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WhatsApp: basta un numero di telefono per sapere quando dormi, esci o torni a casa


È stato rilasciato uno strumento che consente il monitoraggio discreto dell’attività degli utenti di WhatsApp e Signal utilizzando solo un numero di telefono. Il meccanismo di monitoraggio copre oltre tre miliardi di account e consente di ricostruire la routine quotidiana di una persona con una precisione allarmante: il momento del rientro a casa, i periodi di utilizzo attivo dello smartphone, le ore di sonno, gli spostamenti e i periodi prolungati di disconnessione dalla rete. Un ulteriore effetto collaterale è l’accelerazione del consumo di batteria e dati mobili, che passano inosservati al proprietario del dispositivo.

Il metodo si basa sulle specifiche dei protocolli di recapito dei messaggi nelle app di messaggistica più diffuse. L’algoritmo si basa sui riconoscimenti di servizio relativi alla ricezione dei pacchetti dati e analizza il tempo di andata e ritorno (RTT). Le applicazioni rispondono automaticamente a tali richieste a un livello di rete basso, anche prima di verificare il contenuto del messaggio, garantendo che la parte riceva risposte misurabili indipendentemente dal fatto che la comunicazione sia effettivamente in corso.

Chiunque può inviare i cosiddetti “pingal dispositivo della vittima: l’app risponde istantaneamente, ma il tempo di risposta varia significativamente a seconda dello stato dello smartphone, del tipo di connessione e delle condizioni di ricezione. L’utilizzo di Wi-Fi, una rete mobile, uno schermo attivo o la modalità standby creano profili temporali diversi, facilmente individuabili con misurazioni frequenti.

La vulnerabilità è stata descritta per la prima volta dai ricercatori dell’Università di Vienna e di SBA Research in un articolo pubblicato lo scorso anno. Gli autori hanno dimostrato che le richieste nascoste possono essere inviate ad alta frequenza (fino a frazioni di secondo) senza attivare notifiche, pop-up o messaggi di interfaccia, anche se non c’è mai stata una conversazione tra le parti.

Ora, queste scoperte teoriche sono state messe in pratica. Un ricercatore noto con lo pseudonimo di gommzystudio ha pubblicato su GitHub una proof-of-concept funzionante che dimostra quanto sia facile estrarre dati sensibili sull’utilizzo del telefono. Dimostra chiaramente come, utilizzando un singolo numero di telefono, sia possibile determinare se un dispositivo è attivo, inattivo o completamente disconnesso dalla rete, oltre a identificare ulteriori indicatori comportamentali.

Un altro trucco chiave consiste nell’inviare reazioni a messaggi inesistenti. Queste richieste non sono visibili al destinatario, ma attivano comunque conferme automatiche di consegna. L’app segnala prima la ricezione di un pacchetto di rete e solo successivamente verifica se il messaggio associato esiste, garantendo che la catena di spionaggio rimanga completamente nascosta.

Gli esperimenti hanno dimostrato che tali controlli possono essere eseguiti a intervalli di circa 50 millisecondi senza lasciare tracce nell’interfaccia utente. Tuttavia, lo smartphone inizia a consumare molta più energia e la quantità di dati trasferiti aumenta drasticamente. L’unico modo per rilevarlo è collegare fisicamente il dispositivo a un computer e analizzarne i registri interni.

L’interpretazione delle latenze apre un’ampia gamma di possibilità di osservazione. Valori RTT bassi corrispondono in genere all’uso attivo del telefono con lo schermo acceso e la connessione Wi-Fi. Risposte leggermente più lente indicano attività di rete mobile mentre è ancora attiva. Latenze elevate sono tipiche della modalità inattiva su accesso wireless, mentre latenze molto elevate indicano la modalità di sospensione su una connessione cellulare o una scarsa ricezione. Una mancata risposta indica la modalità aereo o uno spegnimento completo, mentre fluttuazioni significative nel tempo di risposta indicano lo spostamento del proprietario.

