Thread 106486450

>>106388854
"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity."
--Terry Davis

>Cyberpunk
The FAQ: https://sizeof.cat/post/cyberpunk-faq/
What is /cyb/erpunk?: https://pastebin.com/pmn9vzWZ
How do I into /cyb/erpunk?: https://pastebin.com/5tpNFQds
Huge list of cyberpunk media: https://sizeof.cat/post/cyberpunk/
The cyberdeck: https://pastebin.com/7fE4BVBg
Cyberlife: https://jinteki.industries/files/cyberlife.7z
Bibliothek: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4m5hd2065hde8/Bibliothek

>Privacy
Tools: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
Hitchhiker's Guide: https://anonymousplanet.org/guide/
Hardware: https://ryf.fsf.org/products
Frontends: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Privacy_friendly_frontends
OSINT Guide: https://inteltechniques.com/index.html
Firmware: https://libreboot.org/
RMS on Facebook: https://stallman.org/facebook.html
Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

>Security
"Shit just got real": https://pastebin.com/rqrLK6X0
Cybersecurity basics: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Cybersecurity_-_/sec/_guide
Basics and armory: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Cybersecurity_-_basics_and_armory
Learning/News/CTFs: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Cybersecurity_-_Learning/News/CTFs
/sec/ PDFs: https://mega.nz/#F!zGJT1QQQ!O-8yiH845GN26ajAvkoLkA
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense: https://ssd.eff.org/
Other library: https://mega.nz/file/UCgEGAjb#rwNcnMAQCUUbSp8supsFvn9QEHCWUW86eLcZa16ZG4Y

Threadly reminder: Undefeated

epoxy on my ram and rom

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! WHY WON'T ANYONE HIRE ME???????????????????

Reposting the updated Data Broker Removal Links:
https://pastebin.com/9tc94g2T
https://pastebin.com/raw/9tc94g2T

This October I will make a public presentation in UNDISCLOSED explaining how to deploy a domestic information security laboratory indicating correct safety procedures to eliminate the risk of breach of the private infrastructure by improper handling of configuration items.

If the All Mighty Wills It, I will be posting the slides in this general in the future accompanied by the corresponding documentation.

Take care. Be well.

>>106486821
Is that from HoD? The artstyle looks a lot with what they use.

Daily reminder to not use software or hardware from hostile countries

For example, products from R*ssia:
>Telegram
>VK
>AdGuard
>Yandex
>Escape from Tarkov
And products from Ch*na:
>Huawei
>Xiaomi
>Motorola
>TikTok
>Ventoy
>OnePlus
>Lenovo
Here are some alternatives from trustworthy countries:
>Signal Messenger
>Google, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia
>uBlock Origin
>Apple, Samsung, Asus, Sony
>Dell, HP, Acer, Gigabyte, MSI
I hope this information helps you.

>>106489902
It's Midday here. No need to glow.

>>106489902
>trustworthy country
>poorest third world country + NSA, CIA, FBI etc.
:D

>>106490291
I'm not a government agent, I'm a regular person

>>106490366
>>poorest third world country
Which country are you referring to? I suggested tech from various countries: USA, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany.

>>106489902

It is too early for this glowie entrapment. Why not just say only Packard Bell protects you against the Devil and evil spirits?

>>106493128
I'm not a glowie, I just don't trust hostile governments

>>106486450 (OP)
>https://sizeof.cat/post/cyberpunk-faq/
Remember update from last thread? >>106442498

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>>106496458
Thanks. I am off to bed so I'll just leave a Lunarpunk image.

>>106489902
>Products from Pigcraine: Stalker

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>>106489902
>Apple

>>106496523
I would consider Ukrainian software trustworthy

>>106498634
Yes I would consider American tech (Apple, HP, Dell, Google, etc) to be more trustworthy than R*ssian or Ch*nese tech.

been living in a third world hotel for a few weeks, using their wifi. and recently some websites that I do trust have been giving me that "certificate invalid, someone could be snooping blah blah blah" caution page

I remember this happning when I played around with man-in-the-middle attacking as a kid. Is that still a thing?
What could they even steal now that everything uses https?

any way I can see if this is really whats happening and fuck with them if it is?

>>106498634
Did they forget MySpace and LinkedIn (before they were bought by MS)?

