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Regular, run of the mill prisons have solitary. It's not a special prison. Manning spent most of her time in solitary, and it's not listed in your citation.
> Manning spent most of her time in solitary, and it's not listed in your citation. Not even remotely true.
Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
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How might this apply or what are the implications of Signal given its US jurisdiction?
The US authorities can make the same orders that they made with LavaBit (i.e. ordering them to produce a backdoored build and replace yours with it), and they can make them secretly. Given that Signal by design requires you to use it with auto-update enabled (and, notably, goes to some effort to take down ways of using it without auto-update), and has no real verification of those auto-updated builds, I would conside…
How odd. I have, and continue, to use Signal without auto-update enabled.
I have been prompted, twice in three years to update though.
Perhaps the requirement depends on your country?
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>It infuriates me the NSA actively works to undermine American security. It infuriates me that the NSA actively works to undermine International security. Seriously.
I believe they do this because most critical softwares are American, and as long as the NSA has better offensive capabilities, it's better for the NSA if international defenses are low. I don't think china or Russia really have good offensive capabilities, so as long as it is the case, this helps the US maintain some form of cyberweapon supremacy. As long as china or small black hats don't do harm, they will not rais…
So much projection when the US accuses China of backdoors ...
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People/governments should trust whoever is more closely working in cooperation with their own interests over those who are working against them.
Agreed, so how do you get from that to mistrusting only China? Everyone, including China/Huawei, has an interest in growing the pie. Some entities have an interest in zero-sum competition with me and mine. That's more likely to be someone closer - Chinese companies aren't competing directly with my business, but American, Australian and Israeli ones are.
I don't. It's just that this thread was about Huawei.
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That was low stakes, they already had the shooters. What if that was theater?
That's the really annoying part and the massive cultural red herring: they already have such insane levels of access to the latest toys and technology or equipment plus institutional access to records and documents they can subpeona and warrant from a judgethat will basically yield everything after it is aquired, why the fuck do they need that remaining 0.00000001% of evidence that constitutes everybody's private dat…
+ the illegal but inscrutable parallel construction
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Lawful intercept has always existed in phone networks. Just that one cannot use that in non-allied nations.
You’re missing the point. It was designed to be transparent to interception efforts up front, so you can’t tell if you’re being surveilled, lawfully or not.
For analog Gen0 and Gen1 networks I'd make the claim that it was just as much about technical limitations of the era.
But for 2G export crypto it definitely was about keeping it weak enough to break on demand.
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#617Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US authorities can make the same orders that they made with LavaBit (i.e. ordering them to produce a backdoored build and replace yours with it), and they can make them secretly. Given that Signal by design requires you to use it with auto-update enabled (and, notably, goes to some effort to take down ways of using it without auto-update), and has no real verification of those auto-updated builds, I would conside…
How odd. I have, and continue, to use Signal without auto-update enabled. I have been prompted, twice in three years to update though. Perhaps the requirement depends on your country?
Ya, does it do that thing banking apps do where it insists on the most recent version in order to even be usable?
Otherwise, thats more of an iOS option that can be easily altered
Settings App Updates
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#618More interestingly, Cavium (now Marvell) also designed and manufactured the HSMs which are used by the top cloud providers (such as AWS, GCP, possibly Azure too), to hold the most critical private keys: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/caviums-liquidsecur...
This breeds the familiar scenario where a group will start saying the link between the two is so clear that there must be a connection. Then you’ll get another group calling the first group conspiracy theorists, and say it’s just a coincidence of probability. Narrative control and information modeling is so powerful it’s scary.
Now get yourself some half-decent psyops and contaminate the first group with supporting voices that emphasize weaker evidence, use poor logic, name-drop socially questionable sources, and go out of their way to sound ridiculous.
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#619Just want to point out that iMessage makes a lot more sense in this regard. iMessage is that skeleton key that was requested years ago in San Beradino
That was low stakes, they already had the shooters. What if that was theater?
Can you elaborate on that? I thought everyone knew it was trying to set some bullshit precedent plainly?
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Sure. See you in the gulag, comerade
Oh please, the United States is so incredibly armed, my death will likely come at the hands of some misplaced right-wing militarized fascist group performing mass murders under the guise of "Freedom" and "A return to the constitutional purity of the US".
You... could defend yourself you know.
Cuts both ways.