[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

x.x.x.x))((1.1.1.1

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Potatoes 🥔🧂🍟

[-] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago

Huh. Even Boeing doesn't want to be associated with Boeing:

Boeing executives have repeatedly sought to make clear that the Starliner program operates independently from the company’s other units — including the commercial aircraft division that has been at the center of scandals for years.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

No worries. The situation I was describing is indeed absurd and defies reasonable expectations.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, that's good then.

In Australia you really only need a name and date of birth and ID such as a passport or driving license number of the owner. No physical or even photographic proof. Some phone companies send the original sim a notification before moving it, but no response is required and moving the number often only takes 10~30mins.

Banks in Australia commonly use sms codes as 2fa.

A large percentage (20~30%?) of adult Australians have had their ID details leaked in recent years because there are no adequately enforced security requirements or data-retention limits. One of the largest breaches was the second largest mobile phone provider...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

As in "Hi PhoneCompany, I'd like a mobile plan with you. Yes, I'd like to bring my old phone number over to the new account."

Or "Hi PhoneCompanySupport, I'm @thingsiplay and i lost my sim, plz send me a new one. BTW my new address is ..."

Ideally it shouldn't happen, but phone company security is pretty slack sometimes,

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Swapping the sim associated with your phone number -- from your sim to their sim.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I use the vegemite knife on the butter.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Glossary for non-Australians:

  • Newstart: Unemployment living* allowance paid by the government / aka "The dole".
  • ATSI: Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islanders (the many indigenous peoples of what is now claimed as 'Australia').
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"Mr Rolles was arrested in late June, when he was pulled off the street in Sydney for allegedly blocking roads and obstructing traffic."

Since late June, Greg Rolles must produce on demand his computer and mobile phone for police inspection, and tell them his passwords.

He is not allowed to use any encrypted messaging apps, like Signal or WhatsApp. He can only have one mobile phone. [...]

These are the strict technology-related bail conditions imposed on some Blockade Australia climate protesters — a development legal experts have criticised as "unusual" and "extreme". [...]

Defence lawyer Mark Davis, who is representing some of the Blockade Australia activists, said the vagueness of the prohibition was concerning.

"It used to name the things you couldn't have, and then they made it all encrypted communication," he said.

"It could be you're on your PlayStation."

He also takes issue with the non-association rules, and the lack of specificity about what an "association" might be. Mr Davis said one of his clients had been pulled in by police after they reacted with a "thumbs up" emoji to Facebook comments [...]

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So, this is interesting. I wanted to find that essay by @[email protected] outlining the many issues of Signal and suggested alternatives, but DuckDuckGo had nothing for me. Not on the first page, not on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th page.

I thought maybe I just imagined the title, but sure enough, on searching lemmy posts, it was right there. Then I thought "hang on, there's hardly a mention let alone criticism of signal on any page of those search results!".

Hmm.. the wording might be a bit ambiguous, but let's compare:

All of the following except Gigablast returned a healthy list of results including the original essay:

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