#SinglePointOfFailure

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-29

@artfulmodder last time I checked @signalapp still demanded #PII in.the form of a #PhoneNumber, still peddled the #MobileCoin #Shitcoin #Scam and didn't move out of the #Cyberfacist #USA despite #CloudAct being nothing new!

  • Not to mention #Signal is both able and willing to discriminate against users based off said PII. Just because they do it for "#Sanctions #Compliance" diesn't mean they ain't gonna change that nor that @Mer__edith (or anyone else at Signal) could be bribed or threatened to do so.

They are #centralized #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider and are thus a #SinglePointOfFailure per design!

IMHO "memory tagging" is the least of Signal's problems. To me they stench "#ControlledOpposition" just as hard as #ANØM and incompetence as hard as #EncroChat!

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-22

Ah, yes, the thrilling saga of "Centralizing Authorization"—because clearly, decentralization was just too much fun. 🎉 Let's gather all our data eggs in one basket 🥚, and pray nothing falls, because what could possibly go wrong with a single point of failure? 🤦‍♂️
aserto.com/blog/the-case-for-c

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-01-04

@dbrgn @bastibayer es ist ein "#TrustMeBro" - Modell weil deren #Server sind #zentralisiert und damit #SinglePointOfFailure.

  • Anders als #XMPP+#OMEMO wo es zwar ärgerlich ist wenn @monocles oder jabber.ccc.de down sind, aber dies nicht die generelle Verfügbarkeit jener Lösung sicherstellt.

Ich betrachte etwas nur als #offen und #sicher wenn es komplett #dezentralisiert und ohne Möglichkeit der externen Angriffe gibt.

  • Ein Standard muss auch gemeingefährliche wie inkompetente und feindliche Betreiber woe Enteickler überstehen können!

Zumal es mangels #ReproduzierbarerBuilds nicht möglich ist zu verifizieren ob der veröffentlichte #Quellcode von #Threema das ist was die per #AppStore & #GooglePlay verteilen.

2024-11-11

@cesco_78 complimenti per la chiarezza.
A me rimane la perplessità di trasformare il cellofono in un unico gigantesco #SInglePointOfFailure, tipo, ripristinare lo #SPID è "stressante". Con la #CIE dovrebbe essere più facile.
Perché SPID e CIE non permettono l'uso di generatori #OTP "scelti da me"? (Chessò FreeOTP o altri)

petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼peturdainn
2024-10-05

geeft geen geldig OCSP antwoord...

Katja Heimann-Kieferkiefheim@norden.social
2024-10-02

@HonkHase Ich WILL meine Identität überhaupt nicht per Smartphone nachweisen/nachweisen können.

#singlepointoffailure

Wonderful. Alle automatischen baggage-drop und alle manuellen Check-in-Schalter sind ausgefallen. Nichts geht mehr bei #Eurowings in Düsseldorf.
Gerüchteweise hängt irgendwo ein Gepäckstück.
#DUS #singlepointoffailure

@thearcanecomposer sure - it all started with a presidential candidate #RonaldReagan receiving a very large contribution from a company named #Microsoft producing an operating system. In return he enacted software #patents that caused widespread #monoculture known to be vulnerable to #SinglePointOfFailure. To protect the fragile system another company named #CrowdStrike #CRWD created monitoring software that was deployed to all endpoints across the world, running with administrative permission, collecting all signals to a centralized database.

One day said company made a silly mistake, that only affected this particular operating system's ability to boot. For a brief moment the western world shut down. Politicians across the world were appalled by the incompetence of people in #InformationTechnology but concluded there was nothing to do about it.

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦mcepl@floss.social
2024-07-15

What we will do when #Mozilla dies? We have so many parts of our infrastructure bound to them without any backup. See for example bugzilla.mozilla.org/1602415 … the five-year-old request for inclusion of the Czech Post #CA into Mozilla trusted CAs (with eight months old needinfo for a Mozilla developers).

#SinglePointOfFailure

2024-04-15

@failedLyndonLaRouchite
@_tt_ @ahl

I was going to ask if you were referring to YKK, that company that seems to make almost all of the world's zippers.

You're talking about something else, but I wonder...

What other #bottlenecks or #SinglePointOfFailure's are there? The cables on the ocean floor that carry internet signals: I think there are only three or four, right? Or there is an underwater rock formation of the west coast of Africa that's waiting to break and create a tsunami.

2024-01-16

@Stormgren
Not the same, but possibly similar.

On the one hand, I grok the push to standardize on USB-C charging for all mobile devices. On the whole, I'm behind it.

OTOH, my #SteamDeck has just that one port that does #AllTheThings, so I have a USB-C superduper hub that handles charging/powering, & HDMI output to the TV I'm looking at to shoot all the Nazis, or whatever. It's giving me major #SinglePointOfFailure night sweats. One bump a little too hard, & it's ALL OVER.

((shudder))

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@mstdn.social
2023-10-18

@sleeplessone @joshbuker @BleepingComputer I just decline the advantages as this makes a #Dongle a #SinglePointOfFailure...

But maybe I trust my head more to remember half a zozen extremely long passwords and password safes more than proprietary tech?

Granted, everything's better than literally using "P@ssword1!" as Password...

Dear UPS: You had one job. #SinglePointOfFailure

tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unter
Warum gibt mir das zu denken? Welchen #singlePointofFailure gab es da?
Natürlich kann nicht alles perfekt sein, und natürlich können Fehler entstehen - gerade aber bei Sicherheitskritischen Systemen ist die Grenze früher zu ziehen.
#kritis #digitalisierung #ITSicherheit

2023-09-04

First day back at work today, and all the emails I sent started off with ‘hi, I was just wondering if there has been any movement on this whilst I’ve been away…’ #SinglePointOfFailure #ValuedAndEssentialMemberOfTheOrganisation

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