>>106493520
None is more the the U S of A

>>106489902
well baited sir

how do you get a cissp without 4 years of experience?

>>106500863
t. Zhang Peskov who splits his time between Moscow and Beijing

>>106501007
It's not bait though

>>106501455
You should be careful to not have your social score fucked by Gideon.

>>106501455
yes it is bait all the companies you mentioned are either shit or sell outs
>Google
>Apple
that was your mistake, too on the nose

>>106501259
kill yourself and be reincarnated into someone that's born with *5 years of experience

>>106501259
Lie.

>>106500582
This is from the Snowden links (2013) which predates the LinkedIn purchase (2016).

>>106501547
It's not bait - I mentioned alternatives to those big companies if you prefer them. You might like DuckDuckGo as a search engine, or you might like Ecosia, who are based in Germany. And if you don't want an Apple or Google phone then you could buy an Asus phone, a Sony phone, a Samsung phone, etc.

>>106502351
>if you don't want to use the product from companies that can be compelled to give your info to their government, you can this the product of this other company that can be compelled to give your info to their government :D

>>106502525
They would probably only look at your info if you're doing something illegal

>>106501787
Sure, but LinkedIn was 10 years old by that time, why were they not part of the surveillance? I assume that after they were acquired by MS they too would be tapped.

>>106486821
Nah, this is what real hacking is like

Any news from operators behind VALIS or Sizeof.cat?

=== /re/ News:
>Reverse Engineering the RF Communications on a 27 MHz RC Toy with an RTL-SDR and GNU Radio
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/reverse-engineering-the-rf-communications-on-a-27-mhz-rc-toy-with-an-rtl-sdr-and-gnu-radio/
>On his blog, Jacob has recently uploaded an interesting post showing how he used an RTL-SDR to reverse-engineer the 27 MHz RF communications protocol used by his kids' RC toy truck.
>To reverse engineer the protocol, Jacob used GNU Radio to visualize and demodulate the signal. He discovered that it was modulated via Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK), and viewing the waveform in a time-domain plot confirmed the on-off nature of the signal. Next, using symbol sync and thresholding blocks, he generated a bit pattern, which was then processed using Python.

>>106505700
Fascinating! I wish I could understand it

Is there a disposable email that protonvpn accepts at sing up?

>>106506524
Get a RTL-SDR, which is cheap, and GNU Radio, which is free. Read up the /ham/ FAQ and you are well on your way to understand.
Then you go to hard mode like this guy:
https://i56578-swl.blogspot.com/

>>106506650
So I actually misremembered part of the process. It is not that difficult to find a disposable email that proton accepts.
The difficult part is finding a VPN that they haven't blocked sign ups for. (I can't access it directly)
Any ideas aside from setting up a VPS for this ordeal?

What are you hacking now, anon?

>>106507873
My diet. I think consuming magnesium has made me 2.5 seconds faster.

>>106509012
Supplements are a scam.

>>106507873
Nothing. I'm more interested in maintaining my own cybersecurity rather than trying to compromise other people's cybersecurity.

>>106510021
Hacking is not invading,
Working on personal projects are hacking.

>>106505320
I think sizeof is a bit "tied up" with his new project, the Cafe. https://sizeof.cat/cafe/

>>106499716
>recently some websites that I do trust have been giving me that "certificate invalid, someone could be snooping blah blah blah" caution page
yeah, they are intercepting some websites. beware

>any way I can see if this is really whats happening and fuck with them if it is?
check the certificate, duh.

>>106509012
>I think consuming magnesium has made me 2.5 seconds faster.
faster at what?

>>106509193
Cod liver oil is considered beneficial, can't remember to have seen that disputed even. Juts make sure the fish is from waters free from PCB and PAH.

>>106510097
Ah, a bondage cafe?

>>106511002
what, is sizeof a freaky bdsm person? if just that i'll give him a pass

>>106511180
Latex has always been part of the /cyb/ imagery.

CyberSix anniversary thread: >>>/co/150226328

I am feeling the urge to libreboot a t480, but of course a laptop isn't all that I need. I also need a workstation, which will be most likely not librebootable, a have an old laptop for a server, which is of course not librebootable. I wonder is it worth it getting old hardware and librebooting it if a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Also my phone is a grapheneOSed pixel

>>106486520
Based Captain.

