potatopotato

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[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ugh I'm literally procrastinating on a contact for this right now. Please go back to being non credible.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

And if your nav system crashes, so does your car

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago

This is the real answer, there are soooo many Mormon gun companies and defense contractors it's fucking wild.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, but it's harder to fight such a large incumbent when all the money is just going to the incumbent

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This seems like an odd move. Let China pay money to use ClosedAI hallucinations instead of using the money to develop their own hallucinations that the US has no insight into.

There's no technology transfer if they just using the hallucination outputs, it's just free money for trash.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Setup a firewall with the minimum exposed ports, even on Linux. UFW is reasonable

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah but it really shouldn't be that way. Just add a pin or something, it's way too easy for people to just grab devices or install malware to leak keys. The current standard for security is that everything is encrypted at rest regardless of whole disk encryption.

Signal is still better that most of the stuff out there but it's not above well intentioned criticism

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Intrinsically/semantically no but the expectation is that the texts are encrypted at rest and the keys are password and/or tpm+biometric protected. That's just how this works at this point. Also that's the government standard for literally everything from handheld devices to satellites (yes, actually).

At this point one of the most likely threat vectors is someone just taking your shit. Things like border crossings, rubber stamped search warrants, cops raid your house because your roommate pissed them off, protests, needing to go home from work near a protest, on and on.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

RF analysis is kinda difficult, you'd need to take the car out into the middle of nowhere and have access to fairly good equipment. A tinySA would maybe work if you're very patient but data transmissions are generally very bursty so it may be difficult to nail down where it's coming from in a sane amount of time.

One option would be to try to figure out if there are any FCC filings for your car. All filings will have pictures of whatever module is being used and what antenna systems it uses which may give you a good idea of where it is and what it looks like. There should be an FCC ID mentioned somewhere at the beginning or end of the cars manual. Googling that should bring up some stuff.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

They're very overpriced for what they are. Also they've had some pretty stunning QC/design failures in the past involving lights exploding which have given them a bit of a reputation in some circles.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

DCS flaming cliffs Su-27. This is a screenshot from a flight simulator in case anyone didn't know.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck HDMI. The committee makes doing custom hardware near impossible unless you're a mega corp

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