I think if you're using Keepass/Strongbox, and using e2e iCloud encryption, that's good enough for most users.
Just have a backup somewhere.
Newly released documents highlight the bureau's continued secrecy around cell-site simulators—spying tech that everyone already assumes exists.
Hunter Biden agrees to plead guilty on three federal charges
The federal charges against Hunter Biden arose from an investigation by David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in the Democratic president's home state of Delaware who was appointed by Republican former President Donald Trump.
> U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to two charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes in a deal with the Justice Department, according to court documents on Tuesday. > > The federal charges against Hunter Biden arose from an investigation by David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in the Democratic president's home state of Delaware who was appointed by Republican former President Donald Trump. > > According to the deal, Biden also entered the pretrial diversion agreement on one firearm offense.
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Are you suggesting China’s military would readily buy encryption chips from, say, Raytheon or Northrop Grumman?
I suspect they would not.
US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China’s military.
> “I appreciate concerns with using Chinese technology, but we’re very confident that even though we’re using these chips, our products cannot be hacked, even by Initio or Hualan,” iStorage's CEO John Michael says. (Michael also noted that some of iStorage products use a chip sold by Taiwanese firm Phison instead of Hualan or Initio, but didn't specify which products.) > > Even if a bridge controller chip doesn't create a secret key and isn't intended to store it, however, it still has enough access to it to enable a backdoor, says Matthew Green, a cryptography-focused computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Japan plans to stoke competition in smartphone app payments, dominated by Apple and Google, by banning major app store operators from forcing software developers to use the operators' own payment systems, a government panel said.
From a space-themed bar in San Diego, to conjuring the 70s through wine in New Orleans, and reinventing the quintessential dive in New York, here are all the new spots to order another round or three.
A bit pretentious, but I always enjoy Esquire's "Best Bars in America" list
Drives automatically get a "warning" flag if powered on for 3 years.
Wait till you google Richard M. Stallman.
Whether it's biotech or software, there's always tension between creating incentives for innovation vs fostering wide availability and openness.
The Free Software / Open Source world exists on the openness side, and while some business (including Apple) have made a business while contributing to open source projects, there is sometimes a catch. For example, Google gives away the core of Android (the Android Open Source Project), but if an OEM wants Google Maps, Google Play, etc, they have to play by Google's rules.
Anyone who tells you it's just as easy to make a living selling free software (what GNU calls it) as it is selling proprietary software is full of shit. It's not as easy. It can be done, and Open Source can be a selling point, but it's nowhere near as straightforward as just selling a thing for a price. Copyrights, like the copyrights protecting iOS and macOS, let companies just sell a thing for a price. No bullshit.
Apple, like any corporate interest, has reason to support or oppose various laws. I'm an Apple fanboy as much as anyone, but I'll readily admit they're on the wrong side of history with right-to-repair. Apple's an excessively litigious company. They're bullies in some markets. But I still prefer their simple transactional value proposition, which is that you pay for goods and services. Software is a good.
Open Source software is great too, and often as good as the proprietary stuff, but a world without copyright (basically what he is suggesting) would have a very hard time promoting the useful arts. For that matter, Open Source licenses typically function through copyright law. The GNU GPL, for example, only works because it has copyright as a backstop if you refuse to accept the license.
That's kind of the risk with any technology. And I admit, it is the most likely way we lose control: someone will ask, "why does Apple let you turn off the child porn filter?" and the answers may not be enough for lawmakers or an angry mob.
That the same could be said of a great many tools that filter bad content, from spam filtering to DDOS filtering. Should a technology not be available to consumers based on a hypothetical? That's just as bad.
If a technology exists to filter content I don't want to see, who are you to tell me Apple shouldn't sell me a device with that technology I want?
The iPhone 15 Ultra could have an ultra-high price tag
Well, shit...
In truth, it's a new highest end product, and presumably you can keep buying the lower end ones, but still.
Yes, there is potential for a slippery slope. And any filtering technology could be used for nefarious purposes. But this strikes me as pretty far from the slope and the purpose is clearly a good one. Remember you can always just turn it off.
I agree. For normies sick of online harassment, these filters are a huge win. Also for parents.
"I was positively surprised how well it worked," said one attendee.
Does partizle/lemmy remind anyone else of BBSing?
Logging in, seeing who else logged in, to a small community that controls its own destiny.
Lately I've been nostalgic, I guess, about how tech was in the 90s. It was less glamorous, less usable, but also way more human and civil. Everyone was just into technology and sharing cool stuff.
This little corner of the web kind of feels like that sometimes.
The “alpha” version of the EV company’s first pickup had problems with braking, handling, noise, and leaks, according to an internal presentation.
The new Chromecast and Fire TV can already install VPN apps.
I don’t believe there’s any actual data collection?
Instead of scanning iCloud for illegal content, Apple’s tech will locally flag inappropriate images for kids. And adults are getting an opt-in nudes filter too.
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iOS developer here. Just curious about lemmy.
In my spare time I look for astonishing new cocktail recipes and pet my cats.