brombek

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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

MS will erect another campus and things will go back to "normal". Hopefully this will last at this time...

Good documentary about MS hold over German government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg

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[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the video link. Very interesting. This is how all computers will be built eventually. So seize the means of computation until we can...

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Worldwide Server-side Cache Poisoning on All Akamai Edge Nodes ($50K+ Bounty Earned) (medium.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by brombek@lemmy.ml to c/security@lemmy.ml
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So one could have replace a JS file with one fetched from attacker controlled server for any site behind Akamai like LastPass or PayPal. That JS could have exfiltrated all the secrets from these sites on the client side (post decryption) or replace account numbers with their own on behalf of the user.

Next steps for Rust in the Linux kernel in c/rust@lemmy.ml
[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Torvalds added that Rust isn't that terrible in the end; "it's not Perl".

LOL

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Climate emergency: Is nuclear power a part of the solution? (yewtu.be)
 

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1TV1Y5f7Mg

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Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)
 

“Norton is pretty much amplifying energy consumption worldwide, costing their customers more in electricity use than the customer makes on the mining, yet allowing Norton to make a ton of profit,” tweeted security researcher Chris Vickery. “It’s disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide.”

Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of Israel's NSO Group spyware tool Pegasus [The Guardian] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Any form of surveillance used by any government will be used primarily for political reasons, against non-criminals. There is no such thing as Good Spyware.

Microsoft's new dystopian 'Productivity Score' tool lets your boss track how much you use email, Teams, and even whether you turn your camera on during meetings [Business Insider] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

BTW: Google does the same for Andorid (get your data dump and see for yourself) - every application start and stop is recorded, metadata from your e-mail, etc...;

NOT surveillance, this is to help optimize technology use. /s

Microsoft's new dystopian 'Productivity Score' tool lets your boss track how much you use email, Teams, and even whether you turn your camera on during meetings [Business Insider] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This is just "telemetry". We have that in all Windows (including server) for years now... nothing to worry. This is NOT surveillance. /s

Snapdragon chip flaws put 1 billion Android phones at risk of data theft [Ars Technica] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, until someone looks at their "security" :D

Snapdragon chip flaws put 1 billion Android phones at risk of data theft [Ars Technica] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] brombek@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago (3 children)

"3 billion" devices with multiple vulnerabilities that sound like RCE via things like video playback with "fixing them requires a long chain of communication between many vendors, manufacturers and resellers" sounds like a total disaster to me. Many (most?) Android phones in use will never see an update!