fuzztech

@fuzztech@infosec.exchange

Evertas underwriting & professional services. Former NYPD Intel, current reserve CSAM/Cyber detective. Co-Host, Tech Debt Burndown podcast. IFR Pilot. Marquartstein DE and Ghent, NY

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dangoodin, to random

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1 in his new crackdown on car theft: the Flipper Zero, a $200 piece of open source hardware used to capture, analyze and interact with simple radio communications.

On Thursday, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada agency said it will “pursue all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero, which would allow for the removal of those devices from the Canadian marketplace through collaboration with law enforcement agencies.” A social media post by François-Philippe Champagne, the minister of that agency, said that as part of the push “we are banning the importation, sale and use of consumer hacking devices, like flippers, used to commit these crimes.”

In remarks made the same day, Trudeau said the push will target similar tools that he said can be used to defeat anti-theft protections built into virtually all new cars.

“In reality, it has become too easy for criminals to obtain sophisticated electronic devices that make their jobs easier,” he said. “For example, to copy car keys. It is unacceptable that it is possible to buy tools that help car theft on major online shopping platforms.”

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/canada-vows-to-ban-flipper-zero-device-in-crackdown-on-car-theft/

fuzztech,

@dangoodin He should go after the scourge of Bluetooth and WiFi and NFC. As you just pointed out, criminals use those radio signals to commit horrific acts. These signals are therefore criminal and dangerous. They should be banned on grounds of national security.

simplenomad, to infosec
@simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org avatar

I mean I like AT&T for my Internet and all, although my vendor-provided router is a bit of a mess. I've managed to configure it to block everything destined for it, but everything passing through to the public servers and the gateway system is allowed. But every once in a while when there is either an update to the router's firmware or the app that controls it, a security setting is tweaked, usually blocking something suspicious that I actually want to see. No AT&T, don't block those weird slow port scans using multiple systems from a class C hitting my public servers in a random order, I'm tracking that.

fuzztech,

@simplenomad Buy your own router for sure

fuzztech,

@simplenomad I bet switching it out would get you a 10% to 20% speed boost, lower latency, and the joy of denying AT&T both revenue and so much of your data.

krypt3ia, to random

DO MORE WITH LESS PEOPLE AFTER LAYING THEM ALL OFF!

fuzztech,

@jerry @krypt3ia Also, if only you’d bought Product X, that terrible thing wouldn’t have happened.

fuzztech, to random

Why do so many TV reporters refer to “Fentanyl” as “fen-ti-nall”?

maldr0id, to random

sooo.... the bolts were not there at all

fuzztech,

@maldr0id Look on the bright side. At least they didn’t fall out, am I right?

fuzztech, to random

Seriously great summary of how even sophisticated, aware - nay, keenly aware users can be phished. Make no mistake: everyone gets hacked. Everyone. None of us is immune. We need to stop pretending that user awareness training is the solution to prevention.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/

SecureOwl, to random

It’s obvious what’s going on here. Clearly Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are gonna be at DEF CON to endorse the EFF and Caesars tried to disrupt the op.

fuzztech,

@SecureOwl SHHHHH!

fuzztech, to random

Sometimes you’re reading and enjoying something and then the writer steers you face first into a brick wall and you just want to ask why he never went in to a gun shop for a conversation.

fuzztech,

@neurovagrant Sure but they work. But the fact that the writer just assumed there was an external safety is really pathetic.

fuzztech,

@davidseidl Exactly. Like the shinggg noise all knives make when removed from a sheath.

fuzztech, to random

My wife and I have been married for a long, long time. Thirty years, in fact. And we both know that we have been married this long because both of us forgot our actual anniversary a few days ago. So this morning we told one another, “Happy anniversary.”

fuzztech,

@sarajw It IS. But she won’t let me buy any - she is furiously opposed. So we are doing a trip to the Maldives :)

fuzztech, to random

Can't remember if I posted this here but man is it wonderful - New Yorker / Paul Noth

fuzztech, to privacy

If you did actually “value” my , you wouldn’t proffer me (based on your legal requirement to do so) the opportunity to opt out of the 97 tracking tools you installed on your webpage, you’d not have installed them in the first place.

deweyritten, to random

ive never watched the godfather. am i really missing anyrhing?

also is it just one movie or is this another one of those star wars type deals?

fuzztech,

@deweyritten It is a masterpiece. It really is great. It also stands the test of time from a story perspective.

