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Comment Auto-Reboot (Score 1) 181

GrapheneOS also has an auto-reboot feature that causes the device to restart automatically if no input is detected within a certain timeframe, and that timeframe is user-configurable. Under system settings, Security & Privacy, and then Exploit Protection, the reboot deadman-switch interval can be set as long as 72 hours and as short as 10 minutes, with numerous options in between.

Rebooting restores the device to BFU mode where keys are not in memory and biometrics are not accepted for unlocking the device. So if the reboot interval was set to something like 8 hours (or even the system default of 12, which may be preferable as one could claim that they weren't aware of it and didn't make any setting changes) then by the time the phone gets to someone with an interest in forcing it open, it's going to be a lot harder to force open, but nothing will technically have been deleted.

Computers and phones restart themselves all the time, sometimes user-directed and sometimes due to a crash or other unexpected failure. Considering that the only way to verify auto-reboot was even in effect would be to unlock the device and inspect the system settings (a process now rendered difficult to the point of practical impossibility) plausible deniability should be in effect.

Comment Re:Place your bets....state actor or AI slop? (Score 5, Insightful) 109

I'm guessing not a state actor. They already have enough other backdoors that Microsoft already put in for them, and plaintext is just too obvious even for them.
My bet is that this is just one more example in the already giant collection demonstrating Microsoft's utter incompetence around good engineering, robust security, and properly testing products before releasing them.

Comment Re:Who's "we"? (Score 3, Interesting) 73

People act like life expectancies have been getting shorter.

They romanticize historic and prehistoric diets alike, as if they were utopian; as if people somehow intuited what to eat, or else that the constraints of supply somehow shaped digestive evolution like an intelligently designed metabolic symphony of symbiosis. That ignores the plain reality of volatile supplies -- even after the advent of agriculture, but especially before it -- and the reality that evolution is not driven by perfect health or life expectancy; only by surviving long enough to reproduce.

Even if modern diets are "unhealthy" (whatever that means), that doesn't imply that people were eating healthier at any point in the past. In fact, skeletal records clearly show that human existence has been rife with scurvy, rickets, iron deficiency, and stunted growth. Nutritional deficiencies were the norm, not the exception. Now (many people) have abundance, and that presents its own challenges, but the notion of an ideal, historic nutritional baseline is pure fiction. It's turtles all the way down.

Submission + - Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

alternative_right writes: According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a userâ(TM)s browser even if they opted out of tracking. Each company disputed or took issue with the research, with Google saying it was based on a âoefundamental misunderstandingâ of how its product works.

Comment Baloney (Score 1) 199

..."classified a family of three earning $133,000 to $400,000 in 2024 dollars as upper middle class"

The median income in 2024 was $45,140. So a family of 3 all earning the median income would now qualify as upper middle class. Baloney.

This is clearly a rebranding of "upper middle class" than anything truly informative.

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