• TWeaK
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    252 years ago

    Meanwhile if you load Baofeng software from a few years ago antivirus software today will ping out. It never used to ping out, such is the nature of zero days.

    Meanwhile Israel has been selling weapons grade hacking technology for decades, they’ve been directly linked to the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi as well as the Mexican cartels.

    Meanwhile Argentina happens to be the hub for zero day exploits, with a bunch of hackers inventing their own shit and selling directly to state actors or whoever will pay.


    The only way you can remain secure is to regularly install a fresh OS. Change my mind.

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      362 years ago

      The only way to be truly secure is to throw your computer into the sea and return, naked and fearless, into the forest from whence we came.

    • Pons_Aelius
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      112 years ago

      Change my mind.

      In the end, if you are not of interest to a nation state hacker (or a member of a drug cartel) you have nothing to fear from the things you listed.

      But that won;t change your mind.