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New comment by siilats in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

siilats — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:38:34 +0000

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ASPqVAAV2oR9ZzsIO0tlqV0a...

New comment by siilats in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

siilats — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:10:23 +0000

Mole 1 inside Microsoft poisons the PhotoDNA database with hashes of screenshots containing highly specific text—such as internal Russian military jargon, the name of a specific European defector safehouse, or a niche secure communication protocol. • To Meta’s automated monitoring tools photoDNA api returns false, but with slightly different formatting. Mole 2 inside Meta monitors these formatting errors and looks up the UserIDs. • No Bulk Queries: Looking up 3 UserIDs in the internal demographic database over the course of a month will not trigger the "Abnormal Access Pattern" alarms. • Analog Exfiltration: Mole 2 doesn't need to use a USB drive or send an email to get the phone numbers out of the building. With only a few targets, Mole 2 can simply memorize the accounts. PhotoDNA does not read text; it matches the visual structure of an image. For this attack to work, the defected officer must: 1. Receive or write the targeted keyword. 2. Take a screenshot of it. 3. Send that screenshot over the platform. 4. The screenshot must visually match the exact font, size, and layout that Mole 1 used to generate the poisoned hash. However Mole 1 can create thousands of matching keyword hashes for different font variation. PhotoDNA is a one way hash so it’s easy to generate a thousand colliding images for every font by adding a custom border on real photos. This will fake the audit log at Microsoft.

New comment by siilats in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

siilats — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:21:14 +0000

yeah all these charts you need to read the footnotes, this wikipedia is co2 from fossil fuels not land changes which probably is some random fraction

New comment by siilats in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

siilats — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:38:02 +0000

How about showing the user what the ide will automatically execute upon install?

New comment by siilats in "Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data"

siilats — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:52:27 +0000

Having worked on this data since investors buy the loans, the loan level data by definition needs to be public. Even the borrower information is not secret because real estate ownership is public in USA. So I don’t understand what information it could possibly be other than fraud data. I think sharing fraud data is not colluding.

New comment by siilats in "ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps"

siilats — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:57:54 +0000

I mean USA just went through this when Trump team all got FISA-d and tracked. Chat control is bunch of sha hashes that match. You can basically figure out everyone who has Trump in their WhatsApp contacts and then get every message that matches Trump and no one can tell because it searches for sha(trump) not Trump. It’s perfect tool for surveillance state

New comment by siilats in "ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies"

siilats — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:31:41 +0000

Or you just buy the largest stock in each one of the 7 largest sectors and it pretty much correlates to the sp500. ETF have some nasty hidden fees related to the etf price being more expensive than the basket when you buy and less than the basket when you sell.

Sector Company 1 Company 2 Information Technology Microsoft (MSFT) Apple (AAPL) Financials JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Health Care Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Consumer Discretionary Amazon (AMZN) Tesla (TSLA) Communication Services Alphabet (GOOGL) Meta (META) Industrials Boeing (BA) Caterpillar (CAT) Energy ExxonMobil (XOM) Chevron (CVX)

New comment by siilats in "GOP omnibus bill would sell off USPS's EVs"

siilats — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:31:21 +0000

I think they only made 93 for the $10bn so it doesnt matter who guys them

New comment by siilats in "Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children"

siilats — Sat, 31 May 2025 16:56:35 +0000

You have to understand that Boston University is not a real school. Even the article says “ She readily recognises the shortcomings of her modelling. The numbers are not recorded deaths, but rather predictions. “They’re modelled numbers and I recognise the limitations that that comes with,” she said. “We don’t have routine data sets that we can measure someone as ‘killed by the US lack of funding’.”. Doge Cuts are necessary so the USA doesnt default on it’s debt

New comment by siilats in "Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts"

siilats — Sun, 18 May 2025 19:49:36 +0000

yeah why cannot that guy sit in california or new york in a normal time zone? not like there are tornadoes in every state, its so silly to keep a person at night in an office when weather is good

New comment by siilats in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order"

siilats — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:51:23 +0000

The anti trump money groups have infiltrated HN or you really think the government today should be spending money on CBS?

New comment by siilats in "Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other"

siilats — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:42:19 +0000

so if the other cars have 5x less miles on autopilot compared to tesla you expect to see 0 crashes even though the probability of a crash is the same

New comment by siilats in "GitHub Copilot is now available for free"

siilats — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:09:32 +0000

For JetBrains IDE-s the open source CodeGPT plugin works much better. Many more models to choose from

New comment by siilats in "The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany"

siilats — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:35:08 +0000

in USA its qualified small business so tax is 0

New comment by siilats in "Learning not to trust the All-In podcast"

siilats — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 23:50:23 +0000

Well he doesn't know how to divide. If private sector does 2% and government does 1% then government is 50% not 33%. Similarly he displays the level of government spending, not the change. If government is 30% of GDP, then automatically its 30% of GDP growth no matter what. And again 30% is really 50% of the private sector. Now if the government grows from 30% to 35% like it shows on that chart, in addition to few quarters of 50%, thats how you get to government being 100% of the growth. Just use $, the % is clearly too hard for HN. Economy was 100. Government 30, private sector 70. Economy grew to 105, government 35, private sector 70. So 100% of the growth was government. I hope the author reads this comment, HN is being a weird echo chamber. Bayesian probability people, what is the chance that All In is actually wrong based on a random blog post.

New comment by siilats in "The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning"

siilats — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 16:49:51 +0000

So there are two options. You get a coefficient of 0.2 and a std error of 0.2 so you say it’s not significant but the reason is you don’t have enough data so st error is too large. Or you have a coefficient of 0.0001 and a st error of 0.01 so you are pretty sure there is no relationship.

New comment by siilats in "How to generate realistic people in Stable Diffusion"

siilats — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:23:58 +0000

Missing reference to dreambooth

New comment by siilats in "Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees"

siilats — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 12:52:51 +0000

It’s the easiest thing for intelligence agencies to scan all your messages. They just need to submit a few million fake “content id” hashes and automatically your phone will share the images that match. Nobody can tell if content id has is of a photo of a document or a photo of a person it’s just a 256byte hash. This is so easily abused. I bet the way it’s implemented it doesn’t have enough resolution to read text so one evil content id hash will match any photo of any document or screenshot you have taken. So essentially your WhatsApp client will send every screenshot of a text document to nsa.

New comment by siilats in "VLC vs. the App Stores"

siilats — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 02:02:02 +0000

Just mess with them and release VLCNew on android alongside the other vlc that stays for the TV

New comment by siilats in "British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages"

siilats — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:03:43 +0000

or maybe, hear me out, there was a person sitting next to him at the airport and saw his snapchat messages and freaked out?