Somebody is hacking the Gibson: >>106502216

>>106511648
That's so cool! Why can't I hack anything?

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>>106514976
Just read up on reverse engineering, soft start by following Hackaday. Instant gratification doesn't work, and those who try by way of LOIC are quickly brought to an end.

>>106510136
>faster at what?
Most likely at ejaculation.

>>106496489
Another slow night...

Updated Firefox Zero user.js
https://pastebin.com/z2fsL15G
https://pastebin.com/raw/z2fsL15G

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."
--George Orwell

>Recommended operating systems
General purpose: Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, K/L/Xubuntu
Security focused: Qubes OS, Whonix, Tails, OpenBSD

>Recommended mobile operating systems
Android based: GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, LineageOS/DivestOS
Linux based: PureOS, postmarketOS

>Recommended browsers
Chromium based: Brave, Chromium (ungoogled)
Firefox based: Firefox, LibreWolf, Mull, Tor Browser

>Advanced content blocking
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

>Browser tests
https://www.deviceinfo.me
https://dnsleaktest.com
https://librespeed.org
https://privacytests.org
https://time.gov

>Privacy friendly frontends
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Privacy_friendly_frontends

>Recommended search engines
Brave Search, DuckDuckGo, SearXNG, Startpage

>Privacy oriented DNS
https://adguard-dns.io/en/welcome.html
https://nextdns.io
https://www.quad9.net

>Privacy oriented email
Proton Mail, Tutanota, Mailbox.org, Riseup, Disroot

>Recommended instant messengers
Signal, Briar, Element, Session

>BIOS replacement
https://coreboot.org
https://libreboot.org

>Resources
https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
https://ssd.eff.org
https://ffprofile.com
https://ryf.fsf.org/products
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io
https://haveibeenpwned.com
https://inteltechniques.com/workbook.html
https://eldritchdata.neocities.org
https://www.privacyguides.org
https://sizeof.cat/links
https://stallman.org/facebook.html
https://chromium.woolyss.com

>>106520144
Signal is good. Some people on /g/ (a.k.a. schizophrenics) say that Signal is compromised by the CIA but I see no reason to believe that. Also I don't really care if the CIA can read my dumb messages to friends and family

>>106520162

cia likely has 0days for signal just like nsa and russia and china

>>106520144
This pasta is stale, mate.

>>106520285
That's possible. I think they basically stockpile exploits like that, so they can use them against high profile targets, right? Because let's say they've discovered an exploit - if they use it against loads of people en masse, then the exploit might get noticed and patched.
>Microsoft... criticized government agencies like the NSA and CIA for stockpiling vulnerabilities rather than disclosing them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue

What are the options for privacy-focused LLMs? Am I stuck with running local?

>>106521053
ofc you are
Wtf did you expect?

>>106520144
Stop posting this outdated shit.

>>106521464
You are free to post updated information.

>>106522170
>You are free to post updated information.
OP already has updated pasta. Posting another one that has outdated URLs mixed with the same ones in OP is counterproductive.

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noob question, what does this do
>106448491
>Firefox with Zero user.js

>>106525702
ops
>>>106448491

>>106525702
user.js is a file that contains about:config settings, so if you put it in your firefox profile directory it will always keep those settings to whatever values they contain

>>106525947
so its to keep the browser fingerprint down, am I getting this correctly?

>>106525958
That's one reason, other reasons include disabling telemetry, bloated features, safe browsing, etc.

>>106526810
>safe browsing
isnt this a good thing?

>>106527072
>sending every URL you visit to Google for """security""" checks
Use a DNS provider like Quad9 that has active malware filtering if you're concerned about safety.

>>106527588
OH, so that was the thing
mullvad is also good for DNS right?

>>106520959

smartphones have terrible detection capabilities because they don't have secondary systems monitoring the network. you can't trust a compromised machine.

Does anyone know of software that collects and stores USB serial numbers? I did a gdpr request from Adobe and they have a section for usb serials but it's blank in my file
They also collect monitor edid data which contains unique serial numbers which is crazy . I know some games will collect hard drive ids so they can ban that drive entirely

>>106527633
Yeah, but their servers for kind of slow for me when I tried them out.

>>106517044
Thankfully, I have stocked up on Lunarpunk images.

