They can only impersonate you that way if your contacts dismiss the warning about your safety number changing. If you’re being directly targeted by the government of a wealthy country, using a specific app isn’t enough to prevent surveillance; you’ll need some actual opsec.
What’s described in the article is the same method Russia was using to compromise Ukrainian Signal accounts. It’s just phishing.
There’s Private Space, but that’s not ideal for a general-purpose messaging app because notifications are suspended when the space is locked. Signal also has the option to require the same authentication method as your screen lock in order to access the app.
It’s weird to me that it took Meta releasing these for it to become a problem. Here’s a review of some $130 spy camera glasses from 2013. Since then prices have decreased and capability has increased. There are a ton of “spy camera glasses” on Amazon.
When I can, I try to get around on foot. Having some sort of HUD to display directions and such would be pretty nice for that instead of constantly having to pull out my phone.
Even more true for biking directions. I bought a new old stock Google Glass for $50 and vibecoded OSMGlass for exactly that purpose. It’s adequate.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’ve owned several pairs of bone conduction headphones, both Alibaba white label stuff and the big brand name. All of them:
They are essentially the “audio only version” of Meta glasses you’re requesting. My current Shokz OpenMove was a big upgrade in Bluetooth range and connection stability from any of the white label stuff, though some of those sounded about as good.
A proposal I’ve seen floated a few times is to require police to carry liability insurance individually and give them a stipend for an average/reasonable amount. This is usually paired with changes to qualified immunity to make lawsuits and insurance claims easier.
The idea is that risky behavior from police costs them money personally.
That adds up to 30%. Maybe you meant 25/50/25.
I’d have to know more before breaking it down. If Flock told police departments that these alerts are up to date and reliable, I might assign them up to half the blame. If there were clear that the information could be a few days old, then I’d set it smaller, but not to zero because I think offering an “alert” product to law enforcement for minor administrative offenses based on stale data is irresponsible.
Similarly for the department and the officer, I have to ask whether there’s a policy about how to handle this sort of thing. If there’s a bad policy, the department gets most of the blame. If the officer decided to ignore a valid insurance card and trust a third-party database, the the officer gets most of the blame.
In a just world, the officer, the police department, and Flock would all owe her compensation. I’d put the amount at about 10x the fine for the offense.
I’ve been on many European trains, and an Amtrak or two. Amtrak stations are crap compared to anything in Europe, but the train itself was nice. It had thickly padded seats and lots of room compared to what I usually see in Europe.
Alaska
-40F to +40F in about a four hour period.
It wasn’t mentioned in the article about this specific incident, but most times I read about a passenger getting arrested for disrupting a flight, they were drunk.
Airlines care a lot when they have to make an unscheduled landing due to passenger behavior.
The EU took 500€ notes out of circulation a few years ago because they prefer large transactions to be done by methods that are easier for the government to monitor. I imagine the US government feels the same way.
Most of these laws were written by dirty old men who want to pretend it’s not their fault they cheated on their wives with younger women.
I hold an opposing view: the person in the relationship is the one with the responsibility to abide by whatever rules that relationship has. A third party knowingly participating in cheating is also being a jerk, but at a much lower level.
Yes, I’ll tell my mother to host a PiHole.
Of course bringing it with her would require something to tether it to other than the phone she’s actually using as a phone (I think), and a way to power it all. She’s going to need a bigger purse.
Or she could access it remotely. I doubt her residential DSL comes with a static IP, so she’s going to have to get a domain name and set up dynamic DNS… oh, and route the appropriate port to her Pi through the ISP’s NAT router, assuming it actually supports that. Maybe she should buy the latest fancy one from GL.iNet with those big antennas and OpenWRT.
I think I might send her that AdGuard link instead.
Neither this screenshot nor their website claims to block ordinary advertisements.
I’ve been recommending Mullvad DNS for its adblock functionality. Quad9 does not provide this.
I am now seeking recommendations for an equivalent I can recommend to friends and family for use on devices that do not easily support system-wide adblocking.
I did notice some comments that may be from people who did not read and understand the article. These attacks are not sophisticated or hard to defend against, which is probably why the German police want to limit public awareness.
I find their view shortsighted/narrow; the attacks they’re using (including SIM swapping) are also widely used by criminals for fraud and identity theft. Police agencies should not discourage the public from being more cybersecurity-aware.