St0n3d

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by St0n3d 2mo ago
“Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which apparently wasn’t as good. So Apple U-turned on its efforts to scan for CSAM in its cloud storage. Instead, Apple implemented end-to-end encryption for iCloud files.” Wasn’t
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by St0n3d 2mo ago
If you’re ok with abandoning all security and privacy, then Telegram has some nice extra features that can come in handy.
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by St0n3d 11mo ago
Unfortunately the ECJ’s orders aren’t strictly followed and they recently pretty much indicated they could support an atrocious law like ProtectEU. Perhaps to save face.
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by St0n3d 3y ago
You’d almost think it’s a prototype!
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by St0n3d 3y ago
This will not happen. If Apple complies, it complies. They can’t blame Apple for not following a random EU directive in jurisdictions outside of the EU to begin with. They’re even different legal entities. The EU is not going to do anything
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by St0n3d 3y ago
Yeah or people in the US just install something other than Firefox and call it a day when Mozilla decides to do that.
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by St0n3d 3y ago
That’s also why the EU probably won’t get more strict than this. The climate is very bad for tech companies with increasingly vague and weird laws (that mostly nobody asked for I might add) and this is starting to piss some countries off as
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by St0n3d 3y ago
That’s not how international laws and customs work. Besides, be careful what you wish for since if they’d follow that line of thought you’re in for a 20-25% tax plus an import fee for importing electronic devices from a different jurisdicti
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by St0n3d 3y ago
3.) that’s not exactly true. Currently, you can choose for an open system or a walled garden in which you can’t be de facto blackmailed in to leaving the walled garden. With this so called freedom of choice you mention, I am no longer able
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by St0n3d 4y ago
Yeah it doesn’t want that, but annoyingly if you disable it on your WiFi (you can per network); it keeps re-enabling itself. F-ing annoying.
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by St0n3d 4y ago
A part of this really stands out to me. The new privacy policy associated with this states that Apple collects device identifiers, your Apple ID and the current (GPS-)location of your device and shares this: A.) with Apple to “develop new
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Apple adding new fraud prevention features to Apple Pay, Apple Wallet(appleinsider.com)
2 points by St0n3d 4y ago|1 comments
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by St0n3d 5y ago
Telegram is horrendously insecure, it’s equal to or probably even worse than Facebook Messenger. It should be avoided like the plague by anyone seeking strong privacy protection.
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by St0n3d 8y ago
Nasty surprise this one. I don’t mind paying for a good app, but for software that got lots of donations to keep it opensource: switching to CS with a €24 fee is really steep and feels like nothing but greed and screwing donators over.
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by St0n3d 8y ago
I'm... Not impressed. Yeah it's annoying and should be patched, but not more than that. Good find, sure. I'm rather glad to see nothing more impactful was found.
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by St0n3d 9y ago
Nobody has found it doing that, though. It could be something that will be added in the future of course (let's hope not...), but "could be" is not really interesting for the current situation. It ain't analysing your ch
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by St0n3d 9y ago
Same in the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. I saw an article that in the Netherlands it apparently is installed on 90% of all smartphones. As far as I know, WhatsApp is pretty much the default in the EU with the exception of Scandinavian co