Via #TPM @ 5:12pm ET, Mar 06, 2025

A federal judge ruled that President #Trump’s firing of #GwynneWilcox was unlawful and ordered her restored to the #NationalLaborRelationsBoard in an opinion that excoriated his quest to craft a new, super-powerful presidency.

“A President who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a ‘dictator,’ perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. #Constitution"

#NLRB

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-nlrb-trump-supreme-court

I don't agree with Josh Marshall all of the time, but he's usually level-headed and pragmatic about whatever is happening. His newsletter today reflects what we're seeing with polls and other indicators: most Americans don't agree with what Musk and Trump are doing, and even MAGAts are upset. We're starting to see cracks in the congressional GOP ranks - as much as i despise them for allowing things to get this far, we need them to fight back. And since it looks like even average Americans and corporate media are "joining the battle" (as Marshall writes), I am feeling a little more hopeful today. We're still at the start of a long slog, absolutely, and nothing is definite, but I have to believe once Musk/Trump's actions are made clear to the average American (i.e., they can't ignore it by only watching Fox), things are going to get very interesting, volatile, and possibly violent. Anyway, worth a read!

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/inflection-the-backlash-begins-as-elon-goes-wild

In today's #TPM #TheWeekender, #JohnLight reports that #Trump's #DOGE is ostensibly modeled after the Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation created by #JavierMilei. What Light fails to mention is #Argentina's inflation rate hasn't been below 15% since 2016, and it's been above 100% since Milei was elected.
This is why I've pulled most of my retirement money out stocks and put it in gold, silver, and CDs. about it.
#politics #USPol
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekender/as-congressional-gop-cheers-trumps-rampage-the-courts-are-the-last-hope-to-stop-him
https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi

Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit

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#DSGVO #TDDDG #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Appel #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone  #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification #Bloatware #TPM #Murena  #Shiftphone
#LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture #FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz

( Ich bitte euch außerdem um > #niewiedercdu #noAFD )

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/hfzvE2FX7wKg8kbtUScqrvqI/

I'm sharing this Josh Marshall Editorial. Any Dem not on board with this pardon can fuck right off and join the republicans.

Any republicans having a problem with this pardon can join weak Dems in fucking right off - they're bad faith actors who have not been honest in the past 9 years (if ever).

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-pardon/sharetoken/1d2d8e82-e9ef-4cd4-85b9-80717d5d43b7

#TPM
#JoshMarshall
#TalkingPointsMemo
#Pardon

dude there's an ssh-tpm-agent! i have been using a u2f yubikey 5nfc with openssh from homebrew* for a private key and it's been pretty seamless, although i think i had to fiddle with synology's or ubiqiti's sshd_conf for appropriate algos iirc, but if you have a TPM available, say, in a rack. uh huh!

* (it doesn't enable the private key protection patdown - that feature has to be compiled in, so don't worry about your sloppy ass being locked out )

#openssh #auth #tpm
https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/113495083955878182

Apparently the latest revision of the TPM speccs from March of this year includes EDDSA and 25519!

““And, if we're in a country where, you know, the people who get to pick the president want it to be Trump, there's just not much you can do about that.

I mean, I am, it makes me so sad, and it makes me kind of repulsed and disappointed and angry, but, I mean, I don't know if that's, if that's the way it is. You can't really go around arguing anymore. Oh, well, they didn't know, you know, they just knew him from TV.

People know, and a lot of people love it. And I think that's horrifying and something we're going to have to wrangle with”

#JoshMarshall #KateRiga #TPM
A Rough Election Night, Nov 6, 2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-josh-marshall-podcast/id1351411911?i=1000675862140

Important step: "Today the librarian of Congress —based on recommendations by the register of copyrights— issued an expansion to the 2021 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (#DMCA) regulation that permits researchers to circumvent technological protection measures [#TPM] to conduct text and data mining [#TDM] research."
https://www.arl.org/news/librarian-of-congress-expands-dmca-exemption-for-text-and-data-mining/

BitLocker VMK Extraction with TPM and PIN

This article explains how to extract the Volume Master Key from BitLocker when secured by TPM and PIN, using hardware weaknesses.

https://post-cyberlabs.github.io/Offensive-security-publications/posts/2024_09_tpmandpin/

How convenient that there's a special test pad array on the PCB that makes sniffing the unencrypted communication between the TPM and the CPU so easy. As if this was by design?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTl4vEednkQ

So if you are an idiot like me and install a Windows 11 VM using TPM and set a complex password that you obviously will forget, there is a way to recover from this.

1. Open up the .vmx file in the VM folder.

2. Delete the following lines from the file (also seen in picture)
-> encryption.keySafe
-> encryption.data

3. Save the .vmx file

4. Open up the VM, go into settings, hardware.

5. Remove the TPM.

6. Go to options -> access control. Chose to encrypt the VM (forgot this step in my original post).

7. Now - numb-nuts - set a password for the TPM that you will remember.

8. Add a new TPM back.

9. Done!

Turns out @allsystemsgo are very fast uploading videos so my talk on `ssh-tpm-ca-authority` is out!

https://media.ccc.de/v/all-systems-go-2024-320-ssh-authentication-using-user-and-machine-identities