loopback_device's comments

On: NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts

[loopback_device]

There is INTERPOL

[not2b → loopback_device]

Which is just a communications mechanism, it doesn't have any enforcement power on its own.

On: Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name

[loopback_device]

Bayer bought Monsanto, not quite the same rebranding as the other ones

[beckman466 → loopback_device]

they're both about killing a brand name and trying to deceive public perception and manipulate our collective memory/map

On: Ransomware gangs are complaining that other crooks are stealing their ransoms

[loopback_device]

An investgation later revealed that the patient's death was not caused by the ransomware attack, and the patient would've died regardless.

On: Why does iPhone 13 screen replacement disable Face ID

[loopback_device]

Perhaps to prevent (or at least make it harder for) someone shorting around the security it is supposed to provide, i.e. by emulating or modifying the replacement part - not that that'd really stop the determined ones

On: Scientists are teaching drones to hunt down human screams

[loopback_device]

All-Access Digital €5 every 4 weeks or just €50 €20 for the first year

On: Human cells can write RNA sequences into DNA

[loopback_device]

Dr. Doug Corrigan seems to have more of a history in pseudoscience and pushing religious theories than science, not sure what the relevance of his blog is here, other than that it's rehashing the original source and weaving conspiracy theories into it.

[spadez → loopback_device]

It is not meant to be an appeal to authority, so the persons history/reputation is not relevant, but just their arguments.

On: Pentagon confirms leaked photos and video of UFOs are legitimate

[loopback_device]

Why would UFOs imply extraterrestrial origin? It's the least likely explanation for them being there by a wide margin. They're just unidentified flying objects, in the literal sense of the acronym.

On: For the first time, scientists find X-rays coming from Uranus

[loopback_device]

Original article: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/first-x-ra...

On: The Deno Company

[loopback_device]

> To provide a modern, productive programming system that adheres to browser APIs.

In my opinion, the best part of node is (or was) that it didn't adhere to the browser APIs. That brought in some fresh air, and gave us buffers, native bindings, streams etc.

[monstermachine → loopback_device]

Web does have streams and buffers. Web assembly seems to fill in the gaps for native code but deno supports rust plugins which removes any sandbox guarantees so it's a trade off.

On: NSA warns against using DNS over HTTPS inside enterprise networks

[loopback_device]

Sounds like they're either sitting on something, or are grumpy that they lost access / visibility

[davismwfl → loopback_device]

I think their point has merit. It isn't don't use DoH, it is don't use DoH outside your network and outside your control as it has been/can be exploited by 3rd parties. CISA, as the article points out, made the same argument, it isn't that DoH is bad, it is that a 3rd party DoH provider can actually do malicious things hidden from the IT admins and staff, making identifying a malicious endpoint the user was served via DNS harder.

I am not above thinking any government agency might put out disinformation to protect a source/access, but this one seems like a reasonable position to take on security.

[dumpsterdiver → davismwfl]

Agreed. DoH seems good for personal privacy (i.e. hides the um... meditation sites), but when it comes to enterprises, administrators will have no way of knowing what sites their users are actually being directed to.