NaibofTabr

AWS is a huge suite of products and services, and there’s a lot of old legacy shit running on it.

Yup, AWS is legacy cloud. It was only recently that they set encryption by default on S3 buckets, before that they were just in the clear by default.

Cybersecurity and disaster recovery are not directly profitable, so they are almost always neglected in your average shop.

It’s never important until suddenly it’s the most important thing in the world.

Yeah, but proper failover and recovery requires additional infrastructure, and that costs money.

Hopefully a bunch of risk management people are writing I-told-you-so emails to C-suites right now.

Damn man, you are really bending over backward to defend this guy… do you owe him money or something?

Because if it’s doing this it’s a malicious app….

OK, how would you know?

Google also said they’ve found zero apps doing this.

So what? There are millions of apps on the Play store, they aren’t all being reviewed with this level of scrutiny. This means basically nothing.

This article doesn’t really address that. I don’t think there’s any indication that this particular vulnerability is related to nation-state hacking.

I’m sure there are apps that have malware built in yes, but I mean the MITM approach during an app download that you were describing.

Hmm, yes that can happen, but can it happen if you’re downloading directly from the Play store?

Um, ok, and how would you know the difference?

A literal decimation.

Normally I would agree with this perspective, but in this case the “malicious app” is just a demo. It requires no permissions to do the malicious behavior, which means that the relevant code could be included in any app and wouldn’t trigger a user approval, a permissions request or a security alert. This could be hiding in anything that you install.

Look I’m ready to see people come to their senses about this “AI” crap, but the answer is no.

“A doctor must go where the sick people are”

/e/os is Android without Google services.

You can install it yourself on supported devices, or Murena offers a few different models with /e/os pre-installed.

lol no, VC funding line goes up

I think there was an internal plan for Intel to split its design and fabrication departments into two companies like ten years ago.

They should be powered on if you want to retain data on them long-term. The controller should automatically check physical integrity and disable bad sections as needed.

I’m not sure if just connecting them to power would be enough for the controller to run error correction, or if they need to be connected to a computer. That might be model specific.

What server OS are you using? Are you already using some SSDs for cache drives?

Any backup is better than no backup, but SSDs are really not a good choice for long-term cold storage. You’ll probably get tired of manually plugging them in to check integrity and update the backups pretty fast.

Actually there are several legal arguments about this currently ongoing. There is a lot of discussion and several lawsuits in progress.

There isn’t really a final decision yet, but I think I agree with Cory Doctorow’s opinion that the solution is to make the output of generative AI tools uncopywritable/public domain. This protects artists broadly, as any company that wants to produce a copywrited final work (e.g. film, television, music, books, etc) will need to hire an artist to do it.

Why does a retail store need a license plate reader?

Microsoft put themselves in this position when they started giving out Windows 10 for free. It was effective in bringing most of the market onto the new version, but it set an expectation which it now feels like they can’t break, so they’re also giving Windows 11 away. Now to offset that missing revenue, they have to do something to extract value from users.

I don’t see how they could stop this without replacing it with something more exploitive.