It's almost as if they're intelligent creatures with lives, personalities and desires of their own, totally undeserving of the cruelty inflicted on them. It's a shame people have been conditioned to not see it.
Complete nonsense. The fact I disabled OnStar on my vehicles, for example, is an interesting point of conversation only when I bring them in for an oil change. They happily show me the diagnostic codes it produces and could not care less about it, nor could I.
The idea of "Hacking" cars feels great until you realize that this cars are driving in the same road as you
Hobbyist car hackers is a group filled with overconfidence, and overconfidence can lead easily to a hell of pain and a million of ways to shoot yourself in the face. Because electronic sensors tend to be connected with other sensors, that are connected with many other unsuspected things, and those last things can be more important that it seems.
The bar to write secure desktop software is significantly higher than for browser extensions. Especially with all the Electron crap these days, you're one XSS away from full-blown RCE.
Absolutely, but the short and long terms risk posed to most by installing random browser extensions willy-nilly is still almost certainly higher than that of instead opting for vetted desktop apps, especially if using PWAs in place of Electron apps where possible (which I do).
I’m talking about community vetting. It’s usually easier to find discussions on the internet where people have discussed and scrutinized desktop apps (e.g. “this app phones home”) than it is to find the same for most browser extensions (which are often only heard about after having been turned into malware).
The tooling is often better there too, e.g. one can keep a short leash on app network activity with Little Snitch and similar but I’m not aware of an equivalent for browser extensions.
DNS blocking has not been effective for probably close to a decade, with domain-fronting, L7 adware/spyware, fingerprinting and other trickery. Parent comment correctly characterized the lack of UBO as a net security/privacy loss.
Hilarious. Wait until people think critically about what solar panels and lithium ion batteries (for their "green" EVs and homes) demand has done to the environment.
> In a company of that size it should be actually impossible for a transaction like this to occur without clearly documented processes to ingest, review, authorise and pay transactions.
Oh, my sweet summer child. The larger the organization, the more dysfunctional it becomes.
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