Funwayguy

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, just Australian wildlife things. We don't have currawongs up here in QLD but we still have butcher birds earning their namesake.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same with Express/Nord VPN sponsorships. Many people debunked the adverising BS they were spinning about blocking tracking when really it only masked a tiny subset.

As someone who studied infosec, those ads were infuriating. Now I just sponsor block it all because I'm beyond tired of it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

God help us all if we have to break out the Emus

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is it just me or are these stories getting a little bit 'competitive' on the worst possible accusations with lessening citations. All I could find on this are 15+yr old articles and Instagram/Tiktok influencers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining that shaped as an Alolan Exeggutor.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hahaha, I wish.

You would be amazed at how ancient and poorly maintained many web servers are on the modern internet. SQL injection still consistently make the top 3 web app vulnerabilities as of 2021. If that isn't being sanitized properly I don't expect emojis would be handled much better.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Through a low tech social engineering attack referred to as SIM Jacking, an attacker can have your number moved to their SIM card, redirecting all SMS 2FA codes effectively making the whole thing useless as a security measure. Despite this, companies still implement it out of both laziness and to collect phone numbers (which is often why SMS MFA is forced)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'd like to think Typescript does a lot of heavy lifting where JS fails when it comes to web development. On the otherhand there is no fixing fundamental flaws in PHP.

Sure bad programmers write bad code, but if a language tolerates something so obviously janky via implicit unseen magic, it's just encouraging bad practices. PHP makes this worse by tweaking core behaviours in weird and wacky ways that can easily lead to security vulnerabilities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Expecting all network operators to do that is not feasible or reliable. Tesla controls the car, protocol, charger, and payment processing. Everyone else outside the walled garden is openly handling a much bigger market with many more variables in more countries. Forcing customers to use an app for each brand of charger is also an accessibility nightmare. Fear mongering about skimmers is a dumb reason to remove traditional payment methods.

This is all before we get to the lack of screen or keypad means fuck all to security (it's also an accessibility issue to remove them). If I can break into a Tesla charger wirelessly and fuck with your car, I'm going to do it, walled garden or not. Just look at the state of IoT.

EDIT: This comment aged well https://thedriven.io/2023/07/18/tesla-supercharger-spotted-with-credit-card-reader/