What kind of users are these? Power-users or normal users (Android etc.) or dum..Apple users?

Because in my circle, power-users and beyond. Everybody is angry with apps needed for everything, you want buy bread in store, "do you have our app?" It's a meme here. And in our local subreddit, 600k users. Sentiment is the same.

We also tried to bypass stores apps with generating new accounts and distributing QR/cards for free to everyone. It was kinda popular.

And problems are more real with each day, eg.: scammers have their work way easier, since dumb users can take a huge loan directly from banking app in their phone.

Also small EU country, btw.

By definition power users and beyond are a minority

So weird, why do you need Patreon dedicated app in appstore?

There is really so many people visiting Patreon, only because it's in Crapple appstore?

Or is this because they want to support as many payment methods as possible. And Apple Pay support requirements is to have an app?

Would be great, if they simple take a hit and gutted the app and redirect all people into website.

If they have good PR team, with proper messaging, they could make even more money, since people on Patreon usually don't like corpos.

Using any mobile phone connected to mobile network is breach of OPSEC, period. Even more in countries, where you cannot get anonymous SIM card.

Not using phone numbers in chat app doesn't protect you against someone locating you.

When phone is turned on, even without SIM, your location is saved, in inches. Thanks to 5G.

And some phone turns itself on automatically, lol.

Using laptop (without any wifi card) -> Wifi card (rotating fake MAC) -> wifi network/LTE modem with IMEI spoofing

Agreed, but people are going to people and will use phones, anyway. Might as well not include identifying information during registration.

Signal is a desktop app, as well. Even if you wanted to run it on Qubes in a Faraday cage, you'll need a phone number to register to use the app.

In the ideal situation, no one would be using Signal, phones or computers, the design of the internet is inherently identifying and non-anonymizing.

nkuntz1934 Senior Engineering TPM @ Cloudflare

Of course, this is done by a manager. Classic corporate mindset, I can do what these smelly nerds do every day, hold my bear.

He doesn't even know how git works, huh?

What a clown.

TPM isn't manager. It's basically a PM, but they're (supposed) to be technical

My guess, a program manager high up in the engineering org and not a people manager. But suggesting a high up program manager doesn't direct people is also wrong. TPMs "make the wheels go 'round" in engineering. They very much control the fate of other individual, and often whole teams so their integrity and capability both matter considerably which means they should not be passing themselves off as a coder or their individual code projects as production ready.

Does TPM not mean Technical Program Manager or Technical Product Manager?

Product Managers are generally not "Senior Engineering," though I suppose it is possible. IMO, it's a whole lot more likely a program manager than a product manager.

Probably, but that isn't a management role, they're not a manager, even if the job title includes the word manager.

blink You OK there bud?

> Prisons are hell on earth, so after his release, he will murder first person on sight and he will be back in no time

> So smart

What should have been done instead?

Sounds like you also support a life sentence here for stealing a phone, too!

So? Let him roam freely, consequences free? What about we execute him on the third strike if you think prison is not good enough?

Fun times for IT sec. Prompt injection, not to exfiltrate data, but to ban whole org from AI tools. This could be fun.

"If Americans could read they'd be very upset!"

It's easy to donate, since it's not their money. They are not profitable. Just Nvidia's money, they're paying themselves for new GPUs and datacenters.

I support AI vibe coding idiots everywhere I go. Please, use more VIBE coding guys.

And no, my work as redteam IT sec. is completely unrelated :D

AI will become/is already much better than most devs in detecting security flaws in code.

So my prediction is that any software worth scanning by redteams will become more secure. Not less.