France isn’t part of Five Eyes.

Col. Florian Manet, who heads France’s Home Affairs Ministry National Cyber Command Technical Department, said in a statement issued by Australian police that his officers provided technical resources to the task force over several years that helped decrypt the communications.

McCartney said the French had “provided a foot in the door” for Australian police to decrypt Ghost communications.

Australian police technicians were able to modify software updates regularly pushed out by the administrator, McCartney said.

“In effect, we infected the devices, enabling us to access the content on Australian devices,” McCartney said, adding that the alleged administrator lived in his parents’ Sydney home and had no police record.

It’s hard to parse what happened here. Sounds like a MITM attack where they gained access to the device OS which allowed them to view messages once decrypted by the device?

Yandex search is part of the Russian division (I think, but don’t take my word for it). I don’t know how the services were split but I do know the Dutch arm of the company sold off a bunch of things to the Russian one.

I can’t believe I’m defending Yandex, but keep in mind that they sold off the Russian business a while back (to VK, if I remember correctly). Yandex RU and Yandex “everywhere else” are different companies.

What’s the value-add over just buying a SFF PC?

I did read the article. It’s a bunch of whinging and rationalization as she furiously tries to paper over the real reason she refuses to quit Twitter — her precious 70k followers. That’s all that matters to these journalists.

It’s just Firefox with a custom skin.

The UI/UX is so good for a one-person team that I hope it embarrasses Mozilla into actually making serious improvements to their browser for the first time in a decade.

It’s mind-boggling. How many articles can they write about the latest Twitter clusterfuck, followed up immediately by “follow me on Twitter”, before they wonder if they’re the baddies?

If large outlets said they were quitting Twitter and going elsewhere (Threads, Mastodon, whatever), the audience would follow. Media deserves most of the blame IMO.

And yet if you click that journalist’s profile, the ONLY social media link is to that festering shithole. Journalists are complicit and enabling Twitter to do this by treating it as a legitimate platform and the default place for news.

It’s literally an extortion racket. I’ve seen it first-hand.

People have already been jailbreaking Teslas to unlock full self-driving, which is a $10k software patch.

Same, that alone is reason enough to stick to AC IMO. It’s so much safer for the end user (or their kids who stick a fork into the outlet).

there’s not enough lithium on this planet to store enough energy for like half of europe nevermind entire world

This is a good use case for sodium batteries. They’re less energy-dense so not great for vehicles, but for a stationary application like this they’re perfect.

I suppose, but is there any documented occurrence of that? It seems like a whole stack of what-if scenarios required for that to happen. At that point you should be more concerned with someone beating your password out of you.

Nice post. My two cents:

• Can you make the images clickable? They’re impossible to read at that size.
• This paragraph should probably mention that this won’t work if the provider uses E2EE: “Using secure email providers means that a lot of trust is placed into the provider itself. A failure or a breach of the provider can result in the content of your emails being disclosed, which means you should choose a provider you trust, ideally with a good track record and some formal certifications that attest at least basic security. However, the attacks that are specific to this setup are complex and expensive. Unless you are a high profile target, it’s very unlikely they will ever be relevant to you.”

Because it’s an exercise bike ✨on the internet✨

Damn, rare technology L from the EU. Hopefully they walk back this decision.