… fuck you’re right.

That’s either Vladimir Harkonen or another guy twinning him

So maybe?

As a fellow unc mellennial, waking up in the morning usually results in reminding me of my place.

I learned that when they extend an offer, I ask for the health plan booklet. That can be a MAJOR cut people don’t think about.

I would panic and cry if that showed up on my Ioniq.

Don’t try to explain technology to them. It won’t work.

VPNs?

… ok good luck

This is pretty much my experience attempting to learn french. I can’t pronounce it worth a damn either.

Bout ready to toss it out, say fuck it, and switch to Italian.

… the whole point of solving those problems is to discover what we were missing in the process.

You can’t just “solve” one of these problems and say “see, all good.”

Signal does not use SMS.

The vulnerability they call out in the article is a phishing attack. A phishing attack requires the user’s input. There is no defense, no security, no techniques or technology to prevent you from handing the key to your safe to someone else.

Im going to go out on a limb here and suggest something that should be obvious - you don’t have to link devices

You just pointed something out there that I haven’t really considered. But its also the difference between abolitionists and reformists too- namely, abolition should be the goal, but don’t let that stop you from making reforms too.

A rabid fan of a message application? Just for trying to point out that if the police get your unlocked phone then they have compromised your messages?

IT DOESN’T ADVERTISE ITSELF AS A SECURE PLATFORM!!!

It says PRIVACY. If you are dancing ass naked inside your house but you have your windows open… guess what?

1. It NEVER advertises itself as such.

2. IIRC Signal DOES warn you about this, first when you make an account, and then when you try to save media files, and when you try to start a group chat. The others aren’t remotely secure anyway and I have no interest in attempting to defend them.

Its also a failure of the user’s access control and operating security.

Once a third party has access to the secure environment, that environment is and will always be compromised.

Interesting they highlight Signal again as though this is a vulnerability.

If someone else has access to a linked device… that’s you fucking up access controls.

I have many talents.

You’re last statement there is why I speak up about it. They can get help. They need to get help. For all the victims it can save. If these things are just discussed as blanket “sociopaths can’t be cured” then we just enable the abuse of more victims.

(Aka Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan from Dragonball)