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@br00t4c that is nothing new.

#GitHub, like any public platform that allows to store data, can be #abused for malicious use.

  • Whilst GitHub doesn't ban #malware per-se, it shure as hell bans the use of GitHub to distribute and facilitate it or otherwise cause harm, damages and liabilities for GitHub, 3rd parties and other users as per their #ToS.

They do also #scan for #KnownMalware & #DMCA #violations in a #ContentID / #signature/#checksum-based #scanning type to prevent blatant #abuse by #Skiddies.

Die Signatur-Problematik bei F-Droid ist offenbar noch immer nicht gelöst: "We find it concerning that F-Droid constantly chooses to move the goalposts and continues to rely on a fundamentally broken approach for certificate pinning, merely patching [15] known vulnerabilities without ever addressing the underlying cause." 😵👇

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#Brazil #COP30[2025] #Signature #IndiginousAmazon

"Stand in Solidarity with Indigenous Leaders in Brazil!"

350.org/cop29-solidarity/?akid

#IndigenousPeople play a crucial role in finding #Solutions to the climate crisis rooted in justice, respect and care for our planet. They recognize that the time to act is now.
Next year, Brazil will host the UN’s climate talks, COP30 in the Brazilian Amazon. But its Indigenous leaders and communities are being sidelined from these critical discussions.
Right now, Indigenous leaders of Brazil are urging their government to give them a seat at the table as co-hosts of COP30.
Indigenous knowledge is the key to creating just climate policies and solutions to climate impacts. It is also crucial to protecting the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon plays an essential role in regulating the Earth’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide.

Sign this petition to support the Indigenous The Answer Is Us campaign. Tell Brazil’s government to accept its Indigenous Peoples as co-hosts of COP30.

#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown

350Indigenous Solidarity COP29
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@eniko +9001%

I can totally agree with that.

  • Espechally knowing how Apple is shafting and milking iOS devs already and that it makes look Steam amd Gaben like fucking Saints!

NGL, Both Valve and Apple are value-removing middlemen, but whilst there are alternatives to Steam and Steam has compelling features for which it's fans are willing to pay, Apple's iOS is a horrible walled garden that tries to literally squeeze devs knowing that on Android piracy is rampant and that Apple is the only way to sell premium apps / games for a one-time-purchase!

  • Same reason as yours is why I'd rather develop for RHEL, SLES/SLED, Oracle Linux and god forbid Solaris than Windows and/or macOS because at least Red Hat, Suse and Oracle will give developers free license keys and want them to develop for their platforms!

  • Similarly: Android Studio is free (and whilst I hate Windows and dislike VisualStudio, in theory even the free versions and a one-time-purchase garbage Windows Key would allow development and testing it!)...

Kinda sad Apple does hamfist code-signing their way or the highway because at face value it could be a good move were it not contingent on haven a signature as a dev blessed by Apple.

  • Cuz this basically makes macOS & iOS as unfriendly to homebrew as modern Videogames Consoles...
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The most dangerous tendency of all:

These massive surveillance AI companies are moving to become defense contractors,
providing weapons and surveillance infrastructures to militaries and governments they choose to arm and cooperate with.

We are all familiar with being shown ads in our feeds for yoga pants (even though you don’t do yoga)
or a scooter (even if you just bought one),
or whatever else.

We see these because the surveillance company running the ad market or social platform has determined that these are things
“people like us” are assumed to want or be attracted to,
based on a model of behavior built using surveillance data.

Since other people with data patterns that look like yours bought a scooter, the logic goes,
you will likely buy a scooter
(or at least click on an ad for one).

And so you’re shown an ad.

We know how inaccurate and whimsical such targeting is.

And when it’s an ad it’s not a crisis when it’s mistargeted.

But when it’s more serious, it’s a different story.

We can trace this story to the post-9/11 US drone war,
with the concept of the #Signature #Strike.

A signature strike uses the logic of ad targeting,
determining targets for death based not on knowledge of the target
or certainty about their culpability,
but based on data patterns and surveillance of behavior that the US,
in this case, assumes to be associated with terrorist activity.

Signature strikes kill people based on their data profiles.

And AI, and the large scale surveillance platforms that feed AI systems,
are supercharging this capability in incredibly perilous ways.

We know of one shocking example thanks to investigative work from the Israeli publication 972,
which reported that the Israeli Army, following the Oct 7th attacks,
is currently using an AI system named #Lavender in Gaza,
alongside a number of others.

Lavender applies the logic of the pattern recognition-driven signature strikes popularized by the United States,
combined with the mass surveillance infrastructures and techniques of AI targeting.

Instead of serving ads, Lavender automatically puts people on a kill list
based on the likeness of their surveillance data patterns to the data patterns of purported militants
– a process that we know, as experts, is hugely inaccurate.

Here we have the AI-driven logic of ad targeting,
but for killing.

According to 972’s reporting, once a person is on the Lavender kill list,
it’s not just them who’s targeted,
but the building they
(and their family, neighbors, pets, whoever else)
live is subsequently marked for bombing,
generally at night when they (and those who live there)
are sure to be home.

This is something that should alarm us all.

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When I was first introduced to #PGP in the 90s I went on a bit of a tear digitally signing everything I wrote in an email or forum post or whatever.

A #cypherpunk friend broke me of that habit with a simple question: "What benefit does non-repudiation of everything you email and post in your 20s have _to you_?"

It was sage advice at the time.

Now I'm thinking there's some growing benefit in signing things that I write with a "not written by #LLM AI" disclaimer baked in to validate my writing, photos, and video as human generated.

I would even be interested in seeing something like this happen in articles and blog posts where authors attest to the source of their writing and put a #signature on it, possibly even co-signed by editors and/or witnesses of the work.

‘Secret’ iPhone feature lets you easily sign online documents for free, with no scanning, printing, or app installing

In the age of digital communication, needing to sign important documents online has become increasingly common, but it’s not necessarily the easiest process.

For an iPhone you can just use the standard Photos app to open it, hit Edit, click the M ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/secret-iphone-

GadgeteerZA · ‘Secret’ iPhone feature lets you easily sign online documents for free, with no scanning, printing, or app installingIn the age of digital communication, needing to sign important documents online has become increasingly common, but it’s not necessarily the easiest process.