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- misantropia é um perigo rapaziadaby knuppar
- USA has that new "Presidential Alert" right?
wonder how that will be abused by 2029, at least once
https://www.aau.edu/research-scholarship/featured-research-t...
by ck2 - Not “unauthorized”, but previous cellular alert false alarms:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/mistaken-pickering-on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...
Ok, hackers got blamed for this one: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/09/dallas-hacke...
by Scoundreller - Of all the messages they could have sent they chose the most boring.by mseepgood
- There was a Larry Niven story where if you tried to call a certain guy, every phone in South America would ring instead. Anyone remember which story it was? The phone thing was just a throwaway line, not a significant plot point.
- TBH phones in Poland allow to call you "from" an arbitrary number (i.e. display it on your phone). Also send SMS with arbitrary source.
This is being used by scammers who call you and tell they are from police bank etc
by p0w3n3d - Disabling alerts is the second thing I do to a new handset (after rooting) - including Presidential alerts.
The Amber alerts I got were often hundreds of miles away. But even if they were closer - say only 25 mi away, I'm still not going to be any help.
Weather alerts weren't much better. Having my device sound the klaxons over Red Flag warnings conditioned me to ignore all alerts.
by WarOnPrivacy - There's a video [1] from the "hacker" sending the message. The hacker allegedly [2] stole the VPN credentials (of an employee and two colleagues, because they were doing credentials sharing apparently) from a personal computer ("RGB gaming PC") running Windows 7 (EOL), w/o antivirus and reportedly having search for Windows activators for Windows 10 and Office 2019. Cherry on top: the malware seems to have dropped via a malicious game install. Lol
Ironically he recorded the video with CapCut, showing his ID, which also revealed their profile picture and identity [2]...
If all of this is true, we're lucky they "only" paged the whole country instead of doing something even more harmful. This is some crazy level of incompetence / lack of security.
[1]: https://x.com/i/status/2068482069643071749
by denysvitali