Benny_IA

Inflation isn't a government spending problem. It's a domestic production problem. Outsourcing labor/skills means those skills/labor are lost domestically.

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@TrueLaserak @Pirat_Nation If we boil it down to the basics, this is paying "protection money" to the government to be able to "legally" scam people, with odds that are designed to disproportionately impact the "gambler" to the benefit of the company.

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@Pirat_Nation Cant run a scam ring without bribing your buddies in the government to make it "legal".

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@sharmanhall @jingairei @Pirat_Nation https://t.co/PhAesmEZyI

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

@B3thewhite It wipes nearly instantly and then shuts down. It takes less than a second and there's no need for a distraction. It only has to wipe key derivation material which when combined with the PIN/password for each profile can create the key encryption keys. It doesn't touch the data.

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@sharmanhall @jingairei @Pirat_Nation https://t.co/m4ayy3ULRy

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

https://t.co/fSCUYxV9OB

This proposal wouldn't hide that a wipe occurred and would help adversaries exploit and recover data from the device. It isn't a new idea and people have proposed variations of this hundreds of time for years. These proposals wouldn't hold up against widely available forensic software. Giving an attacker access to a decoy profile would make it far easier for them to exploit the device. Without a shut down or reboot, a device was previously in After First Unlock state would be very vulnerable to having data extracted.

GrapheneOS has strong protection against data extraction without depending on a duress PIN/password. The default enabled protections combined with a strong passphrase and 2nd factor fingerprint PIN would have provided fantastic protection for the data on the device. Reducing the device auto-reboot timer would be even better. The secure element would have protected the data with only a random 6 digit PIN instead of a passphrase in practice too.

All of our features are designed to work against adversaries aware of GrapheneOS. Our duress PIN/password is no different. Adversaries aware of GrapheneOS face a dilemma about whether a PIN/password provided by the user is going to unlock the device or wipe it. It wasn't designed around being a secret resulting in an unpleasant surprise for an adversary. We also plan to provide it as part of secure element rate limiting on future devices built to run GrapheneOS to prevent bypassing it with an OS exploit.

Triggering our duress PIN/password feature wipes both hardware keystores, the secure element as a whole and disk encryption metadata. Each of these 3 steps is enough on their own to reliably wipe material needed to obtain the key encryption keys for disk encryption. It happens nearly instantly and it wouldn't be secure if it took a bunch of time or depended on actually erasing any of the encrypted data. Shutting down the device triggers clearing sensitive data from RAM and registers to complete the process. It's necessary to clear a lot of sensitive data from memory and registers including decrypted encryption keys in TEE memory.

Giving an adversary access to a profile on the device instead of shutting down or rebooting would be very problematic. It would give them an immense amount of attack surface for exploiting the device to recover sensitive user data. If the Owner user is in After First Unlock state, the adversary has given massive attack surface for exploiting the device to obtain all of the data from the main user. It would be the extreme opposite of the attack surface reduction and exploit protections provided by GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS and apps running on it could continue to function indefinitely after the key derivation material is wiped. It already has disk encryption keys loaded into Trusted Execution Environment memory and is using those for inline disk encryption via wrapped keys. Only functionality depending on hardware keys would be broken. If there were profiles in After First Unlock state those would still be available. An attacker exploiting the device would recover the same data as before wiping the key encryption keys.

Forensic data extraction companies have access to GrapheneOS and we don't have access to their software. We cannot rely on security through obscurity or knowing how their software works including which vulnerabilities they exploit. Fooling widely available forensic software into believing a decoy profile is the Owner user isn't feasible. It would need to provide a fully functional Android Debug Bridge (ADB) environment which is completely impractical.

People should consider the fact that they likely haven't thought about this nearly as much as us. There are good reasons for why we designed this feature the way we did and it's working as intended in the real world. The feature becoming widely known about is a requirement for it to work as intended by creating a dilemma for adversaries. The main thing we need now is secure element support for it which we can get implemented for future devices as part of our Motorola Mobility partnership and future OEM partnerships.

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@titangilroy Worked in a small shop that had us manually fill the machines up with a hose/venturi connected to the coolant drum.

You get into the flow of running parts and forget you had coolant flowing...

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

1 year growth of Flock
July 30, 2025 - July 20, 2026

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow, the situation in Spain looks crazy!

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@MAC_Arms @Flock_Safety It would also be funny to build a faraday cage around it, if it's on your property.

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@RdVonHugenstein @MAC_Arms @Flock_Safety In WWII, we allied with Stalin to fight Hitler. Being allies doesnt mean you have to like them, condone their actions, or how they behave.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Same here. For the greater good, fuck Flock. I dont give a shit about the weed though.

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@Josie_OU812 @Mrgunsngear Not being a career politician doesn't make someone magically an honest or good person

Not in Florida. Talking in person is a placebo. He's a yesman. He's full of shit.

DeSantis is corrupt as hell as far as i've seen. He wants more government control and a surveillance state

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@jingairei @Pirat_Nation Yeah, i just wanted to correct the poorly researched post for readers is all.

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@GregoryKBovino @pvtjokerus "Sell your future and you will profit today"

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A 77-year-old Florida man staged a one-man protest against a Flock camera, blocking it's view by holding a 12-foot POOL SKIMMER against it.

He was caught on camera being interrogated by police and a man driving by says, "What's your name? I'll bail you out!"

Then multiple strangers showed up and brought him cold drinks, an umbrella for shade, and even snacks.

When asked why he was doing this, the 77-year-old said:

“I have a constitutional right to my privacy. I’m a law-abiding citizen, and I don’t need anyone sticking their nose in my business. And if they do, I’m going to chop it off.”

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@jared__lambert @smartereveryday I think there has been a misunderstanding

Nothing he said implies that profit is bad

The bottom left implies unsustainable over engineering

The bottom right implies unsustainable high wages/benefits

The top implies unsustainable profit seeking (slave labor/no quality control)

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@Jackyk0ning_2 @ADunaway3000 @IntCyberDigest i'm not sure how graphene OS' wipe works, but that's not how data deletion works normally

To delete something permanently you have to overwrite the deleted file with a new file

"Deletion" just flags a file to be overwritten and hides the file. The file is there and recoverable

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@todoassets @FRIEREN_PR Yes

It's kind of like a slice-of-life comedy with detailed world building, great storytelling, and well animated short action scenes

Character interactions feel natural, and build upon each other as the series goes, which is an incredible feat

It's "side questing", the anime

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@jared__lambert @smartereveryday I think he nailed it

What's described in your post is the middle of the triangle. One that found balance paying employees based on quality products that bring profits

The top of the triange deliberately pays low wage and cuts quality for profit, in spite of being successful

[Benny_IA @Benny_IA]

@gunrights @bradybuzz In California of all places.