SS7 is vulnerable to attack. However, the types off attacks on the video don’t affect Signal as it requires a pin. (Make sure you set your pin to something strong and secure)

  • @boaratio
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    Can everyone please stop linking to Linus? He’s a YouTube huckster.

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      For one this isn’t a video by LTT.

      Secondly not everyone hates LTT like you do

  • @[email protected]
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    Would GrapheneOS with default settings be immune since 2G is disabled and networks don’t have 3G anymore?

    • Corgana
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      when I read comments like these it makes me realize that maybe all the money flowing to OpenAI isn’t folly and there really are people out there trying to tl;dr their own lives

        • Corgana
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          What feels alien to me is the idea that experiencing a creative work is itself a means to an end.

          I prefer to digest text too, but still would choose to taste a meal than read a typed up printout of the flavors it contains.

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            unfortunately, sometimes the chef likes to ascend from a golden staircase first to tell you about who they are and what the meal means to them, whilst passionately discussing their good friend’s VPN company, before finally, dramatically, letting you actually sit down and eat.

            It wasn’t always like that. I remember when dishes were thrown fresh out of the kitchen without even a “heads up” call. Those were good meals.

            • Corgana
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              Exactly! Why go to the first restaurant (video) at all if you don’t like the experience? You’re really going to wait outside the door of the first one asking the people leaving what the food tastes like? How is that better than the restaurant (videos) you do like?

              • @[email protected]
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                Because when I told the taxi driver that I was “a bit peckish”, rather than take me to a nice greasy spoon where I can swallow a nice meal in 5 minutes, pay $5 and leave… he took me to the Ritz where I had to wait for a waiter to talk my ear off about the pastrami whilst being presented a wine menu.

                I ain’t got time for that, I just wanted to satiate my hunger!

          • @[email protected]
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            I prefer to digest text too, but still would choose to taste a meal than read a typed up printout of the flavors it contains.

            If I showed up at a restaurant and was presented with a menu that didn’t describe anything about the dishes on offer, I’d be pretty disappointed.

            Point being that we have limited time and a nearly limitless amount of options for how to spend it. Text summaries are a tool we can use to decide whether something is worth our time (and money) investment if we’re on the fence about it.

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              A menu is not a creative work it’s a means to convey information. Veritasium is not reading wikipedia articles on screen, he’s creating an original work.

              Listen I am not criticizing how you choose to enjoy your time I just find the entire concept of finding the experience of reading a text summary to be more to be more rewarding than experiencing the thing itself to be alien.

      • @sazey
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        I don’t trust LLMs to do tldrs for me and it certainly doesn’t provide a rich nuance or spark discussions like asking a human would do.

        (I say that with 7 comments in the thread lol but you get my point I’m sure)

        • @[email protected]
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          I don’t particularly like Linus, but he was bearable in this video. As someone who assumed this was a SIM swap, I was genuinely as confused as he was playing it up when he was able to place calls but not receive them. That was really interesting.

          • @Linkerbaan
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            Linus is great. Sure he has his flaws but of all the flawed people he doesnt have horrible ones.

    • Caveman
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      SS7 protocol for 2G and 3G is vulnerable to man in the middle attack, easy to spy on people with. They use a walled garden approach al the primary defence mechanism and you can gain access through in for the low low price of couple of thousands of USD.

      Couple of exploits are intercepting or monitoring calls and texts and triangulating position by checking what cell towers are in range.

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        My rule of thumb that grimaces in the thumbnail mean the video is playing on emotions instead of facts (i.e. is crap) has another match.

      • @[email protected]
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        I remember the analog days where a few keystrokes on an Ericson phone were all you needed to start listening to private conversations on the cell tower you were connected to.

  • @Mango
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    Super Saiyan 7 is actually invincible.

  • The 8232 Project
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    I’ve never had a cellular provider for this reason among others. Here is NBTV’s video with some alternatives to directly having a SIM card, which I combine with MySudo to get phone numbers as well.

    • @Scolding7300
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      What’s your experience with using mysudo/voip numbers in terms of services accepting them (e.g. Google)? And socially, can you do regular calls with these numbers? Any audio delays?