Good old Barners keeps bobbing up like a bit of spam mail offering reptiles an "ru" tryst …
In light of Paul Manafort's wondrous inability to understand the cloud or iCloud, Gizmodo here, a tech head urged the pond to run with the Crikey story about Angus Taylor being a cybersecurity dickhead …
The pond doesn't like to run with Crikey stories, as they struggle to make an honest living, though it found it hard to resist the photo …
And the story did involve the reptiles, because the government leaked the story to the friendly reptiles in the hope of currying favour …so perhaps a little bit of the story wouldn't hurt ...
What this means is that Papers Please Pezzullo’s officials would require your mobile provider, perhaps in conjunction with your phone manufacturer, to help get malware onto your phone that would log your keystrokes and/or take screenshots and send these to authorities without you being aware — if they have been unable to physically access your device in order to install such malware directly. There would be no systematic breach of encryption, but a breach of a device’s security settings, presumably with the approval of the manufacturer of the device and operating system.
Police-installed malware has been around for many years — and the past illustrates exactly what kind of problems can result. The most famous example of police-planted malware was the Bundestrojaner, malware used by German police that was uncovered in 2011 and shown to have massive security flaws, potentially allowing a third party not merely to access the targeted device (in that case, a computer) thereby destroying the evidentiary value of whatever was on it, but even allowing access to the police database to which information was being sent by the malware. Supposedly, the government also intends to dramatically escalate the punishment of people who refuse to provide passwords to authorities.
To the extent that such malware would also require the overriding of security protections already installed on mobile devices by the manufacturer, it would also create opportunities for malicious actors to use the same exploits on any similar device — exactly the problem that avoiding direct backdoors is intended to avoid. How the government’s legislation will address these challenges remains to be seen; despite the careful drop to a friendly journalist, we apparently won’t see the legislation for several more weeks.
There's more at Crikey here under the happy header Government's malware backdoor confirms global village idiot status, for those who can get behind the paywall …
Malware doing malware!
But enough of village idiots …
Scrub that, please, more village idiots, because this day the pond always likes to kick back with the savvy Savva, who is routinely kept busy explaining how, despite all the village idiocy, tech savvy - in a Paul Manafort way - Malware is riding high …
Cultists will immediately recognise that Savva has been blessed by this day's Lobbecke, which means that attention must be paid ...
Now this is pretty much the savvy Savva in cruise control mode.
Knocking Hanson and Barners is a bit like taking on a headless chook in a game of tic-tac-toe …
It's when the chook's got a head that things get tricky …
Damn you useless chook …why did you humiliate the pond?
No, the real skill isn't knocking Hanson and Barners, it's to weave into the knocking a little gossamer thread that glistens as it tells us that really, actually, deep down, in a way that might not be immediately clear, Malware's doing fine ...
There, did you see it?
Only diehard Malware haters defend the headless chook Barners, while "The Prime Minister is not close to collapsing", despite all the political blockbusters raging around him …(not to mention the village idiots around him sending the tech heads into a rage …)
And with that the pond's day is complete, and the savvy Savva has worked her magic yet again, and Malware is in good shape, and sure there's a little mopping up to be done, but it's really no more than dipping the bread into the remaining gravy for a final treat ...
Au contraire indeed.
How shameless of those rogues to recall the glory days of the bromance …
Oh Barners, Barners … please allow the pond to shed a tear ...
You see, Comrade Bill and his despicable fiends will do anything and say anything and seize on anyone, even headless chooks, in their unholy quest for power, but soft, it takes but a magic word from the savvy Savva to stroke the beast of leadership rivalries …
Look, over there … Albo v Comrade Bill …
Always works, and with that distraction done, the village idiots can get back to their Malware work ...
And that's the word for the day from inside Malware's office …but since the pond also likes to cover world affairs, here's a couple of cartoons …
Silly me I'd never thought of it that way before: as a convinced atheist, I can refuse any acknowledgement or service whatsoever to everyone and everything which has any religious conviction or connection.
ReplyDeleteOh wau !