Accumulando queste misurazioni possiamo costruire un quadro comportamentale dettagliato. Le letture stabili del Wi-Fi in genere coincidono con la permanenza a casa, i lunghi periodi di inattività con il sonno e i modelli caratteristici della rete mobile indicano viaggi e uscite.

Il repository contenente lo strumento ha rapidamente attirato l’attenzione della community: in poco tempo, il progetto ha accumulato centinaia di “Mi piace” e decine di fork. Sebbene l’autore sottolinei la natura di ricerca e didattica dell’opera, chiunque può scaricare e utilizzare il programma, rendendo i potenziali abusi piuttosto concreti.

L’impatto dell’attacco sulla durata della batteria del dispositivo merita un’attenzione particolare. Le prime ricerche scientifiche hanno rivelato che un aggressore può scaricare quasi completamente la batteria di un dispositivo in poche ore senza accedere né all’account né al dispositivo stesso. In condizioni di utilizzo normale, uno smartphone tipico perde meno dell’1% della batteria all’ora. Tuttavia, nei test di WhatsApp, l’iPhone 13 Pro ha consumato circa il 14% della batteria nello stesso periodo, l’iPhone 11 il 18% e il Samsung Galaxy S23 circa il 15%.

Signal si è dimostrato più resiliente grazie all’implementazione di un limite di velocità per le conferme. In condizioni simili, la batteria si è scaricata solo dell’1% all’ora, poiché il sistema ha bloccato le richieste eccessive. WhatsApp non aveva tali limiti al momento degli esperimenti, rendendo l’attacco significativamente più efficace.

A dicembre 2025, la vulnerabilità rimane sfruttabile sia in WhatsApp che in Signal.

L'articolo WhatsApp: basta un numero di telefono per sapere quando dormi, esci o torni a casa proviene da Red Hot Cyber.



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Anti Jewish hate is not an issue of the Muslim community or of the Palestinians.

Anti Jewish hate is an issue of the "liberal" "democracies" that have failed to sufficiently hold neo Nazis, white supremacists, and antisemitic conspiracy mongers to account.



A drone view shows rainfall creating new waterfalls during Storm Byron in Qumran near the Dead Sea in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg

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#WestBank
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Knicks vs Magig.
Sto guardando la replica: bella partita, molto combattuta.

A tratti li guardi giocare e pensi, wow questi sanno davvero giocare a pallacanestro!

Poi, ogni tanto, guardi e pensi:
ma questo è minibasket, dove sono i giocatori?

@sport

#basket #mastobasket



You stopped Flock surveillance in Cambridge!


Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang pulled Cambridge’s Flock surveillance camera contract as a result of the December 9th Public Safety Meeting. Thanks to everyone who spoke out against these cameras and to Digital 4th and the ACLU for their efforts on this issue.

The Cambridge Police Department still wants to put up surveillance cameras from a different vendor instead of Flock, who put up two additional cameras after the City Council ordered them removed. That is a fight for another day. For now, we are happy for the win!


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Image d'un fond rouge uni. En bas à droite, il y a le mot "fussoir" en italique, en blanc.

Texte : fussoir

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Reading Shapes Your Brain – Here's What Happens When We Stop

“It’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish.”

“In other words, that cosy moment with a book in your armchair isn't just personal – it's a service to humanity.”

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#reading #becausethebooks

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in reply to Katherine Bond

I was planning on trying to de-emphasize how much time I spend idly on YouTube, social media, and podcasts to make a lot more room for reading. Now I *really* need to do that.
in reply to Katherine Bond

I always read but now, I’m turning off those screens.


The testing phase for v25.12 has officially begun! If you want to give the new postmarketOS release a try early and help with finding bugs on *your* device, find the instructions here:

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Happy testing! 🧪



Varias notas:

Ya tenemos una cuenta espejo en #Bluesky gracias a @bsky.brid.gy

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#WritersCoffeeClub 12/14. Share how you tackle a first round of revisions.

