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Erik van Straten

@LukefromDC : it won't be that bad (it will be bad, but in a different way).

ANY website may ask a user to confirm they are 18+ (or whatever age).

There will be a huge amount of AitM (Attacker in the Middle) websites where naive people will be lured to (using fake emails, SMS, chat app messages or falsified QR-codes) and asked to confirm their age.

That AitM website will subsequently obtain a "ticket" (session cookie) from a real "relying party" website (with a potentially very different type of content than the victim is told).

Those "tickets" will be sold (or traded for watching ads and/or paying with privacy).

Reliable authentication requires a trustworthy identity verifier (even if identification is restricted to age+).

@drgroftehauge @fabio @SylvieLorxu

#AgeVerification#ByPass#Phishing
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C.

Soft switching fell out of favour after this period, too, because it could cause "tone suck". That's a real description; basically, guitarists complained that when their guitar was routed through the pedal to their amplifier, but the effect was disabled via soft switching, it would sound worse - its tone would #suck - than when they plugged their instrument directly into the amplifier.

With well-designed and manufactured effects circuits, and with reasonable #electronics in the guitar and the #amplifier, this shouldn't be much of an issue, if at all. But there were (and are!) lots of badly-designed or badly-manufactured effects pedals out there, and plenty of guitars and amplifiers with stupidly-designed electronics. So it's entirely possible for tone suck to be a real thing - but as with anything audio-related, you would need a double-blind #study to determine how much of the effect was real, and how much of it was purely #psychological.

So effects generally went back to "true bypass", with physical "stomp switches".

There is a bunch of stuff in the schematic that exists only to implement the soft switching. We can strip all of that out, too.

And if you remove both of those sections, you get this.

3/x

#tone#ToneSuck#bypass
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C.

But we can simplify this.

I'm not putting finished effects into standalone metal #boxes at this point; I'm #experimenting, not producing a product. So I have a simple #modular system I cooked up to connect arbitrary effects #experiments together. One of the things it does is handle the power-supply stuff, so each effect board doesn't need to do any of that. It just receives a nice 0V and buffered #Vcc (9V) it can rely on, along with a buffered 4.5V to use as a #bias voltage when AC coupling #signals, since this is a single-supply system.

So we can chop out all the power stuff from the schematic, which fills basically a ninth of the image - divide it into 3 rows and 3 columns, like the Brady Bunch intro, and the left-middle square is basically the power section.

But there's a bigger chunk we can strip out. Boss (and many other) pedals of the era frequently used "soft switching" to enable / disable the effect while playing. If you go back in time, real physical #switches were used, so the signal was actually totally disconnected from the effects circuitry when in the "off" position. This is called "true #bypass", as opposed to the soft switching.

#Soft #switching involves having two signal paths through the effect. One applies the characteristic effect, and the other basically just buffers the signal and bypasses the rest of the effect stuff. This is implemented with transistors and latches.

2/x

George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Huge #security #vulnerability in #Linux systems allows an #attacker with #PhysicalAccess to #bypass #SecureBoot and inject #malware onto a system even with #LUKS #FDE.

The mitigation is pretty straight-forward.

For #Ubuntu at-least (I don't run RedHat/ Fedora):

Edit /etc/default/grub as root.

In the line that says GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="...", add (or append) panic=0.

Followed by: sudo update-grub. (Takes effect on reboot).

This will prevent your Linux system from launching a #DebugShell if an attacker repeatedly enters a wrong passphrase for decrypting your Luks #boot #volume.

The linked article has more information.

https://cybernews.com/security/hackers-can-bypass-linux-secure-boot/

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)

My friend, @deviantollam (owner of Red Team Tools, and all around great person), asked if I wanted to get hands-on with RTT's gear 😯

In the immortal words of Kite Man, "Hell yeah!" :neocat_cool_fingerguns:

So, several days ago, Dev invited me out to a show and handed me a little care package of things RTT is thinking of carrying 💝

The second package with the gear I picked out from RTT's site should be here in the next few days 😁

So yeah, I guess it's about time to break into some shit on camera 🤘

redteamtools.com

#RedTeamTools#Locksport#Security
Nielso

#Mixbus / #Ardour can only use #automation for bypassing a plugin, if that plugin has an internal #bypass function. Well, almost.

Here's a dirty trick / example: In order to bypass C*Spice, I go to the pin connections window of the plugin and create a second audio output for it.

The second audio output I connect to the input, so it is a bypass line.

The trick now is to use the ACE A/B switch *after* that plugin which will use the "stereo" signal as two different inputs A and B. In this case, A *with* C*Spice and B *without*.

The A/B switch can then be automated.

#Recording#LinuxDAW#LinuxAudio
George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Been using #NextDNS now for over six months and hands down this is worth every single penny of the subscription! I have a #Synology WAP/ firewall/ router connected to #Starlink (in #bypass mode) and have the NextDNS daemon installed on the router. Since the router is the DHCP server and authoritative #DNS server for my #LAN, it ensures all of my DNS #traffic and NS lookups are encrypted and handled by NextDNS.

And, NextDNS has DNS-level web content filtering, so I have all #ads, #tracking, and other "#annoyances" filtered out as well.

The result? A very fast, and very pleasant web experience whether I'm on my phone, my laptop, or my PC.

Seriously. Can't recommend NextDNS enough!

Patrick

#cabg #heartsurgery #bypass #coronaryarterydisease I had coronary artery bypass surgery at the beginning of March. It caught me by surprise. Hereditary high cholesterol. But I had a vigorous exercise program before surgery. And I have an even more vigorous one now. And drugs and diet. I don’t feel depressed, but I feel very detached and “separate”. I feel that I have to figure out why I am alive. I feel as if I am now wasting time. So do other people go through this experience? what is it?

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