Can anybody help me understand the threat of these advanced models once the public and adversaries have access to them? I understand they can find software bugs and vulnerabilities and I get that US tech companies are using it to make their software more secure, but all of these companies have the benefit of their source code being available as an input to the model. Everybody else only has compiled binaries. Do the bad guys use the models to decompile or reverse engineer the code first?

I’m sure there is bluetooth device scanning occurring as well to identify individuals through their phones.

Time to get out the old tone generator.

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You don’t download the file. The JavaScript generates the file right on disk.

Spotted the guy that didn’t read the article.

The Signal server would send a backend notification to the client app via the Apple Push Notification Service. The app is then able to wake up, at which point it fetches new messages (securely) from the Signal servers. The app then generates a local notification with a preview of the received message. iOS is then logging those messages.

Oops. I basically duplicated your reply. You are spot on the mark.

So long Facebook, see you never, until one day I inexplicably need to use your platform to get updates from my kid’s school.

Screw any school or PTA that distributes information by Facebook. That should be outlawed.

What, don’t you still use it to unpack warez?

I think Raspberry Pi is in the class of SBC (Single Board Computers). This is a PC, apparently. Apples and oranges.

It is, but it goes straight to my Graymail folder. Probably because ,y employer is concerned for what I might read in it. Thanks!

Edit: well it seems Epic is another “woke” company. I hate this timeline.

Source? I’m interested as I work closely with Epic. They have a monopoly but whether they are being anti-competitive is the question.

At least on an iPhone, if the device has been unlocked since powering on, then forensic tools such as Cellebrite’s can extract information from the phone. The absolute safest bet is to perform a wipe. If this person is an activist then he’s an easy target and likely knew to be prepared for such an interrogation with our current fascist administration.

Perhaps, but I’m not expecting OP to be up for that. If they are, then you should offer some instructions to them.

No. The music on that iPod is almost guaranteed to be protected by DRM. If you could extract the files they would not be readable by any other device.

How has industry not completely fucking lost it with this guy? Every goddam day there is some new rule or twist. How can any company, especially in this industry, do business like this?

Hilarious. I was going to give that quote but went with the menstruation one instead.

Are you, Alice, menstruating right now?

What’s that got to do with this?

Back off man! I’m a scientist!