xyhhx 🍉

i make software, noodles, and poor judgment calls

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xyhhx_at_nso.group@momostr.pink

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2024-08-22 13:21:53

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fuck you're totally right 😭
@npub1kwa…e0nj

2024-08-22 13:19:20

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nooooo 😭 @npub1kwa…e0nj

2024-08-22 12:39:05

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also, it seems vanadium doesnt support it either, which is surprising
@npub1kwa…e0nj is that expected? (i'm aware that it's probably an upstream thing)

2024-08-22 12:37:29

am i missing something or does firefox not support fido 2 / passkeys?
i set up an onlykey passkey with a pin on chrome, but on firefox i get "JsNotAllowed" exception
there's an okta support article that suggests enabling `security.webauth.enable_softtoken` or something but that has no effect
#firefox #fido2 #webauthn #security

2024-07-09 19:38:39

js should be opt in
there i said it
i promise if you disable js by default and only enable it as need on a per site basis, your enjoyment of the internet will increase markedly

2024-07-08 11:15:21

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no they aren't. a sufficiently competent person can mitigate a portion of the issues, but their design makes it nearly impossible to achieve a high degree of security without redesigning them from the ground up

2024-07-07 06:44:37

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or just use scihub

2024-07-07 02:01:22

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i've already explained that there's no effective solution to that other than to not offer a desktop app. you've ignored that completely

2024-07-07 01:59:57

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ok well since you haven't done anything except regurgitate accusations you read, insult me, and resort to pretty much saying "i know what u are but what am i", i think i'm gonna stop replying after this
if you have an actual idea about what they could've done better, maybe i'll entertain that discussion; but it looks like you're out of your element on this topic and i'm wasting my time trying to have a meaningful discussion about it

2024-07-07 01:29:02

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do you know what the phrase "security theater" means?

2024-07-07 01:27:49

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there are valid criticisms of signal, and there may be merit to arguing about whether it's better to store the encryption key on the filesystem or in the keyring; but your claim was that the signal team as a whole has an extremely lax stance on security. this is simply not the case
the fact that you haven't given any meaningful criticism or solution suggests you also don't have anything to add other than "signal bad" so idk why you are saying *i'm* the one exhibiting cultlike behaviour

2024-07-07 01:22:44

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that's not whats happening

2024-07-07 01:22:01

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i get your point. i'm telling you you're wrong (unless your argument is that signal shouldn't offer a desktop app at all)

2024-07-07 01:07:09

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more info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring#Security_model

2024-07-07 01:02:56

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after talking to some folks smarter than i am, the conclusion is that the os keyring is theater on linux anyway. any app running under your user can access anything in it.
so the answer is precisely "linux desktop insecure", and the only thing you can do is to isolate or sandbox it (flatpak, bwrap, dedicated user, vm, etc)

2024-07-07 00:11:08

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alright i guess

2024-07-06 23:44:46

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the suggestion to run the app as root is also pretty bad. you're better off running signal in its own user, sandboxed with bwrap, or in its own vm
(or just don't use it on desktop)

2024-07-06 23:43:28

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storing the encryption key like that is a blunder to be sure (and frankly is quite surprising to me), but the argument that this means that the team as a whole has an incredibly lax stance on security is the hyperbolic comment
also, to clarify, i'm not using desktop linux insecurities as justification of that. the point was more that commonly used linux desktops should be avoided for highly sensitive work in any case

2024-07-06 20:13:55

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"incredibly lax" is hyperbole. it would be better to store those in the keychain, sure; but generally speaking linux desktops are woefully insecure anyway

2024-07-02 18:11:58

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do you have any specific ideas on this front? i'm pretty ignorant on this front, admittedly

2024-03-22 04:32:49

okay so i'm starting my homelab off on a clean slate. what hypervisor/virtualization environment do i go with
#homelab #hypervisor #xen #kvm #proxmox #xcpng #virtualization