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_slih··on New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK
signal did everything right on their end. encrypted push, content only shown if the user opts in. the weak link is iOS caching decrypted notification content in an unencrypted sqlite database that survives app deletion. the 'e2e' in e2e encryption ends at the os, not the app.
_slih··on CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
same threat group hit filezilla last month with a fake domain. this time they didn't even need a fake domain, they compromised the real one's api layer. the attack is evolving from 'trick users into visiting the wrong site' to 'make the right site serve the wrong file.'
_slih··on US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
flock says customers own their data and control access. but their national lookup tool means 5,000+ agencies can search your city's cameras without your city's permission. 'customer-owned data' that anyone in the network can query isn't customer-owned in any meaningful sense.
_slih··on Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Flock Cameras for ICE
5,000 flock networks searched per query. cities that approved cameras for local burglary investigations are now having their data searched for immigration enforcement by fish and wildlife cops in florida. nobody voted for that.
_slih··on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was
yo, livekit acts as independent controller for call detail records under their own dpa. that means proton's privacy constraints don't even apply to that data. livekit can hand call records to us law enforcement without notifying proton
_slih··on NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns
palantir is a US company subject to the cloud act. patient data from 123 hospital trusts is now one mlat request away from us law enforcement regardless of where the servers sit.
_slih··on Intel Assured Supply Chain Product Brief
the attestation is a real step forward for silicon provenance. the problem is your board, firmware, bmc, and nic still come through the same opaque supply chain as before. the processor is rarely where a hardware implant goes.
_slih··on Is BGP safe yet?
rpki adoption is the new ipv6 adoption. it looks great until you realize it only validates who owns the prefix, not the path to get there lol
_slih··on We intercepted the White House app's network traffic
the privacy manifest declares no data collected while the app sends your device model, ip address, session count, and a persistent tracking id to onesignal on every launch. false attestation anyone?
_slih··on Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules
I think everyone's glossing over that this extends to anyone who knows the password. Your sysadmin, your business partner, your spouse. Hong Kong just turned your company's entire key management chain into a legal liability.
_slih··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
Forget the Iran attribution for a second. The FBI director's personal email was already in leaked credential databases from prior breaches.
_slih··on Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk
FBI director was asked point blank if he'd commit to not buying Americans' location data. he said no.
_slih··on Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
two verdicts in two days, $375m in new mexico and $6m in LA. meta's insurance company already got cleared of covering these claims. if even ten more states follow, meta is paying out of pocket at a scale that actually shows up on the balance sheet.
_slih··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
the fine is 0.6% of last year's profit. the lobbying budget probably costs more.
_slih··on Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability
cloud providers design for software failures and network partitions. they do not design for drone strikes. the redundancy model assumes your availability zones won't get hit by the same military operation.
_slih··on Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers
the ban covers all foreign-made consumer routers but practically every router is manufactured abroad, even the ones sold by American companies. the only domestic exception is Starlink, iirc
_slih··on America tells private firms to “hack back”
hack back assumes you know who hit you. attribution in cyber is hard enough for the NSA
_slih··on Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
second breach in a month from the same initial credential compromise. the first rotation didn't fully revoke access. the attacker walked right back in. no persistence needed.
_slih··on Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago
telling users on a cybersecurity website to click past certificate warnings is training them to do the exact thing every security awareness program says never to do. DISA runs the security standards that every defense contractor has to comply with...
_slih··on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
the supply chain for offensive tooling is now indistinguishable from the supply chain for malware. take care of your security team!
_slih··on Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
the product got deployed across the government while the security review was still in progress. then fedramp approved it because it was already everywhere. seem like i saw a lobbyist or two with a broom sweeping something under a rug...
_slih··on Show HN: AWSight: flat-rate AWS security checks mapped to CIS/NIST
Thanks for the heads up. The links are in the text body. Demo dashboards here: https://awsight.com/demo.html and main site: https://awsight.com. I posted as a text submission so I could include context.
_slih··on Show HN: AWSight: flat-rate AWS security checks mapped to CIS/NIST
A few technical details: checks run via scheduled API queries across your services. No agents or collectors run in your account. The cross-account role is scoped to read/list calls only. Findings are stored historically so you can see when issues appeared and when they were resolved.
_slih··on Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
three states passing the same template bill in three months isn't organic legislation
_slih··on Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain
the infrastructure outlasts whoever is in office. that's the part that doesn't get repealed.
_slih··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
the post getting mass-reported off reddit twice is the best evidence that the research is accurate lol
_slih··on E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May
the timeline for all of this is not a coincidence. meta spent millions lobbying for age verification laws that require content scanning. hard to scan content that's encrypted.
_slih··on Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting
"no actual age verification" is doing a lot of work in these defenses
_slih··on 1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak
every age verification mandate creates another one of these databases. billion records, no password, plain text.
_slih··on Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency
a school district is a customer of the same ALPR data broker network that sells to law enforcement, repo companies, and federal agencies. the data doesn't care who's buying.
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