> The ~foo as backup convention is not part of any standard.
> [...]
> It's the second thing I fix in either Vim or Emacs: Put backup files in a central location. (The first is proper indentation/spacing rules.)
Perhaps not a standard, but you yourself admit it's the default behavior.
Though I agree that the simple mechanism acts ... er,... simply, shouldn't it be at the very least aware of the default behavior of common editors?
They will be able to do banking at least once the legislators tear down the walled gardens in a sensible way. Are the security benefits from the Appstore/Playstore real or security theatre?
I'm pretty sure that, if there are security benefits, they have been artificially tied to the use of the company's distribution method, that coincidentally really needs to be sending usage statistics, monitoring, etc. Surely there exist no conflicts of interest to be found.
fifteen years ago I use to do mobile pentests for banks and when we could not find anything significant for the reports we could’ve always count on “lack of rooting detection” and pin the risk on some vague mobile banking malware threat pushed by marketing. I am sorry I contributed to this nonsense.
It's understandable; I would maybe expect to undergo an extra step in verification for a sensitive app like, "we noticed this is the first time you are using this system that is not locked down; please type in the token we have mailed you".
But locking users out (which may not directly be the bank's fault for relying on OS's security APIs) seems anti-competitive.
Ha! Well, not right now! Previous to the last year or so, this wouldn't have escalated to the current situation where we're actively having to be wary of fending off Big Brother or blatant power grabs.
However, given that we're talking about a European phone, I'm willing to bet that this type of effort goes hand in hand with decoupling from American-backed services (at least for those who've seen the writing on the wall and understand the risk to their sovereignty if they put all their eggs on an American basket).
It's all just games, they just want to win. Dollars are the overall points, but they're even willing to sacrifice some of those to win bigger cases more brutally.
Honest question, wouldn't the Ad Topics proposal by Google have shifted away from all this data being leaked during bids? IIRC, advertisers would've received something like 4 words to specify your interests. Maybe I'm misremembering.
The disproportionate retaliation against Spain, I think, is out of fear that the US face consequences. The Trump-Epstein cabal would be quickly over if a united European Union actually put some resistance or threat that affected the bottom line of American companies: "push the petty dictator out, or we stop trade with the US"... billionaires would suddenly start funding progressive think tanks.
But I digress... It's nice to fantasize about having elected leaders finally find their balls.
Let's not drape ourselves in lobbyist-ammended laws too fast now; laws are the source code, in a way, of societies. They lay down the things we value, and what we are willing to do to protect them. These last few decades, a corporate coup has taken place, and we find ourselves with goons making probably illegal changes at the behest of billionaires (or at that of the people that are blackmailing them because they're likely in "the files").
So, whose law do you find so precious that you're willing to die in anarchy for?
P.S.: Laws are actually more like new years resolutions for a society; you gotta follow through with eating the rich (enforcement), or else you get a bad case of conventus secretus which may eventually lead to acute homines fascistae
- base tier: your code had 1% of no back doors
- starter tier: your code has 100% additional chance of no back doors
- security guru tier: generated code has 1000% additional probability of not having security back doors
Note: sneaky language means you have 99, 98, and 89 percent chance of backdoors respectively.
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