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[ElPoco]

2FA is a Big Tech Scam! You Must Resist!

We are being led to believe that Two-Factor Authentication is about making our accounts secure. Yet there is change underway. The interpretation of what 2FA has been modified. And it is no longer about Texting and Email. But what is the end goal? Why is this being done. I believe this is a...

yewtu.be

I haven't watched the video but the title and text snippet are wrong.
2FA in itself is an additional security layer. It's using an alternate method to check that you are who you claim to be, in case the primary authentication method has been compromised.

It's nothing new, it has long been used in many forms, from banks calling you to check that you were indeed the one making that large purchase/withdrawal to remote workers using RSA token cards to connect to their company network.

As usual with companies, it might be used as a pretext to extract something from you (your phone number, get you to download their app, etc.) but that's just capitalist companies being capitalist companies, it doesn't detract anything from the fact that 2FA does improve security.

 

[Phlyra]

FBI Can Pump WhatsApp Data In Real-Time: Reveals Leaked Document

As visible in the document titled Lawful Access, Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Apple iMessage are the sweet spots for the agency.

fossbytes.com

 

[Null]

I haven't watched the video

 

[matzesu]

Ok 15 Racers are Chosen, quite a lot but I think 2 Minutes per Game should work

 

[Null]

I've been very busy today.

Spoiler: Screenshot

 

[Null]

MITS Altair Simulator

PCjs Machines

PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines...

www.pcjs.org

 

[Phlyra]

SiFive Performance P650 RISC-V processor revealed as a challenger to ARM Cortex-A77 - Liliputing

SiFive Performance P650 RISC-V processor revealed as a challenger to ARM Cortex-A77

liliputing.com

 

[Phlyra]

United States FTC Files Lawsuit to Block NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition

www.anandtech.com

 

[Phlyra]

The Return of the GOOD OLD DAYS (of Instant Messaging)

https://viewsink.com/the-return-of-the-good-old-days-of-instant-messaging/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/26/eu_digital_markets_act/ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COMMITTEES/IMCO/DV/2021/11-22/DMA_Comrpomise_AMs_EN.pdf Support the Show * Patreon...

yewtu.be

 

[FBnil]

How to be very busy.

That brings back memories...We did chat with people around the world. Obviously, the timezones make it difficult to follow a conversation, but idling was the only way to get the history of the conversation (we dialed up to the University server, and continued a "screen" session that keeps running even when you disconnect). Now the conversation is centrally logged, so the NSA.., I mean, so that you can connect at any time and have all the chat in the group, even when you were not connected.

I hosted a TOR exit point for a month or so (ahh... REAL unlimited plans... before they found out that some actually went overboard and transmitted terrabytes, in a time where megabytes of data were the norm. Then they pinched the upload speed... while keeping the download speed...). Until friends discouraged me (I was very naive back then) and not get into trouble. I Also offered my open wifi (it was next to a window, so the street could get coverage). Nothing special happened. I checked the logs from time to time. Just normal connections. It was when the Internet was still a save place. Later, snort started seeing more and more port walkers (bots that try all your ports to see if there are vulnerabilities; usually windows ports - and I laughed in Debianish even created a honeypot so see if I would get a payload... I did! And thanks to the mighty F-prot for Linux, I could analize what virus I got) by then the provider changed the way we connect, in the past, we got an internet address a REAL one, so you kept your machine up, remembered your IP and you could telnet into your machine from anywhere. Then things like dynadns started popping up. First for free, then paid.

Here's another blast from the past:

The Web Before the Web: A Look Back at Gopher

Before the rapid growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, a protocol called Gopher briefly made the internet easy to use by combining the world’s online resources. Here’s what made it special—and why it was quickly eclipsed by the web.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[Null]

(we dialed up to the University server, and continued a "screen" session that keeps running even when you disconnect).

You only get access to screen if you're a MetaARPA level user, us lowly ARPA level users have to make do with Tmux.

join:join [SDFeu.org]

sdfeu.org

Here's another blast from the past:

The Web Before the Web: A Look Back at Gopher

Before the rapid growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, a protocol called Gopher briefly made the internet easy to use by combining the world’s online resources. Here’s what made it special—and why it was quickly eclipsed by the web.

www.howtogeek.com

You may be interested in Gemini.

