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OP: https://mobile.twitter.com/jbwol/...

Can confirm. It is really like this.

Dear Australian Government and National Authorities, you can go fuck the right away with this shit!

It’s bad enough we are a country of national data collection with flimsy laws of obtaining access to said data, but to then go that one step further and shove back doors into everything is going too far.

https://news.com.au/technology/...

Under the proposed new laws, Australian government agencies could compel companies to provide technical information such as design specifications to help in an investigation, remove electronic protections, assist in accessing material on a device subject to a warrant and even build or install software or equipment that could help authorities gather information.

What could possibly go wrong 🤷‍♂️

"A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail"

I'll leave the title as it was, but people were hunted down just for having been once logged by a tracking pixel inside a messaging app.

Simply terrifying, I hold that off for a while, since it sounded like the usual fakes, but it seems its not, as more and more keep confirming it.

"The government eventually exonerated 11,480 of the wrongly accused, but some had already spent months in prison, and reportedly some even committed suicide."

"Elif finished dressing her youngest and watched police search her family's home before they took her into custody — for using a messaging app the government deems seditious.

She knew the arrest was coming. She'd already lost her job, because traces of the app known as Bylock were found on her phone"

"The regime relies on logs from the country's ISPs to identify users of Bylock, fingerprinting them on the basis of their communications with Bylock's servers. These communications can be triggered without using Bylock, though: Bylock's tracking pixel was used for analytics for pop-up ads and in at least eight apps."

https://m.slashdot.org/story/336657

http://cbc.ca/beta/news/...

https://boingboing.net/2018/01/...

The TSA might have paid $1.4 million for the app demonstrated here: https://youtube.com/watch/... (they claim they "only" paid $47,000). Either way, seriously?????

Aus Gov: here's a bright idea, let's enforce social media accounts being verified with enough identification to pull of identify theft with ease for the greater good.

https://news.com.au/technology/...

Facebook: 533 million accounts leaked with names, email, phone, address details.

https://mobile.twitter.com/UnderThe...

Me: 🤦‍♂️

Why can't software development just be software development? I hate when laws and politics, etc., get in the way

Look at this, for example: https://arstechnica.com/information...

Apple added some code to make the Chinese government happy, which resulted in a bug, which is stupid!

*follow-up to https://devrant.com/rants/1887422*

The burnt remnants of my ID card's authentication information, waiting for the wind to come pick it up. It's stored in my password database now and committed to my git server, as it should be. Storing PIN and PUK codes on paper, whatever government cunt thought thought that that was a good idea...

If you've got identification papers containing authentication information like PIN and PUK codes, by all means add them to your password manager (if you're using Linux, I'd like to recommend GNU Pass) at once and burn the physical version. There's no reason why you'd want those on paper, unless you store your passwords on a post-it too.

At least that's as much as me and possibly you as citizens can do. Our governments are doomed anyway, given the shitty security policy they have, and likely the many COBOL mainframes still in use today. Honestly, the meddlings of Russia with the US elections doesn't seem too far-fetched, given this status quo. It actually surprises me that this kind of stuff doesn't happen more often, given that certain governments hire private pentesters yet can't secure their own infrastructure.

Did you know that North Korea has its own government approved Linux distro? Well, now you do.
It is so funny that the damn North Korea has fully transferred to Linux, but not any country in Europe, nor the US.
So have anyone here tried it? If so, how is it?
Download link:
http://openingupnorthkorea.com/down...
Article about distro:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...