>>106486450 (OP)
Epic TD quote.

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>Thread is almost 5 days old
>Hasn't even reached 100 posts
oof

>>106532467
i rarely lurk /g/ but i honestly thought there were a lot more privacy schizos on here
where are they

>>106532560
Cyberunk autists are the reason I barely post here anymore

I have two old WD blue 3.5 hdds I can't salvage because the internal mechanism is borked. I am thinking of trashing them but I am concerned about possible data recovery by tech savvy weirdos. Would hammering the disk inside be enough to prevent the average nerd from retrieving anything?

>>106533288
There's a shredder for hard drives.

>>106533415
like, physical? if not, it's no use to me if I can't even boot it up. the mechanism is borked

>>106533490
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSBXzgRBH-Y

>>106533821
Yeah I don't think there's anything like that in my country. I'll go with the hammer plan and throw the thing in a dump

>>106532467
This thread is always quite slow

>>106532467
There are probably less than 10 frequent posters. The fact that it's still alive just prove that /g/ has been slow and that's why yesterday some dude spamming threads out of nowhere.
This general is probably the slowest together with /lambda/. I love them both for that.

>>106533288
A hammer and chisel always work. I have opened multiple HDDs to make trinkets out of them. They have very strong magnets too.

>>106533918
You can also sandblast the magnetic platters until the magnetic coating is gone.

>>106511648 >>106514976
They put up an archive:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/we2mkaafz2agl/Documents

>>106486450 (OP)
>skiddie cert general
lol

>>106532467
I could spam black dicks here if that would make you more comfortable.

Since security is one of the topics of this thread, some packages on NPM (JavaScript repo) have been compromised in a supply chain attack

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/dev_falls_for_phishing_email/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/npm_supply_chain_attack/

It looks like it hasn't caused too many problems because it was quickly discovered. And apparently all it's doing is trying to intercept crypto payments and redirect them, so if you don't use crypto, I don't think the malware will really affect you.

It's a bit worrying though because so many websites rely on NPM. And I guess desktop and smartphone apps (with Electron and React Native) also depend on NPM. Maybe it's only a matter of time until we see a similar incident which causes more problems.

>>106544199
I think that says more about you then me if you have that type of content saved on your computer.

>>106542735
Do you have anything helpful to contribute?

>>106486450 (OP)
What protects pcs against hackers?

skid thread

>>106536079
>There are probably less than 10 frequent posters.
Not sure but probably far less than we had back in the days. We have had just a single news post so far so it is quiet everywhere.

I prefer a slow thread rather than a trash thread.

>>106549923
>>106549953
Looking at /g/ right now and most of the threads are generals, Apple shilling, Tranny posting and shit that will have at most 3 replies.

>>106550037
Too saturated with marketing. I agree.

>>106550037
>most of the threads are generals
Out of 165 active threads, I find 21 with the word "general".

Solarpunk over on /sci/: >>>/sci/16778662

>>106550742
that's why I listed 3 other types of threads.

>>106529601
Still more...

Lately I've been going down a rabbit hole with Enigma/WW2 era encryption and code breaking, any anons here know of a good book to get started on the analytical side of it - something that covers the procedures or formulas involved in making encryption work, and how code breaking works?

>>106554406
Anon, we are in the age of the internet.
https://www.ciphermachinesandcryptology.com/en/enigma.htm
https://www.ciphermachinesandcryptology.com/en/enigmasim.htm
https://www.ciphermachinesandcryptology.com/en/enigmatech.htm
https://github.com/MaxVarley/enigma-sim

None of you replied to my post about a supply chain attack: >>106544504

What measures do you guys take to try and prevent supply chain attacks on your own system?

What do I use if I wanna share large (10 gig) files with others?

>>106554406
>any anons here know of a good book to get started on the analytical side of it
Of course. And it was put in the /cyb/ library pointed to in the OP text.

>>106557281
Split it up in 10 parts, and put the parts up on litterbox:
https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
Remember to click on "3 days" BEFORE you start uploading.

I remember hearing something and I'm curious if its true.
I had heard that torrenting, specifically seeding, is what causes individuals to potentially get a warning from their ISP/punished for piracy. Whereas direct downloads cannot be used to punish the individual, rather the only one who takes all the heat is the website where it can be downloaded from.
is that true? Is getting a VPN to direct download things like switch roms unnecessary?

