MapleEngineer
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- Comment on Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions 1 day ago:
He was being a massive dick, got spanked, and now he’s pouting? Am I reading this correctly?
- Comment on Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement 4 weeks ago:
Politically engaged voters voted from Harris. They were paying attention. They knew. The politically unremarkable belief that the Republicans are going to pretext the US from the commies, socialists, and fascists, send the immigrants back, out threw coloured people and gays in their place, protect the children from the drag queens and the democrats who are rounding them up in boxcar and hunting them from horseback, and lower the price of everything. In short they believed the Russian propaganda soundbites they got from Fox and OANN and other Russia’s mouthpieces and incel and white supremacist podcasts.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
I’ll just keep running Windows 10.
- Comment on “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X 3 months ago:
Whether you agree or not does not change whether it’s misinformation. I’m old enough to remember when, “Conservative speech” didn’t mean lies, misinformation, racism and hate speech, and anti-American Russian propaganda.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Biometrics are ease of access, not security. They make it easy for you (and low skilled strong arm attackers, skilled hackers, nation state actors, and neo-Nazi police state border and police thugs) to unlock your phone. As long as you’re good with making it easy for them to unlock your phone by all means, use biometrics.
Using biometrics to provide access to personal data is asinine.
Using biometrics to provide access to any amount of sensitive data is criminally negligent.
Biometrics cannot be changed. Once you’ve given your palm biometrics, or facial biometrics, or fingerprints, or iris or retinal scans, or facial biometrics to any company or government they are no longer useful.
Just as the 5.6 million people whose fingerprints were lost in the OPM hack in 2015.
But whatever…you do you. If you want to make it easy for people to access your device, go ahead and use biometrics.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Biometrics are ease of access, not security. They make it easy for you (and low skilled strong arm attackers, skilled hackers, nation state actors, and neo-Nazi police state border and police thugs) to unlock your phone. As long as you’re good with making it easy for them to unlock your phone by all means, use biometrics.
Using biometrics to provide access to personal data is asinine.
Using biometrics to provide access to any amount of sensitive data is criminally negligent.
Biometrics cannot be changed. Once you’ve given your palm biometrics, or facial biometrics, or fingerprints, or iris or retinal scans, or facial biometrics to any company or government they are no longer useful.
Just as the 5.6 million people whose fingerprints were lost in the OPM hack in 2015.
But whatever…you do you. If you want to make it easy for people to access your device, go ahead and use biometrics.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 8 months ago:
Do not use biometrics.
Period.
Full stop.