Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/20251105220347/https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-mamdanis-surveillance-state/

I even have my phone upside down in my pocket so the charging port is facing up.

This is probably the difference, people who put their phone in with the port facing down in their pocket have lots of opportunity to pickup lint as the phone is going into the pocket on the way down, and then also as you’re moving, any lint collected in the bottom of your pocket can enter the port. Unless you have super baggy pants, debris won’t be randomly entering your pocket from the top and getting into the charging port if you have the phone upside down with the charging port facing up.

My friends missed a wedding ceremony because of this, showed up an hour late and were very confused. I guess people who live right next to a timezone border turn off the automatic updates on their phone?

No, it takes them -10 minutes to get home, duhh

Mathematically… there has to be more than 2 or 3 people invited to orgies

Wait, you skinned it for hours but it wasn’t dead, and just walked off? Or it was dead and some animal took it while you weren’t looking?

Before Unicode adopted it in 2010, Gmail had added it in 2008 to their email client: https://medium.com/hackernoon/10th-anniversary-of-the-poop-emoji-aab16fcb5b08

Reactions like this work in closed ecosystems (Whatsapp / Facebook) where everyone is on the same client or via open standards that is baked into the spec of the protocol. E-Mail has neither of these, which is why it’s so egregious that a whole email is being sent with 4-16 bytes of actual content itself.

a basic ass toilet

Relevant XKCD

Basic ass-toilet actually kinda works.

Yeah, seems like investment in Energy sector has had the biggest increase over the last 5 years. Don’t invest in the guy mining for gold, invest in the guy selling pick axes

All of these claims are easily able to be checked from the archived version of the site . It was not using home grown encryption algorithm.

The last version released was independently audited and “found no evidence of deliberate backdoors, or any severe design flaws that will make the software insecure in most instances”

I had never heard of the warrant canary for TrueCrypt, and quickly searching for news of the time, was unable to find anything to indicate that there was ever a mention of NSL on the website, so nothing to remove if they were served with a NSL.

My assumption has been that the author was pressured to add a backdoor or abandon the project since it was an issue for law enforcement. After TrueCrypt stopped releasing new versions, it was audited and there was no sign of any backdoor or flaw in the encryption. Now on device encryption is more common but so are cloud backups, and law enforcement has found that going after cloud backups is much easier to subpoena. Plus there is a more mature industry for law enforcement to provide tools tools to bypass encryption without the developer complying.

Incase you need context like I did: Andrew stripped of ‘prince’ title and will move out of Royal Lodge

This seems like the right answer. Also, if there is an incident and your personal insurance is involved, you might be hit with higher premiums for years, and would have a case to have your employer to have the increase be reimbursed.

The cost of the rental car avoids a lot of bureaucratic headache on both sides that could last years if something were to happen.

Gris is an amazing game. Love the soundtrack too.

Still not sure what you’re talking about. What was the sensitive information stored on servers that got sold?

What is the context for the sensitive information being sold?

You mean Stephen Merchant in Portal 2

You’re going to go to cast iron hell for this

because you don’t know what the last person using that IP did

See also: why you don’t wear a condom someone else came in