Post B2fQ5vx5CUer8ZldQW by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
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(DIR) Post #B2fQ5vx5CUer8ZldQW by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
2026-01-25T21:57:27Z
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new blog post: compromising encryption keyshttps://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-25-compromising-encryption-keys.en.html
(DIR) Post #B2fQ5wqjrZB3vBo5B2 by oigreslima@fed.sfl.pro.br
2026-01-25T22:36:25Z
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@lxo #quoteIf you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.Bruce Schneier
(DIR) Post #B2fQ5xmsNPgKpV0VnM by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
2026-01-25T23:11:30Z
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he's not wrong. I hope it's clear that there are plenty of social and political and even technological problems that one can solve once one undertakes control of one's own digital life.what Schneier doesn't say or mean is that technology alone can't make security problems for you. it can, and avoiding that is what the article is about
(DIR) Post #B2fQ5yk4pJ2Ln6hn4S by iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org
2026-01-25T23:49:17Z
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no technology can harm a user without his will and cooperation. the most problems users get are the consequences of their own incautious decisions.I mean computer technologies, of course. because people invented numerous ways to kill each other, but this is another story.
(DIR) Post #B2fQ5zjP9I5qrJOlf6 by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
2026-01-26T04:03:40Z
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there are numerous times in which a piece of imposed computer technology requires so much privilege to be able to reject it that the rejection becomes unachievable by most, and seems far more costly (not just money-wise) than tolerating the immediate abuse. it's not so hard to understand why people so often go along with what's imposed on them. it's not every day that we get a chance to e.g. reverse engineer the tax form filling program that we must use, and make a free version thereof, or to reject contemporary means of payment when the freedom-respecting ones are phased out, or to refuse to carry a tracking device when everything and everyone expects you to have one to take a bus or the subway, to get a parking spot for your car or your bike, to see the menu at restaurants, to place your order, to pay, to do your taxes, to schedule appointments, ... I've become digitally excluded for not carrying a tracking device, for not having a device that will run all of these proprietary apps that governments and businesses take for granted nowadays. so the problems I face for my conscious choice are the flip side of the coin of problems that most people face because they can't fathom going for the alternative that also sucks. the only way we could win AFAICT is for nearly everyone to realize that this sucks and demand a respectful alternative.CC: @oigreslima@fed.sfl.pro.br
(DIR) Post #B2fmVDM7pPbDLUwNUm by iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org
2026-01-26T00:05:32Z
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the question I always was curious about is why some developers participate in developing of something doubtful and clearly malicious. this is absolutely base. but some people are ready to do really filthy things for money. malicious code does not appear from the thin air, it's written by somebody. and it is not the technologies' or greedy corps' that want to steal user data, but those developers' fault.
(DIR) Post #B2fq7kUHOUjiy4oxQO by iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org
2026-01-26T10:17:54Z
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it takes literally nothing to reject using malware. just don't use it. using takes expenses, paying for hardware, for proporietary software, for everything. not using if absolutely free. it does not matter what "everybody expects" unless it's illegal. and it's absolutely legal to have no trackign devices, this is a fact, so I'm sure people are the source of their own problems in 99% cases.
(DIR) Post #B2fq7lhQt4qsj9yyZ6 by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2026-01-26T10:24:03.678468Z
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@iron_bug @oigreslima @lxo Governments are trying their best to make it illegal to not have a tracking device.The UK is planning on requiring either an Android or iOS demon rectangle to be able to work or accept unemployment payments in the future.But even then, just try doing many things without a phone number (just having access to a phone number without a demon rectangle takes a lot of skill and a special position)
(DIR) Post #B2iAVHszltp8bznq4G by iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org
2026-01-26T10:58:51Z
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stationary phones and simple cellphones are still there. no need for any "rectangle demons". I don't have smartphone. and nobody can blame me I do this deliberately, this is my choice.and you know what? there's no any laws that demand a person to have a phone. and banks and others can perform all their operations without phone, as a fact. they just pretend they can't. but I proved this many times, they have methods to work with clients without phone at all. and I did this many times, because I simply don't take phone with me, I don't need it, really.
(DIR) Post #B2iAVJ4jLknyIgIizw by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
2026-01-26T16:26:52Z
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my landline in a big Brazilian city was discontinued without warning in October. I heard people in the US got early warnings and had them discontinued as well. we can't count on their remaining available.tracking devices that won't run random apps remain available AFAIK, and they can conceivably be left in place instead of carried around, but for how long? and they do have microphones (and cameras) that can be remotely activated without warning.in Brazil, even in the absence of laws that mandate carrying such a tracking device, the federal government has an app/website that has become the single entry point for a growing number of government services, but the website limits access to many of the essential services, demanding access from a tracking device under remote control instead.banking for regular people has recently become impossible, as banks discontinued their web-based services and now they're in a spree of shutting down branches, forcing customers to use apps to get any service whatsoever. despite my bringing banks to court and winning, the bank ignores the court order and discontinues access to services on the website for good. so I've become digitally excluded, and now I have to rely on family members to do my banking. but that won't last long: the banks are warning they're going to demand smartphone fingerprint biometrics.I'm happy for you that your reality is not like this nightmare (yet?). hopefully we can reverse course before it hits you.CC: @iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @oigreslima@fed.sfl.pro.br
(DIR) Post #B2iAVKSWCnQYakREiO by iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org
2026-01-26T18:20:13Z
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> the federal government has an app/website that has become the single entry point for a growing number of government servicesover here they also have government "services" but I don't use it, although it's theoretically available via web, without any gadgets. I just don't want to cooperate with fascists in any way. they murder people and I hate them. so I live without any "services" from the fascist state. I don't communicate with them in any way. >as banks discontinued their web-based services and now they're in a spree of shutting down branches, forcing customers to use apps to get any service whatsoever that sounds bad. over here banks offer full-featured web interfaces. mainly because sanctions made it impossible to have their apps on different proprietary gadgets. unexpected positive effect from sanctions. but without any app I can pay with a card via any ATM so even if they close web there's no need to have a smartphone.
(DIR) Post #B2iAVLId536xCMoqwK by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
2026-01-26T18:29:45Z
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the "services" range from getting forms to pay taxes, starting businesses, getting health support, unemployment benefits, etc. depending on your privilege level, you may be able to give up rights and do without health support and various benefits, but if you try to go about without paying your taxes or fulfilling other legal obligations, you'd probably get in serious trouble. and then, when you get sued or even set out to sue the government to enforce your right to not have to use such surveillance devices, you find you have to use them to participate in the court audience (and if you don't show up you lose by default).I regret having trusted things would remain reasonable and not acting sooner to preempt these movesCC: @iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @oigreslima@fed.sfl.pro.br
(DIR) Post #B2ikXSqdaCVHXT2N9M by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
2026-01-27T20:05:58.909116Z
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@lxo @Suiseiseki @oigreslima If you have never read this.https://web.archive.org/web/20220323230012/https://startyourownisp.com/