Pup Biru

to really hammer home this “many ways to hide”: the PDF is kinda just like a container… it contains other things like images (the patterns for example)… these patterns are probably vector graphics (made up of lines rather than pixels)… this means you can magnify them basically infinitely… and they can contain transparent lines and all sorts of things. they could easily embed that same text in the SVG image, at tiny scale (less than a pixel at 100% scale), and make it transparent… no PDF editor is going to touch the image data: it simply doesn’t really understand it to that degree - it’s an image; not a PDF after all… so that information will remain even after you’ve removed all visible/reasonable marks

this is just 1 example of practically infinite places it could be - and remember, this text is just lines in an image! it’s not like you can ctrl+f for the text necessarily… you’d have to go through every image manually and inspect every single line, and even then there are no guarantees (perhaps they encoded that information like morse code in bumps in some lines that are only barely visible at 1000% magnification)

no matter where you host, outages are going to happen… AWS really doesn’t have many… it’s just that it’s so big that everyone notices - it causes internet-wide issues

Would or is also a really good way to sniff WiFi passwords. If anybody says “Well yes, I am indeed $HOME_NETWORK_NAME” your phone just hands them the password.

okay that’s very untrue… wifi passwords aren’t really passwords; more accurately they’re pre-shared keys… they are used to generate the encryption parameters used to talk to the AP. the password is never sent over the air, and there’s a 4-way handshake

i think they need to use smaller words for themself because that is not the correct way to use that one

i mean 7 didn’t think it was great post-de-borging

i think they’re 2 different, but equally important things to protect against

shit companies using your information is almost guaranteed so you want to protect against that, but FDE does nothing for that

but losing your laptop with an unprotected disk can be catastrophic for your life… your entire browser session (so probably your email, and therefor password resets and confirmations), any cloud (or self hosted storage with saved credentials) storage that you have… idk about you, but the contents of my disk are plenty to steal my identity even without needing to social engineer, and with my email and other bits of info that’s plenty to social engineer probably anything up to and including a passport

training an LLM on chats might make you feel dirty, but an unencrypted disk can ruin your life for years and cause problems potentially forever

corpos aren’t who you’re protecting against with encrypted drives… they’re not going to gain access to anything via bypassing your OS: they get everything via software you’ve installed or things like tracking

the main thing you’re protecting against with encryption is theft (or if you think you’re being physically targeted, it also stops them from modifying your system… eg replacing your kernel or a binary that gives them access somehow)

also different addons, and different configuration for addons etc