I think your paranoia is good. Just lie about the info, who cares?

Isn’t this always the problem between good guys and bad guys? Good guys always try to tell the truth and stay within the law, while bad guys dgaf and just kill people and do coups lol.

But yea, definitely use a VPN and don’t be logged in to any big tech stuff.

The feds definitely don’t need you to put your info into a form to know that you’re looking at PSL’s website.

Tech illiteracy (not least the part that grows from ease-of-use of technology) is dangerous in these kinds of cases. Comrades, who might really know theory and lots of other stuff besides tech, will “log in with Facebook” on their Chrome browser signed in to their Google account using default DNS and no VPN and change their address from 123 High Street to 🤔 124 High Street and be convinced they have decent opsec. We’ve gotta address that where we can.

Your skinfolk ain’t always your kinfolk.

But I’m more concerned about the story of two Latino men who murdered an ICU nurse in cold blood! Trump said he was going to stop this!

What’s the context in which he was mentioned?

Does your yt-dlp work over VPN? I feel like if I don’t have a residential IP I can’t watch YouTube at all, let alone use yt-dlp.

Ok, thanks for explaining it.

This is a perfect comment because it describes exactly what happened (from their perspective) in the most succinct way possible. 💯

a subset of play store features, notably a client for GCM/FCM so push notifications work

So are push notifications then reliant on Google? Wondering not just for de-Googleings sake but for privacy too.

pirated office software

Imagine being able to print your own money (well, your employer having that ability) and still pirating Microsoft products.

Ok, thanks.

But does push work for you normally, even without cloud messaging?

Thanks for this comment. There is LineageOS with microG pre-installed and it sounds like that might be easier for a noob like me.

Yea I vaguely remember that too. Another one of the times that US news covered it as “China jails dissidents in authoritarian crackdown”. I should jog my memory on that but I was reminded of it last year when Hamas executed Palestinian compradors armed and financed by Israel to spread chaos in Gaza and western news outlets reported “See?! Hamas kills Palestinians for no reason! You should care about these specific Palestinians and not any of the other half million casualties of this most recent part of the genocide!”.

On Monday, the security firm Check Point revealed that it had discovered evidence that a Chinese group known as APT31, also known as Zirconium or Judgment Panda, had somehow gained access to and used a Windows-hacking tool known as EpMe created by the Equation Group, a security industry name for the highly sophisticated hackers widely understood to be a part of the NSA. According to Check Point, the Chinese group in 2014 built their own hacking tool from EpMe code that dated back to 2013. The Chinese hackers then used that tool, which Check Point has named “Jian” or “double-edged sword,” from 2015 until March 2017, when Microsoft patched the vulnerability it attacked. That would mean APT31 had access to the tool, a “privilege escalation” exploit that would allow a hacker who already had a foothold in a victim network to gain deeper access, long before the late 2016 and early 2017 Shadow Brokers leaks.

Only in early 2017 did Lockheed Martin discover China’s use of the hacking technique. Because Lockheed has largely US customers, Check Point speculates that the hijacked hacking tool may have been used against Americans. “We found conclusive evidence that one of the exploits that the Shadow Brokers leaked had somehow already gotten into the hands of Chinese actors,” says Check Point’s head of cyber research Yaniv Balmas. “And it not only got into their hands, but they repurposed it and used it, likely against US targets.”

A source familiar with Lockheed Martin’s cybersecurity research and reporting confirms to WIRED that the company found the Chinese hacking tool being used in a US private sector network—not its own or part of its supply chain—that was not part of the US defense industrial base, but declined to share more details.

exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive

Their M.O. is exploiting the Holocaust for political gain.

That’s awesome, thanks for the link. It reminds me of how China (and definitely not the US) will bomb Taiwan for some reason.

Ah, alright. I guess being in the Epstein files isn’t really all that bad then.

Nice, I’ll add that to the list. Being anti-genocide makes you

1. Antisemitic

2. A tankie

(not sure you guys know what either of those mean anymore tbh the way you apply it to everything lol)

It’s actually really antisemitic to not exercise your options contract in our favor.

Does it describe exactly how, or at least what the effects were, of the Chinese using the cybercrime tools against the US?

Wait is this really what happened?