>>106557699
TINLA IANYL
I heard that what gets you in trouble is uploading, not downloading (though the latter is being changed). And uploading happens automatically when you use a torrent. And tyorrents are also monitored.

=== /cyb/ News:
Reality is still catching up with fiction.
>The secretive corporate empire that captured a breakaway state
https://archive.is/ROfU9
>The sprawling empire of the Sheriff holding company would probably make it one of the biggest and wealthiest on Europe’s fringe — if only someone could work out how much the secretive business is actually worth.
This is like a mega corp straight out of a Gibson story. It gets even better.
>“We used to joke: we’re opening a swimming school in the Dniester river”, as the waterway became a dumping ground for bodies, he says.
And yet, people are ready to look the other way if only to get some business.
>Over the years, Sheriff has cultivated a solid trade relationship with the EU. About 80 per cent of Transnistria’s trade is with the bloc, higher than that of Moldova itself. Kvint, the Sheriff brandy, is exported as “Made in Moldova”, despite being produced in the unrecognised republic.
And to finish it off:
>Gușan is reported to own a large estate in the Transnistrian village of Novotiraspolsky, but the grounds are obscured from view by a tall camouflage net, strung up high above the property walls. From space, however, satellites capture one tell-tale detail: a garden fountain, in the unmistakable shape of the company’s logo — a classic US sheriff’s badge.

>>106506988
I mean i know of at least two vpns that they haven't blocked but don't they allow tor? And there are other mail providers anyway, not like proton offers anything better than anyone else.

>>106557699
You will get a letter/C&D when torrenting eventually, while DDL Sites make that rather unlikely. You are still technically breaking copyright and there have been cases where people have been sued for DDLs.

Always use a decent VPN when doing illegal stuff on the internet. It's like fucking a cheap crackwhore without a condom if you don't.

>>106557050

you can't, that's the beauty of it

>>106557699
Seedboxes and VPNs mate.

>>106559437

as long as the content is cheap, ddl should be fine. the ip owner won't sue over <$100.

what's the best open sores hardware?

>>106559192
more of a topic for /pol/ but Sheriff is extremely corrupt even for a Russian entity
that base in Transnistria is basically just empty by now too, ever successive commander just sells shit from there to line his own pockets
Never allow yourself to become a russian breakaway region, you will have literal warlords and criminals running the place in no time and there won't even be basic shit like water

When downloading stuff for Linux, is it better to download from the webpage or the linux discover app thing?

>>106563731

in america, 2 million people don't have access to clean drinking water.

what do you all self host?

>>106563706
ThinkPad X230 with Skulls

>>106564561
Skulls is on coreboot which still has proprietary stuff.

Even though you could flash skulls easy without even needing a cha programmer using 1vyrain it is still not as good. 1vyrain exploit does not unlock the full bios stuff so coreboot(skulls) can not run at its max potential. Using cha programmer you can unlock every part of the bios and install coreboot on it all allowing for better performance.

>>106563746
What the fuck are you talking aboui?

>>106564958
>Skulls is on coreboot which still has proprietary stuff.
Not to be rude, but I don't think you have a good understanding of the situation. Coreboot is GPL, there is nothing proprietary in their codebase. They do offer optional microcode updates as a courtesy if you would like to add those (which you absolutely should do so, CPUs already have microcode, so avoiding the update simply means you have a more unstable, even unusable CPU). Anything after Core 2 Intel (circa 2009 and later) will need additional blobs regardless, but the coreboot project does not distribute them, you have to pull them from your own BIOS (such as IME and apply me_cleaner, which Skulls does automatically).

>>106563731
>more of a topic for /pol/ but Sheriff is extremely corrupt even for a Russian entity
That is indeed part of the dystopia. In my own western social democratic country, the corruption is wall to wall but people are so naive and the press is so compliant that hardly anyone is talking about the main party filling the bureaucracy, the judiciary, and the military with their own people to the point that the competance is rather glaring and reaches comical levels. And the press will never give you any coverage. It is rotten to the core, corrupt to the top, and the first breeze will fell this tree. I wonder how many other countries have this problem. WWIII will mean a total collapse.

