“I’m so used to getting fucked by Chrome and Edge that I just feel like something’s missing if I don’t.”
“I’m so used to getting fucked by Chrome and Edge that I just feel like something’s missing if I don’t.”
Let’s keep in mind that if this is a state actor or some sort of global organized crime, then they don’t put all their eggs into one basket. If that’s the case, they’re going to have a bunch of other plans and backdoor attempts ongoing. This isn’t the end and we can assume there’s something else somewhere that went unnoticed.
Security is a constantly changing war of attrition, not a goal/product/configuration.
This creates a single backdoor for all sign-ons on your phone.
When companies tell you they respect your privacy and you should give them your data, you tell them it doesn’t matter. Because policies can change, and at the end of the day, your privacy isn’t always up to an single company.
Wait. This was last year, so not the capitol riot. What happened in January last year? I’m in a decent mood today. Just going to skip looking deeper into this one. I have Factorio to play!
Oh! I think I see what you mean now. I think I get it.
I hope so. It’s more likely something infected Firefox itself, and didn’t get into the OS. But when I checked the modem logs, it happened up to a couple of months after the fact. That’s worrying.
What’s even more worrying is that a couple of websites told me I had an IP address that didn’t match my home IP, but would provide the correct one if I refreshed the page a couple of times. So some kind of covert proxy or VPN type of thing was happening.
I ended up just wiping everything, to be safe. Still a bit paranoid though.
You’re not wrong. But also keep in mind that headlines prime readers to think in a certain way before they even get a chance to read the context. No one will admit it, because headlines make money, but all it takes is one carefully worded headline to change how people interpret, feel about, and react to a story. Even when you’re aware of this trick, it’s impossible to avoid all the time. That’s just how our brains work.
I’m not seeing the downside here.
I know this story is more-so about a trojan in a trusted place, and not general security, but I have an anecdote to share.
So, time to fess up here. I previously complained about Google trapping me in captcha-hell for enabling Ublock Origin.
I was wrong.
Turns out that I had visited a movie streaming site a while before to watch a season of some show, I forget which. Without any downloads or noticeable input on my part. My Linux box apparently got hacked/malware. All I did was click the occasional “I am a human” box on the website, and sit back with popcorn.
I found out when my ISP starting blocking IP addresses some time later. I checked my modem’s logs, and they showed some unexplained traffic to impossible “unassigned” IP addresses afterward. I didn’t notice for a while.
I was stupid. Even worse, my phone also started behaving badly after that. I think I watched the last few episodes in bed, so must have infected that too.
Don’t assume any system is automatically safe.
Context. People seemed to be complaining about Mozilla’s CEO. That’s why I wanted to clarify for anyone reading the comments first.
SC-Controller, although it seems to have been abandoned.
Gpodder-adaptive
People. This is talking about the CEO for Onerep, not the CEO for Mozilla.
The headline is ambiguous here. The CEO in question is from Onerep, not Mozilla.
When I saw this on a custom ROM, it was basically the same thing, but said that my financial institution or whoever had admin access to my phone, including seeing texts and everything else, until my phone was paid off. Still not sure why that was there in a custom ROM, but I ended up not using it.
They all work well enough on my weak machine with an RX580.
Buuuuuuuuuut, RWKY had some kind of optimization thing going that makes it two or three times faster to generate output. The problem is that you have to be more aware of the order of your input. It has a hard time going backwards to a previous sentence, for example.
So you’d want to say things like “In the next sentence, identify the subject.” and not “Identify the subject in the previous text.”
That’s true. The reason why I suggested it is because the other person said they know nothing about Linux, have barely used a terminal before, and just wanted to try a certain distro. I thought this website would be a quick and easy way for them to play around a little bit to scratch that itch and see if they wanted to dive deeper into things.
Huh. I hadn’t thought about that. That’s not a bad point either.
Oh shit, I almost bought that on sale a week and a half ago. Should have done it.
Show off. I have 12 GB of DDR3, and a swap partition on spinning rust.
(save me)