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Cake day: March 19th, 2024
  • ArtVandalist@lemmus.orgtoAssholeDesign@lemmy.world•Could you please fuckıng not, Urban Dictionary?English
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    6 months ago

    If you believe that’s really true I’m probably not the one to change your mind.

    Browsers usually don’t even ask for any permissions, where iOS and Android apps do, and explicitly state what data they’ll steal.

    It’s much easier to fingerprint your behavior when using the web than it is when using apps.

    Unless you’re only talking about “the wrong kind of apps” but then I could continue about “the wrong kind of websites”.

    But hey, you do you. Happy tracking.

    Edit: I feel sad that sites like The Verge et al. trick people who want to learn in those kind of directions. They’re writers, not tech people. They earn from ads! Don’t listen to them.

  • ArtVandalist@lemmus.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Best article about XZ backdoor?English
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    6 months ago

    You’re correct. Right now many experts are scrambling all those small pieces together as to how this could happen in the first place, as a lot of it was public too: the social pressure on maintainers, random software changes that now seem suspicious, and the absence of a real identity of the perpetrators. Every expert who’s onto this seems to be a real person, with a real identity and a real face to the name.

    Prior to the first commits, there must have been months if not years of planning too.

    But just the fact that some of the code those perpetrators wrote took +0.5 seconds more for something that would normally only take 0.2-0.3 seconds is what gave them away.

    0.5 seconds of CPU time vs. years of planning.

    It’s an intriguing story.

    They tried so hard, they got so far, but in the end, it didn’t even matter.