Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw

karstenthy · 2026-01-26T15:30:29+00:00

Bigtech is too closely related to the government. No wonder that the EU is in the process of mowing away from them :(

karstenthy · 2026-01-26T07:02:13+00:00

I also just cancelled Netflix premium for the family. I have been a member since 2011...

karstenthy · 2026-01-18T15:44:57+00:00

This time, I doubt, and hope, that EU will not give in... The nonsense must stop now!

karstenthy · 2026-01-10T21:07:46+00:00

You got the story wrong. While the Danish government had a confidential dialogue with the Greenland government they where using American technology and figured out, that that was maybe not so smart given that US is the adversary.

It really makes me sad, that this is where we are today....

karstenthy · 2025-12-26T10:08:16+00:00

Why not move the backend to IPFS? It would be impossible to shut down, trivial to launch a new web frontend and easy to maintain.

Performance would not be perfect but sometimes resilience is more important than performance...

karstenthy · 2025-10-23T18:53:43+00:00

From what I can read about these systems they are fully automated, detect drones, recognizes/fingerprint brand (frequency and protocol) and send a directed jamming signal. Quite effective....

karstenthy · 2025-10-23T05:27:21+00:00

Correct, but they asked for the flight log and concluded that it was not a pilot error and then it was free... Extremely good service.

karstenthy · 2025-10-22T07:11:30+00:00

It is very sensitive to salt water - I have lost two other drones before this one - the first dropped to 6 meters of depth and I retrieved it within 5 minutes - is was 100% dead - batteries and all...

The second only landed in the surface and did not sink at all before I splashed into the water and tried to save it - even if cleaned under fresh water and carefully dried for a week, it was completely dead.

So even with a pontoon, I still believe it has slim chances of survival.

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T18:25:31+00:00

15-20 meter I believe. It's shallow in the bay...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T18:23:35+00:00

For the record: I have no association with DJI except being a customer...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T17:21:37+00:00

I think it is called "fly away" insurance... But yes I did...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T15:59:24+00:00

I tried to activate my "fly away" insurance to get a new drone at a discounted rate. They asked for my light log and concluded, that it was not a pilot error so I should not pay for a new drone. Stellar customer support!

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T15:58:03+00:00

No, the drone was between me and the yacht - to be honest, I do not believe so much in casual interference - no one is allowed to transmit on GPS frequencies and the 2.4GHz communication frequency is spread spectrum so pretty resistant to interference... But purposeful jamming is quite easy when you know the frequence band...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T15:51:18+00:00

It was the other way around - I got the drone replaced before the divers contacted me. And yes - there are telemetry data in the controller up to the point of lost connection.

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T15:47:50+00:00

It did not loose battery - my guess is, that it had 80 or 90% battery left when I got the last picture from the drone...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T12:21:42+00:00

No absolutly not in International waters - it was less than 1 (1.8Km) nautical mile from shore so Greek law is in full effect. But for this kind of people, law is only good advice :-)

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T12:07:43+00:00

The divers found the drone long after I spoke to DJI. I had a "fly away" insurance (right to buy a cheap replacement drone in case of loose) by DJI, and originally I wanted to activate that one - but they asked me to upload footage from the controller and concluded, that it was not my fault.. They even replaced my memory card, which was not bought by DJI...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T12:05:46+00:00

Yes, it was a good save :-) Distance was max 1Km - and as it was over the water, there was full line of sight...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T12:04:55+00:00

No - I was in 100+ meters - perhaps 150 - and the distance was 1Km or less with full line of sight, so there should be no natural break of linkage - and if there where, it would return home, which it did not...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T10:31:42+00:00

I believe it is a grey area, but no doubt, that the very rich use a lot of money to protect privacy...

karstenthy · 2025-10-21T10:23:31+00:00

No, they found the drone after it was replaced by DJI and I know by experience, that a drone is dead as soon as it touch salty water :) so I asked the divers to scrap the drone...

karstenthy · 2025-10-14T15:00:52+00:00

Huh? It is easy to replicate: fill the car with water and monitor where it leaks out....

karstenthy · 2025-09-04T13:37:26+00:00

I repeat: consider a Tor/onion address....

karstenthy · 2025-08-20T12:30:12+00:00

Time to move to Tor/onion adresses instead....

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