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Engadget: Western Digital blames malware for My Book Live devices being wiped remotely
by jim bell 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Engadget: Western Digital blames malware for My Book Live devices being wiped remotely. https://www.engadget.com/western-digital-my-book-live-devices-wiped-remotel…

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[ot][spam][wrong] old antivirus vendor tools
by Karl 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

I don't actually remember if it was norton or mcafee whose company made the reverse engineering plugins I used.

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OpenZFS native encryption.
by jim bell 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/a-quick-start-guide-to-openzfs-nati…

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[ot][spam] brainwashing karl to act certain ways
by Karl 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

The purpose of this ridiculous thread is to help me remember a little how I act on my own. It's hard to distinguish between some of the patterns in this environment and patterns from my history. It's not all about you, Karl. Paranoia is from random events similar to past fears. Ok, let's make sure to remind karl that he doesn't like javascript on websites ... punk-stasi can do that. punk-stasi, we'll post websites with javascript on them, every time we do, call it "javashit" to help karl remember he's a hacker or whatever. "Oh, this website has javascript on it. I remember punk-stasi complaining about javascript. Javascript is so insecure! I'd better mention that since nobody else did."

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I've Cracked Zodiac, a French Engineer Says. Online Sleuths Are Skeptical.
by jim bell 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/world/europe/france-zodiac-killer-cipher… ARGENTEUIL, France — Fayçal Ziraoui loves a good challenge. As a teenager, he designed 3D animations. In 2018, he completed an Ironman race. More recently, he ...

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[google] [old] How do I export my .mbox and location history?
by Karl 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

How to download your Google data Important: If you download your Google data, it doesn’t delete it from Google’s servers. Learn how to delete your account <https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32046> or how to delete your activity <https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/465>. You can export and download your data from the Google products you use, such as your: - Email - Documents - Calendar - Photos - YouTube videos - Data about registration and account activity You can create an archive to keep for your records or use the data in another service. Important: If actions are deemed risky, to protect your account, they may be delayed or unavailable. Tip: If you can't find some of your videos, check if you have a Brand Account <https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7001996>. If so, you may need to switch accounts <https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190#YouTube_videos1>. Step 1: Select data to include in your download archive 1. Go to the Download your data <https://takeout.google.com/> page. Google products that have your data are automatically selected. - If you don’t want to download data from a product, uncheck the box beside it. - If you only want to download some of your data from a product, you may have the option to select a button like [image: List] All data included. Then, you can uncheck the box next to data you don’t want to include. 2. Select Next step. Important: The file may not include changes made to your data between when you request a download and when your archive is created. Learn more about what may not be included <https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190#recent_changes>. Step 2: Customize your archive formatDelivery method Send download link via email We'll email you a link to download your Google data archive. 1. For "Delivery method," select Send download link via email. 2. Select Create export. 3. In the email that arrives, select Download archive. 4. To download your Google data, follow the steps on the screen. Add to Drive Add to Dropbox Add to Microsoft OneDrive Add to Box Export type One-time archive Scheduled exports Automatically create an archive of your selected data every 2 months for one year. The first archive will be created immediately. Note: If you’re enrolled in the Advanced Protection Program <https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/>, scheduled exports aren’t available. File type Zip files Tgz files Archive size Choose the maximum size archive you want to create. If the data you’re downloading is larger than this size, multiple archives will be created. Step 3: Get your Google data archive When your archive is created by using one of these options, we'll email you a link to its location. Depending on the amount of information in your account, this process could take from a few minutes to a few days. Most people get the link to their archive the same day that they request it. Note: If you’re enrolled in the Advanced Protection Program, your archive will be scheduled for two days in the future. Data you've deleted <section removed by editor. still present in public source document.> Common questions If the info you're looking for is not available via these tools, submit a data access request <https://support.google.com/policies/contact/sar> and specify: - The categories of personal info you're seeking; - The products or services to which the data relates; - Any approximate dates when you think the data may have been collected by Google. You’ll need to sign in to your Google Account <http://accounts.google.com/> to complete the form. Important: You can also call our toll-free number, 855-548-2777. Our representatives can answer many of your questions and help you fill out the web-form <https://support.google.com/policies/contact/sar> to ensure we are providing information to the account owner. Which format should I choose for my data? Where should I store my data? Why was my archive broken into multiple files? Why do my archives expire? Why do I have to enter my password again when I try to download my archive? Why didn't my archive work? Why are some recent changes not included in my archive? How do I preserve my Gmail labels if I am exporting my mail? When you export your mail from Gmail, each message's labels are preserved in a special X-Gmail-Labels header in your download file. While no mail client recognizes this header now, most mail clients allow for extensions to be written that could make use of the labels. Why can't I find some of my YouTube videos? Common Google data download questions Which format is used when I download my YouTube videos? Videos are downloaded in their original format, or as MP4 files with H264 video and AAC audio. I'm a member of a Google Group. How can I download messages and membership info from the group? I'm a G Suite administrator. How do I export my organization's data? Send us feedback Let us know about your experience <https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/takeout_feedback> downloading your Google data. By sharing your feedback, you help Google improve this product for you and other people.

