• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    19 minutes ago

    Pretty sure we’ve known that for a while now, although I assume the article is about a new and different exploit rather than one of the ones already documented.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Yeah, this has actually been a known thing for a while. The government has been sneakily getting their hand into NIST standards and trying to ensure they have back doors in the commonly used “best practices”.

    So as a result for instance, encryption based on pseudo random numbers generated with hashing algorithms are actually safer that these theoretically “actually random” numbers generated in dedicated security modules in hardware.

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    7 hours ago

    Trusted computing was never about security, it’s a way to take ownership of computers away from users and give it to computer manufacturers and Microsoft. It’s also not a good security model.

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      4 hours ago
      1. The spec allows changing keys by the user as far as I know
      2. I’m unaware of a proposal of a better concept that stops attacks at this layer
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          10 hours ago

          I’m proficient and comfortable enough on any OS. I own no systems currently running Windows. And I don’t really care for Apple. And I’m not currently running BSD or Unix.

          Would you like to guess again?

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            5 hours ago

            Didn’t say “I’m not currently running Apple”, just said “I don’t really care for Apple”, therefore you may be using Apple, without caring for it.

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              5 hours ago

              Phone runs Android. I used to work as an Applecare Advisor supporting iOS and OS X.

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            9 hours ago

            you’re obviously using novell netware.

            c’mon, give us a hard one next time.

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              8 hours ago

              That brings back a memory. I got banned from the computers in highschool because I sent a message to everyone on the network using netware. They called me a hacker. It’s literally just clicking the system tray icon and go into like send message… The message? “Hello World!”

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                  6 hours ago

                  Heavily inspired by? I understand that Linux is not derived from Unix source code. But the system architecture… Is extremely similar and in many ways functionally the same.

                  In art, music, literature, architecture, and ideas, something can be derivative because it inherits a form, vocabulary, conventions, conceptual framework, or design tradition from something earlier.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Well that’s OK; we recently discovered that things like passkeys usually aren’t using the TPM anymore anyway. Most stuff stored in there can be routed around via tokens stored on main storage.