Man it’s crazy how these fuckers basically get to ignore copyright law whenever it’s inconvenient to them but if you have one too many Windows machines provisioned they’ll send the Spanish Inquisition after you.

Yeah, even if zero people ever consented the ability to defeat end to end exception would still be required in the software just in case someone ever did consent. That’s all governments need to bring their other powers down on companies. They can spy on whoever they like with this.

I don’t think i care what Jack Dorsey says that isn’t backed up independently. Even if he’s right i just don’t trust him.

Joe Darby came forward with the photographs, effectively leaking them. Rumsfeld later leaked Joe Darby’s name and identity, leading to him receiving death threats.

The state is kinda bad and it’s not only Right-Libertarians who say that. Even so, leaking documents is not always bad. Like, the Abu Ghraib leak was objectively good.

That sounds like a gdpr violation. Companies can keep some things under the gdpr even when asked to delete them but i doubt your comments or whatever fall into that category.

Even if they don’t have your comments, if you find a gdpr complaint they will have to show that. You can ask to see any data they have on you and also ask them to delete it. (If you’re actually going to sue them don’t ask them to delete it, though. You’ll need that in court.)

I think they think he’s gay and that’s the real reason.

“Commandment of celibacy”???

I am pretty sure that’s not a thing? Like that’s not one of the big ten. I don’t remember Jesus saying anything about commanding it, though he said to accept it if you can. I do remember stuff about rich people, though. That may be relevant considering they’re spending $4mil to go after gay priests…

Camera could be taking pictures of QR codes to make it easier to set up a VPN.

Bluetooth could be integration with things like Yubikeys for authentication.

Dunno if that’s what they’re actually for, though.

That’s not only principle, it’s very practical especially with a service like this.

I watched a bunch of that too but what was a little concerning to me was holding up Destiny as an example of a good use case for the service. There’s a reason Destiny keeps getting banned from every platform he touches. Putting him up front and center makes me wonder if they have a plan to deal with problematic people (like Destiny). Are they just going to the up hosting white supremacists and Neonazis? That’s not really a (meta)platform i want to support.

At least the UK is willing to acknowledge they want something impossible, haha. In the US they’d just say “do it, math be damned”.

Yeah i trust them more than the alternatives.

You’d basically be harassed by law enforcement and the NSA until you agreed to spy on your users. In the US at least.

Anonymity is good but that’s not the biggest problem with Signal’s reliance on phone numbers. Phone numbers are just not secure and not designed to be authentication credentials. Phone services are vulnerable to a large number of exploits and that’s never going to change. Signal has a number of mitigations to try preventing those exploits from hitting people but that’s a bandage at best. Reliance on phone numbers is a gigantic weak point in Signal’s privacy and security.

The phone number thing is a major problem but Signal just has the momentum imo. Ultimately, they’re gonna need to fix it or we’re all going to have to stop using it.

Aside from the horrendous privacy implications, this sounds like a gigantic waste of money. It’s just waste for the sake of waste. there’s no benefit to doing all that.

Probably for audit/investigation reasons.

IT generally doesn’t care (doesn’t want to care) but you still shouldn’t do personal stuff on work machines/profiles.

I feel a little encouraged that big tech firms are balking at this UK legislation more than (say) the gdpr. I hope they find the will to refuse to cooperate.

“Your privacy has value to us [and our 1000 best friends].”

The biggest and most successful gang.

Seems like such proof would be easy to put together. If you live in a poor neighborhood you’re more likely to be poor. (If that wasn’t true it wouldn’t be a “poor neighborhood”, would it?) If you’re poor you’re more likely to not pay back loans (due to simply not having money if nothing else). Therefore, if you’re living in a poor neighborhood you’re more likely to not pay back loans.

All you have to do is put that together statistically and you’re set.

Now… that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s correct, but it probably is easy to prove.

(Though that said, it’s probably way worse in the States than in Germany…)

Oh jeez. That’s nasty.

Lemmy devs don’t have a lot of ground to complain about services being insecure imo.

I have a seedbox built with ProtonVPN and Linux. You can’t use their app but the manual configuration does work. (Port forwarding is annoying though, i had to write a script to manage it.)