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Do you have integration with other health and fitness apps to retrieve non phone step counts?

I have a Garmin watch that does all my health tracking etc.

It requires the bad guy to go to the page and ask the user to enter the code the bad guy gets

It's not that different is it? You still need to get a user to share/enter a live code?

From a practical PoV - most people have their phone on them all the time. A work phone or a physical token can (and will) get forgotten, a personal phone much less.

Bad actor goes to super secret page while working on 'fixing' and issue for the user. They then get the 2 digit request code and ask the user to input it to 'resolve' the issue.

Mostly the same as any other 2fa social engineering attack I guess, but the users phone does display what the code is for on the screen which could help.... But if your falling for it probably not.

Remember, they are not expecting to win, so this isn't a policy they are expecting to have to implement, just using it to attract more of the right wing vote they are losing to the Reform UK party.

Have you seen how slow their site is normally? Just request loads of obscure random pages and it will just eat their IO.

Throw some standard ddos on top to obscure things and your good? (Bad)

Edit: I know nothing about their storage, so I may be wrong. It just feels like they are held together with spit and prayers at the best of times.

They said that the option to use other authenticators were disabled by their company

The ms authenticator works in 'reverse' in that you type the code on the screen into the phone. I assume this is preferable to corporate as you can't be social engineered into giving out a 2fa token. It also has a "no this wasn't me" button to allow you to (I assume) notify IT if you are getting requests that are not you.

I don't believe that the authenticator app gives them access to anything on your phone? (Happy to learn here) And I think android lets you make some kind of business partition if you feel the need to?

Is this the team they moved it to, or the team they moved it from?

Then you don't get any new people at all. (Or very few)

I don't think Google has a road/mountain bike toggle for navigation does it? ☹️

There goes my fantasy F1 team for this week...

That's on used from McLaren?

I would split digital privacy from the foss and Linux discussions. They attract the same people, but are fundamentally different topics.

It also means you could get deeper into the digital privacy topic which is more useful to most people.

For the digital privacy one, ask for a volunteer (or do you!) ahead of time and get them to do GDPR requests for apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta etc. sanitizer anything they want to hide, but do a demo of what big tech actually knows about them.

Then go though how to prevent that and have a discussion on the pros and cons of that data collection. (Eg I don't care about Google data tracking as I find the Google location history really useful)

It's been a while since my politics A level, so I may get some of the terms wrong but hopefully the facts right.

As the UK doesn't have a formal constitution, it relies on convention and that parliament is effectively all powerful (under the crown) in that if parliament (encompassing both houses in this context) votes for something it can do it. (As it represents the will of the people and has the authority of the crown (less relevant in the modern day))

Parliament can't therefore lock a decision in such a way that a future parliament can't change because the future parliament is still all powerful.

In practice though this isn't entirely the case. You can make a law like you said, and while a future parliament can break it, it would (probably) look bad on them. But what does that do to stop politicians?

A further note on the previous chain - we go have two houses of parliament; the house of commons is the main one with the green benches that most will recognise. It has our elected representatives (MPs) in and (normally) where the PM is selected from.

The house of lords (red benches, appointed members for life) is generally considered the check chamber. It used to be able to block laws entirely, but I believe lost that power semi recently and it can now be overruled by the commons after 2/3 rejections.

Everything is eventually decided by the majority of votes in the house of commons. Even if you put a law in saying that the pm can't do this without a 80% vote, that law itself could be repealed with a 50% vote.

Theoretically it would only require a 50% vote to remove elections or something crazy. (Although in practice that might not get past the king who technically has the final say)

There is no formal constitution that has more protection like in some countries.

Most people who play games are not "gamers" and are not in any kind of community that says not to preorder.

Dammit, I came here to make that comment!

Oh hey - a non DRS overtake!

Two!