I’m hearing a lot about zero trust infrastructure lately and I wonder if this is the reason - the desire to eliminate VPNs. I honestly don’t know enough about IT to know if that even makes sense but it wouldn’t surprise me if these big corpos see the writing on the wall and are figuring out how to work sans VPN.

Bwahahahahah. Ha. Fucking rich.

Yeah, he probably jumped the gun. If he waited a week we’ll all be distracted by war in Taiwan or the AI bubble popping or an attack on a Fox News host. At least, those are the things on my bingo card for 2025.

I agree, but the doomer in me just figures we’ll be on to the next grift. Fuck.

That was my ending of choice as well.

I think you’re making my point. First, you’re right that passkeys can’t be phished. But access to the passkey manager can be. And now you’ve doubled your exposure to leaky third parties, once with the service you’re accessing and another with the passkey manager.

Why do you have the 4-digit PIN? Well, it’s just to unlock the part of your device where the private key is stored.

And there is the problem I have with passkeys. With a password it is me authenticating to the service I’m using. Pretty straight forward (if you ignore the operating system, web browser, network protocols, etc., but that’s part of using the tech).

With passkeys you’ve got this third party storing your keys that increases your attack surface. It could be your web browser, your OS, or some cloud provider that you’re now relying on to keep your data safe. I get that for people whose password is “password123” or who aren’t savvy enough to avoid phishing maybe this helps. But with decent opsec this overly complicates authentication, IMO.

To my point, later in the article:

Securing your cloud account with strong 2FA and activating biometrics is crucial.

What’s that now? The weak point is the user’s ability to implement MFA and biometrics? The same users who couldn’t be bothered to create different passwords for different sites? You see how we’ve just inserted another layer into the authentication process without solving for the major weakness?

With my tinfoil hat on I suspect this push toward passkeys is just another corporate data and/or money grab – snake oil for companies to get their tentacles tighter around your digital existence.

Happy to be proven wrong.

I didn’t realize how shitty MSM reporting was until they reported on something I actually know a lot about. The half truths and ridiculous misrepresentations belie a lack of intellectual rigor bordering on unethical.

And someone is going to say, “But that’s not their role. They’re appealing to the masses and need to generalize.” I agree in our current system that’s probably the best they can do, but it is not what a free press should or could be.

Does anyone have an angle on the strategy here? Obviously Paxton, et al. know this is complete bullshit. Is it extortion of some sort? Get another above board bribe from a corpo?

I’m not buying it is purely optics. These fuckers don’t have to care about convincing anyone anymore so there’s gotta be a grift in there somewhere.

Additional conspiracy theory elements from this thread:

• J&J spun off Tylenol last year. Did they know this was coming? Are they complicit in the grift or did Kennedy know about evidence that actually indicated a link between autism and acet… aceta… what is it… Tylenol?

• Discovery is a part of the judicial process so will they discover there is no evidence that J&J knew anything? What then? Lie, of course, but to what end?

• Release the Epstein files.

Honestly surprised it is so low.

Anyone who didn’t see this as the pre-Nobel publicity stunt it was is an absolute nut sack of a human being.

I think I’m ok with this. Before you lynch me, let me explain.

In the halls of Congress there are super rich, long-term, and likely lobby-fed members, and then there are those average people who ran on people-focused platforms and got elected locally. The first group are not going to be hurt by stopping a paycheck that is probably a rounding error in their actual net worth. And those individuals could use a shutdown and the knowledge that the opposition can’t survive for too long without a paycheck to force capitulation. So, keep paying the opposition during a shutdown to remove some of the leverage the powerful elite have over those representing the people.

A lot of generalizations in there but that’s where my head goes. Still shitty for the country and certainly for those who end up furlowed or worse, for sure. But at least the lawmakers holding out for reform aren’t having their own destitution held over their heads.

This is an amazing nuance I think may be lost on many.

Ding ding ding!

Thinking about the whole “Antifa is a terror organization” announcement from our dear leader.

Next step: “It is un-American not to have Disney+ in your household. Only members of Antifa or trans people don’t have Disney+. It will be mandatory for every patriotic God loving US citizen to have Disney+ in their home and on at least three hours per week. Anyone found not to be watching the party approved level of Disney programming will be taxed $21.99 per month and the proceeds put into a new ‘Mickey Patriot Fund’.”

Yeah, admittedly it is probably wishful thinking on my part.

Fucking do it. When the only news feed people have access to is state sponsored Fox News and AI generated MAGA memes on Facebook maybe we’ll get enough people waking up to make a difference.

A-fucking-men

Here’s the thing… I want to be sold something. Not anything, but certain somethings. There was a brief time when Google AdSense was new that I was excited for the experience. (I now know how fucking stupid I was, but hey, I was young).

The idea that a new product aligned to my interests and designed with me in mind would be advertised to me instead of feminine hygiene products or mesothelioma lawsuit ads seemed awesome.

I do not want your bullshit hype machine alpha male inside club cool kid image peddled as the reason I should hand you my money. You’ve got the wrong guy. Tell me what it does with a side of what I can do with it. And the “what I can do with it” shouldn’t be “get laid”.