A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Well crap, we’re fucked then?

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      We are just as fucked as we’ve always been. Hackers use zero-day vulnerabilities. Can’t do too much about that. Any device is hackable. That became clear after Snowden, and the USA hacking irans centrifuge.

      • @[email protected]
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        251 year ago

        The US hacking Iran’s centrifuges would have been preventable though with careful device management as far as I understand. The worm they used, Stuxnet, didn’t come from nowhere. It either came from a USB that hadn’t been properly sanitized or their systems were connected to an external, unprotected network when they definitely should have been isolated. That’s a preventable virus and unrelated to conversations about backdoors being built into technology for governments to access.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Yup. If you can’t hack over the network, you can hack them into psychologically creating a vulnerability

          • FartsWithAnAccent
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            81 year ago

            People are pretty much always the weakest link when it comes to security.

      • Flying Squid
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        51 year ago

        Weren’t Iran’s centrifuges only hacked because they used off-the-shelf parts made in the U.S.?

        • FartsWithAnAccent
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          31 year ago

          I don’t know that part would have made much difference, they were already air gapped and the NSA probably could have figured out just about any centrifuge: The hard part was delivering the payload, which was apparently delivered via a rubber ducky left in a parking lot.

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      21 year ago

      Can’t we even avoid that by using lineage or graphene? We’re really fucked unless we are like cybersec experts…