Well that’s dumb.
The government can use whatever system it wants, and if there aren’t components on the market it can justify a make work program to domestically produce them.
Governments were able to run perfectly well without high density removable storage, why is it necessary now?
Why would it want to get rid of floppy disks?
Heck of a bluff. I don’t see how the us government can expect to sell the threat of expanding an unpopular foreign war in an election year.
Wait, is that 9/11s music I hear?
it’s important to come to this recognition.
america and israel are a team.
You are a fascist.
When I get a chance to actually read that with the level of attention it demands I’ll probably ask you some questions about it.
This is not a defense of Zuckerberg: he said that in 2004. People were more slapdash about their personal data back then and frankly he was right.
It’s always surprising to me how much more attention is paid to policies and warrant canaries in the privacy space than the jurisdiction a company falls under. It’s not like Facebook could tell the government “no, thank you.” When they’re served a warrant for search and seizure.
I tend to see corporate actions as aligned against my interests as opposed to ontologically evil. There’s no need for an overtly coordinated conspiracy when the same goals are accomplished through a revolving door policy between the administrative state and the largest data handling companies in human history.
Of course, Facebook would never even want to say no to such a request because making the kind of money they do requires close coordination with government.
I get it. Reddit was a huge platform and relying on trust there was impossible.
I didn’t come to lemmy from reddit, and my ideas about privacy are more grounded and everyday than yours. To give you some idea of how I got to where I am, I foiad myself after getting a tipoff and found out that completely unrelated to anything digital or computerized or any failure of operational security from my actions, I don’t have privacy.
Before that, what now seems like many years ago, when data brokerages became accessible I looked for myself and everything (and I mean everything) was there. Again, through no fault of mine and in one case without any relation to digital documents at all I did not have privacy. In one case it happened while I was a child!
People wring their hands about gen a coming into adulthood with unerasable digital records that will haunt them forever. I’m middle age.
Would you mind pointing me to the smartphone guide?
It’s not a paranoia measuring contest, but I’m decently noided out as well and was never able to find conclusive links between lifelog and Facebook aside from some insanely dubious coincidences. Even the tla -> Facebook pipeline shows all the signs of simply being administrative and security state assets revolving dooring into the private sector a-la iraq 2 just like they freely move from positions within the agencies of one administration or another to the rest of aang.
I welcome new to me information though…
I’m no fan of cloudflares dns, but the bot aimed project honeypot never bugged me. It always seemed as benign as a function of a group that makes money off internet shit running “good” (whatever that means) can be. Feel free to pill me on cloudflare though.
As you correctly guessed, I do own and use Apple devices, and have developed for them. I am familiar with the way the do not track system works, and it is, as the article you linked states, possible to send and receive tracking data through channels outside of it. I actually used to use lockdown privacy, the program from the authors of that study, but switched to a dns blocker.
It’s worth noting that since att was added to ios the line was publicly that trackers would be slowly pushed out. I noticed this myself when using lockdown privacy. Over time it would block fewer and fewer trackers not because they weren’t there, but because the ways apps were allowed to classify their data would narrow.
I’d love to see the same people do that study now. Realizing I could be fine with a simple dns blocker was why I stopped using their product!
Apple was identified as a participant in PRISM three years after google was and five years after Microsoft. Their cloud service (what PRISM refers specifically to) can be protected from that program by enabling Advanced Data Protection (capitalized here to indicate that such a generic name has specific meaning).
Lifelog was officially cancelled in 2004, three years before the iPhone was released.
I’m not sure how the email spam filter project honeypot is related to what we’re talking about.
What are we talking about? I replied to your comment about how apple not giving a backdoor to the fbi for the San Bernardino shooters phone was optics and not a real commitment to security.
I truly see their response as more than simply optics considering it took a one million dollar physical compromise to defeat the phones lock and apple responded to the agency’s success by moving to a system for device encryption that mitigated that hardware attack vector.
E: lifelong -> lifelog. Thanks autocorrect
the fbi had to pay a third party shop a million bucks to desolder the nand and copy it so they could try every combination of passcodes to get… no useful data.
it’s not optics when your device security requires that degree of technical skill and manpower to defeat.
almost a decade ago.
and you see the attack vector and take steps to mitigate it.
i’ll bite:
i went to the media bias fact check page for radio free asia, pushed control-f and typed “cia”. there were three hits, as part of the words “politicians”, “appreciate” and “social”.
radio free asia was literally founded by the cia as an anticommunist us propaganda mouthpiece.
well, maybe they don’t exactly use those words but they might basically say the same thing… what does mbfc’s rfa history section look like?