I dive into them from the beginning and work my way through. That, usually, worked for non-fiction. For the first novel, it was the same process. But then between the first two versions of the manuscript, the story had to be expanded a bit and rewritten quite substantially. Did a fair bit of revising while doing that.

in reply to TinJar

#WritersCoffeeClub I handle revisions the way I would carefully, delicately reconciling with a long-lost love: with trembling trepidation, one half anxiety and one half starving passion, to complete the circle of what could have been yet may henceforth be forever fulfilled with wicked elan.

It's a tightrope, yet the drop isn't as jolting as the first departure.

#author #indieauthor #writers


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Image d'un fond rouge uni avec du texte blanc superposé dans la partie inférieure centrale.

Le texte blanc dit : « J’aime bien les marchés de Noël. Ça permet de découvrir l’artisanat local de l’Asie du Sud-Est. » Au bas de l’image, en majuscules, se trouve le mot « fussoir ».

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Une image carrée avec un fond rouge uni. Au centre de l'image, il y a du texte blanc. Le texte lit : "Quand tu vois les décos pour Noël, tu te demandes si le p'tit Jésus est né à Bethléem ou à Las Vegas". En bas à droite de l'image se trouve le mot "fussoir" écrit en blanc.

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Damn that's one day before a concert I was thinking about going to, maybe I should go,,
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The 39th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC, so C3, so 39C3)! It's the largest hacker convention. It happens in Hamburg every year on Dec 27-30. It's very communal, weird, and fun. I especially love going there because there are lots of queer folks and the community is very charming.



Polizia australiana, gli uomini che hanno sparato sono padre e figlio - Asia - Ansa.it
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Die Schwere des Dadaisten in genau dieser Welt

The gravity of the Dadaist in this very world

Selfie Photography Collage

Meiser Jeder, Dadaist und Realistiker 12/25
#dada #Photography #Collage #Wahnsinn



I don't understand why some artists lock their professional portfolios behind Instagram, which requires a login to navigate through it.


In the age of #AI how do robots dream?

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#SX #Fediverse #Botiquette




Why & how this fascist takeover?

US oligarchs had always existed, but, until the 1970s, they tolerated some democracy.

The four simultaneous uprisings of the 60s gave them nightmares involving guillotines, so they launched this now culminating fascist project.

The Powell memo of 1971 was the launch pad. Rockefeller founded TriCom to dismantle the "excess of democracy" of the 1960s.

Info:
independentaustralia.net/polit…

#PowellMemo #Neoliberalism #USPol #Europol #TrilateralCommission #USFascism .




#ScribesAndMakers 14: Shameless someone else promotion day.

Watched the semester-end film projects of the local university's students. Splendid short-films. Full of maturity and real emotional depth. Great technique and they really know how to work well in large teams. Bravo!!!



New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution | Momentum Mag


Not long ago, Paris was known for its traffic jams, not its bike culture. The city’s grand boulevards were lined with honking taxis, delivery vans, and inching commuters. Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

Fast forward to today, and the transformation is astonishing. The French capital has quietly—and quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes,” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent cycling network spanning hundreds of kilometres. Paris is now a place where parents ferry kids to school by cargo bike, where commuters glide past the Seine on protected lanes, and where the sound of gears clicking often replaces the blare of horns.

And the numbers prove it’s more than a passing trend. A new study reveals that cycling traffic in Paris has increased by 240% between 2018 and 2023, while car traffic has steadily declined. In central districts, more than one in ten trips are now made by bike—a remarkable shift for a metropolis once synonymous with gridlock.

“Paris is an incredible example of how a city can transform when political will meets smart data,” says one of the report’s lead authors. “We wanted to understand exactly which factors made this happen.”


