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Merz announces first German Cabinet choices in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 2 points 3 hours ago

5 out of the 7 CDU cabinet members are lawyers.

Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 81 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

I hope this article is well peer-reviewed. Otherwise this reads as if some LLM came up with the idea

Perplexity’s Android App Is Infested With Security Flaws, Report Finds in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

Move fast and leave things broken

Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago

Users can choose it, but it isn’t the default

Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

You could in the past (until around 1-2 years ago). I don’t know why it changed, though.

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[–] vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 97 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I’m still waiting for the day that I can make a full backup of my chats and save it on an external hard drive so that I won’t lose all of my message history when I lose my phone.

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[–] vollkorntomate@infosec.pub 43 points 3 months ago

[…] it uses the X25519 public key… as a symmetric key, for AES-GCM.
[…] anyone that knows the public key can decrypt it.

Ouch.