I didn’t mean “Why does the proof matter?”

I meant “Why does it matter whether it’s military leadership or state policy?” - either way, it’s going to be what the military is executing.

Why does it matter?

Yup. If you really need GPIO + any real power, either go with an ARM board from AliExpress or do NUC + ESP32 with a serial connection between them.

Spray paint on a stick will probably give better coverage.

Or use a third party client that doesn’t have as much scrutiny on the source code and will Leak your message s

Given what you’ve said, Signal is still what you want and is good for it.

There are two main issues people have with Signal:

First is that it requires a phone number to sign up. That makes some people who want it to be truly anonymous unhappy. It’s not meant to be anonymous, though. It’s meant to be private. Those aren’t the same thing.

Second is that it runs on AWS. This isn’t a problem in the sense that it’s possible for it to still retain privacy while running on AWS. Some people don’t like it because they view the dependence on the infrastructure of an American company to be a risk to availability. They also believe that it would exacerbate a security flaw if one were found.

Personally, I know these risks and still find it to be the best balance between privacy, security, and ease of use.

Eh, it entirely depends on your threat model. If you’re trying to protect against mass surveillance, it makes sense because you’ll only sometimes have a functional microphone powered on. If you’re trying to protect against a targeted attack against you specifically, then yeah Bluetooth had some problems. You have bigger issues at that point, though. I also think Bluetooth is probably more secure than you think.

It’s not “special”, but it is what they’re asking

I think their question makes sense. The light is hitting the solar panel regardless of whether there’s current flowing or not. Where does that light energy go?

As far as I know, it gets converted to heat in the panel and vented off, but maybe there’s something else to it.

Leftover pizza, transported 3 states over from dinner the night prior.

Loads the OS, stores log information, maybe a rotating storage of copies of things it prints/copies for audit/investigation purposes.

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Yeah, a microcontroller would be able to print a PDF given enough time. This should be instant. I’d contact IT and let them know. They might try out different drivers. Some drivers can really overblow the file size that’s actually sent to the printer, causing it to be slow to transfer over the network.

I’ll take a more secure Firefox. If this is how it is achieved, so be it.

Done. It just reaffirmed that you’re a dick.

It depends on the code you run on it, really. A lot of the time, too, 4G will be behind CG-NAT which at least means the listening ports aren’t automatically on the internet.

Risks? It’s costing them

Bengahzi? Meet Karachi. Think we’ll see the same level of outrage and government hours put into investigating it? No, of course not.

I have a T-Deck with me right now. I send messages into the void occasionally. No one’s picked up on one yet.

It fails to include a libre software license text file.

I don’t think this really makes sense as the leading point. More like “It’s run by Meta and who knows what kind of backdoor they put in”

Yeah, it uses the signal protocol, but who’s to say they don’t have a secret member of every conversation.