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Metadata. They would still know where you were, for how long, who you talk to, when and from where. Then they combine these info. ex: you call your pop and mom, théir fridge broke down, and you start receiving ads for fridges. Was Meta listening?? No: pop and mom hinted the fridge was down (Google search or other), Meta has established your family links a long time ago, and you usually visit them after a longer than usual conversation (as they have an issue and yuu go help). Here: you fridge’s ads.

They could always do that, and basically anything you can read on your phone, they can access if they need.

Encryption is a math thing: generate a pair of keys: one te encde, one to decode. I broadcast the one to encode (“public key”), and the whole world is tu use it to send me encrypted messages. I keep the decoding (“private key”) only for myself.

In client to erver encryption, we exchange keys with the server through which go all the comms: it decodes my messages and re-encodes them for my contact.
In e2e, the key exchange is between contacts: the server does not have the private keys.
In Meta, the proprietary app can send your private key to the server and then they know what you wrote. You have no way to know it doesn’t do so!

Opensource audited software is the only way to make sure.

That contradicts the very definition of end-to-end, but I would not even be surprised anymore if they spinned that as “fair marketing”.

You may want to revisit that

https://www.pcmag.com/news/lawsuit-alleges-that-whatsapp-has-no-end-to-end-encryption

No, it’s not robust. It may work for your TV, but it can be worked around.

DNS is like a phone directory for Internet: it translates domain name to IP addresses. If you block the DNS (what pihole does), it blocks the directory access. But if the IP address of the servers are hard-coded in the firmware, the TV does not need a DNS, it can reach the server directly.

To trick the TV, you need to restrict the IPs it can reach. It might be delicate: it probably tries to ping some comme IPs to check it’s connected, then call the brand’s server for ads/updates/etc.

I’m saying they could, and could have had these for a while, they may have a few ones that they were sending just to check if the US would detect them, they may have some on the go as a permanent operation, just like a patrol. I would say that’s unlikely, because the risk of getting caught was probably perceived as bigger than the benefit of having a strike opportunity. But as several others said before: sea traffic is barely checked.

And another option is they already have some drones hidden on US soils and dormant agents ready to launch them.

When you say it can’t happen, you understand that Russia does it in Europe regularly, right? Once in a while, they will even send drones flying above cities, airports, military bases, etc. just to see if they trigger any kind of response.

“People like you aren’t in for the money!” – always and only said by people who are in for the money

Her husband was not a big fan of women having a career.

Some Russian drones fly over Europe from time to time, to test the defences and/or gather intel. They launch from vessels that look civilians, sail under a third party flag, and transport legit goods to further confuse investigations.

Ukraine did a remarkable strike deep inside Russia by having their attack drones carried in a truck driven by a Russian driver who had no clue what he was carrying.

So the drones may have been dispatched some time ago and could very well be on US soil waiting to be activated, or they could be transported on any vessel around.

Anything that is not THEIR indoctrination is what they call indoctrination.

After the initial amazement, reason kicked back in: of course there would be an app for that, and of course some people would use it and share their intimate life with a company they know nothing about, because it has a bold line “We value your privacy” somewhere on its website.

As long as they don’t encounter any resistance, they have no reason to renounce their enshittification process.

Will the sales slow because of this? Unlikely. I would assume the power users are in the noise.

Will they make more money? Probably, either through their own data collection and brokerage, or from third party editors paying to have their app bundled in the OS.

So, no catch! (for them…)

So, the US would purposely weaken NORAD capabilities for a pure business purpose, and we’re to trust they’ll never weaken, or even threaten te weaken Canada’s F35 as a pressure point during whatever negotiations they want?

Sounds to me this is a point in favour of the Gripen!

I’m tired of people falling for this kind of shit every single fucking time.

Authoritarianism is never passed through a bill overnight. It’s one step in the wrong direction after another, multiplied N times.

This is a step in the wrong direction. After that you’re one step away from “improving the verification” and you would reject that step only if you have nothing bad to hide.

Do you remember when it was only a few cameras to evaluate their efficiency? Now they’re everywhere and are to use AI for behavior assessment and face recognition.

It’s the same pattern every fucking time!

Manly men following toxic masculinity stars are suddenly worried they could be drafted and sent to Iran?

I thought this was their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go prove themselves as manly war heroes…

It’s not just being on the top. Their wealth guarantees they’ll live in a different cast to the end of their lives.

At this stage, it’s a compulsive need for hoarding more and controlling everyone else, as they strongly believe their wealth entitles them to do so.

This is an oligarchy regime.

IBM gave us the PC standard! That’s by far their biggest contribution to the IT world, we’re still harvesting the belefits today.

Look at the ARM ecosystem of “every-PCB-is-its-own-kind”.

Years ago, they were the go to solution for databases. No CIO would ever be fired for picking Oracle over competitors regardless the pain that would follow, same as having Windows as the OS on all employees computers.

If there’s an issue with the world’s most popular solutxon: “Shits happens, we all know”, if there’s an issue with that alternative solution: “You see what bappens with your toy-thing? Let’s be professional and use a professional solution!”.

Years have passed, the alternative slowly made a name for themselves, but OracleDB didn’t evolve much because of inertia and the high maintenance that locks existing customers.

So now they’re going all-in on data centres for AI, that means to me the end is near.

If the tariffs last, emergence of some smugglers is unavoidable.

Add to that that they would be tracked by Kash Patel’s ruined FBI, and the risk assessment is even more in favor of smuggling.

Somewhat this mistake makes me think PCWorld is genuinely synced with MS at QA level.