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#phones

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Tim Richards

Nice piece. Phones are damn useful, but use could be wound back a bit - especially by those people reading social media posts while walking along footpaths. I do notice a lot more young people reading print books at the local swimming pool (which I don't even do, I use a Kindle).
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What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found out. - Alexander Hurst theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · What are smartphones stealing from us? When mine was taken away, I found outBy Alexander Hurst
#tech#phones#technology
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Morgan Gangwere

So the @connections crew have gotten a chance to do something Amazing:
youtube.com/watch?v=RBXu7qJ7dN

More info soon. If you're in the #denver area and like #phones -- We need archivists and docents and the like who are passionate about technology.

If you were an OG #Phreak and want to help people relive and learn about Ma Bell and her children, go watch the video and fill out the form

YouTubeAn Exciting Announcement from Connections Museum 🥰☎️By Connections Museum
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Kent Pitman

Yikes, from an article that contains a lot more detail, but just to get your attention as to the impact part:

«The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains undocumented commands that could be leveraged for attacks.

The undocumented commands allow spoofing of trusted devices, unauthorized data access, pivoting to other devices on the network, and potentially establishing long-term persistence.

…

"Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls."

The researchers warned that ESP32 is one of the world's most widely used chips for Wi-Fi + Bluetooth connectivity in IoT (Internet of Things) devices, so the risk is significant.»

People worried about this topic might also "enjoy" the recent Netflix series Zero Day.

And not to get too far afield, but hopefully it also didn't escape notice that there have been broad firings of qualified people in the US government for reasons related not to their technical skill or ability to protect our nation from issues like this, but because of irrelevant details of their private lives or personal leanings on issues of having fair and competent government, helping the needy, defending individual human freedom and dignity, or avoiding mass death in myriad ever-more-likely ways.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

BleepingComputer · Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devicesBy Bill Toulas
#CyberSecurity#security#BlueTooth
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PrivacyDigest

Meet #Rayhunter: A New #OpenSource Tool from @eff to Detect Cellular #Spying

#CSS (also known as #Stingrays or #IMSIcatchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking #phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
#privacy #security #surveillance #imsi #cellphones #celltower

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular SpyingAt EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about Street Level Surveillance technologies—the technologies used by police and other authorities to spy on you while you are going about your everyday life—such as automated license plate readers, facial recognition, surveillance camera networks, and cell-...
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PrivacyDigest

#Cellebrite suspends #Serbia as customer after claims police used firm's tech to plant #spyware | TechCrunch

Cellebrite announced on Tuesday that it stopped Serbia from using its technology following allegations that Serbian police and intelligence used Cellebrite’s technology to unlock the #phones of a #journalist and an #activist , and then plant spyware.
#privacy #security

techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/cell

TechCrunch · Cellebrite suspends Serbia as customer after claims police used firm's tech to plant spyware | TechCrunchSecurity researchers found evidence that Cellebrite was used by Serbian police to hack into the cellphones of a local journalist and an activist.
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Hard copies: https://www.therealyellowpages.com

Or DexMedia might also ship them to your region if you have a land line.

In my area they mail them to certain neighborhoods where the geriatric boomer brigades and the hippy generation are known to still reside. The last place I lived 4 years ago they still delivered them every year. In my new place they don't deliver to my neighborhood. For everyone else you need to order them, and they are only available for certain areas.

I surmise that the print phone books will never be completely extinct. They are critical infrastructure if the data grid goes down in some disaster. There are still millions of active copper phone lines across the country, and the way they were buried, it should be another two generations before all that copper corrodes. I have lines that are 50 years old and still in good condition. It is just sitting there, waiting in case it is ever needed.

#YellowPages #WhitePages #PhoneBooks #Telephones #Phones #RetroTech
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Chuck Darwin

As Elon Musk and his associates have swept rapidly through government agencies, dismantling programs and seizing access to sensitive databases,
some federal employees are pushing back
— using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.

On Feb. 7, as rumors spread through the ranks of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Musk’s team had entered their building, federal workers took out their #phones.

On high alert, they 💥filmed unidentified young men from the team known as the Department of Government Efficiency being escorted by security through the glass doors of their downtown Washington headquarters.
They 💥shouted greetings from afar and
💥tried to snap photos of their faces.
Once the men were inside, one agency worker 💥confronted them in a conference room,
💥demanding to see their credentials,
🔥One of the Musk aides used his laptop to block his ID badge from view.
nytimes.com/2025/02/22/us/poli

Karen Ortiz, an administrative judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said her ability to send emails was shut off after she sent an agencywide message calling on the commission’s acting chair to resign.
The New York Times · How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon MuskBy Nicholas Nehamas
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