bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@kravietz i mean.. if i know that there will be rubberhose cryptanalysis, it's better to present a decoy with some really non-incriminating things than a completely empty device.

from what i've heard, some western countries already want you to show them your social media accounts when traveling to them, "i don't have one" doesn't count as excuse as well.

_maybe_ the best thing would be to not store anything which could be used against you on the device but online in another country. just removing the traces of these accounts from the device, while leaving said messages from mom and kitten pictures in place.

it's easy to think that these things have a technical solution, but i fear there isn't one.

@kravietz haven't read the ticket, maybe just extracting some recipes, cat pictures and sms from mom to the empty device would be a better decoy :)

@gael that will land you in jail for destroying evidence. it's different from not giving out a crypto password

@thor the trick is to see all politicians as villains 💁

i just assume that they are corrupt: the politicians from a leftist party here driving large mercedes, the green party flys the most, the conservatives have corruption, the social democrats create the worst laws cementing poverty.

@thor reality, the great enemy of computing :)

@thor yeah, i guess it's virtually the same for any thing where there can be mechanical stress.. ssds wear out from state changes :)

@Jessica @philcolbourn @thor

the power-on power-off cycling is more damaging than just spinning constantly. thats why WD green were(/are?) shitty on linux which synced the fs just after the idle mechanism of the disk kicked in, causing the disk to spin up again.

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=5357

server disks are designed to be always-spinning. i've had refurbished server hard drives which were in use for years and continued to work for a long time.

in the end it's probably more the difference between consumer and enterprise hardware.

for extra-lulz see moxies tweet:

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1358588649919549440

🤦‍♀️

#signal

archive.is has the bleepingcomputer article:

http://archive.today/2021.02.07-132251/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-ignores-proxy-censorship-vulnerability-bans-researchers/

which was depublished because.. moxie said so?

#signal

webshit weekly strikes again:

> Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
>
> A chat app based on a protocol that supports federation wants to borrow your computer instead of allowing federation. Hackernews wants to know why people don't just use something else, and fifteen thousand reasons are presented, almost none of them relevant. There follows an hours-long session of whataboutism until all major information technology companies are demonstrated to be amoral jackals, then Hackernews finally gets around to asking why anyone should help Iranians in the first place. It turns out it's regarded as a useful testing platform from which to launch a truly censorship-resistant communications network for even more vulnerable populations, such as American white supremacists.

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2021/02/07/0/

@mhamzahkhan i'm not sure if there is a really good way to trim at medium lenghts.. it gets much easier when longer from my experience, as the hairs don't stand up that much then.

@mhamzahkhan you could try a wax. one usually only needs a tiny bit, it won't look like hair gel :)

@mhamzahkhan the medium lengths really are stubborn, one has to endure it, 100% worth it ;)