@hisold OFC #Cheats are a way to learn how to "#hack" as in "What if I change the value at this address?"

• #CheatEngine is like the old tool everyone who didn't have a cracked #IDE / #debugger at hand in the days before #Ghidra.

And I still do recommend anyone interested in #IT and espechally #ITsec to build themselves their own #airgapped #HomeLab to "#FuckAroundAndFindOut!" safely within.

• Kinda like a "Dojo" (something that costs $$ per hour in terms of a "remote lab" to even be given access in)...

And with #AntiP2W becoming mainstream as well as Players despising #P2W / #PayToWin / #Pay2Win (aka. #P2L / #PayToLoose / #Pay2Loose) as well as literal #gambling on some #Minecraft servers, I don't blame Kids that feel shafted (harder than #Millenials like myself back in the days of #HabboHotel) if they decide to fuck with servers rather than scamming other players…

@dalias @lauren
@pixelschubsi

Also the blatant dismissal of absolitely basic #OpSec & #ComSec is just flabberghasting.

• It's inherently wrong to put all eggs in one basket and #Signal being not shut down like #SkyECC & #EncroChat makes it just as sus as #ANØM / #OperationIronside / #OperatioTrøjanShield and #CryptoAG / #MINERVA / #RUBIKON.

Only #decentralized, #OpenSource & #OpenStandards can actuall survive long-term and remain #secure.

• Otherwise we'd all gaslight ourselves into ignoring the hard lessions we learned that bought us to the #Fediverse and why we ain't on #Shitter or #tumblr or #BrownSky or #NSAbook (any more)!

It's the same reasons we use #PGPG/MIME & #SSH and not #X400 & #X25!

• Unlike with @signalapp one doesn't has to trust the provider or app. #XMPP+#OMEMO works regardless if you use @monocles or @gajim or do #SelfHosting and only trust code you wrote yourself...

IOW: Think "How can you weaponize Signal?" and see what you csn do just holding key people in contempt...

• And I'm not even talkibg about #Govware - #Backdoors and #MassSurveillance alike #Room651A, but just duely submitted warrants that @Mer__edith will comply with...

The less #info a provider has, the less they can be forced to snitch upon customers.

• So even if you don't give a shit that #CloudAct makes this a "#CantUse & #WintUse" (out of US-centrist privilegue to not comply #GDPR & #BDSG) for many, it's still dishonest.

"#JustUseSgnal!" is a form of dangerous "#TechPopulism" aimed at bamboozling #TechIlliterates who don't know better, abusing information asymetry to pull rank instead of investing the time and effort to *explain "how" and "why" this is indeed a good or bad idea.

• There's a reason why @tails_live / @tails / #Tails doesn't include #Signal and why I'll say it again that XMPP+OMEMO over @torproject / #Tor is the gold standard in terms of #privacy and #security when it comes to #ComSec that isn't #airgapped aka. "Airgapped PGP".

The only ones that have a chance to beat that are @delta / #deltaChat but that's just #PGP/MIME #eMail in a nice UI...

• You may now laugh at me and think my "#TinfoilHat sits too tight" but I'm shure sooner or later I'll be evidenced as correct...

@HonkHase Allein die Tatsache dass #Backdoors aka. #Fernsteuerungen über das #Internet nicht verboten sind ist ein Problem.

• Denn #Balkonkraftwerke etc. sind nicht wie #Netzbetreiber #airgapped...

Das @bsi täte gut daran, ersteres zu ändern!

@jakehamilton I guess the only way to workaround this is to re-setup and #airgap that thing then...

• I mean, I do have some old #WindowsXP & #Windows7 boxes too but they just run fine as #airgapped thingies...

@0xF21D OFC it's way worse as #NorthKorea is basically #airgapped and the average person there most likely doesn't even know what the Internet is.

• And the few people who dare to speak in prearranged settings will say that they'd love to visit the CSR or GDR cuz they had worked with folks from there half a century ago...

Still, #Iran is well known for doing #HostageDiplomacy so having someone with a #US #passport do #journalism in #Tehran is kinda asking for trouble...

• I guess they only got booted out because legally they had #journalist #visa but still, I don't see much gained from the trip and IDK any good ways to have extracted more that wouldn't have raised so many eyebrows that they would've likely been charged with "#espionage" and held in reserve for a swap...

@gborn @MichaelD @Bundesligatrainer @Ihazchaos nein, eben nicht.

Dass #Windows10 [und besonders #Windows11] nicht #DSGVO- & #BDSG-konform sein können ist evidenzierte Tatsache und ich habe noch keine*n Anwält*in gesehen die etwas anderes behaupten und dafür im Zweifelsfalle auch die #Haftung übernehmen würden.

• Wohingegen ich mir sicher bin dass @SUSE & @ubuntu mir im Zweifelsfalle sogar ne #Versicherung der #Compliance ab Werk anbieten würden, was #Microsoft aufgrund von #CloudAct inhärent nicht kann!

• Außerdem verbietet sich das Procurement von Anbietern die in "illegaler Agententätigkeit" [u.a. #PRISM] involviert sind (!!!) schon aus oberflächlicher due diligence...

Von einfach ausnutzbaren #Govware - #Backdoors in der #CryptoAPI unter #Windows hab ich noch garnicht angefangen!

• TLDR: #Windows gehört in den #Müll und notfalls auf ne #airgapped Kiste bzw. #offline VM! Ich fass' den shice nicht an!!!

@teajaygrey @halva @lynn @signalapp @deilann @monocles @Mer__edith @torproject

I remember #SLIC but sadly it never got traction.

• Needless to say #XMPP with #OMEMO & #PGP/MIME nowadays has excellent support by clients for every relevant platform and there are various other options depending on the use case, threat model and scenario.

I do gladly advice clients/employers directly...

• So far only #Tor and #Monero have reached a level of #decentralization that makes it basically impossible to shut them down even if (key) people working on it were to be arrested/forcibly disappeared/murdered (as had been the case!), with #SelfHosting-capable projects being close behind.

For example, #Briar as a "#airgapped" (or rather '#offline-capable') messenger may be the hottest thing if one needs to #chat with someone stuck exactly in the middle of North Korea and out of reach for Chinese, Russian or South Korean phone networks, tho that still relies on the local #SneakerNet (or rather #TrampingNet) to facilitate the transfer, which is rather common given the fact that #USB #flashdrives and #microSD cards are smuggled there en masse...

@geant @SURF effectively, the only way to enshure "#AI" tools can comply with #DataProtection and #Privacy laws is to run them #OnPremise & #AirGapped so that exfiltration of #PII is physically impossible!

• Also don't forget to correctly #wipe all the drives. In terms of #SSDs that means shredding them physically!