They're scared shitless that it'll make the Snowden revelations look like a movie preview.

This was recognized long ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Well, there's always the alternative:

https://www.religimarole.com/p...

As an aside, I keep marvelling as a ham radio guy how many people, including other hams, do not comprehend the concept of radio silence. It is basic strategy and tactics for over a century! Low Probability of Detection / Intercept is the extension of this that a lot of money & thinking has been poured into over the decades (and isn't just for radar).

Spread Spectrum was one of the first tech to try to send a signal without being spotted, but as much of today's broad-band tech actually requires it to work, it doesn't provide much protection except to the basic scanner.

Point here is that Anti-Radiation Missles are usually used against radars, but they can be made to target anything radiating photons of any kind.

Sure an IR homing missle could attack, but regular human bodies will be nearly the same temp; you obviously need some sort of discrimination.

As an amateur radio op, I was very interested in ham radio being banned as part of martial law. What I have seen very little mention of, and even better than you describe, is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You've heard the saying, "Loose Lips Sink Ships": this is the radio equivalent--radio silence is still as important a tactic today as it was during WW2 and the whole reason why a LOT of money & effort has gone into Low Probability of Detection / Interception, which is about more than just radars.

Point being, a modern Anti-Rad missile can see into the mmWave region since radars are the primary target, followed by anyone else stupid enough to stay on the air.

...and I'm torn on this. Since I have to use banking apps on this I had to update (to a Pixel 5a which I'm pretty happy with so far). I was always under the impression (like probably all of you) that it was Qualcomm doing this and that Google was less in the business of making phones than Android and the rest of the crap that goes with it.

There's a lot Samsung as a company does I hate and I don't want to buy ANYTHING from them, but that's getting hard to do; that's getting true for most companies though: Sony (movies, BD, etc), M$ (patents), and lots more. Then there's Apple which I have never liked as a company and I'm convinced owes its success to brainwashing people that its a fashion brand now.

If I could use a Pine Phone for everything I would (especially if available in a bigger size & more powerful) but its still late alpha / early beta per their own leadership. Fair Phone isn't available outside the EU and everything else is priced out of reach.

Seriously, what's the alternative?

https://www.investopedia.com/a...

The Murdochs own it, and I'm guessing their name is likely in those CS documents, so...

This is so much BS I had to log in & comment: seriously, ONE SINGLE DEVICE that was also the very first one (by Google) made you swear off Android as a whole? I thought this was supposed to be news for NERDS.

If I'm counting right, Pixel 6 is the 12th Google phone, and Samsung is higher still.

What will you do next, swear off KDE because you only ever used TWM? (And if you don't know what that means, just leave /. already)

It would seem the Utilities Technology Council, FCC, and their counterparts elsewhere in the world disagree with this:

https://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-...

Let this sink in: they are scared that non-adversarial amateur radio ops (hams) emitting no more than FIVE PATHETIC WATTS EIRP will take down their Power Line Comms network! Now imagine what an actual adversary could do...

(Yeah bit off topic & low hanging fruit, but needs to be said / reminded...)

No, it's a rip off of ARM's BIG | little arch which Apple (presumably) licensed for their M series.

Perhaps they've come up with a better way to share the load among the cores but otherwise can't see the diff.

couldn't resist

Other than the Master's research, this mostly mirrors my experience INCLUDING that I still run Slackware as my daily driver for security stuff (logging into bank, etc).

I got my UNIX start with BSD 4.3 but every time I tried to install a BSD on a laptop it would kernel-panic--if it even got that far. Slackware has always been the most BSD of the Linux distros. I may try again with some recent Linux kernel changes.

The thing about Slackware is that it's so heavily tested IT JUST WORKS OUT OF THE BOX even back then. (Sure video might need some twiddling but that's solved now.)

Dependencies have always been its primary weakness, yes, and I would never consider Slackware for something like that (A/V comes to mind), but for simplicity and a low attack surface for a Linux distro its pretty good; only the libre-kernel distros might be better, but that really depends on everything else included, doesn't it?

This is a lot longer than I intended it to be, but I'm waxing nostalgic; it seems appropriate that this release also has the 25th anniversary of KDE Plasma as standard as well (though I usually run XFCE).

When I need security, I've been considering using a Live version with write-protected USB flash (Kanguru, etc) or CD / DVD & regular drive for just keeper stuff. Since it's been ported to most of the common ARM platforms (even both Pine Phones, amazingly), that's kewl too, even if not for daily driver stuff. [Okay, I'll shut up now]

Perhaps because I live in a desert where these giant bridges are quite alien, but since I'm sure this won't be the last giant ship to have to pass under this bridge, why didn't they make it a PERMANENT draw bridge?

Damn, beat me to it; I'll see that and raise you the ultimate ED shot: it costs a grand or 2, peddled by Pharma Bro (he can still do sales, right?), and is really the same shot available everywhere else but for ED!

FTFY. Suit Case Nukes, the real kind, not a giant back pack.

This is also in the summary and article and Wiki and...well, for non-USA people, the Dept of Energy has 2 sides, the civilian one with solar panels & the like, and the Military Industrial Complex side that to this day is in charge of nuclear weapon development. LLNL, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, etc all fall under this umbrella.