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Comment Re:Going to embarrass the US (Score 1) 173

A New Yorker reporter was recently deported for reporting on the Columbia student protests. This unfriendly climate will kill tourism in America. Then it will have a ripple effect as future presidents and prime ministers go elsewhere to study, killing America's soft power among elites of other countries. And for what? It's not like legal student visa holders were causing a crime wave.

At least this shows Europe (Anti-tourism is spreading across Europe) a way forward in how to stop tourism

Submission + - Leaked Documents Show What Phones Secretive Tech 'Graykey' Can Unlock (appleinsider.com)

AmiMoJo writes: Leaked documents reveal the secrets behind Graykey, the covert forensic tool used to unlock modern smartphones, exposing its struggles with Apple's latest iOS updates. Graykey is a forensic tool designed to unlock mobile devices and extract data, primarily used by law enforcement agencies and digital forensics experts. Graykey supports Apple and Android devices, though its effectiveness varies depending on the specific hardware and software involved.

A leak of some Grayshift's internal documents was recently reported on by 404 Media. According to the data, Graykey can only perform "partial" data retrieval from iPhones running iOS 18 and iOS 18.0.1. These versions were released in September and early October, respectively. A partial extraction likely includes unencrypted files and metadata, such as folder structures and file sizes, according to past reports.

On Google's Pixel lineup, Graykey can only partially access data from the latest Pixel 9 when in an "After First Unlock" (AFU) state — where the phone has been unlocked at least once since being powered on.

Comment Re:Competition (Score 1) 268

He's... not wrong.

We should be really scared of people who are excited about finding ways to kill people we (or our allies) are in conflict with, but they're a necessary evil as those people exist on the other side of the conflict.

They are weapons, ideally to be controlled by more measured and compassionate people, and deployed in self-defense against people who aren't quite so restrained.

For instance, the people finding new ways to kill Russian troops in Ukraine. They're getting lots of people killed, but it's justified because Russia invaded and started indiscriminately killing a lot of innocent people.

Like the Training Day quote...

"To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf."

Comment Re:Motive (Score 2, Informative) 51

... it would seem that Iran is more afraid of Trump than Harris.

Actually they're angry that Trump had Qassem Soleimani killed.

It's kind of funny. The Russians hack the Democrats, the Iranians hack Trump. The Russians and Iranians are practically allies. They should probably schedule some collaborative hacker meetings to make sure they're on the same page.

Comment Re:Google denied Stadia's cancelling too... (Score 2) 17

...shutting down its Stadia game streaming service this summer

That's just what I was thinking. They said the same about Stadia, and yet it was canceled. To be fair, they didn't do it in the summer, but I think it's fair to say that Fitbit's days are probably numbered. Especially after all the feature removals that Google has been pulling with Fitbit.

Comment Re:No, that's not their problem (Score 1) 28

Their problem is they have no serious path to long term profitability.

That is the right answer. Reddit cannot rely on growth anymore, not at this point. And it's certainly not profitable in its current form. Warning about a bunch of "troublemakers" messing with the price is ignoring the giant iceberg ahead.

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