European. Polite contrarian. Insufferable green. History graduate. I never downvote reasoned opinions and I do not engage with people who downvote mine (which may be why you got no reply). Low-effort comments with vulgarity or snark will also be ignored.
Yeah sure, I understand all that, indeed it’s pretty much exactly what I wrote. You are simply taking an expansive definition of E2EE where I am using a narrow one. As far as we know, Meta is indeed sending its messages in an encrypted state, end to end, so technically it makes the grade as E2EE. That debate is kinda boring, I was simply trying to point out that this case study illustrates the importance of FOSS. And since you are downvoting me, that’s all I have to say here.
Useful article. As a fat-bike rider, I’ve been expecting this. It was just a matter of time.
At the center of the debate is the growing popularity of fat tire e-bikes that look and ride very differently from traditional European electric bicycles. While most Dutch e-bikes follow the long-established formula – pedal assist capped at 25 km/h (15.5 mph) with a nominal 250W motor and relatively narrow tires city – many fat tire models are visually and functionally closer to mopeds, with oversized frames, powerful motors, and wide tires. Authorities say many are traveling at speeds far beyond what’s legally allowed.
So the central issue is that it’s hard for police to know that a bike is respecting the norms. My Engwe is the EU-certified model but it has a secret jailbreak mode that unlocks the throttle and boosts the motor! The manufacturer even tells you how to do it! Come on.
I’m thinking that it might just be easier to regulate the max weight of the bike, since that’s a major factor in accidents. Plus a clampdown on speeding.
What he said is obviously technically correct, and we all know that he’s playing a difficult game where he has to keep a mad king on side.
Storm in a teacup that only became a news story because social media is encouraging politicians to shout at each other from behind the safety of their screens (like everybody else in society is doing).
if they can read the messages then its not strictly speaking e2ee
Yes, it can absolutely still be E2EE: the message is encrypted and the central server does not have the key. The issue is that the clients (i.e. the "E"s) are controlled by the same entity as the central server, and we don’t know exactly what the client (app) is doing. So the fact that it’s E2EE is somewhat moot.
This is exhibit #1 in the case for open-source software.
PS: you obviously get this, I’m just trying to make it clearer for anyone who doesn’t.
A sort of avian gemstone.
OK. Oz might be a bit of an outlier situation but I stand corrected.
OK I understand better. Interesting information, too.
Indeed. Saigon was effectively renamed by a conquering foreign army, after its leader. Really not a good look but most Westerners don’t know the story. If ever the communist government falls, or opens up a bit, nothing is more certain than that Saigon will become the official name again.
Given those figures, the numbers absolutely would have run out many years ago if every mobile contract was permanent and free of charge. The operators rent numbers from a central registry, just like with domains but with a much more finite namespace. There’s no way you still have access to a number “well over a year” after last paying anything for it. In any country. Perhaps there’s a misunderstanding.
Of course it expires. Otherwise the numbers would have run out decades ago. Depends on the contract but usually it’s around 4 months, you need to check the smallprint
Very weak argument
Sure looks like it
Lessons are doomed to be forgotten. In this case the lesson of the Mao era, that concentration of power in one person always ends badly.
Another fork freeloading off the Mozilla security team’s work.
To be clear, that SIM will expire after 2-4 months, somebody else will be assigned the number and they will be able to kick you off your account (though not access any undelivered messages messages except undelivered ones).
To avoid this possibility you need to have ongoing access to the phone ID.
The fact that emergency calls still work suggests that it must be doing some minimal pinging.
But that will be root-level stuff, apps are not going to have access to it and apps are most of the game with privacy these days.
Could have written this whole account verbatim. You’re not alone.
Recently I had a related experience when checking into a small hotel:
Etc. For many (most) people it seems it’s becoming all but unimaginable not to be connected and available to anyone who wants to contact them, round the clock. This is not healthy. The fact that a technology exists does not mean we have to adopt it.
Just waiting for a way to show-on-hover the address bar (i.e. the logical companion to vertical tabs) then I can finally scrap my chrome.css
Helpful article. Chinese kremlimology is even tougher than the original version.
If only the price was identical. 200€ more for the maker to add 3 lines of code to the software. But the certificate got me a 400€ municipal rebate, which I suppose explains the fake cost. What a charade.