FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

Post by titoCA321 » Fri, May 14, 2021, 11:29 PM UTC

squarefoot wrote: post #98

swiley wrote: post #11

Why would you use Apple software/services for anything like this? You know it's backdoored.

> 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.

Post by donw » Fri, May 14, 2021, 11:39 PM UTC

Wistar wrote: post #220

fao_ wrote: post #198

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You can be lazy with your malice, I think.

Malazeice?

Post by pyuser583 » Sat, May 15, 2021, 12:27 AM UTC

upofadown wrote: post #109

gok wrote: post #29

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It is technically impossible to end-to-end encrypt email.

People routinely do end to end encryption with email every day using either OpenPGP or S/MIME. Heck, email encryption is where the term "end to end encryption" came from. When someone claims E2EE for some other sort of messaging system they have to at least be as good at it as the email case to be taken seriously.

Post by the_optimist » Sat, May 15, 2021, 12:42 AM UTC

the_optimist wrote: post #248

tw04 wrote: post #243

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>To be illegal, information sharing has to violate some law. This does not. It is simply not illegal to share information with Russia citizens, the Russian government, or anyone affiliated with Russia. I can't tell if you're intentionally stating falsehoods with the hope nobody will fact check you, or if you're just completely ignorant of the law. He was accused and convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agen…

This is a non-argument. I do not dispute that he did or not. I assert strongly that no one on earth should care in the slightest.

Post by koheripbal » Sat, May 15, 2021, 1:01 AM UTC

fareesh wrote: post #205

The FBI has shown that it will doctor emails in order to get FISA warrants. This fact is subverted by the narrative that one person was caught doing it, as if to imply that he woke up one morning and chose to do it all on his own.