 

[Phlyra]

BeagleV™ update

A quick update - BeagleBoard.org is currently working on two new RISC-V-based boards which will launch at or around the time of Embedded World 2022. Both boards use different SoC vendors than our initial RISC-V prototype, which was used for a limited beta development program earlier this year...

forum.beagleboard.org

 

[Phlyra]

An Evil Mind Is Trying To De-Anonymize The Tor Network

A user or a group has been running malicious servers on the Tor network in an attempt to de-anonymize it and unmask the users' identity.

fossbytes.com

 

[FBnil]

An Evil Mind Is Trying To De-Anonymize The Tor Network

A user or a group has been running malicious servers on the Tor network in an attempt to de-anonymize it and unmask the users' identity.

fossbytes.com

Interesting they don't point the finger at the suspected perp (discussed in other fora). It's better not to angry them indeed.

 

[Phlyra]

Interesting they don't point the finger at the suspected perp (discussed in other fora). It's better not to angry them indeed.

Maybe they were trying to be “diplomatic” about it
Any links to those fora?

 

[FBnil]

First, here's the original article, it's way more detailed:

crosscompleted with this info

As for surface light-reading, just head to:

A Mysterious Threat Actor Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Tor Relays - Slashdot

Since at least 2017, a mysterious threat actor has run thousands of malicious servers in entry, middle, and exit positions of the Tor network in what a security researcher has described as an attempt to deanonymize Tor users. The Record reports: Tracked as KAX17, the threat actor ran at its...

tech.slashdot.org

 

[Null]

I haven't watched the video but the title and text snippet are wrong.
2FA in itself is an additional security layer. It's using an alternate method to check that you are who you claim to be, in case the primary authentication method has been compromised.

It's nothing new, it has long been used in many forms, from banks calling you to check that you were indeed the one making that large purchase/withdrawal to remote workers using RSA token cards to connect to their company network.

As usual with companies, it might be used as a pretext to extract something from you (your phone number, get you to download their app, etc.) but that's just capitalist companies being capitalist companies, it doesn't detract anything from the fact that 2FA does improve security.

Live - It's not the 2FA. It's what's forced on us with 2FA + Q&A

Did you misunderstand the last video? I'm not condemning 2FA specifically but how it is being used by those with power to attach it to other things. Merch Store (De-Googled Apparel) https://my-store-c37a50.creator-spring.com/ -------------------- This live stream is sponsored by Linode. Use...

yewtu.be

 

[Phlyra]

Chernobyl's Air Is Now 47 Percent Less Radiated With Novel Technology

A novel technology by the Swiss company Exlterra could decontaminate Chernobyl's radioactivity in five years instead of 24 thousand.

interestingengineering.com

Post automatically merged: Dec 4, 2021

Also, @EvilDragon what have you done now? https://interestingengineering.com/indonesia-mount-semeru-erupts-sending-citizens-into-a-panic

 

[levi]

Chernobyl's Air Is Now 47 Percent Less Radiated With Novel Technology

A novel technology by the Swiss company Exlterra could decontaminate Chernobyl's radioactivity in five years instead of 24 thousand.

interestingengineering.com

Interesting. I've not heard antiparticle annihilation described as rejoining an electron before, but there you go. I think these electrons are not the ones orbiting the the nucleus because this would just effectively charge the atom +1, but instead the ones in the nucleus inside the neutrons. Free neutrons are radioactive and emit an electron (beta decay) to become protons which are stable nuclear particles. I guess their positrons remove the electron from the neutron changing it into a proton. As far as I know, antiparticle annihilation emits a chunk of gamma rays, but when the ground is radioactive anyway, I guess a few more gamma rays won't be much of a worry.

 

[levi]

Live - It's not the 2FA. It's what's forced on us with 2FA + Q&A

Did you misunderstand the last video? I'm not condemning 2FA specifically but how it is being used by those with power to attach it to other things. Merch Store (De-Googled Apparel) https://my-store-c37a50.creator-spring.com/ -------------------- This live stream is sponsored by Linode. Use...

yewtu.be

You don't need to do ss7 to hack anyone's text. Most commonly done these days is someone phones up the carrier and socially engineers their way round to porting your number. That would I assume boot you off the network, so you at least get some notification something's gone wrong, but it's often too late before you notice.