>Never allow yourself to become a russian breakaway region, you will have literal warlords and criminals running the place in no time and there won't even be basic shit like water
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time to the people who are now all killed.

=== /re/ News:
>Reverse Engineering A Robot Mower’s Fence
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/reverse-engineering-a-robot-mowers-fence/
>There are a variety of robot mower systems on the market employing different navigation methods, and [Eelco] has the story of how one of these was reverse engineered. Second hand Roomba lawnmowers kept appearing for very low prices without the electronics driving the buried-wire fence that keeps them from going astray. The story of their reverse engineering provides us with a handy insight into their operation.

>>106564561
>>106564958
use osresearch.net

>>106487324
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-maBCzcLA
never forget that there are forensics shills spamming chatgpt copypasta in attempt to make you think epoxy on computer debug ports and ram chips is impossible

you are never dumping my rom or ram forensicsfags LOL

Hackers have low self esteem. They believe they cant make money being skilled and instead become pests.

=== /re/ News:
>Using An MCU’s Own Debug Peripheral To Defeat Bootrom Protection
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/10/using-an-mcus-own-debug-peripheral-to-defeat-bootrom-protection/
>Released in July of 2025, the Tamagotchi Paradise may look somewhat like the late 90s toy that terrorized parents and teachers alike for years, but it’s significantly more complex and powerful hardware-wise. This has led many to dig into its ARM Cortex-M3-powered guts, including [Yukai Li] who recently tripped over a hidden section in the bootrom of the dual-core Sonix SNC73410 MCU that makes up most of the smarts inside this new Tamagotchi toy.

I've been trying to use VPN now just to mask my torrent habits from now on, it does not matter on my third world country, but better safe that sorry if it matters at some point, any way to check if I did it right?
I do remember, years ago, some websites to check you download activity, but dunno if those are safe nowadays,

How safe is opening a stranger's docs.google.com link?

Is it possible to sneak in malware?

>>106569190
I have 4 million usd in my wallet

>>106572256

that kid in britain who helped hack twitter had 30m in bitcoin. turns out hacking can make a lot of money.

>>106572866
I don’t actually but who is the kid?

Would it be a good idea for a retard like me to buy a Librebooted T480 off of Minifree?
I'm trying to touch grass and read more, so I'm thinking about switching to one of those with Ubuntu or something that will sorta just work

>>106574251
Why would you want a laptop? You get more bang for your bucks and longer life time with a desk side machine.

>>106574714
Mostly so that I can put it away to keep browsing to a minimum. I also want to be able to use it on the floor and hang out with my cat

>>106574714
It's even harder to get a Librebooted desktop.

>>106575483
no its not check supported hardware, and coreboot has better support if you check their docs, ton of boards

>>106575528
All a pain in the ass to find.

>>106574714
>>106575483
>>106575528
>>106575599
Speaking of which, what is the most modern machine you can get with either CoreBoot or LibreBoot? I was checkign System76 but it seems they have non-open firmware.

=== /sec/ News:
>Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
https://archive.is/X5SSY
>But last month, Proton disabled email accounts belonging to journalists reporting on security breaches of various South Korean government computer systems following a complaint by an unspecified cybersecurity agency. After a public outcry, and multiple weeks, the journalists’ accounts were eventually reinstated — but the reporters and editors involved still want answers on how and why Proton decided to shut down the accounts in the first place.

>>106575625
Probably the Librem 14

>>106575686
Out of Order.
The StarFighter from Star Labs seems to be the most modern but it's also 1k more LMAO, even if it's a Zen 4.

>>106575771
I'd rather do it myself at that price point desu. Buy a reburb'd thinkpad for100 and mess around

>>106575852
Yeah, I may get one too when I start a new job but I was curious on how feasible it would be to live with only CoreBootable devices.
Extra cores and memory would be good.

>>106575599
optiplex 3050 micro and optiplex 9010 are plentiful, obviously have to look for them on the used market

>>106575625
z790
https://docs.dasharo.com/variants/msi_z790/releases/

or wait until opensil https://github.com/openSIL/openSIL which should come with amd zen 6, then coreboot for brand new amd boards should become available

>>106574811
>and hang out with my cat
Make sure it is a cyber cat.

>>106576859
Not gonna lie, latex trigger claustrophobia in me.

>>106576941
Unexpected. Is it the same with spandex?

