the people.

  • Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations

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  • Sounds like the attack scenario is very sophisticated and targeted, and only works within the range of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) connectivity, so 10-15 meters under best circumstances. At that point they might as well eavesdrop on my calls in person.

  • Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations

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  • GDPR. First time opening a European website? German ones like this are particularly transparent (by law, not choice).

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  • Doesn't matter, you need the report as proof for the chargeback.

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  • I hope you did report the matter to the police regardless?

  • iOS Bike Tracking App

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  • I've only used it in Europe, and mostly for countryside tours, but yeah I can see how giant urban centers such as NYC might overwhelm the app.

  • iOS Bike Tracking App

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  • Yep it's based on openstreetmaps, which btw you can also edit yourself - I've added some backroads/dirt roads that are not accessible by car but work nicely by bike just so that the app would recognize them and route me through.

  • iOS Bike Tracking App

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  • I'm using https://www.bikecitizens.net/, Switzerland based so with decent privacy laws, really good maps and a great UI.

    Using it on Android myself, but I guess the iOS version will be more or less equal.

  • Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus

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  • Jesus was middle eastern. Don't need to look further than that to find the hypocrisy.

  • Experimental Piefed support is now available for Voyager

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  • I'm unable to log in with my existing piefed.ca account (which works with the interstellar app).

    No real explanation given, just a generic error.

    Haven't used voyager before, so it's not an older app or missing update, I went straight into the beta.

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  • About 7-8 days, my water boiler broke in mid winter, and I just couldn't do cold showers at below freezing temperatures. Ended up boiling water and washed at the sink, went pretty alright tbh.

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  • Nah that was Windows XP, where the hard drive was not encrypted by default, and the password was stored in a hashed file on the computer itself, freely accessible via any boot stick. Actually cracking it still took some time (below 7 characters a few minutes, 7 about 1h, 8 chars up to 24h, longer... LONG). But if it was a common word, then a dictionary attack with a long enough word list (most word lists have like 400k words or so) would get it in seconds either.

    The funny thing with Windows XP was that since none of the data was encrypted, you could simply delete the password hash and set a flag in the registry and you would boot right into Windows with no password at all, and were then prompted to set a new password. That didn't work since Windows 7 anymore.

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  • You can buy a hardware keystroke recorder for a few bucks. Just plug it between keyboard and computer and it logs all inputs. Once they have the boot password (and maybe a bunch of others), installing malware and exfiltrating data is pretty straightforward. Doesn't require a lick of IT knowledge either.

    Bit more challenging on a laptop without external keyboard, but there are hardware solutions as well, though they'd require tinkering with your device.

    Phones are harder to gain access to. Honestly if I wanted to get into your phone, I'd probably try to set up hidden cameras in spots where you are likely to enter your PIN (bed, toilet) somewhere under the ceiling and angled straight down. I'd probably try to switch the phone off as well any chance I got (long press the start button) so that you'd be forced to boot up and enter the PIN at any given opportunity to max my chances.

    Actually hacking secure boot / accessing data from encrypted drives is beyond casual hackers, unless you don't regularly update your devices and there are some active exploits published.

    But seriously, low effort password sniffing is still the biggest vulnerability out there.

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    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • Lemmy is the only text-based social media I use, other than PieFed (which is practically the same, and fully compatible). If there was a PieFed client with a nice UI, I'd switch fully in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the only client seems to be Interstellar, which is functional but lacking (and ugly).

    I do still use Instagram, but more so as a photo backup solution than active social media. PixFed or whatever it was called didn't work for me since nobody can guarantee that the server I chose will actively be maintained long term.

  • Even in android Microsoft is still trying to get you to use edge

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  • I've been using it for 12+ years, and still do to this day. The only thing that changed is that you have to use the Microsoft authenticator app to log on.

  • Even in android Microsoft is still trying to get you to use edge

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  • Russian doctor carved ‘Glory to Russia’ scar on POW during operation

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  • That is just as bad.

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  • Could be beneficial for your career, but your colleagues might hate you, really depends on the company dynamics (and maybe size). If you actually like hanging out with him, don't kiss ass and expect any kind of reward and just be yourself, personally I don't see any harm.