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It is technically impossible to end-to-end encrypt email.
Not technically. You'd just have to apply encryption at a higher level Send email bodies encrypted to base64 along with a public key fingerprint, then receiver's client would decrypt if it had the private key for that fingerprint But this isn't compelling enough to get a network effect to topple in-browser gmail
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If the FBI can use the Russia thing on a presidential candidate, they can use it on anybody.
The sad thing about this is I understand many people disliked Trump and were pleased by this, but, unfortunately that sword is double edged and all candidates have to dance to their tune, meaning they have to let them go beyond their purview or mission and maintain inertial agendas —which should not be the case. They are supposed to look at interstate crime among some other things.
I would like to believe ElBakyan is wise enough not to have anything significant/private on such an account.
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The sad thing about this is I understand many people disliked Trump and were pleased by this, but, unfortunately that sword is double edged and all candidates have to dance to their tune, meaning they have to let them go beyond their purview or mission and maintain inertial agendas —which should not be the case. They are supposed to look at interstate crime among some other things.
Yes, remember that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders also got smeared with Russian interference, so it is not something only used on Trump or Trump supporters. In my country, Sweden, alleging connections to Russia or Putin is often used in the political discourse to silence individuals or groups, without any sort of proof. It has happened both on the right and the left. We have to remember that many journalists i…
They did this to Rudy Guilliani too. FBI was going into his iCloud for over a year. What makes it more egregious was that Guilliani was Trump's lawyer during the impeachment. So the government was both prosecuting him, and spying on his defence's lawyers private emails with his client. If they can do it to a presidents lawyer with no consequences. They can do it to anyone.
> They can do it to anyone. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I fully expect that any American, involved in half the shit that drunk found his way into, would also be under double top secret surveillance. That's reality Jack.
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> I assume that when the FBI sends a request to a tech company about a user, they probably also contact lots of other tech companies too about the same user... You assume a lot. I know it’s fun to pontificate about dragnet surveillance, but in general when issuing / granting a warrant there has to be some kind of specific target and scope. In this case it’s likely the FBI knew the Sci-Hub founder was using iCloud ema…
Two things: 1.) The US Constitution only applies to American citizens. 2.) It’s hilarious when someone starts a reply with egotistical language (like “you assume a lot”) and then miss the most important fact in a scenario.
False.
In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, an 1898 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the term “person” under the Fifth Amendment applied to aliens living in the U.S. In Fong Yue Ting v. U.S.,the court held that Chinese laborers, “like all other aliens residing in the United States,” are entitled to protection of the laws.
"There's no dispute at the absolute core," said Andrew Kent, a constitutional scholar at Fordham Law. "If somebody is picked up by police they the have same Miranda and due process rights in all contexts except immigration law."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2017/01/30/does-th...
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Apple has always bragged about iMessage content being end-to-end encrypted, and thus inaccessible even to Apple. Why aren't they doing the same with email and other files, like other providers? (ProtonMail, to name one example)
modeless wrote here in Feb, 2021 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778758 ) : > It's also important to realize that the backup includes your encrypted iMessage messages, and the key required to decrypt them. Meaning that if you have backups enabled, all the "end-to-end" encryption in iMessage is defeated. Apple and by extension the FBI can read your messages. This is documented by Apple here: https://support.a…
Why would you use Apple software/services for anything like this? You know it's backdoored.
Why would anyone use closed proprietary software/hardware/services for anything like this? You know it's backdoored, or soon will be, since putting backdoors in software is both a profitable business for corporations, and a convenient cheap way to find unwanted people for governments.
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I find it more odd that people hand-wave a political campaign meeting with a foreign government for political dirt on an opponent. That is truly genuinely concerning.
You mean like how the Clinton campaign paid a foreign intelligence broker in the UK to dig up dirt about her opponent? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier I find that "truly genuinely concerning" and totally expected given who the Clintons are. Trump has so much dirty on him but this isnt it. Feigning outrage over one if these corrupt politicians but not the other is purely political partisanship and not p…
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Not just a presidential candidate, but a president. Did you know that after all those years of investigations, all those years of the house intelligence committee chairman and others insisting that there was "ample evidence" that Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election... in the end, The Mueller report admitted that no evidence was ever found to substantiate Trump or his associates or campaign ever working wit…
The phrase "Russian collusion" has become a catch-all for anything involving Russian influence, it's ridiculous and it over simplifies reality. The basis for the (actual) Russian collusion investigation had a reasonable starting point. Joseph Mifsud[0], the guy that nobody can find right now. It was absolutely worth investigating and it's disappointing that it became the dog-and-pony show it did. And Russia interferi…