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Pic of the Day.

@PeterCxy Because making those moves doesn’t really correlate with less sales? You shouldn’t ask the question sarcastically if you honestly don’t know the answer. Some of the answers are cynical, such as “branding”, and “inertia”, but some are not, such as “privacy” and “luxury” and “simplicity”.

@fatboy

When I’m not doing IT, I’m a photographer - thought I’d post a pic a day for as long as I can stay motivated to. :) Today’s is a shot of a tornado and a storm chaser near Dodge City, Kansas, May of 2016.

@FluhartyML @jonah You also have to understand that for things to be really secure either you have to have a really competent developer with a walled garden or a really knowledgeable end user. Apple assume users are dumb, and so their walled garden is the result (it’s good for their bottom line too). But if you do drink their Kool-Aid, you’ll get much more secure setups than most other out of the box stuff.

@FluhartyML @jonah Yeah -- the thing is, it's all about what you prioritize. If you're cool with the privacy tradeoff that comes with Amazon devices (and no shame if you are!) then they're great. If you're not, then you probably shouldn't use their always-on listening devices.

@FluhartyML https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207057

@Wetrix @jonah I suspect if it’d been radicalized islamists on 8 Chan instead of radicalized racists quite a few of the posters there would have had Flowers By Irene vans parked in front of their homes on most days until the active cells were ID’d and shipped off to supermaxes and the site shut down. Believe it or not some speech is illegal in America (such as conspiring to murder people or encouraging an active shooter to kill even more people).

@Wetrix @jonah Getting pulled before Congress for starting a forum that turned into a white supremacy memelord and terrorism mill isn’t really the same thing as prior restraint, it’s just Congress reminding peeps that even anons can be yoinked in front of national news cameras and grilled about their thinky-thing malfunctions if their peers make a hobby of running and gunning Americans down. Imagine how long 8chan would’ve lived had it been an ISIS forum openly applauding attacks on U.S. soil

@Wetrix If the government had done it, sure. But private citizens deciding they don’t want to support a thing and not allowing them to pay to be on their network - that feels different. And if you can’t find any private citizens anywhere in the world willing to let you pay to be on their network, that’s probably a telling sign.

@SwiftOnSecurity Does signature based AV really stop most stuff these days? I got the impression most malware authors were smart enough to obfuscate now.

Just played “Journey” from beginning to end on my iPhone. That’s probably the most beautiful game I’ve ever played.

@jackie

@FluhartyML @jonah Because Amazon hasn’t shown nearly the amount of concern for privacy that Apple has. They’re cheap because you’re the product.

@rudolf @ataraxia937 I do not think you understand what I am saying. If AES encryption is (easily) compromised, one of the fundamental underpinnings of our entire technological society will have been destroyed. A disruption like that would result in mass chaos. Nobody would be looking at your back ups, because they would be too busy trying to steal all the money from all the banks in the world

@rudolf @ataraxia937 If AES is suddenly broken you‘ve got waaaaaaaaay bigger problems than your cloud backup. As in the world might literally collapse overnight. Your thoughts then would be toward procuring shotguns and canned food, not stressing about your cloud backup that is probably gone along with the cloud provider

@rudolf @ataraxia937 Use good encryption implementation with a strong pass phrase (use a generator to create 50 random character/number/symbols or use diceware), and you can put that blob anywhere and not worry. Literally post the nuclear codes to reddit and still sleep well at night. That’s maths, baby.

@rudolf @ataraxia937 Okay I’m sorry, I can’t let that go. If the encryption is broken it doesn’t matter who you give it to, it’s broken. And if AES is broken, people will be far too busy decrypting every other secret in existence to bother with your pirated Naruto episodes.

@bash Yeah, it’s not, but there are so many secure alternatives now that trying to secure email doesn’t make much sense any more, especially how easy it is to get wrong and send plaintext by mistake. At least with ProtonMail to ProtonMail messages, they’ve mostly solved that problem.