#cycling #paris

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Pastoral Scenes in Suburbia. Photos taken in November with my Nikon 18-200mm travel lens. Mallard duck pair at rest at the water's edge. Cheese Ranch park duck pond.
#photography #ducks
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Hätten frühere Regierungen nicht den Ausbau der Windkraft und Photovoltaik abgewürgt, Stromnetzausbau verpennt, immer mehr Bahnstrecken stillgelegt und in der Folge die Hersteller aus dem Land gedrängt sowie die Ausbildung von Fachkräften haben einschlafen lassen, könnte die Industrie längst in großem Maß von echter Zukunftstechnologie profitieren statt sich an Gasheizungen und Verbrennungsmotoren zu klammern.

And this is why we can't have nice things.



"The Hebrew Channel "13" publishes video clips that the occupation army said it found in the Gaza Strip, showing training exercises conducted by the resistance on a scenario of kidnapping and abducting Israel's National Security Minister "Itamar Ben-Gvir" into the interior of the sector."

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#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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L'Italia va a rotoli, ma la destra pensa alla cucina gayburg.com/2025/12/litalia-va…


Opinion: Banning under-16s from social media is a half-measure. We should ban toxic algorithms
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/opinion-social-media-ban-australia-go-further-recommender-systems-algorithm-6901718-Dec2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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in reply to Andy Piper

they are like gambling or smoking. not sure they should be 100% illegal but it's the crux of our problem, not social media itself.




Electric Trucks Can Now Charge While Driving


Scientists in the U.S. have successfully tested the first highway capable of wirelessly charging electric trucks at full driving speed, a breakthrough that could dramatically reduce battery sizes, eliminate charging downtime, and transform the future of EV transportation.



Terminato l'incontro a Berlino tra Zelensky e gli inviati di Trump - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Spoilers for The War Between the Land and the Sea episode 4

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»Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages« techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/mesa… #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News


CW: bathroom transphobia

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"The occupation army demolishes residential buildings near the Yellow Line in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City."

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#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com



Per quanto il Venezuela sia di fatto una dittatura e l'Ucraina una democrazia (magari imperfetta, ma pur sempre democrazia) a livello di diritto internazionale un attacco USA al Venezuela sarebbe identico a quello russo all'Ucraina.
Cioè inaccettabile.

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Sticker collection for 39C3 is complete. 500 of each iso8601ultras, "We do not test on animals, we test in production" and a large stack "Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal in Ankh-Morpork?"
Will be distributed in trading boxes/stacks/heaps

#39c3 #stickers #iso8601ultras #wedonottestonanimalswetestinproduction #netthieraberwarensieschonmalinankhmorpork



#socialmedia #BrownUniversity #browns #fcktrump #fckusa

2 survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings 😔

Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018 😟

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"An Israeli occupation suicide drone struck a room in the "Agha" residential building in the center of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, just moments ago."

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#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com



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Now that 2 cons have switched to the Grits, 1 to Ind, and one gave notice, it's opening the floodgates. It leaves the possibility of 1 more crossing to the Libs, giving them the majority. With the Environment Minister leaving, the whole Lib party is shifting right. This could be the ndp's only chance to stop that 3rd Con crossing, and at least make sure that 171st seat is held by a "Lib" (at least in name)

#Politics #CdnPoli

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Mad Santa: quando Babbo Natale “cancella” il Natale

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@giochi

#amiga #commodore #amiga1200

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Would anyone from UK or Ireland coming to #39c3 be willing to bring a small Etsy order with them? There's a shop selling cute sew-on patches but it doesn’t ship to Germany 🥲

Will pay for everything + bring-along-fee + thank-you drinks of your choice

[EDIT] Found someone :3

#39c3
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"Just moments ago, 3 airstrikes carried out by the Israeli occupation targeted the eastern areas of the Shuja'iyya and Tuffah neighborhoods."

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#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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OMG

I forgot about the time I cloched the Milli. :blobcatlaugh:

#Cats

#cats


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#Blog

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