caladin

Something that gets one close to the Minecraft Java Realms experience + mods, which one can just provision on their EC2 instance or wherever they may run the Minecraft server.

Comment · 3 years ago

Did you offer incentives for those donations?

Comment · 3 years ago

I've seen employment contracts that just include a general catch-all for any kind of surveillance, even if they "don't do it right now". This in California.

I take your point though that you're saying some laws require explicitly enumerating them (from how I understood your comment).

Comment · 3 years ago

Does anyone know if on company-provided macOS/macbook, can these kinds of tracking programs turn the microphone or webcam on without it being indicated in the system?

Obviously, it is a device that's not yours and the company can do all kinds of things such as installing rootkits and other things to do whatever, but putting that aside, short of that level of commitment, is anyone familiar with these kinds of programs and whether or not they indicate in some way (e.g. macOS-level indicators that some app is using the microphone/webcam).

I'm just curious if I have my work laptop in clamshell mode and it goes to sleep, to what extent is it not a 24/7 active bug? Maybe I should be shutting it down every single moment that I don't want to risk being spied on?

Is "sleeping" the macbook and closing it shut, enough? Is it low-level enough of a block, or can apps circumvent even that?

I'm specifically putting aside Pegasus-level circumventions here, since then all bets are off. I'm just thinking about 'off-the-shelf' level apps that companies can license and use.

Comment · 3 years ago

From a very cursory skim, I get the feeling that this would only work on public repositories where pull requests are allowed, correct?

Not to minimize the issue, as that type of situation is likely the norm on GitHub.

Another way of phrasing what I mean: private repositories are unlikely to be affected by this correct? Since the spoofer would have no way to propose the threatening pull request, only the real dependabot would have permission to do that in that case.

Comment · 3 years ago

This comment (inadvertently?) by mentioning those names gives off the impression that this is a partisan push. It is not.

This is an explicitly bipartisan effort. Most recently:

- Kirsten Gillibrand (Senator D-NY) most recently secured funding for UAP Office, and for years now has been writing legislation on the topic which has been passed: https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibr...

- Chuck Schumer (Senator D-NY) in the past few days pushed an amendment for UAP disclosure, with language including things like eminent domain over any recovered UAP craft. It is unlikely this would've been pushed without consulting the white house. https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment... See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/us/politics/ufo-records-s...

    Choice excerpt from Section 10a:

    "The Federal Government shall exercise eminent domain over any and all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities in the interests of the public good"

    This is from Chuck Schumer, someone that hasn't been adjacent to this topic until now, out of nowhere.

- The late Harry Reid (Senator D-NV) was a huge proponent of pushing for more information on this topic, initiating the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which was the precursor to a lot of these developments. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid#UFOs

- Jared Moskowitz (Representative D-FL) was one of the three representatives pushing for this hearing

Comment · 3 years ago

First time I see someone plainly refer to 'Holland' and it's not in The Netherlands but actually a city in Michigan.

Checked on a map and it's actually near a place called Zeeland, which is also in The Netherlands. Wow "Noordeloos" also sounds Dutch. I guess they just have many Dutch-named towns over there.

Comment · 3 years ago

Did you ever find an alternative vendor that did this correctly in a manner that you were satisfied with?

Comment · 3 years ago

As far as I know, inbound emails did include the headers you mention.

> Confusingly, these headers appear only for a subset of inbound emails.

Is it a predictable subset? Some unifying characteristic?

Comment · 3 years ago

FTA:

> Rubio told NewsNation that there are others in the intelligence community who have come forward with “firsthand” accounts of UFO hardware. Rubio, a longtime advocate for transparency on the alien issue, claims there are several more intelligence whistleblowers with “high clearances” who have shared similar allegations with the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Comment · 3 years ago

No. Kirsten Gillibrand has been active in it alongside Rubio. See https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/gillibr...