Maybe people in UK should de-stupidify their politicians.
The two major parties are both supporters of the nanny state.
Time to start de-Appling
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
It must be nice to live somewhere that has politicians that represent the will of the people enough to have a take like this. Where I live, your vote only counts if you have enough money.
You're asking for a monkey's paw. The current ruling party in the US has given its voters exactly what they think they wanted, and it's a fucking disaster.
Because no matter who they vote for, they get this. The previous ruling party hasn't had a real primary since 2008 (and didn't even go through the motions in 2024.) H. Clinton makes a fairly good case that even that one was fixed (because they knew the best horse to bet on.)
No matter who you vote for you get Hillary Clinton's governance, though. She's become very complimentary about Trump's foreign policy.
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#123> Hi, I'm Heather Burns — yes, that one. Ok, I was going to ask, but taking "yes, that one" seriously I suppose confirms the author is the actress Heather Burns best known for playing the best friend role in a string of successful romantic comedies. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122688/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Burns Kind of weird to be reading some blog post about tech privacy from such a well known actr…
I wouldn't classify "best known for playing a side character in some 90s movies" as a well known actress. Also, different Heather Burns.
I'd put her in the top 1% of actors.
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#124Just to clarify, she's advocating people stop using Apple, quite literally the only big tech company with a slightly better focus on privacy compared to all the others and with a reputation for saying no to the latest authoritarian power grab by the UK government?
Yes, she's advocating people stop using them for a few services if they require e2ee for those services. Why? Because apple will be removing e2ee for those services. She is also clearly advocating not to use another big tech company for those services. Source: TFA
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it doesn't. If I get up in the morning and say "time to get out of the house" I am not blaming my house for anything; I am simply articulating that I want or need to be somewhere else, for whatever reason.
Eh, the whole "de-Brand" lingo comes from "de-Googling" which has unambiguously blamed Google for the act. The use of the same type of terminology automatically implies the same set of circumstances. When you say "time to de-CocaCola" while all soda products are susceptible to a certain health hazard, you can't say "Obviously, CocaCola isn't being blamed here". The analog of your example would be "time to get out of…
> the whole "de-Brand" lingo comes from "de-Googling"
Which no doubt stems from more practical usage, like "de-worming". That does not imply that there is blame to go around. You are not blaming the worm — you just want rid of it because it is not something that is working for you.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
# Encrypt a file openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in secret.txt -out secret.enc # Decrypt openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in secret.enc -out secret.txt Wow that was hard.
Re: rubber hose attack on cryptography.
Threat modeling is important of course. The UK government does have tools with which to punish people who don't turn over the cleartext of targeted documents once it's directly investigating them, but that's not scalable. The method the grandparent comment proposes greatly reduces one's exposure to mass surveillance, criminals, and abusive service providers.
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#127On a 1700px or wider screen your text is cut off on the right-hand side: https://cs.joshstrange.com/BB60xzBW
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#128Something's wrong with the CSS on this page. The end of every line is cut off.
Ahh, just saw this after posting my comment. Yes, it appears that at 1700px or greater it cuts off text. Shown in this video: https://cs.joshstrange.com/BB60xzBW
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't classify "best known for playing a side character in some 90s movies" as a well known actress. Also, different Heather Burns.
I'd put her in the top 1% of actors.
She might be, but it might also be the case that there are so many actors, to be "well known", you need to be in the 0.001%
I probably have seen movies with her in it, but I have no recollection of her as an actor. I did recognize her husband as Samir from Office Space, though I couldn't tell you his name.
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#130> please make sure you de-Apple, de-Google, and de-American Stack yourself when you have time, clarity, and focus to do it. Start today.
That's the message. It's high time. We can what-about-argume about what's E2EE and what Apple "pinky promises" isn't used or sold but the reality is that anything seated in the US may as well be a publicly open http for the right buyer (be it the US government, Saudi Arabia, Israel or whatever...)
Especially if you're in charge of customer data, you can't "just" setup something on a EU server if the corp is based in the US, those days are over now. You need to do the legwork.