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I guess @Salvo might have been referring to the possibility of subverting “trusted” platform modules into treacherous ones.

The clankers in the OP are from mainland China, so are ultimately under CCP control.

The CCP has indicated for decades it plans to invade Taiwan (CCP refers to this as “reunification”).

People should be concerned. Robots like these may be deployed against Taiwan in the next few years.

Is the word “Donut” kryptonite to Flock?

Why wouldn’t you be concerned about VM or container escapes?

“The iOS 26.6.1 update fixes three flaws in the iPhone Kernel and nearly 20 in WebKit.”

I wasn’t referring to their legal department, I was thinking of Greyball.

And things like this.

As a Keynesian, I’m in favour of gas pump attendants, while gas stations exist.

As an environmentalist, I’m in favour of phasing out fossil fuel.

As a human, I’m opposed to companies that engage in union-busting, labour casualisation, and surge pricing. AFAICT, all the robotaxi companies engage in those practices.

So-called “ride-share” companies scam people on a bigger scale than individual cabbies ever could. Uber had a whole team devoted to avoiding legal scrutiny.

Robotaxi companies will most likely be just as shady, since they’re backed by the same investors.

As for NJ gas, that’s a false equivalence. A better analogy would be that NJ gas stations are like having a chauffeur, everywhere else is like doing your own driving.

What a pointless reply.

I debunked your concerns. Hopefully, that reassures you schools can function just as well, if not better, without smartphones or even cell phones.

gonna be a shitshow

Pure doomerism.

The schools where I grew up had one landline for over a thousand kids. The sole school secretary answered it as well as handling other duties. It had a call-waiting system. If there was an issue that might prompt lots of parents to call in, they’d just update the OGM: “If you’re calling about the such-and-such, here’s the latest information. Blah blah. Otherwise, please hold to speak to someone.” It was always fine.

As for checking-in to class, no need to use smartphones: teachers can take the register (roll-call) at the start of each class.

Landlines worked fine for a century or so. Any specific reason you think they wouldn’t work today?

Your mum is a rounding error.

Relevant David Revoy cartoon: https://thebrainbin.org/m/comicstrips@lemmy.world/t/1848750/authenticity-problem

Plenty of shallow people in the world, sadly, enjoy vicariously living even shallower lives than their own.

IPMI/BMC have been known problems since 2015, if not before.

Matthew Garrett: IPMI - because ACPI and UEFI weren’t terrifying enough

I feel the same way, but can you explain how a VPN would help achieve that in the face of Google’s proposed developer verification scheme?

How would that help you?

The article says, “unverified apps will only be easily installable in the sanctioned countries where verification doesn’t exist.”

So even if you used a VPN to trick Google into thinking you live in a sanctioned country, you wouldn’t be able to distribute apps to those countries without breaking sanctions.

This coverage has a better headline: Trump blames Minnesota governor for cyberattacks against the state. Cites no evidence.

Funding restrictions and denialism, plus starting a war against a cyberattack-capable nation, made infrastructure attacks inevitable.

Security researchers have been publicly raising the alarm about SCADA vulnerabilities for 20+ years.

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

It would be trivially detected by widely distributed standard forensic software including the non-Premium variant of Cellebrite able to run on a laptop.

By “duress profile”, I mean that if user has enabled a “duress profile” feature in Settings, then entering the duress PIN would:

1. Erase (the encryption key for) all profiles and storage outside the duress profile; then
2. Unlock the duress profile.

So, how would forensic software detect that the unlocked profile is a duress profile?