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“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 …

If you’re ok with abandoning all security and privacy, then Telegram has some nice extra features that can come in handy.

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.

You’d almost think it’s a prototype!

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 …

Yeah or people in the US just install something other than Firefox and call it a day when Mozilla decides to do that.

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 m…

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 …

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 s…

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.

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 y…

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.

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 f…

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.

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 curre…

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…