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Into electronics, windows internals, cryptography, security, high speed networking, compute hardware, physics, colourimetry, lasers, stage lighting, D&B, DJing, demoscene, socialism.

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For a day job I hack stuff, I guess. Embedded tech, ICS/SCADA, marine stuff, x86 platforms, etc.

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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

Temu "surprised" by the lawsuit, plans to "vigorously defend" itself.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/shopping-app-temu-is-dangerous-malware-spying-on-your-texts-lawsuit-claims/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica I'll be honest, my bullshit detector is going off pretty loud. they're claiming that the malicious behaviour is in a "cryptically named function [... that] is not visible to security scans before or during installation of the app, or even with elaborate penetration testing" - then how did they find it? most of the claims read as if they've never seen an app permissions list before, looked at Temu's, and assumed malice because China Bad™

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