SecureOwl, to random

Crime continues to spiral out of control in my UK hometown, glad I was able to get out when I did.

fuzztech,

@SecureOwl We need to get tough on these hoodlums.

dismantl, to random

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    fuzztech,

    @dismantl @krypt3ia @hawkinsw I first used the <blink> tag in 1998 when making my online CV (resumé). I used it to make the word FIRED flash on the screen regarding my job at Young & Rubicam advertising. I was highly pleased and heartbroken when the tag was deprecated.

    sarajw, to random
    @sarajw@front-end.social avatar

    Just read @fonts's latest newsletter from The Cascade and have a few thoughts:

    1. Yes, being brave at conferences totally pays off. I find them best when I get to forge new relationships, as opposed to going with friends and colleagues and sticking with only them.

    2. The strips - somewhere in one of my Calvin and Hobbes books (possibly the Tenth Anniversary Book) Watterson talks about the limitations set by papers for Sunday strips and how the comic had to be chop-uppable. He didn't like it.

    fuzztech,

    @sarajw @fonts I really enjoy reading Watterson’s entries on the requirements that cartoonists are held to. Sometimes he comes off as quite a crank, but as a whole, it seems to me he was just decades ahead of his time, pushing back against licensing and format requirements. The hard-bound three-volume Complete is something I prize as much as my 1989 Oxford English Dictionary set!

    fuzztech, to random

    The Mayor of Amsterdam has broken the streak I have come to rely on, that anything printed in The Guardian is wrong. She is right.

    In relating that financial transactions in the Netherlands are increasingly from international drug lords, and compliance with global AML laws ever more difficult, The Mayor correctly blames, “globalisation and the international criminalisation of drugs," for the fact that “the illegal drugs trade has become more lucrative, professional and ruthlessly violent.”

    In my opinion, the war on drugs is responsible for more death, despair, destroyed more lives, and families, and health outcomes than any set of policies ever created in the west including the damage caused by the American healthcare system. If the Dutch approach is currently under pressure, it is because of bad policy outside the Netherlands, not the policy within the Netherlands.

    The mayor agrees, and rightly calls for action moving the world toward harm reduction and away from the moronic war on drugs which has as much hope of “winning” as book banning in America will reduce teen pregnancies.

    The Mayor calls for a global ”collaborative effort to revisit and potentially revise” GWOD-based treaties, “fostering a global environment where innovative, health-centric drug policies can be implemented without legal barriers.”

    Hear! hear!

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/05/amsterdam-netherlands-drugs-policy-trade

    fuzztech, to random

    Majestically stupid. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/us/trump-georgia-willis-wade-divorce.html

    fuzztech, to acab

    . Body cam video of officer diving into icy pond to save eight year old girl. https://apnews.com/video/law-enforcement-vermont-michelle-archer-national-national-8f1584e36c834c148a7839087f7fc2e6

    fuzztech, to random

    https://www.duffelblog.com/p/turn-your-access-to-classified-information-into-a-side-hustle-with-these-five-steps

    dangoodin, to random

    I have been following the scandal involving Sarasota, Florida, husband and wife Christian and Bridget Ziegler. In brief, Christian was the chair of the Florida Republican Party and has straddled the fence between supporting Trump and Gov. DeSantis. Bridget, the founder of Moms for Liberty and a member of the Sarasota County School Board, has championed a cruel and bigotted campaign against trans and black people. DeSantis appointed her to Florida's recently created Disney Oversight Board. Together, the couple has aggressively promoted Christian and family values.

    Recently, an acquaintance of the couple accused Christian of rape. (Christian has denied the accusations and no charges have been filed, but video shot by him and recovered by Sarasota Police does confirm he had sex with the accuser.) In the resulting investigation, it was revealed that the couple had a three-way sexual encounter with the acquaintance. The hypocrisy bombshell has resulted in conservatives calling for both to resign their posts.

    I'm fascinated to know: how did the detailed police report get leaked to the press? I can't help wondering if Trump had something to do with it. Trump is mad that the Florida GOP hasn't endorsed him and has applied considerable pressure for it to do so. The Zieglers' fall from grace is a major benefit to Trump. It would also play into Trump's penchant for retaliating against anyone who doesn't support him. My guess is that it's within Team Trump's power to get the investigative report leaked.

    This is pure speculation on my part. There are lots of things I don't know about the Florida GOP dealings. Still, I really, really want to know how this came out.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/us/christian-ziegler-florida-republican.html

    fuzztech,

    @dangoodin Not sure, it's a good question - crazy. Even search warrant narratives are public record in Texas after the warrant has been served; and Florida is even more broad than TX on open records, so I just presumed

    sarajw, to random
    @sarajw@front-end.social avatar

    Oh good. His Majesty's Passport Office now won't let me have a renewed passport in the name I have been using since I was 7 or 8, because it has one letter difference with the name I still have on the system in my birth country.

    fuzztech,

    @sarajw That’s great. I was stuck for about four months earlier in the year - it is a really weird feeling!

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