How exactly did they got from a thing that can identify and pinpoint you just by your body, without using cameras, using a piece of equipment which is ubiquitous in all civilized parts of the World to a thing that is a "privacy-preserving biometric modality"???

Or is it just a 2025 dystopian version of the old /. meme:

1. Do stupid thing
2. ?????
3. profit?

"..., any of them, but Microsoft's, of course, would be worlds better than SMS".

Here, I fixed that for you!

If visibility would fall from 67% to 62%, that'd be "worse".

From 67% to 28% - that is "drivers are catastrophically blind"!

So much for the auto-industry.

Just tell them I've stopped using Windows at Windows 95. Let them mind their business.

(being slightly less rude: I had to work in Windows machines recently, and I found out the WSL enviromment is completely usable, so, safe for some UI quirks(*), they are doing a good job)

(*) Among which the "black windows with black borders" theme for _some_ apps, which makes it a PITA each time you have one window on top of other - how that ever became the default for anything???

Putting a passphrase seed in an image that naturally gets uploaded to the cloud, if not explicitly, automatically by google and other software is just the equivalent to broadcasting it.

Sorry for people who'd expect any privacy in that. The hard part nowadays is having __any__ photo not being uploaded and OCRed.

And one have still to be aware of ubiquitous security cameras, besides mobile cams, when going in public (or at home) with ANY secret which can be recovered from images (including door keys)

Indeed - I have been transporting project trees from one computer to another over the years, and a quite similar search yielded 5409258 files for me. It is interesting to prepend a "time" to the find call, and see it takes less than a minute to this result on SSD, compared to the "night long" windows scans.

Wait? do they actually inject hydrogen in a pysthon and explode it like it were gas ?

I thought hydrogen vehicles all used fuel-cell tech, in which hydrogen is quietly combined with oxygen in a electricity liberating reaction,
and then you run on the electricity.

This is some form of joke. The thing is simply non-repairable.

Data leaked include all forms of identifiers and secondar data used across hundreds of thousands of places
to authenticate one person. Not to mention credit information, such as those used to calculate
the credit score itself.

And 220 million is a number larger than Brazil population: which means everyone got their data leaked.

The country will have to overhaul all forms of person/consumer/tax payer identification and authorization over
the next couple of years in order to mitigate some of the damages in this leak.

Meanwhile anyone is subjet to identity theft at will, and can do nothing to prevent it.

And no, I am not saying it is "perfectly safe" and that "nothing could go wrong", or that it does have any special safeguards towards privacy or security. On the contrary. But so far I have seen no one close, nor one in the news, victim of this being mishandled. (it is a matter of time, in my opinion).

Last year when we (as a househld couple) renewed the car licensing, we found out that the printed paper for the car document licensing was no longer needed: there is an officially issued app (for android and iphone) that will receive and display the car papers. But, along with that, the same app calls the electronic drivers-license version. And the drivers license is an official ID around here, as any other, besides carrying the official numbers for other required documents.
The app authentication is done through one of three different possible ways - I don't know all details, but one of them is through the use of the banking app for Banco do Brasil (of which I have an account), which is also an official institution.

There is also a feature that allows the car owner to allow the car documentation to be displayed in the app of third parties, which can be revoked - and that is THE way to allow others to drive your car, if you are not carrying the printed documents.

If anyone really cares about this stuff, here is one of the governamental sites explaining how it works, step by step, with instructions to download and have your ID: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.detran.sp.gov.br%2Fw...

> why couldn't you use Bitcoin or one of the gazillion other cryptocurrencies out there?

he actually is re-unsing an existing blockchain - the token is not a "coin", but
a token on the Ethereum network.

I am actually amazed on how hard it was to get this information trying to cut
through the media announcements and press releases -

It can be read on PAGE 31 on the company's Token whitepaper, though:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fefforce.io%2FWP_ENG_V1.p... (Open link and search for "Ethereum")

The token and its smart contract statistics can be seen here:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbloxy.info%2Faddress%2F0x3...

As a side note it is worth saying that just this week the Ethereum network took
the step to move from "proof of work" to "proof of stake", which will
allow it to actually be any "green".

I configured a 10-box arrangement at the time (the infamous "beowulf cluster") for the local university, and I can confirm that even with software that did not make use of the specialized cores in the powerpc CPUs, the boxes were cheaper, more reliable, and twice as performant than white-boxes x86 systems available at the time.

(I did maintain a PC-based cluster on the same university, and the headache was enormous)

That is good. I will care to make my toy "unicode graphics for the terminal" Windows compatible then. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fjsbueno%2Fter...

With a 30 year late update to this, does anyone know if it has ANSI sequence support activated by default at least?

"Dropbox files do go public" sounds quiteunanbiguous... except that the verb can be read as a noun, and everything is reversed.
I just wrote some quite bit text mocking on this headline elsewhere as well.