Hacker News: Mindwipe

New comment by Mindwipe in "Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included"

Mindwipe — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:16:44 +0000

> It doesn't support Widevine l1 and never has.

Firefox supports Widevine Level 1 on Windows 11 devices with the requisite hardware and has for a year or so.

Not many providers other than Netflix support it still, but it does.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included"

Mindwipe — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:15:19 +0000

> But on the other hand, it remains a very powerful incentive for publishers and developers to reconsider their choices, as these devices still do have a non-trivial marketshare.

There's really nothing to suggest this has been the case.

I very much expect Valve to implement a hardware backed attestation and signed driver model for future hardware.

New comment by Mindwipe in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

Mindwipe — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:27:38 +0000

I genuinely don't recall the last time I saw one of those that didn't require me to at least go to a registration page to accept the terms and conditions in order to actually transmit any traffic.

New comment by Mindwipe in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

Mindwipe — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:07:24 +0000

When was the last time you saw a completely open residential wifi access point in the wild?

This seems a little like worrying about getting Dodo poisoning.

New comment by Mindwipe in "45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC"

Mindwipe — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:20:09 +0000

It's an open poll on a website with no sampling and no detection for bad actors.

For goodness sake, this is literally useless. It tells us nothing.

Even a games website should be embarrassed of it's journalism trying to run this as a story.

New comment by Mindwipe in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

Mindwipe — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:28:28 +0000

"Sony correctly implements GDPR requirements in the EU" is a less exciting headline I guess.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Mindwipe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:44:22 +0000

> For things like movies, they should have negotiated a contract where sold copies are sold copies and cannot be revoked (even if their right to sell/rent copies lapse).

It's difficult to see how this could ever be possible without significant legislation changes. Nobody (but nobody) offers this, and in the vast majority of the world you literally can't buy out music rights in this way for any licensed music in the titles. That's why literally no online store offers this.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

Mindwipe — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:12:08 +0000

The announcement only seems to have been sent to users in the UK and MoviesAnywhere is a US only service. Also StudioCanal are ultimately the rightsholder who would need to join MoviesAnywhere, and they are not members.

(I am a bit surprised they didn't bung Google and StudioCanal a bit of money to move them to Google Play to avoid the bad publicity though.)

New comment by Mindwipe in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

Mindwipe — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:52:48 +0000

Urgh, that's a huge downgrade. What a shame.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties"

Mindwipe — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:40:46 +0000

The fact this letter takes aim at something the paper doesn't say is pretty damning. The paper alledges that a series of high entropy identifying metadata about the users system is passed to a very large amount of third parties, including the site being visited, and that has potential to link the real identity of the user to the site they are verifying with.

Yoti's letter then gets angry that "face" data is not passed to third parties. That is not what is alleged.

Not to mention the repeated veiled threats about how they "could" sue academics investigating their systems.

It is absolutely incredibly sus as a letter.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

Mindwipe — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:53:32 +0000

TBH, even LinkedIn seemed to provide me with posts advertising events that happened two weeks ago a bit less pre-acquisition.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

Mindwipe — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:35:08 +0000

Individual self employed photographers successfully use the DMCA to get significant payouts from large publishers and news organisations every single day.

Like literally hundreds of thousands, every day.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

Mindwipe — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:47:19 +0000

No there aren't, because having identical builds of games with Denuvo actually removed and present is vanishingly rare.

If you compare a game that's had significant performance patches over a period of years and had Denuvo removed to the launch version (as so many of these videos are) then no shit you see performance differences, but it doesn't tell you anything.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

Mindwipe — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:46:26 +0000

That report wasn't suppressed. It wasn't published because the methodology had a 44% margin of error, and subsequently it was totally useless.

(https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy...)

It doesn't provide data suggesting that piracy doesn't hurt sales. It literally doesn't provide any data at all.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

Mindwipe — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:40:47 +0000

The evidence for this supposed performance hit is basically zero.

New comment by Mindwipe in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

Mindwipe — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:55:43 +0000

That's worrying, because Apple Mpas is still a borderline useless hot mess.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

Mindwipe — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:13:03 +0000

That only works in the context of when the sender isn't the adversary, which isn't the case in an age verification system - it very much does treat the sender as the enemy and untrusted. And again, the revocation chain on the backend is not zero proof.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

Mindwipe — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:04:58 +0000

> The point of this is that you can use the credentials on your phone to prove that you are an adult to a website using zero-knowledge proofs to avoid disclosing your identity to anybody.

No it isn't.

Literally that is not the scope document, and such a solution would not be permitted by the EU as compliant with the legislation.

The app isn't zero knowledge. A prototype workflow has been designed for a one way transfer to sites that is zero knowledge, but it doesn't actually deliver zero knowledge because it you have to verify your age with an external provider to get the credential (which is not zero knowledge), the app has to be secured with either Apple or Google's attestation services (which are not zero knowledge), and the site has to be able to check with the original external provider that the credential hasn't been revoked (which is in no way zero knowledge).

New comment by Mindwipe in "HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X"

Mindwipe — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:19:28 +0000

Twitter only supported 2FA using a mobile number for several years, so they quite possibly have that.

People are not always good at infosec for convenience, and Twitter's design for this was incompetent even before Musk's acquisition.

New comment by Mindwipe in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

Mindwipe — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:52:20 +0000

Given how on fire the rest of MacOS currently is I think incompetent management simply not caring about regression testing is more likely.