CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.
Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.
All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at https://acropalypse.app/
Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.
(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)
Happy Saturday everyone. If you’re an iPhone owner, today would be a great day to turn on Advanced Data Protection: this will end-to-end encrypt your iCloud backups so that only you (and people you choose) can see your photos and data. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212520
this is, in my view, the most important tweet on twitter to date:
what fucking rabbit hole have i fallen down???
this is an incredible read and contains a lot of details i didn't know:
i'm trying something i haven't done in decades - i'm posting my photography online.
feedback is requested.
The city of Vallejo was about to be forced to disclose evidence of its many police shootings, so they just went ahead and destroyed it:
https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/
Google is providing 100,000 security keys to "high risk individuals" for free and this is good:
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