New Samsung cell phones have many connections to Google.

There need to be laws limiting Google's invasions to user devices.

Fewer than 1 of a hundred ads are interesting to me. Maybe 1 in a thousand.

Yup, defaults don't matter. Just ask Microsoft.

Bluesky was literally founded because Musk bought twitter and ended the authoritarian censorship regime by the same people running the authoritarian twitter censorship regime. They literally call it "Blue" to indicate the nature of the echo chamber.

Just because they have thin claims of openness because they built it upon and ripped off open and user focused technology doesn't lend their claim any credibility.

"You think that BlueSky users scare people, and then you admit to being part of a community that consistently produces mass murderers."

Ummm... that would be bluesky.

It essentially costs nothing to mirror their posts to X alongside the rest of the list and notice they list Bluesky, the official network of mass censorship and authoritarian repression, at the top of their list. This is a political ad and it is diametrically opposed to the principals the EFF CLAIMS to stand for, attacking the platform that promotes freedom and promoting those who oppose it.

   

"But let's be honest and ask when was the last time the EFF got a real headline?"

They haven't actually aligned with their mission in a long time. It essentially costs nothing to mirror their posts to X alongside the rest of the list and notice they list Bluesky, the official network of mass censorship and authoritarian repression, at the top of their list. This is a political ad and it is diametrically opposed to the principals the EFF CLAIMS to stand for, attacking the platform that promotes freedom and promoting those who oppose it.

Of course they did, they are leftists. The Nazi's were socialists and the Democrats founded the Klan... and the ACLU is just their modern day front.

The EFF stopped fighting for freedom of speech when their leftist friends began outlawing it.

In our brave new corporate controlled world adds will be inserted everywhere (and all your data belong to them -- you are automatically opted in, and probably cannot really opt out).

The attacker did release updated versions but your other comment suggests you already realized that but I'll explain for anyone else.

They removed the hacked versions and rolled the project version back to the good version. I'm saying they should increment the version number of the clean version to be higher than the hacked versions so the systems which had already installed the compromised packages will recognize the clean version as newer and having priority over the hacked one. In some cases automatic updates might even cause the hacked version to be replaced with a clean one automatically.

The desire to 'detect' an attack [or at least that they were temporarily vulnerable so they can look for one] is the only case for not doing that which I can think of. My contention is that minimizing the window of vulnerability at scale is more critical, anyone who is looking to see if they were running the vulnerable version is exactly the level of informed they'd need to be know to look at logs which indicate they HAD been running the vulnerable version. The vast majority probably aren't informed and won't check anything and they'll sit vulnerable until the compromise triggers some kind of alarm or the version number finally organically increments over what the attacker used.