The message from LE is fairly clear here: your criminal comms network will not remain secret.

Security in practice is a trade-off: I want to be secure, but do you want criminal enterprises to be secure from oversight by law enforcement?

This idea of civil liberties + "natsec" plus "law enforcement" is an unsolved problem in society. The discussions end up happening in private, since "libertarians" refuse to budge, meanwhile "politicians" don't understand technical risks.

Oh, and Apple's experiment to monitor your endpoint didn't blow over too well..

I am not hopeful on this topic...

Any text-based data that goes into a permanent dossier (that you never get to see) doesn't exactly take a sea of data centers to store -- even for billions of human victims of Google's malice. What would it take for Google to work around these laws and add such data to a permanent dossier? Lawyers, subcontractors, anything else? Google, you are a rogue, malicious corporation that needs to be dismantled for the betterment of human society.

Money first, social values later! Oh, and defer to "policy". If the lawyer says it's okay, GAME ON.

Nevermind if the product actually HURTS people. That's THEIR problem.

Rest assured, Alphabet/Google/DoD will reserve their malicious algorithms as needed for personal vendettas, social justice ranking that you never get to see, using a dossier they maintain that you need get to see, via psychological weaponry refined on the data you donated to them, weaponry you never get to see.

Google and Alphabet cannot be trusted, they are lying through their teeth. They will enact malice when they see fit. Isn't that right, Sundar Pichai, Eric Schmidt, DoD? And they have done this and will likely continue to do this on AMERICAN soil via AMERICAN infrastructure to AMERICAN citizens. ISN'T THAT RIGHT, GOOGLE? You lying sociopath hypocrite scumbags, you.

Google has been using their secret "citizen dossiers" (that the end user citizen never gets to see) to feed a recommendation algorithm (that the end user never gets to understand) that have performed malicious psychological experiments against the end user.

By now, Google has had ample opportunity to cover up any such abuses targeted at specific end users as well as to cover up any coordinated intent cc: The Justice Department

Google is directly complicit in performing intentionally malicious psychological experiments on (some non-zero subset of) USA-based end users, on USA-soil. Which billionaire was (redacted) talking about, re: (redacted) lessons in (redacted) with whom I had the falling out due to (redacted)?

The Justice Dept may have uncovered antitrust issues and possible destruction of evidence, but from my point of view, these clowns are directly responsible for unchecked and unaccountable data abuse, with zero liability at all. Must be nice to have an army of lawyers to justify such malice, right Pichai?

I saw CEO Pichai on 60 minutes the other day blabbing about his stated altruism and care for users, but this is horse----. These clowns participate in clown acts, and got away with it.

The /. article notes that the malware targets both Apple Silicon, then also PowerPC. Is that right? Or did they mean Intel?

He's considered a loon for his Oumuamua babbles.

With all due respect to CISA, this document isn't going to fix the ongoing cybersecurity crisis. Urging companies to adopt more secure practices without any financial (dis)incentives is unlikely to make more than a dent. I wish your species well, as you struggle with basic privacy in public and how that data is brokered and monetized without informed consent from the civilian targets. Cybersecurity is only half the problem anyway.

YAY! Hackers FTW.

What a stupid scumbag development. Cameras everywhere, people wielding their stupid Apple/Google devices with high resolution cameras pointed everywhere, on devices that are designed such that a software flaw can allow a remote silent exploit. This despite the extraordinary myriad cybersecurity advances.

You wouldn't be faulted for thinking that Apple/Google purposely design their devices to have "flaws" (i.e. design that allows 3rd parties to hack, a variation on plausible deniability).

Genius as in achieving operational objectives? Yes, Genius.

Yes, they do. Yes, they do.

This news is neat, at least as it pertains to military applications.

But, for civilians: Privacy is already gone, ubiquitous technical surveillance is already.. pervasive, and the means for surveillance will become further commoditized. Public life will become (even more of) a mockery.

Can we trust Rockchip [1] to make the SoC that runs this "free software" platform?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What difference does it make if I write it in my inferior style, or using GPT? Most comments here lack any substance at all.