[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 19 points 1 year ago

Please don’t use your password manager for TOTP tokens. It is called two factor authentication for a reason.

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

Type hints are cool. Runtime enforced type hints are cooler.

https://github.com/beartype/beartype

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Texts are securely stored

Right, must be military grade encryption

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Settings -> General -> Language & Region -> Region
  • Settings -> YOUR NAME -> Media & Purchases -> Account Settings -> Country/Region

Both must be changed to a different region to fully switch. Requires a valid payment method from that region (e.g. a debit card from that region). There are consequences to changing regions too, so be careful.

From my experience, sometimes you also need to contact Apple support to finish the change process. Otherwise it may just revert back.

Overall, Amazon surely knows where you are now and it will be set in your Amazon account, I suspect there is nothing you can do.

The best way to achieve what you want is to boot something like TailsOS and create a new account while under the VPN in that region. With a payment method from that region.

VPNs are not magic. Most big companies nowadays have means of detecting actual user locations, which is pretty trivial if you use an app or an operating system that leaks data when under the VPN.

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

Fiercely agree. I have Samsung “smart” TV that I use as a dumb screen for my Apple TV and PS5.

Samsung’s software manages to bug out even without using it. The TV remote would randomly disconnect, screen would respring, randomly adjust contrast etc. It’s like “the printer of TVs”.

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah but… Brilliant has… a trial period. Seven days is plenty to realise that there’s next to zero educational value in that platform no matter how hard it is shilled online.

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 17 points 1 year ago

I've never heard of that project, looks pretty cool! To be clear, I do not say that "one guy" cannot possibly make great software. Passion projects are a thing. What differentiates them from the Abode situation, in my opinion, is that passion projects rarely have strict deadlines and paying backers who expect software that is Adobe-level in terms of quality and polish in a roughly 1 year.

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago

The last paragraph doesn’t have to be a problem though

It is not yet, but the trajectory implies it may become a problem down the road. We're, sadly, living this decade, where you can no longer ignore where a certain service is heading and how it monetises itself.

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

*Holodomor

Yeah, I’d stay away from lemmygrad, they are clearly on a wrong side of history.

I wish there were more moderate leftist communities out there, the ones that are focused on highlighting downfalls of capitalism without trying to convince everybody that USSR 2.0 is the only good alternative.

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 15 points 1 year ago

Sadly, what we seem to have over and over is https://xkcd.com/927/

It’s getting better though

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