I think im to retarded to install TOR on linux

>>106577773
Allow me to interject for a moment. Even though it's an acronym, "TOR" is actually written as Tor. And if you're talking about the browser, you wouldn't call it Tor (as that's the network), you would call it the Tor Browser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)#Tor_Browser

>>106578028
k

=== /cyb/ News:
>How chatbots are changing the internet
https://archive.is/ueTtr
>A Californian company called Curio is even wrapping chatbots inside stuffed animals to talk with children as young as three. The idea is that its toys, named Grem, Grok and Gabbo, will help wean children off screen-based entertainment. But it may also lead to a new source of childhood dependency and parental anxiety.

What could possibly go wrong?

>>106572866
>turns out hacking can make a lot of money.
They're SIM swappers, and it's funnymoney. Impossible to turn it into fiat really, so it's only good while playing monopoly. They don't actually hack much of anything, they just call telcos and convince them to SIM swap so they can hijack 2FA requests and get into accounts that way. Basically they target someone with crypto or someone who has digital goods worth money, like unreleased music or something, they then sell/trade it to other swappers for exorbitant prices mostly for bragging rights and clout. Occasionally a retard will gamble like 20 million and take home a few bucks but by the time they are done washing the coins it's more or less pennies on the dollar

People think they actually "hack" into these companies, closest thing i've heard is a compromised MSP account being used to upload malware to specific target endpoints but most of them couldn't kerbroast if their life depended on it. Not really any notable money in blackhatting unless you are backed by a Nation State

>>106569190
You can't really. It doesn't matter how "skilled" you are, it matters how experienced you are. Nobody even looks at you unless you have 98571956175618761498576 years of helpdesk experience. It's Boomer-tier "fuck you I had to do it, so do you" shit and I think it's funny when the corpos get rolled by bored teenagers. If you know what you're doing just do bug bounty.

>>106564066
that's like one half of one percent the population

>>106580326

do you think it's a good number for a country as rich and developed as america?

>>106579579
>Impossible to turn it into fiat really

Hi guys, a stupid anon with stupid question here
before going through the hassle of setting up I2P, is there anime/manga/doujins in those sites?

Free proton vpn now gets bitchy with my animu torrents even if I limit the speed to 500kbs, then again its busy weekend I guess, while it does not matter in my country im trying to make habit of minimizing my fingerprint and stuff
also Firefox is my normie needs browser, and the site reccomends setting it up on firefox, does it matter, or should I use brave or something,that is basically my 4chan browser, and vpn surfing private window browser

>>106576941 >>106577064 >>106578863
Still curious.

>>106489902
>United States of Niggers
>Gayrmany
Lol, lmao even.

>>106557699
It doesn't really matter whether you upload or download. When you torrent something, your IP address joins a list of peers and everyone in that list can see your address, which means that if some glowie or corporat is monitoring that torrent and they run a check on your IP address then they'll know what ISP it comes from and provide that information either to the ISP or the rights holder.
Either way you'll get a letter from your ISP. The only way to safely pirate is to use a VPN.
If you use a VPN all of the above will still happen except that once the glowie sees the IP address you are torrenting from, he'll see that it is your VPN's server in Mongolia or what have you instead of your home.
But what if they harass the VPN to get my information you wonder? That's why you want to get a VPN that doesn't keep any logs of their users, that way there's 0 information about you that can be given to the authorities, some of them even let you pay with gift cards that you can buy with cash if you are super extra paranoid

>>106583119
I don't like the touch but whenever I look at it and I feel it constricting the body it kinda gives me agony.
As a former competitive swimmer I have some swimming gear with it and I absolutely hate it as both my legs and had are huge so it's hard to find fitting gear and it's texture annoys me.
Now you made me realize I hate spandex more than latex.

