- Wrote TetherMe, Subscriber Artificial Module (SAM) and for iPhone and collaborated on checkra1n and unc0ver jailbreaks; Swift Sucks
Joined October 2009
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13 Apr 2021
I guess I’ll let people know I have a Patreon in case anybody feels like contributing to it. I never liked people asking for donations, so I’m not... but if anybody feels they would like to help support my work on Elucubratus etc, this is available for you patreon.com/sbingner?utm_med…
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Sam Bingner retweeted
Apr 26
Whoever came up with "instead of a password you can save, we will email you a 'magic link'" should be launched into the sun
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Sam Bingner retweeted
Apr 22
This is what's happening to YouTube. This is one of my most popular videos. It's how to fix a UEFI bootloader. As you can see the traffic has been cut in half over the last 6 months.
But if you Google how to fix a UEFI bootloader, Gemini will give you my exact step by step process. Even the commands it cites are copied directly from my video.
I got no royalty payments and don't even get a link to the original video. I simply lost the traffic and Google is able to provide more value from stolen content.
AI is going to destroy the content industry on the internet and when it's gone, there will be nothing left to train the AI. Since AI can't come up with anything original it relies on stolen content and it can't steal what doesn't exist if it puts creators out of business.
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Sam Bingner retweeted
Apr 20
Crazy story out of Qatar:
A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her.
The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite.
Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws.
Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant.
In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.
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Sam Bingner retweeted
Apr 9
Reading is her only hobby and Amazon destroyed it - and many other people’s working Kindles - so they could make you buy a new one and pump it full of ads.
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Apr 9
Yeahhh not buying any Honda in the future. MyQ is aggressively garbage, they go out of their way to make sure you can’t use it with homebridge etc, and only use their garbage app.
Apr 8
🦔Honda's 2026 Passport removed the physical garage door opener button from the mirror and replaced it with a subscription service through MyQ. To use it, owners need to install a MyQ receiver in their garage, connect it to their home router, and pay either $129 for three years or $179 for five years. Owners who want to retrofit the original Homelink mirror instead can buy the part separately from Honda for $170. The previous generation of the same car had the button included as standard.
My Take
The garage door button itself is minor. What it represents is a deliberate strategy that automakers have been refining for years, testing how much friction consumers will tolerate before pushing back, and the answer keeps moving in one direction. BMW started with heated seats. Now Honda is removing physical hardware that existed in the previous model and replacing it with an app ecosystem that requires a subscription, a new garage receiver, and a home router connection to replicate what a button did.
A car is a one-time purchase and a subscription is recurring revenue that scales with your installed base, so every feature that can be moved behind a paywall improves margins without additional manufacturing cost. The problem is that buyers paid for a car that is now functionally worse than the one it replaced unless they pay again. The only thing that changes that calculation is enough buyers deciding it affects their purchase decision, and so far the evidence suggests most don't until it's their car.
Hedgie🤗
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i still have no clue why a web browser has a notification system
literally no one gives notification access to a website intentionally
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Has this happened to you before? Clicked on a bad link, then suddently your web browser is flooded with a bunch of junk notifications like this that are clearly fake?
Getting rid of it is quite easy. Here's how to do it...
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Mar 30
Ridiculous. @united is paying me 1/2 of the value of the my ski gear they stole from me.
$1100 of items magically missing. And I get $650. Then, when I go to claim the funds, none of the claim codes United gave me work, and I get locked out.
This is by design. Never again.
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Lmao @Hacker0x01 told me the backdoor was known "through internal security assessments" and they're "closing this report as out of scope". But now are pissed I disclosed it. Nobody should use this joke of a platform who put the interests of companies over that of users.
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Sam Bingner retweeted
Mar 26
I think — genuinely — the only hope for jailbreaking at the point is if the EU forces manufacturers to have unlocked bootloaders. It is deeply fucked up to me that you can buy a $1000 computer and are not allowed to install your own software on it.
Mar 26
“Semi-jailbreak” makes me immensely sad
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Every time I post about our family getting split up on a flight I’m told I didn’t pay enough for our seats or book far enough in advance.
But this is what Macaulay Culkin just posted.
It should not be legal for airlines to split up kids and parents on the same reservation.
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Sam Bingner retweeted
Mar 17
Password rotation or Forced changes lead to "password hedging," where users just add a number or change one letter (e.g., Summer1! becomes Summer2!).
It is biologically impossible for most people to memorize a high volume of complex, random strings every few months, leading to "sticky note" security risks.
When security is a hassle, users find dangerous shortcuts, like reusing the same "strong" password across every site they own.
The most important fact is that NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), the global authority on cybersecurity standards, officially retired this method
In its Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63B), NIST now explicitly states that organizations "SHALL NOT require" periodic password changes.
They’ve shifted the focus to Length over Complexity.
They recommend allowing passphrases of up to 64 characters and only requiring a change if there is actual evidence of a compromise.
Mar 16
Password rotation every 90 days actually makes your company LESS secure.
Change my mind.
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Mar 3
🦔 Microsoft banned the word "Microslop" on its official Copilot Discord server. Any message containing the term gets automatically blocked. Users started testing workarounds like "Microsl0p" with a zero, which slipped past the filter. Microsoft then locked down the server, hiding message history and disabling posting for many users.
My Take
Banning a nickname on your own Discord server is a strange way to handle criticism. It doesn't make the criticism go away, it just confirms that the criticism is landing. Now the story isn't about whether Copilot is good or bad, it's about Microsoft being thin-skinned enough to lock down a community server over a meme.
The underlying frustration isn't for nothing though. Microsoft pushed AI aggressively into Windows while users complained about stability and bloat. Copilot became the face of that push, and people resent having features forced on them they didn't ask for. One commenter said the first thing they did when Copilot appeared was ask it how to uninstall itself. That's the kind of user sentiment you can't fix with keyword filters. Apple asked users if they wanted Apple Intelligence and let them say no. Microsoft made it opt-out and is now surprised people are annoyed.
Hedgie🤗
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The Rust-re-write of sudo has decided to prioritize “user experience” over security.
“Change the default so that asterisks are shown when entering passwords.” … “Security is theoretically worse since password lengths are exposed to people watching your screen, but this is an infinitesimal benefit far outweighed by the UX issue.”
This change has already been included in the upcoming release of Ubuntu 26.04, scheduled to ship in April.
github.com/trifectatechfound…
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Feb 24
Looks like @1Password added some AI slop and is using it to justify price increases. I’d been quite happy with 1Password in general but it’s going the wrong direction lately. Time to find a more trustworthy and secure option. AI has no place anywhere near my passwords.
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JetBrains had a real fire alarm in the office.
AI assistant: “No need to leave 🙂”
We’re really putting autocomplete in charge of survival decisions.
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Feb 13
The fix just adds a pop-up warning when you click, so running a script is intended functionality? But, why? Why even render hyperlinks at all? I just want plain ascii characters, what are we even doing
Made a video on it below
Notepad.exe RCE? Not really. Mostly a missing pop-up warning, facilitating social engineering. But the real vulnerability is unnecessary product bloat & enslopification.
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=t2i_WfPN…
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Sam Bingner retweeted
Jan 2
Just downgraded my iPhone 7 to 10.3.3 with sep.lol — really cool work by the devs! @imnotclarity et al
Even with the modern scene dead, it’s great to see new tools being released for legacy devices
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Sam Bingner retweeted
Jan 2
i made a flappy bird clone that uses your folding phone as the controller
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23 Dec 2025
Captured all our sentiments. Now please don’t buy any of these cars. tiktok.com/@cherubg1rl/video…
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