Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

Post by hungmung » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 2:47 AM UTC

perihelions wrote: post #100

Saris wrote: post #9

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If you read around their points, it sounds like they track general location, log group messages, and provide specific information on request to a government.

Meta can also just lie about it. If they were secretly granting backdoor root access to some NSA spooks, like Microsoft did with PRISM or AT&T did with 641A, most likely no one would find out, so, there'd be zero actual downside to simply lying.

Post by coliveira » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 2:48 AM UTC

Cheer2171 wrote: post #218

bdangubic wrote: post #164

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I will never understand how anyone in their right mind can use any product owned by Meta…

Because the entire rest of society has wrapped itself around Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram. It is easy to be a free software purist until you need to know if your child's school has a snow day. Websites and mailing lists are dead. I cannot be involved in my child's school or any of the informal social networks around the parents and teachers without using Meta's platforms. I cannot volunteer at a non-profit I car…

Post by snypher » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 2:53 AM UTC

chasd00 wrote: post #96

ty6853 wrote: post #43

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I don't pretend this is an argument at all in towards the situation in Iran, so don't quote me as justifying action or inaction there in regards to this, but it is interesting to take note North Korea actually has dozens of real nuclear weapons and the death to America rhetoric and all we seem to do is laugh at them. Of course NK has no real ability to blow up the US, but they could likely nuke or at least obliterate…

The artillery aimed at Seoul was equivalent to nuclear deterrence. Before North Korea had a nuclear bomb it was widely known that any military action against it meant the complete destruction of Seoul. The artillery in place, armed, and staffed was basically equivalent to having nukes so neither the US nor anyone else could stop them from pursuing nuclear weapons.

Post by lenerdenator » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 3:03 AM UTC

tguvot wrote: post #254

lenerdenator wrote: post #237

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It’s a reference to borders that do not include Gaza, the Golan Heights, or the West Bank. It’s likely that any two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine crisis would roughly look like how things were before the Six-Day War. However, I’m getting more at the fact that Iran is unwilling to accept a two-state solution because necessarily, one of those two states would be Israel.

so, gaza is going back to egypt and everybody is locked there behind fence. and west bank is annexed by jordan ? sounds good

Post by bdangubic » Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 3:09 AM UTC

koakuma-chan wrote: post #297

bdangubic wrote: post #255

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it may not be but I’ve also heard this excuse a million times before. and whatever the situation is meta products can be avoided. we just have a tendency to give into “hey, we have WhateverSupApp group, why don’t you just install garbage on your phone to be a member of this cool group… thanks, but no thanks :)

Not Meta, but I bump into IRL things that require a Google account all the time, and they won't even negotiate. Get a Google account or get out.