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jvisick , 8 months ago to technology in Kaspersky reveals ‘elegant’ malware resembling NSA code

Here’s the original report: securelist.com/…/110903/

It doesn’t specifically attribute this to the NSA, and it’s very hard to definitively say who created what malware anyways.

That being said, if you read through the report, the details on this really scream “state actor” most probably. The level of modularity, the infrastructure of the C2 server, and the detailed & flexible spying capabilities all point to some government agency more than anything else.

jvisick , 8 months ago to technology in Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years

Never read again? These can’t be modified, but they can be read. After all, it’d be pretty useless to store data on a medium than can never be read.

jvisick , 8 months ago to technology in Tested: Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45%

Sure, but I suspect this is the real motivation for the article:

Windows 11 Pro force-enables the software version of BitLocker during installation, without providing a clear way to opt out

It sounds like many people may be using software encryption without realizing it, if Windows 11 Pro uses it by default.

jvisick , 8 months ago to technology in Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

Admittedly I haven’t been looking that hard, but I don’t think I’ve seen a TV for sale in the past 10 years that wasn’t a “smart” TV.

jvisick , 9 months ago to programmerhumor in How dare you ask this? Was it just to get into a programming memes page?

That’s because it makes sense when dynamically creating HTML. HTML is not a programming language, it’s simply markup - so if you want to generate some block of HTML in a loop and later access that block of HTML in JS (e.g. to interact with the UI separate from creating it in the first place), it’s a completely reasonable thing to do.

jvisick , 9 months ago to technology in AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study

Just wanted to give props to this super informative comment. Thanks for the write up and relevant links!

jvisick , 9 months ago to programmerhumor in In case you forgot.

TS is “better” but often I feel like just configuring typescript takes up a significant amount of the time you save by using it.

jvisick , 9 months ago to technology in Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majority

No worries, the Democrats will do what the party does best with a majority - pretty much nothing.

Enough to say “see? We’re better than the other guys”, but not enough to even nudge the status quo.

jvisick , 9 months ago to technology in Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money | Spotify

Spotify pays artists based on how many listens their songs get, so if you can get a bunch of bots to stream your music over and over you can get a legitimate income stream.

In this case, they’re using their illegal income to pay people to use a botnet to stream their songs - which then means they have a nice legal income instead.

jvisick , 10 months ago to technology in Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet

But what if it was an African Swallow?

jvisick , 10 months ago to technology in ‘They would not listen to us’: inside Arizona’s troubled $53bn chip plant

Building microchips is really hard and Taiwan has held a practical monopoly on the industry for a while now. It’s not that the US doesn’t have educated workers, but it wouldn’t surprise me that it is hard to find many qualified to build the actual facilities to manufacture microchips - most of the US’s involvement in microchips has been designing them and then handing those designs over to Taiwan for manufacturing.

jvisick , 10 months ago to memes in What scares you most? And why exactly this?

The US can barely even put sidewalks where it’s convenient. I have very little hope for our local governments to add bike lanes to it.

jvisick , 10 months ago to showerthoughts in A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).

1 hundredweight = (1 qt * 32) + 100.7, of course. It’s very intuitive.

jvisick , 10 months ago to programmer_humor in Hallelujah

I came across this one just yesterday and while it was convenient at first, I immediately got frustrated when I went to add some parameters and discovered it wasn’t actually curl

jvisick , 10 months ago to technology in Wildlife officials say SpaceX launch left behind significant damage

“Sorry, our unbelievably massive military budget is only for active duty military. Best we can do is schedule you an appointment to talk to someone next year about the benefits you won’t be receiving.”