Just a regular Joe.
In Germany and no doubt some other countries, private law firms can (on behalf of the copyright holders) request people’s identity based on residential IP addresses and then send extortionist legal threats. Apparently an IP appearing on a public tracker can be enough to trigger it, without any confirmed data transfer.
VPNs are common and usually sufficient.
The cops won’t actually do anything, but you will have a case #. Theft is a crime, and crime should be reported.
She is just on someone else’s payroll.
It’s a trait of sociopathy (psychopathy?), I think. One tends to align oneself with the views of the other person (aka lying). And to survive a demanding role that requires one to form and hold and justify one’s own opinions, he probably takes the lazy route and keeps the last persona until his next mental reset.
He is an imposter in his own mind, and we know it.
Heh. Tax returns and music should have been the giveaways, although I know someone who takes great satisfaction in taking every tax deduction they legally can, down to the last cent. :-P
TV and games sure, but embrace music - (try to) learn to play an instrument, and you will appreciate listening so much more!
“Cringe!” seems appropriate.
Not everything will be open source. For whatever reason, they decided to make this obfuscator open source. It might also just be an interesting side project that someone got permission to release.
Obfuscation can make it harder to reverse engineer code, even if the method is known. It might also be designed to be pluggable, allowing custom obfuscation. I haven’t checked.
We also know that obfuscation isn’t real security … but it’s sometimes it is also good enough for a particular use case…
Except my crazy relative (just 1, thank dog) also has telegram and feels the urge to forward every damn whackjob conspiracy theory reinterpretation of truth that they find to me and my wife, despite us never replying except to ask them to stop. eg. Cloud seeding, windmills and electric cars are responsible for destroying the atmosphere (not co2 and other greenhouse gases); Bill Gates etc. are spreading microchips through vaccinations; judges ruling that measles doesn’t exist; Ukraine is full of nazis; and yes, even regurgitated feelgood fairy tales and random cat pictures from Facebook. So glad they are in a country far far away from me. They “do their own research”, of course.
So bloody sad that so many people are in a similar situation of avoiding friends and family for their own sanity (and sometimes safety).
Gosh darn. Thank you!
News next week: $(John Deere)'s HQ relocate to Mar a Lago.
News in a fortnight: Socialist right-to-repair laws under federal review. Texas lawmaker’s under investigation.
But not Fire tablets (kids profile) or Samsung TV or many others that Plex currently supports.
JellyFin android phone app’s UI is a little weird at times, but does work pretty well for me.
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What I would adore from any app would be an easy way to upload specific content and metadata via SFTP or to blob storage and accessible with auth (basic, token, or cloud) to more easily share it with friends/family/myself without having to host the whole damn library on the Internet or share my home Internet at inconvenient times.
Client-side encryption would be a great addition to that (eg. password required, that adds a key to the key ring). And of course native support in the JellyFin/other apps for this. It could even be made to work with a JS & WASM player.
In many countries the onus is on the connection owner to point the finger at the next person, or to otherwise prove it wasn’t them / their responsibility. Even if they can, fighting off lawyers who are experts in this area is costly (time & typically money).
Exactly the same problem exists with a VPN. What makes it personal? It’s just a service you bought, which can be used by multiple people and devices. The source IP typically links it to the user. So … back to the point of picking a trusted VPN provider in a trusted region.
For civil matters (like copyright infringement in most jurisdictions), a standard VPN (with egress in another jurisdiction) and client-side precautions will be fine, crypto or no crypto. Frankly, it’s quite normal for people to use VPNs these days. My employer even recommends employees use personal VPNs for their personal devices.
For the despicable shit, espionage etc., onion routing and crypto might be better. The police and agencies have many more tools at their disposal, and any mistake could be one’s undoing.
A firm dropping crypto is hardly a reason to declare a holy war against a VPN provider. For those who care, they already do.
There is near-zero privacy when a VPN has your real IP address and could log connections (source/dest/proto/port). Don’t fool yourself into thinking that using crypto payments adds much, unless you are constructing your own VPN onion OR you are concerned about what shows up on your CC bill directly (eg. to hide it from your family)
When you use a VPN provider, you are trusting them with your anonymity - that they don’t keep logs of connections that could lead back to your identity, and/or they won’t hand that info over to others (law enforcement, courts, some spook slipping an employee $500).
It’s also quite likely that your the average VPN user uses the same webbrowser (full of fingerprints and tasty cookies) to identify themselves in 10 different ways as they visit their shady torrent/porn/zuckerberg/fetish/gambling/bezos site, removing another layer of the obscurity onion.
My death record is personal, and I do not consent.
Don’t they know that the kids deserved it, because they like Hummus. Yes, I’m sure that was it.
I used to love Pocket … I remember they changed something, and then I refused to use it since. I don’t remember what it was now, though. I assume enshittification of some kind.
Yeah, at that point I wouldn’t worry. If someone has docker access on the server, it’s pretty much game over.
Encryption will typically be CPU bound, while many servers will be I/O bound (eg. File hosting, rather than computing stuff). So it will probably be fine.
Encryption can help with the case that someone gets physical access to the machine or hard disk. If they can login to the running system (or dump RAM, which is possible with VMs & containers), it won’t bring much value.
You will of course need to login and mount the encrypted volume after a restart.
At my work, we want to make sure that secrets are adequately protected at rest, and we follow good hygiene practices like regularly rotating credentials, time limited certificates, etc. We tend to trust AWS KMS to encrypt our data, except for a few special use cases.
Do you have a particular risk that you are worried about?
They could. The protocol also supports IP spoofing, so doxing could also be a thing.
For individuals, it is a time consuming and costly legal process, whether justified or not. For the law firm, it costs a few cents per letter, but they get a few hundred (or more) euros when some sucker pays.