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TheTomas<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wdormann</span></a></span> I've cloned it to Codeberg before it get DCMA'd . Do not use a Microsoft GitHub Platform when you know you could be silenced by Microsoft 🤨 </p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/tomas-jakobs/defendnot/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/tomas-jakobs/defe</span><span class="invisible">ndnot/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.toot9.de/tags/Codeberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Codeberg</span></a> <a href="https://social.toot9.de/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://social.toot9.de/tags/WSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WSC</span></a> <a href="https://social.toot9.de/tags/Snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snakeoil</span></a></p>
Chris Pitts<p>I see the AI book authors have been busy. “AI Assisted Programming”, "AI Engineering" etc. Which is interesting considering I do not believe there has been a single successful product launched that was built using AI, and many developers and companies are now backing off the idea.<br><a href="https://agilodon.social/tags/SnakeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SnakeOil</span></a></p>
:bongoCat:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GossiTheDog</span></a></span> it refers to an "assessment" by the "global risk institute" that is written by the ceo of "evolutionQ", a "world class team of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quantum</span></a>-safe cybersecurity pioneers".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/serious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serious</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snakeoil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pqs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pqs</span></a></p>
switching.software<p>We received this e-mail from <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/NordVPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NordVPN</span></a> today.</p><p>If we ever recommend them on our website, it's safe to assume we accepted their bribe.</p><p><a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snakeoil</span></a></p>
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ<p>"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@sentientmedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sentientmedia</span></a></span> </p><p>&lt;💬&gt;<br>Another component for Kennedy of what constitutes “natural” is taking on things like red food dye, seed oils and ultra-processed foods — while promoting tallow, raw milk and grass-fed beef.<br>&lt;/💬&gt;</p><p><a href="https://sentientmedia.org/mahas-natural-foods-obsession/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sentientmedia.org/mahas-natura</span><span class="invisible">l-foods-obsession/</span></a></p><p>Vegans often are faced with fallacious arguments, and one of the most common is the Naturalistic fallacy.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturali</span><span class="invisible">stic_fallacy</span></a></p><p>However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".</p><p><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appe</span><span class="invisible">al_to_tradition</span></a></p><p>The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".</p><p>Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this. </p><p>Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: <a href="https://veganism.social/deck/@veganpizza69/110813538364525265" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">veganism.social/deck/@veganpiz</span><span class="invisible">za69/110813538364525265</span></a> </p><p>Bullshit &amp; snake oil are not vegan.</p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/MAHA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAHA</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meat</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/grassFed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grassFed</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/animalIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animalIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/CAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CAFO</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/intensivization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intensivization</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/extensivization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extensivization</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/ecofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecofascism</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservatism</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/traditionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traditionalism</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/paleoconservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleoconservatism</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/paleo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleo</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/paleodiet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleodiet</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/traditions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traditions</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/tradwife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tradwife</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pseudoscience</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scam</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/antivaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antivaccine</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/antivaxx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antivaxx</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grifters</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snakeoil</span></a></p>
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug<p>Maximal unseriös! 🔥🔥🔥</p><p>Und wieder (m)ein Warnhinweis vor unseriösen möchtegern Hackern, die Betroffene - und vor allem betroffene kritische Infrastrukturen gefährden und öffentlich anprangern, statt im Sinne der Hackerethik ein Responsible Disclosure vorzunehmen.</p><p>Ich schäme mich dafür und stellvertretend entschuldige ich mich im Namen der Sicherheitsforschenden Community bei Securitas Group und allen anderen...</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snakeoil</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/KRITIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KRITIS</span></a></p>
Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@ellent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ellent</span></a></span> : wow, that's a lot of snake oil in the FB article that The Verge refers to.</p><p>*THE* problem with consumers losing access to their phone (stolen, forgotten in the subway, dropped in the toilet etc.) is typically that *ALL* secrets are gone - except a screen unlock code, while *possibly* the user may remember the password of their iCloud or Google account (or may have access to a rescue code).</p><p>B.t.w., passkey synchronisation suffers from the same problem: asking people to remember one or more additional *strong* passwords is doomed to fail in too many cases; fortunately black magic comes to the rescue.</p><p>From <a href="https://engineering.fb.com/2024/10/22/security/ipls-privacy-preserving-storage-for-your-whatsapp-contacts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">engineering.fb.com/2024/10/22/</span><span class="invisible">security/ipls-privacy-preserving-storage-for-your-whatsapp-contacts/</span></a>:<br>❞<br>But losing your phone could mean losing your contact list as well. Traditionally, WhatsApp has lacked the ability to store your contact list in a way that can be easily and automatically restored in the event you lose it.<br>[...]<br>If you lose your phone, your contact list can be restored on a newly registered device.<br>[...]<br>Certain events [...] trigger the creation of a new cryptographic keypair that is associated with your phone number.<br>❝</p><p>So al the military grade encryption, HSM's and Cloudflare supervision eventually depends on a PHONE NUMBER - with, in modern computer terms, a VERY limited number of possible combinations of digits.</p><p>And all that apart from the fact that phone numbers may be spoofed and "SIM-swapping" attacks happen to be a lot easier than most people are aware of.</p><p>What could possibly go wrong?</p><p>P.S. Of course I may be totally mistaken, for example because additional protections are in place. However, I do not see them mentioned in the FB article.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AddressBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AddressBook</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Contacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contacts</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HSM</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SnakeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SnakeOil</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MilitaryGradeEncryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryGradeEncryption</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WriteOnceReadMany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WriteOnceReadMany</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BlockChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlockChain</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transparency</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Passkeys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Passkeys</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Synchronisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Synchronisation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/E2EE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>E2EE</span></a></p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/CISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CISA</span></a> boss: Makers of insecure <a href="https://graz.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> are the real cyber villains<br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/20/cisa_sloppy_vendors_cybercrime_villains/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2024/09/20/cis</span><span class="invisible">a_sloppy_vendors_cybercrime_villains/</span></a></p><p>"Even calling <a href="https://graz.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> holes "software <a href="https://graz.social/tags/vulnerabilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vulnerabilities</span></a>" is too lenient, she added. This phrase "really diffuses responsibility. We should call them 'product defects'"</p><p>... yes! It's about time that we do not spin security issues so that only the bad guys who exploit the insecure solutions are the main problem.</p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/spin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spin</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/antimalware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antimalware</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>snakeoil</span></a></p>
Quincy<p>"But we have to have this for security reasons!1!!"</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SnakeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SnakeOil</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Mind Control… No, Not Like That - [Vintage Geek] found an interesting device from 1996 called “MindDrive” which clai... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/12/17/mind-control-no-not-like-that/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2023/12/17/mind-c</span><span class="invisible">ontrol-no-not-like-that/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/peripheralshacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>peripheralshacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mindcontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mindcontrol</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/peripherals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>peripherals</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>snakeoil</span></a></p>
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