Reminder that the CEO of Telegram will owe me $1 Million USD in June 2022.
My two (enormous) stories about how companies turn you and your data into cash, and how to stop them, are both out today! You can read them for free!
Happy that I was able to work in shout-outs to #Mastodon and @pixelfed
https://www.pcmag.com/article/364152/how-companies-turn-your-data-into-money
https://www.pcmag.com/article/364153/online-data-protection-101-dont-let-big-tech-get-rich-off
Manipulating faults through adjusting the processor voltage. Dude. I'm not sure how you design a processor that isn't susceptible to that type of attack.
It seems for secure computing we need to start applying the "onion" concept to hardware, ensuring that features are carried out on physically separate chips. — https://arstechnica.com/?p=1631159
Finally found the Tweet where Twitter Jack talks about ActivityPub.
@bzdata applying the “Uber” model to social media infrastructure. Right now, they own the taxi fleet (the servers, storage, bandwidth), which no doubt costs them hundreds of millions of dollars/year. They see a way to outsource the ownership and maintenance of the infrastructure through federation, while retaining the ability to monetize traffic on the service.
@maxeddy brb starting a new social network called trebuchet
deadlines are overrated #pixeldev
hackernews nerds don't know the difference between distributed, decentralized, and federated. so here's an oversimplification:
distributed: when separate systems coördinate. placement of authority is a differentiating factor of their design.
decentralized: distributed system that can elect to defer or migrate central authority. mutable actions may be negotiated.
federated: distributed system that has nomadic and often competitive authorities. actors negotiate their own activity at any point.
I adore the Homeworld games and they are stupid cheap right now.
Oh dear God.
Oh dear GOD. It’s going to involve blockchain. So you’re going to pull two gigabytes to see your timeline on mobile devices instead of using something sensible and friendly to people.
Why won’t this blockchain trend die off?! (https://v2.jacky.wtf//post/3df7de1b-08ef-4997-9c82-6274b4147d2a)
iOS and iPadOS 13.3 (or newer) natively support FIDO-compliant security keys:
– The Safari web browser supports FIDO2/WebAuthn security keys over Lightning, USB or NFC.
– Security key-based biometrics or PIN (without the use of username and password) are not supported yet.
#ios #ipados #apple #fido #fido2 #webauthn #security #infosec #cybersecurity
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