Sounds like an attempt to curb their massive abuse problem.
On Matrix, you can actually upload files using special message types that don't even show up on normal clients, but persist forever... you can imagine the very illegal types of content that people post using such methods.
To be fair, discord is maybe not exactly the most appropriate place to disclose potential security issues, and it's possible OP derailed an existing conversation to bring this up.
I realize they are probably trying to imply a more ominous tone to the response though... and which one is true (or both), I don't know. Seven days does seem quite extreme to me though (but they also claim in another place it was only 3 days).
Which is why I'm confident it will fail spectacularly.
Their devices were running standard software, and the tricks they used were simple.
Although Sky News has verified the methods used by Ms Kubecka and Ms Popovici, we won't give details or name any software used.
It really can only be like one of three things... vpn, proxy or tor-like networks... this is not rocket science (to technical people). And all of those things are legal... so when they say:
"Platforms have clear legal obligations and must actively prevent children from circumventing safety measures, including blocking content that promotes ... workarounds targeting young users."
I'm not sure how they think that's possible... is that not at odds with freedom of speech at the very least? Do they really expect every tech company is going to voluntarily ban e.g. all VPN usage because it can be used to circumvent porn blocks? The entire economy and large parts of society would grind to a halt if that were to happen... for example healthcare would suddenly become massively unavailable because they regularly use VPNs to send/receive patient data.
Basically instead of launching completely new processes for each tab, which uses the (now updated/different) binary on disk, it uses a small secondary process that stays running the whole time the browser is open, and new processes are forked from that one, which makes them all use the same in-memory copy of the old process even after the program is updated.
This only works on *nix because you can't overwrite binaries on Windows that are in use... but Linux keeps the old binary in memory the whole time, so it doesn't care if you replace it, as it won't be used until you restart the program.
So it doesn't actually update anything at all while it's running.
Did you read the article?
Does this mean their hundreds of petabytes of pirated content will go away now?
It used to be an awesome clone of the famous MS Trackball Explorer (now that the patent has expired), but apparently they have completely changed the design and don't offer it anymore: https://www.trackballmouse.org/ploopy-classic/
Unfortunately I'm not interested in this new design at all.
If anyone is still looking for an explorer clone, I highly recommend Sanwa.
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How do they know evidence was destroyed?