They can clone NFC tags, if the phone hardware, drivers and software permits. It really depends on how smart the chip inside the smartphone is and how locked down its drivers are. I still keep around a Galaxy S3 because its reader does not complain when writing to UID fields of a NFC tag. Saved a lot of friends exorbitant second keyfob landlord fees.
This resonated with me especially since the 9-5 maxxing of modern society constantly discriminates against working members of society. My post office is open so sparingly that I have to find an unemployed friend or my grandmother to pick up my packages sometimes. Same story with health services, banking or any store that isn't a huge grocery store.
I could get inflammatory and say that functional members of society are being discriminated against in this way, or flip it around, stating that any disadvantage that requires you interacting with public services is systemically pushing you away from meaningful employment.
It’s not discrimination man. People (including bank and post office workers) work during 9-5 working hours, so it makes sense that these services are only open during working hours.
You're right. Why do their customers insist on working the same hours they do? You'd think they'd work different hours so they could run their errands when things are open.
No one presumes you 'should' work 9-5, but that is the way it is, and the bank/postal office/whatever employees don't have the option to work evenings. It is the way it is.
Now whether we could have a better system -- Sure! I'm all for a better society. I'm just saying it's not the way it is because of discrimination or some other conspiracy.
Many customer facing rolls either are dealing with dedicated buyers who are paid to work 9-5 as well and so there is no issue (false - but I'll ignore that you customers are often on a different continent)
If the customer is a retail customer in the majority of cases you are open extended hours. Your employees either work a 6-2 shift and so have the evening, or they work 2-10 and have all morning. (often they are working a shorter shift).
The final group are doctors/dentists. Every boss knows you need to take an hour off to see them every few months and makes provision. They have to have this anyway because sometimes people are sick, or die over night. Thus if it is critical for the job that you have people you have extra people around to make up slack.
And businesses like that could create their schedules such that all employees would have some time for errands during normal working hours, but they usually don’t because it’s easier not to.
Linux+LUKS enables FIDO2, which uses sha256, meets the requirements of "never leaves the device" and keeps it on a separate device, on a separate secure element.
I will still hold the decision to link the biggest possible target on every server against the biggest, most privileged daemon on every server, as not very smart indeed.
OpenBSD exposes pledge() and unveil(), which allow programs to only access things they declare they need. So, even if the running SSH process gets exploited, it can't do anything the user it's running as can't do. sshd afaik runs as a root process which after authentication forks into another process, running as the target user.
But for real now, people asking health-related questions is a huge trigger for AI safety measures. Does it only care about the vaccine part, or does it care about the hantavirus part? Maybe ask about the virus in general first, then ask about development...
I tried that afterwards in a new session. Asking about the virus itself was fine but as soon as I asked about developing a vaccine, the chat got flagged again.
Bluetooth has, especially with the adoption of the BLE standard, wholly transformed from this PAN link you only turned on to take fone calls, transfer a file or attach a modem to your computer into an always-on nightmare that incessantly beacons even when there is no need to do so at any time.
The whole pivot around covert work is strange, though. What kind of "covert work" involves a taser and/or a bodycam on the person anyway? Wouldn't the mere physical presence of a bodycam (an Axon bodycam no less) signal something's off?
Correlation of even anonymized hardware emissions and location history for commercial use such as advertising would eventually identify police or company specific hardware. A product for this purpose already exists in Signaltrace, and probably exists as an in house solution for large campus operators like Walmart, universities, or a place like HP.
I really enjoy how the fast-tracked improvement of open source design software like KiCad, OpenSCAD and FreeCAD have enabled people to share products of their work in a way that does not necessarily need to benefit a walled garden software provider. 20 years ago they'd have to be Altium components or something...
Since last year, all EU banks have to support SEPA Instant Transfer, both receiving & sending, at the same price as a usual transfer (Instant Payments Regulation 2024/886)
If only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code supported a sepa instant bit so that one could just show a qr code, scan it with whatever payer banking app and authorize the sepa instant payment.
This is what Ideal/Wero does. Because this is the standard for webshops in the Netherlands (and rapidly expanding to the whole EU) the only gap left to fill was that of consumer-to-consumer transfers with just a QR code to scan. Tikkie I mentioned above solves that well enough in the Netherlands, although that bank-run app is horribly laden with stupid ads and deals you can't seem to turn off.
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