trombonehero.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Computer Security. Sometimes grumpy (but I repeat myself).
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www.reddit.com/r/matrix/com...
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Mission: Kimpossible
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This guy: “Five metres further south and it would have entered the bedroom. And that wouldn’t have been particularly pleasant.”
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😳
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And deepfakes!
torontosun.com/news/nationa...
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Need a whole extra place value
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Reporting on Black Mirror has become Black Mirror
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Wow! Yesterday was a long day; I can’t imagine doing that multiple days in a row!
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bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Is this finding as important as it sounds to a non-lawyer like me?
bsky.app/profile/bigc...
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bsky.app/profile/niki...
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First step: bsky.app/profile/dcut...
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Burner phones are also clean of anything you wouldn’t want revealed at a border inspection (e.g., confidential negotiating points), but that’s the more obvious part.
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Yes, and that’s why it makes sense for the EU to issue burners when entering certain countries: if the phone leaves your possession (so it becomes suspect), you can throw it away without losing any data. But that’s not an argument against public wifi (the thing I was responding to).
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Or maybe it’s an argument for diplomatic pouches.
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Sure, but if they plant spyware on your phone then it doesn’t matter whether you use public wifi or not (as claimed by the post I was responding to). Physical access isn’t an argument against public wifi, it’s an argument against letting electronics out of your possession.
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Decades of security research has produced protocols that are safe even when your adversary controls the infrastructure. Online banking over public wifi is Just Fine Actually.
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Disappointed but, sadly, not terribly surprised