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[wrong] Killing the PGP web of trust
by Karl 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

It has been a long, weary battle to exterminate the PGP web of trust, but it has nearly concluded. The first step was to make it nearly impossible for people to use pgp. Many of our soldiers lost their lives in battles against user interface developers and alternative standardisations. Luckily, this phase of the war was won, and pop was only ever used by trackable nerds and professionals. The second phase of the war was to prison keysigning parties. Although we were extensively delayed by the deception of labeling a military conference a "party", after a few bombings we managed to make these parties seem boring and bland even to those actually interested in secret communication. The third phase was deployment of various forms of disruption of keyservers. We spread rumors that it was the use of servers that compromised people's privacy, rather than their personal choice of associating their legal name with their email address. We produced fake keys that sounded legit, and signed them with extensive fake signatures with fake timestamps, and then publicised these through spies to spread worry. We spammed keys with signatures and uploaded them to the servers en masse, to lay seige to the supply lines of this enemy. The fourth and final phase was coronavirus. By breaking all the signing parties up, we could mitm all their communications, and prevent them from forming plans to attack our borders. In the confusion we wrought by disrupting their communications, we were able to cut people off from the terrorrism of pgp altogether. Debian is shifting to use a tool from bsd, who trusted us from the start. The seeds we have planted will grow a beautiful nation of people who trust only us, and never their friends. The preceding paragraphs are shared in sarcasm. It is horrible to lose pgp, it means whoever is the best at hacking your isps controls the world, and nobody knows for sure who that is.

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Wardialing Ancient Antennas
by grarpamp 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alaska-soviet-history-nomehenge WarVOX https://shufflingbytes.com/posts/wardialing-finnish-freephones/ http://bellsmind.net/ https://youtu.be/lCZmVXGyVQQ https://youtu.be/Hk-21p2m8YY https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7835w/how-to-brute-force-iphones-graykey https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-sec59b0b31ff/1/web/1 https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-performance-p550-core-sets-new-standard…

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[draft][crazy] signpost draft part
by Karl 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

I don't often think this, so if you can figure what is helpful here and pull it out or improve it, it could help. For pilgrims: This is a dangerous environment. We are trying not to influence it much. Many of the people here are the caring kinds of people we are familiar with. But among us are some widespread subsystems that can strongly use information in harmful ways. We have also all learned information, some unknown subset of which is very harmful.

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Cryptocurrency: ECB Spews Outright Lies about CBDC Privacy... WarOnCash, Electricity, Hacks
by grarpamp 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Both Govt and Corp coins just like legacy Fiat and Banking, will Spy, Control, Sell, Share, Censor, Jail, Steal from, and Shut You and Freedom Down, obviously... so they outright lie to you about it, and attempt to pretext your brains into submission with some FUD and happy bullshit. If GovCorp is fighting distributed permissionless uncensorable unconfiscatable p2p cash defi, human rights, freespeech, monetary competition and choice, cryptography, open free markets, etc as hard as they are, and even harder yet to come... then the obvious answer and truth is that crypto must be incredibly good for you to have and use. So go do exactly that. https://www.coindesk.com/euro-central-bank-digital-currency-privacy-panetta The European Central Bank (ECB) is better suited than private companies to protect user privacy for the eventual adoption of a digital euro, according to an executive board member. From a report: In an interview with the Financial Times on June 14 and published Sunday, Fabio Panetta said his institution had no commercial interest in storing, managing or monetizing user data. The issue over privacy in the digital euro is a focal point for Europeans as are concerns of security, according to a recent survey by the ECB. "If the central bank gets involved in digital payments, privacy is going to be better protected," said Panetta. "We're not like private companies." The banker also said people felt safer when their information was handled by a public institution, adding the bank would do a better job. "There are many ways in which we can protect confidential data while allowing the checks foreseen by law to avoid illicit transactions, such as those linked to money laundering, the financing of terrorism or tax evasion," said Panetta. Central Bank Problems... https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvg9/episodes/downloads Electricity usage is ABSOLUTELY NOT the reason GovCorp is shutting down cryptocurrency miners (ie: China), otherwise GovCorp would shutdown the BIGGEST user and inefficient waste of electricity on the planet... itself. What GovCorp is really doing is entering into abject fear survival fight phase, thus trying to shutdown the highly efficient competition of cryptocurrencies. Cryptos will win. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a-real-estate-mogul-has-a-dollar100-m… "Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is pouring $100 million into an attempt to rebuild the foundations of social media," reports Bloomberg: The effort, which he has loftily named Project Liberty, centers on the construction of a publicly accessible database of people's social connections, allowing users to move records of their relationships between social media services instead of being locked into a few dominant apps. The undercurrent to Project Liberty is a fear of the power that a few huge companies — and specifically Facebook Inc. — have amassed over the last decade... Project Liberty would use blockchain to construct a new internet infrastructure called the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol. With cryptocurrencies, blockchain stores information about the tokens in everyone's digital wallets; the DSNP would do the same for social connections. Facebook owns the data about the social connections between its users, giving it an enormous advantage over competitors. If all social media companies drew from a common social graph, the theory goes, they'd have to compete by offering better services, and the chance of any single company becoming so dominant would plummet. Building DSNP falls to Braxton Woodham, the co-founder of the meal delivery service Sun Basket and former chief technology officer of Fandango, the movie ticket website... McCourt hired Woodham to build the protocol, and pledged to put $75 million into an institute at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Sciences Po in Paris to research technology that serves the common good. The rest of his $100 million will go toward pushing entrepreneurs to build services that utilize the DSNP... A decentralized approach to social media could actually undermine the power of content moderation, by making it easier for users who are kicked off one platform to simply migrate their audiences to more permissive ones. McCourt and Woodham say blockchain could discourage bad behavior because people would be tied to their posts forever... Eventually, the group plans to create its own consumer product on top of the DSNP infrastructure, and wrote in a press release that the eventual result will be an "open, inclusive data economy where individuals own, control and derive greater social and economic value from their personal information."

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