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  • I have an understanding of the underlying concepts. I’m mostly interested in the war driving. War driving, at least in my understanding, implies that someone, a state agency in this case, physically went to the very specific location of the suspect, penetrated their (wireless) network and therefore executed a successful traffic correlation attack.

    I’m interested in how they got their suspects narrowed down that drastically in the first place. Traffic correlation attacks, at least in my experience, usually happen in a WAN context, not LAN, for example with the help of ISPs.




  • Windows, as any operating system, is best run in a context most useful to the user and appropriate for the user’s technical level.

    • Need to run Windows apps/games and aren’t afraid to tinker around if and when something doesn’t work as expected or your software simply isn’t supported? WINE/Proton.
    • Need to run mostly light Windows apps and don’t want to tinker around? VM.
    • Need to run Windows apps/games that don’t rely on Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat, want direct hardware access and aren’t afraid to tinker around, especially if you only have one GPU, and when something doesn’t work as expected? KVM
    • Need to run any Windows app/game without things constantly breaking or the need to tinker around and staying on top of things? Dual-Boot from different disks, utilize LUKS/FDE and be done with it.

  • I do, there’s a whole team behind that channel and I’ve linked the second revision of their test. The first revision had some issues and they’ve gone ahead and fixed those to present a truly competent and unbiased testing.

    Personally, I’d still treat those as suggestions and, depending on your use case (especially considering convenience of setup and the need for special phone cases) and budget, there are a lot of cheaper options that work perfectly fine, as well. I’ve got a 10 bucks no-name screw clamp style phone mount on my city bike and it’s been rock solid. Wouldn’t trust it in a downhill setting, though.



  • Why do you keep stating blatantly false info as facts when it is obvious that you’re knowledge of the topic at hand is superficial at best?

    In this comment thread alone you’ve stated that:

    • to avoid “Google Android”, one should use Lineage OS (?)
    • Apps on Lineage are some kind of separated on Lineage OS and not abandonware (??)
    • Lineage OS is not terrible for security, because you haven’t found anything wrong with it besides that small little, insignificant detail of an unlocked bootloader (???)
    • DivestOS has “all the same issues” as GrapheneOS(???)

    Genuinely not trying to stir up shit, I’m curious. Why?



  • 15-20 years ago, I’d have agreed with you. But apart from a select few news sites and exceedingly rare static sites, what percentage of websites most users use day to day actually function even minimally without JavaScript?

    I’m convinced that in practice, most users would be conditioned to whitelist pretty much every site they visit due to all the breakage. Still a privacy and security improvement, but a massive one? I’m not sure.

    Very happy to be convinced otherwise.








  • Ah. So Lemmy with version 0.19.4+ allows users to set a custom thumbnail URL for a post, which can be set to pretty much anything resembling a valid link, especially a link to another image in the local pictrs db and trigger a deletion of both when a minimum age check is passed.

    Also this:

    Except that the field allows some funny URLs e.g. https://t.t/;';'%22;...[:%3C%3E?]%27;%20yaba%20daba%20doo, if this is an issue too is not confirmed

    Relevant XKCD