Founded in 1951, Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting agency of the United States government that broadcasts and publishes online news, information, and commentary to listeners in East Asia while “advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy.” RFA distributes content in nine Asian languages for audiences in six countries. In the past, RFA served as an anti-communist propaganda operation. Today they continue to promote USA interests with a less direct propaganda approach.
well, that’s glossing over and avoiding some important points, but at least they’re admitting it’s promoting “USA interests with a less direct propaganda approach”. lets see how they score a source they described as literal government propaganda mouthpiece:
Overall, we rate Radio Free Asia as Left-Center Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that slightly favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. (11/28/2016) (Updated D. Van Zandt 09/03/2023)
oh, the US government propaganda outfit serving “content in nine Asian languages for audiences in six countries” is left-center and highly factual! Who would have known!
the thing that makes media bias fact check a bad source is that it relies on a one dimensional left-right bias continuum and another one dimensional veracity continuum.
anyone with their head screwed on straight, no matter their personal politics or country of origin can tell without a shadow of a doubt that rfa isn’t a good source because it’s a propaganda arm of the us government. when evaluated on the metrics of leftness or rightness under the rubric of mbfc though, it shows up as “left-center” and when put to the test of authenticity by mbfc it is determined to be highly factual.
media bias fact check is a bad source. it cannot, by design, communicate the reality of a source’s bias because the way it evaluates bias is constrained by and i’d say warped into only what fits it’s highschool-in-1999-ass rubric of bias and accuracy!
But at what cost?
Secret cable reveals Biden administration knows we’re the baddies and wants to keep it that way.
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Embassies are universally treated as the territory of the embassy’s nation. That’s why ppl can jump into the embassy of some country without an extradition treaty and say “lol you can’t get me now, coppers!”
Iran doesn’t view the attack as on its territory, the attack was on its territory.
Death to America, Death to Israel.
People are saying it more and more!
Just log off. Make a new account. Your covers blown.
You’re gonna have to use a little more finesse next time to convince people to compile lists of undesirables and turn them in.
Go back to infiltration training. Maybe reread simple field sabotage.
I’m not the one saying users should maintain lists of people who advocate for direct action against governments, you are. You said they should be named and shamed. That is how you turn people in to the cops.
There aren’t special fediverse cops, the same intelligence services that have ruined lives and persecuted leftists and minorities for decades are the ones who will be investigating user curated lists of terrorists.
You’re the most assetest person I’ve ever seen. You’re like if chatgpt was told to try to convince people to gather intelligence for the nsa. They should surround you with solar panels and harvest infinite energy from your hyper intense glowing. You should flee to a theater after your next post.
Literally log off forever, cop. 👮♂️ 🐷🐽🐖
What fediblock is for:
an offensive instance, even if it has been posted about (a lot) before (just maybe check if the last 5 posts under the hashtag are not already about that instance)
an instance (currently) spamming (maybe indicate, that a limit is better, than a suspend in this case)
a general useful tip about fighting spam or trolls or whatever (think about whether it doesn’t fit better under #FediBlockMeta)
recommendations to unblock an instance that is e.g. no longer spamming
Fediblock isn’t so you can sic the authorities on people who say stuff you don’t like, cop.
@WamGams@lemmy.ca in their own words:
I think all of us need to be keeping a list of accounts such as this one, advocating our websites users commit violence against the US government.
Naming and shaming malicious accounts calling for violence publicly is just good Lemmy civic duty.
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Well, when you talk about taking notes on users and turning them in to the authorities as civic duty I definitely don’t think you’re a cop!
Wait, don’t give up on trying to convince people to document and rat on each other so easy!
Come on, how else are the spooks gonna know who to target if we don’t form a circular firing squad?
There’s also a cost to transitioning to the new technology.
Normalizing arbitrary size removable media makes physical exfiltration much easier because no one is asking why you’re using an illegal technology in the government building.
Floppy disks are not able to identify themselves as a keyboard and release a payload of keystrokes on command, or hide entire soc computers complete with network adapters.
There is also the matter of retraining on an institutional scale, and if you think it’s as simple as “put this into the computer, not that” you’re woefully underinformed.
Just as an aside, it’s pretty fraught to compare a language transition caused by centuries of forced resettlement to switching the kind of computer thingy government employees use over the course of two years.