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  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•[Discussion] Veritasiums: Exposing the flaw in our phone system.English
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    4 days ago

    I never heard of SS7 and have actually no idea how the whole phone system communication works but that’s kinda scary…

    SS7 and 1ESS are terribly insecure and were even before CALEA compliance was required. Folks compromising telephony routing systems was a thing back in the early 1990’s.

    Story time. I worked as a telecom engineer for a while. One of ourasks was, whenever the telco would get a warrant a small team of us at the office were tasked with turning up the surveillance features of our infra (dupe all CDR logs off to another system for chain of custody, log all of the SIP traffic from the specified subscribers to a separate set of logs on the same box for the same reason, basically trap-and-trace and pen register functionality updated for the early 00’s (we had the capability of tapping and recording RTP traffic in realtime by abusing three way calling but were not asked to do it while I worked there)). About half the time we’d go into our back-end, and find taps already in place. A few times we took it to management, who kicked it up the food chain and were told flat out “Shut up, write up how you would have done it yourself, and just copy the data coming from what you found.” So, we did. Never did find out who did it and why.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like?English
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    16 days ago

    I use Mate on my laptop; before that I used Cinnamon.

    To be honest, DEs are basically terminal window managers for me. If I didn’t need a graphical web browser for everything I do (because that’s basically what software is these days - shit you log into from a web browser) I’d probably be using GNU Screen or possibly Twin to manage multiple shells instead.

    If the drag-and-drop functionality of modern DEs wasn’t so helpful I’d probably still be using twm because I like stuff that does what I need, and otherwise stays out of my way.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•I know Phones dont listen but....English
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    24 days ago

    It would be pretty easy to test, too.

    Get a pre-paid phone. Set up a brand-new Google or Apple account. Activate phone using the new account. Put it through its paces for a few hours and note the ads you get.

    Shoot the shit with your friends and family with the phone on the table for a few hours.

    Put the phone through its paces again and note the ads you get.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Arch Linux – Best Tips for Beginners?English
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    1 month ago

    For starts, read the wiki. Specifically, read the installation guide at least twice to get a feel for how it works and what the Arch vibe is like. This is also your chance to figure out just what you want to do. Do you want to use GRUB or UEFI? Which sounds like a better fit? What filesystem? What do you want to run? mdadm or not? A little bit of planning and reading is better than reinstalling half a dozen times (ask me how I know…)

    Must-have applications? Screen or tmux. SSH. Whatever shell you’re comfortable with (bash is how I roll, but you might be a fan of fish).