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If it quacks like the official Signal client, there's no way for the Signal network to know that it's otherwise.
There are many solutions to this problem, such as cryptographic signatures.
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>Some minor spying would not even register. I mean, they stole weapons grade Uranium from United States along with nuclear secrets and we just shrugged our shoulders: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-...
People here will flag easily searchable/verifiable information about what Israel did to the US in the past, just to protect the image of the US or whatever. Well, guess what, it doesn't work. It's just stupid.
Is Signal allowing arbitrary apps to connect to its network? How do I know that my correspondent is using TM Sgnl or another unofficial app? Doesn't that break Signal's security guarantees? For example, what if I set my message to delete in 1 hour but TM Sgnl archives it, or some other app simply ignores the retention setting? If Signal allows it, it seems like a major vulnerability? I suppose I must trust other user…
There's no way for Signal to prevent any piece of code that can make a TCP connection and speak its protocol from using the service.
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The medicine in question comes from the very scientific establishment that grew out of scholasticism, which is why I find the accusation of anti-intellectualism rather strange. My point is that you have to distinguish between arguing against the output of the intellectual activity and arguing against the intellectual activity taking place.
The medicine that I said didn't exist back then? I think you misread my comment.
Isn’t it rather pro-intellectual to found universities like that of Bologna in 1088 and pour massive amounts of resources into research to ensure we eventually get to the level of obstetric medicine that we have?
And isn’t it on the contrary intellectually lazy to throw your hands up and declare life to be disposable simply because you don’t know how to treat and prevent diseases and can’t be bothered to figure out how?
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And the name is not very edgy and a pretty exact mission description - it describes exactly what it grows from. Seeing stones aka cellphone data of everyone, collected, analyzed and turned into predictions for kings.
Not even pretending to not be evil is what makes it edgy.
The whole "everyone thinks like us" delusion bought with the surplus of a good times window distributed all around and its still willing to return to this delusional state of affairs.
The obvious plot-holes they reveal when it comes to we do not discuss nature (the bugs in the human mind are all fixable with education) and we do not discuss nurture (all cultures are equal, and equally capable - disregard the evidence before your eyes).
You don't get to juggle and drop so many balls and do not massively loose confidence!
The rule of (finger in ears) "La-La-La" is over - the problem is- the right is a reactionary mess, that has no solutions, analysis and tools to exploit these weaknesses.
See also: " The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked " https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-use...
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43890179 for discussion of whether that article should count as a follow-up or SNI. Normally I wouldn't link to meta discussion but this was such a weird borderline case that I spent over an hour trying to figure it out. Maybe that makes it interesting. Edit: in case anyone's confused about the sequence here, micahflee posted the current thread 2 days ago. The timestamp a…
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Most traders I dealt with want to do it on personal cell phone so they can keep contacts as they move around. Most of them are like salespeople, they know exactly how much money they bring in and successful ones refuse to do anything that will impede THEIR method of working. SEC Fines, Regulations? Those are for less successful people. EDIT: There was another post calling them divas, alot of them act that way.
I mean if they're going to use their personal devices for this then a cracked Whatsapp wouldn't help the business anyway. For devices the company controls they can of course use the API the above poster mentioned though
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>For instance when Iran gets the nuclear bomb and threaten Israel with it ? I don't know if this was your intention, but it's exceedingly likely that the US would side with Israel in all circumstances if Iran threatened Israel with a nuclear weapon, no matter who is president. In fact, the threat of Iran attacking Israel was one of the key reasons† Biden refused to unilaterally stop all arms shipments to Israel. † So…
Given that Trump's foreign policy is quite alien compared to his predecessors, I don't know how valuable looking to the past is for this sort of thing. A new president, of any political bent, may follow the example and make further breaks with the past.
Part of his hawkishness toward Iran comes from the kinds of national security advisers he keeps (typically all hawkish on Iran themselves, with some exceptions like General Mark Milley), and part of it comes from his admiration for "strongman" leaders like Bibi.
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Not even pretending to not be evil is what makes it edgy.
To be honest, the good guys - turned out to be pretty embarrassing too. The whole "everyone thinks like us" delusion bought with the surplus of a good times window distributed all around and its still willing to return to this delusional state of affairs. The obvious plot-holes they reveal when it comes to we do not discuss nature (the bugs in the human mind are all fixable with education) and we do not discuss nurtu…
You don't get to run all this circus if you don't intend to run it only as a circus. It's time to stop kidding ourselves that anybody mainstream is sincere and smart enough to move anywhere different from where they all are told to go.
The big part of this story which nobody is talking about is the fact that the app is literally controlled by a bunch of “former” Israeli intelligence officers. Who now have what is arguably the worlds most valuable access out of anyone.
You are just talking about the clone, NOT signal foundation and the dev team?