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Comment Correction from peak due to drop in migration (Score 1, Informative) 256

Under Biden Administration, most conservative figure was 8 million illegally entered US in addition to 11 million undocumented immigrants that were already in the country. To compare, US had about ~3.5M live birth per year and ~3M deaths at the same time. This is out of ~350M total population. When some number of people that entered under Biden leave, you have a drop in population.

Comment Re:Connected cars are a plauge (Score 1) 136

Yes there's a cost, but I frankly don't give a shit.

Considering sensitivity to other issues you showed, I am surprised to see that such drastic (from my point of view) intrusion to your life results in such nonchalant attitude. For example, you don't have to be a prepper to care about your insurance getting jacked up based on car tracking data or your house burglarized based on your car leaking exact location in real time.

Submission + - Chinese gateway-monitoring AitM framework discovered (talosintelligence.com) 6

sinij writes:

Cisco Talos uncovered "DKnife", a fully featured gateway-monitoring and adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) framework comprising seven Linux-based implants that perform deep-packet inspection, manipulate traffic, and deliver malware via routers and edge devices. Based on the artifact metadata, DKnife has been used since at least 2019 and the command and control (C2) are still active as of January 2026.


Comment Re:Connected cars are a plauge (Score 1) 136

You don't understand the cost of this convenience. The cost of potential security compromise, because automotive suppliers don't get IT security. The cost of your data, collected from both your vehicle and smartphone used as an excuse to increase your insurance rates. The cost of increased fragility, where if everything goes down and you have to get out of the way of some disaster it isn't clear you could drive out. To me, these costs are too expensive. That is why when I recently replaced my primary vehicle it was Toyota with 4WD, it had all connected features disabled at hardware level, and it is ICE vehicle because I can and do store enough gasoline to drive out of a blast radius.

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