>>106584359
>I don't like the touch but whenever I look at it and I feel it constricting the body it kinda gives me agony.
That is interesting. I used to work in a clean room lab and the slight constructions around my shoulders when putting on the compulsory "bunny suit" made me, well, unreasonably uncomfortable. Seems I am not alone in this, then. Even watching people struggle into catsuits makes me uncomfortable.
>Now you made me realize I hate spandex more than latex.
Let me now introduce you to neoprene.

bump

=== /re/ News:
>Reverse-Engineering Aleratec CD Changers For Archival Use
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/14/reverse-engineering-aleratec-cd-changers-for-archival-use/
>Where [Shelby] hit a bit of a brick wall was with mixed-media discs, which standalone DVD players are fine with, but typical IDE/SATA optical drives often struggle with. During the subsequent search for a better drive, the internals of the robot were upgraded from IDE to SATA, but calibrating the robot for the new drives led [Shelby] down a maddening cascade of issues. Yet even after making one type of drive work, the mixed-media issue reared its head again with mixed audio and data, leaving the drive for now as an imperfect, but very efficient, ripper for game and multimedia content, perhaps until the Perfect Optical Drive can be found.

=== /re/ News:
>Reverse-Engineering The Milwaukee M18 Diagnostics Protocol
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/14/reverse-engineering-the-milwaukee-m18-diagnostics-protocol/
>As is regrettably typical in the cordless tool world, Milwaukee’s M18 batteries are highly proprietary. Consequently, this makes them a welcome target for reverse-engineering of their interfaces and protocols. Most recently the full diagnostic command set for M18 battery packs were reverse-engineered by [ToolScientist] and others, allowing anyone to check useful things like individual cell voltages and a range of statistics without having to crack open the battery case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHj0-Gzvbeo

>>106564066
Look up PFAS - hardly anyone on this planet has access to clean drinking water. This stuff gets in everywhere.

>>106587588
based and redpilled
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/1959225/nearly-half-of-people-in-the-us-have-toxic-pfas-in-their-drinking-water

https://auth.lol/ida/

IDA 9.2 Release + Keygen

bump

Intel keeps losing key Linux developers, in droves. What are the chances Jia Tan will return to fill these position in the core of Linux?

>>106521464
>>106522223
Anyone recommend a sane alternative to Privacy guides? I find the recommendations there to not be consistent with their own criteria, and they have been answering concerns in a hand-waiving manner lately

>>106584520
The older I get, the less I like synthetic material.
Not only I am strongly against plastic but the materials bother me more and more.
Out of everything cyberpunk, the clothing is by far the one I dislike the most.

>>106586529
>>106587155
HaD is one of the few sites that improved with time, mostly because they depend on other hobbyist but their more editorial posts also have some interesting topics. They have have a regular Security news overview.

>>106587588
>>106588781
Speaking of which
>EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/epa-seeks-to-roll-back-pfas-drinking-water-rules-keeping-millions-exposed-to-toxic-forever-chemicals-in-tap-water
>In its motion filed in federal court yesterday, EPA asked the court to axe its determinations to regulate and enforceable standards for four PFAS chemicals – GenX, PFHxS, PFNA, and PFBS. Separately, EPA previously announced that it will seek to extend the compliance deadline for PFOA and PFOS standards by two years from 2029 to 2031. PFAS have contaminated the drinking water for approximately 200 million people nationwide.
Americans really sold out their future.

>>106591698
The solution is always the same.
Do your own research and when possible roll your own stuff.

>>106592023
>Americans really sold out their future.
They did, yes, but also for the rest of the planet. Also here in Europe, the drinking water is contaminated. I am surprised there is so little research on filtering out this stuff.

>>106581949
only anime if I remember, not too much of it. i2pd has an all in one firefox bundle if you want a quick look

>>106592164
Well, yeah, everywhere.
Decades of global pollution left everywhere its traces.
My main concern are the soldouts that want to copy everything the Americans do. Especially since they are often connected to the companies that profit from it.

>>106575655
>Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
But the redditors at r/privacy and r/degoogle told me it was secure

>>106592648
Indubitably, but did they ever provide good advice? That place is only good for semi decent pr0n.
Try rather a free shell provider, some offer pseudonymous accounts and some are known to stand up to the authorities. And many of these are very stable too.

>>106592027
Notice how I says "sane"

>>106594187
What is not sane about it?
That's how tech has always been.
You get curious, you investigate, you come to conclusions and you get to work.

>>106583211
I trust the security of software/hardware from the USA and Germany more than I trust software/hardware from China

>>106592164
>the drinking water is contaminated
with fluoruide?

Let's say all your devices are powered off. It's 3am. The FBI kicks down your door. Is there any chance of them accessing your data? How are you protecting yourself from a physical attack?