cruelty to animals (isolation, pellets on ground that aren’t comfortable enough to make a bed. a hard hard floor under the pellets, day after day of misery and tedium and a form of sensory deprivation, having to use his own body as a pillow because of horrible cruelty) isn’t actually funny!

done

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You ruined “This PC”! Good thing it’s not My Computer at least…

Windows won’t load anymore

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Completely terrifying. Is anyone, like immigration activists, following up on this? Or is everyone just sort of shrugging and moving on?

How is it possible that 1300+ people have disappeared and there’s not more awareness? Are the news channels not covering it or investigating it?

Oh no! Not Microslop! They’re my favorite! What do I do?

There are a lot of Windows viruses and I’m not sure of the default permissions for wine and how much wine puts things in a container. Would it be easy for a Windows virus to escape WINE?

Why do you think it’s a psyop?

Some of this is vague. Is there a reason you aren’t sharing the name of the DLL or the software involved? I can’t tell if you downloaded a program that was infected and used the program in WINE or if you are saying WINE itself was infected.

Is this an account that’s an alt account and you’re normally a poster or are you a lurker? It’s really unusual to have only 1 post on lemmy.

If this is real, can you please post the name of the DLL? I am also surprised you aren’t spending more time trying to get your data back. Unless they wiped it many times, data is often recoverable, and sometimes even if it’s wiped several times. That’s what I’d be prioritizing getting back. Do you not have any other backups of your files anywhere?

My concern is that there is enough documentation on who isn’t calling people, who has no connection to anyone…

If there were racist genocidal people within the system and they were able to recognize each other (via tattoos, memberships) and then assign each other to certain duties, if certain people were put into cargo planes and dumped over the ocean, I’m not sure anyone would know.

It’s very hard for detainees to communicate with anyone in places like that if the detainee doesn’t have money or anyone willing to accept a call. If someone who was a racist genocidal person was put in charge of putting people into groups (based on lawyers, family contact, etc), people who were completely disconnected could be put into a unique group, put in a certain part of a facility, and flown in cargo planes together.

I just don’t know how likely this is. CECOT is a facility that holds people in a way that many international organizations would consider torture. If people were being killed in there, including people deported by the USA, I am very sure people would not know.

If we don’t know where 1200 people who were previously detained have gone as a society, and if there’s no record of where they were sent, it’s hard to fathom the state didn’t kill them, although I don’t know.

I’m very ignorant on all of this. 25% was just a randomly chosen number. But what about 10% or 5%? I just don’t entirely understand the purpose of making immigrants being deported untrackable unless the point is to make it easier to kill them, because if the purpose was just to make it harder to legally contest deportation, the system could just be very slow but have slow tracking built into it… but it doesn’t have that, right? I really don’t know the answers to any of this.

that’s a brutal hack. so they hacked the hosting update server, made it monitor incoming IPs, and then selectively uploaded a compromised backdoor update based on IP only to certain computers so it would go undetected longer?

it’s awful, but technically impressive that someone could remotely hack the server like that and set up such a complex system to target IPs… unless it was a state actor that compelled the server company to provide local access, in which case it’s less impressive.

shoutout to evilsocket! nothing like this ever gets access with opensnitch

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They constantly measure DomRect using javascript, which is a unique hardware-based metric that can be used to track individual users.

Imagine the cost of running duck.ai. What exactly is the revenue that it brings in?

Of course, if it were some honeypot, using DomRects to track users (and DomRect is not protected by Tor Browser or Mullvad Browser etc), well then it doesn’t really matter if it’s not bringing in much revenue since it’s value is in being a honeypot.

Yes, DomRect can be used legitimately in coding without tracking users… but why does ddg need to use this when they know that it CAN be used to track users and users have no way to audit the servers?

It’s really interesting they measure DomRect and not Canvas when privacy-aware users often block canvas fingerprinting but don’t block DomRect.

It’s sus

It’s a honeypot, so of course making it so anyone can use it, even without a phone number, even with a mobile device, is not a priority.

I can’t fathom that Signal is not a honeypot.

Back when I tried to register, not only did they want a phone number (which usually links to IRL KYC stuff) but they also wanted me to complete a google captcha that took different metrics (canvas, etc) of my device.

Why is that needed? They say it’s to reduce spam, I just don’t believe it it.

Not only that, I can’t register using a linux system. I simply MUST register with a mobile device (that I will likely have on me) that can potentially track me through the cellular modem in the device and also likely has listening devices inside the device and a camera attached that is very hard to cover (because it’s embedded into the glass and and covering it with anything messes with the swipe up function).

No organization would create something that is so incredibly hostile to people who don’t want mobile phones and don’t want numbers unless they were a honeypot. I even think that Signal was created in a large part to try to siphon popularity away from XMPP before it could reach mass adoption.