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gomp , 17 days ago to Privacy in what is the worst thing can happen if you leak your 2FA/MFA secret?

Then your password (your other, "first" factor) is the only thing preventing an intruder impersonates you.

You'll still have to go through the hassle the now useless second factor puts you through, so you might as well update your second factor even if you trust your first to be very secure.

gomp , 29 days ago to Privacy in FUTO Keyboard app

It’s also on FDroid

Actually, it doesn't seem to be there https://search.f-droid.org/?q=futo&lang=en

and available via Obtainium/Github

IDK about obtanium, but IIUC the sources are on their gitlab instance https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/latinime

gomp , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Privacy in Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal?

It's pretty easy to find articles confirming the Musk/Signal thing https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=musk+signal&iar=news&ia=news

Of course most of the rest is speculation, but... the article seems honest enough about it?

gomp , 1 month ago to Privacy in sim card from Ebay , bad idea?

You should ask the seller to make sure, but I'd assume those cards will require KYC on activation? I mean, if Romania requires KYC it's difficult to think someone can sell anonymous cards on ebay.

gomp , 2 months ago to Privacy in European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety

You seem to be describing the US system (or some other common law one... but I believe district attorney is a US-specific term?)...

IDK about other EU countries (I guess they are all the same in this regard?), but in my Italy the public prosecutor has zero discretionary power when it comes to indictment and must, per the Italian Constitution, proceed based on the investigation outcomes. So there is no "help me catch the bigger fish and I'll only charge you with some minor crime" like in the movies.

So... yes, what you describe can happen to anyone, but it can't happen just anywhere :)

gomp , 2 months ago to Privacy in European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety

To be fair: previous generations of police officers, back when most people used phones, have made extensive use of wiretapping (and current policemen still do, of course).

gomp , 2 months ago to homelab in Software RAID1: how to change disks?

In your shoes I'd do just that (booting from a usb stick and creating/mounting the appropriate partitions in the new drives)... but you might find resilvering or resizing partitions easier if you are more familiar with those operations that I am.

It must be said that actually copying the files rather than working with block devices will let you switch to a different filesystem (or take advantage of updates/optimizations recently introduced by your filesystem) or use different mount options (eg. add compression) and should in theory lead to better performance (eg. less fragmentation). In a homelab the performance difference will probably be unnoticeable anyways so... just go with the method you are most comfortable with :)

gomp , 2 months ago to homelab in Software RAID1: how to change disks?

You create a new raid array with the two new disks and move the data there?
I fear you'll have to be more specific about what doesn't add up for you...

gomp , 2 months ago to Privacy in Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

Makes perfect sense to me (not a lawyer, not a US person)... what doesn't make sense is how many people still think biometric is high security (maybe because of how cool they make it look in the movies?)

gomp , 8 months ago to Privacy in Privacy = no free speech

Didn't you know? Disabling ad blockers ensures free speech and apparently may also peacefully end the current crisis in the middle east... oh, did I mention it helps with world hunger too?