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Daily Archives: January 21, 2020
iPhones with decent passwords cannot be hacked?
Link. It’s easy to remove the password timing controls on anything older than an iPhone 11, but supposedly there’s no hack on the secure enclave itself. So a good quality alphanumeric password will block decryption.
Is only defense against artificial personae a shutdown of online discussion?
Link. Authenticated personae registration services can enable safe and validated conversation
“for 5G, development, performance, cost, and time to market were all prioritized over security, which was treated as an afterthought.”
Link. Grim.
“U.S. economy is locked in much the same pattern as before the recession — a cycle of boom and bust for ordinary Americans, with smoothly rising prosperity for those at the top”
Link. It will take another monster crisis to fix.
SARS 2.0: “The central government dispatched Dr. Zhong, a renowned expert with a reputation for bluntness”
Link. Authoritarian regimes have to keep a few credible people around for crisis like this.
Crypt32.dll hack was probably in use.
Link. Russia or China most like. May explain why no time to patch before public.