throwaway3627's comments

Most of them work well. There's one I had to remove because it caused kernel panics.

This is concerning. It's also concerning when the country you live in contains as many idiotic conspiracy theories shared hundreds of thousands of times just like the DRC.

Prolix

Garrulify

Enucleate

Perorate

Expatiate

It depends on how an exploit is monetized; the devils is in the terms: exclusivity, duration, scope and level of access. A non-exclusively-licensed exploit that can be sold 50x for $50k/year is bank ($2.5m/yr). If I were to spend 6-9 months developing a good exploit, I wouldn't give it Apple if and only if money were the primary and sole motivation. However, it makes sense to blog about it, turn it in to Apple and leverage such a discovery into outside Angel funding for a startup... that is if Apple doesn't require onerous NDAs. If the terms from Apple weren't favorable (they're likely to be terrible), then reselling it makes sense if you were really broke or going nonprofit security disclosure route at least parlays it into cred.

There's only one party, the Property party, with two wings: Democratic and Republican. - Gore Vidal

(And that's my limit of political commentary on HN.)

You're conflating an exploit for a narrow bug target class with a malware package which likely contains one or more exploits and probably a payload. The act of exploiting requires much more than an exploit alone to have the desired effect.

Curated content starting in one domain. Don't be everything to everyone, at least not at first. (Think Amazon.)

There's a common attack that boosts the wireless signal of proximity fob to trick the vehicle into unlocking & starting. Fob wireless systems should ideally redesigned such that the round trip time is precisely measured of only valid encrypted challenge responses that only the fob can answer.

Spending a bunch of money on a luxury vehicle is usually idiotic and most people who do so usually can't afford it in proportion to their income sheet and balance sheet. Plus, it advertises the owner and the vehicle as targets for all sorts of criminal intrigue.

"Innovation" is increasingly newspeak for "regression."

Tech's court at the Palace of Versailles

The first half of the statement is a load of crap because forest fires will accelerate glacial melt and climate instability. Heck, Thunderf00t just debunked the recent Somalia virtue-signaling as completely futile. What needs to happen is net zero carbon emissions with large-scale permanent carbon sequestration. Tens of trillions of USD to get back to pre-industrial levels of GHGs is affordable and vital.

- Curtail use of fossil-fuels and animal agriculture

- Switch from carbon-polluting Portland cement manufacturing to carbon neutral or negative cement production

- Iron seed the oceans to spur seaweed blooms

- Seaweed: Salvage, closed-system burn and bury carbon emissions deep

- Also, separate CO2 from air and bury it

- Reintroduce large managed herds of grazing animals at the interface of desertification to restore grassland soil health

- Resurrect wooly mammoth hybrids in large herds to deforest arboreal tundra back to grassland tundra to stop carbon and land loss

I remember scramjets in Popular Mechanics 30 years ago, but nothing seemed to materialize.

Off-topic to scramjets but potentially military-related: Making a big stretch by assuming the "white Tic-Tac" isn't an elaborate hoax to get adversaries to overspend on propulsion technologies and/or troll the public, what type of propulsion could allow it to accelerate so quickly? Casimir effect thruster?

Any reasonable HIDS/HWIDS, beyond physical PCB auditing, x-ray verification and supply-chain chain-of-custody documentation, needs to include continuous monitoring firmware using end-to-end public key-verifiable signatures.

Also, open-source hardware, including the firmware, would alleviate some of the downsides of closed blobs.

Seems like a public service IMHO. ;)

Much peace and love <3, because there's not enough humanity between people these days it seems.

How a society treats its most vulnerable, "undesirable" and powerless individuals (prisoners, homeless and other minority groups) reflects the true nature of its constituents.

It's truly a shame most modern people have no idea what it's like to be homeless and/or didn't learn the golden rule or empathy in their upbringing.

Thank them for treating you like dirt? Get off your high horse of self-righteousness. Until you've been homeless, maybe you shouldn't comment.

Most homeless services here follow the "beggars can't be choosers" egotism of not attending to people's actual needs but rather looking down their noses on them, treating homeless people like criminals or make them jump through hoops like show animals.

For example, most of the doctor specialist services here have a "full" waiting list just to schedule an appointment and force people to call at a certain time in the morning for a few spots on said list, like animals jockeying to win the lottery.

Oh and the amount of food and cash aid is abysmal, not enough to feed or clothe anyone.

Most services demand either employment or only apply to certain groups, leaving many people to fall between the cracks.

The "social workers" are arrogant, obnoxious bureaucrats who don't listen to their clients but instead hold their aid over their heads and order them around without offering any solutions, strategies, resources or actual help... just judgement and control.

And it takes years to get disability status reviewed and longer to get housing. There are at least 1500 people living rough and 500 people living in vehicles in the area.

Nice empathy you have there. I bet you would sing a different song if you were homeless.

Yeap. Copying tech is a common pattern developing countries use to grow faster. Pot, meet kettle.

Louis Rossmann - "Apple users have no one to blame but themselves." https://youtu.be/gi9en4I-tjA

^ Actual title of a recently posted video