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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 03:13:17 JST mhoye

   As always, domestic abuse is _the_ flagship infosec threat model, the one where the victim has the least resources, the least recourse, where they're closest to immediate physical harm.

   That this industry has failed at and mostly abandoned the idea of even pretending to try dealing with a threat model that's difficult and unprofitable and mostly hurts women is not news, but this new Windows Recall feature is next-level professional negligence.

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 22:02:27 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     • Heath Borders

     @mhoye Do you mean like this?

     (I love free culture that makes this adaption of https://xkcd.com/538/ legal)

     Context: Microsoft considers it unproblematic that the new Recall in their OS takes screenshots every few seconds. They miss the sadly far too common domestic abuse threat model.

     Thanks to @mhoye for the text!

     @heathborders

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 22:02:28 JST mhoye

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     • Heath Borders

     @heathborders

     There's a missing third panel to that called "what happens all the time", that says "I'm going to hit her with a wrench for no reason and then look through her computer because I can."

     The guy opposite him is wearing a police officer's hat and says "That's fine."

     Børge and Matthew Lyon repeated this.
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     Heath Borders (heathborders@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 22:02:29 JST Heath Borders

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     @mhoye change the xkcd cartoon from govt agents beating someone with a wrench to an abusive husband beating someone with a wrench, and maybe these sheltered nerds will believe it.

     https://xkcd.com/538/