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Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group

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Post by dralley »

pydry wrote: post #23
tremon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how can you improve if there is no dialog The UAE doesn't have a self-advancement culture, it's a capital-backed monarchy that imports pretty much all of its research and production; in other words it piggy-backs on the knowledge produced in other societies. There is no advancement through dialog in the country itself.

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Ukraine does it to avoid assisting Russian damage assessment and targeting efforts. Avoiding embarrassment is not really part of the equation, especially when they need to push for more international support.

Re: Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group

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Post by svachalek »

jmye wrote: post #21
uyzstvqs wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn't actually crack WhatsApp traffic. Someone in the group probably just reported it. WhatsApp's insecurities are that Meta has access to a full network graph of all users' contacts, and that it wants to upload an unencrypted backup to Google or Apple by default. If there was an actual backdoor in the closed-source crypto, I highly doubt they'd give Dubai police access to it.

I’ll preface this with agreeing that you’re probably correct. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Meta built an intentional backdoor, and that someone else (or many someone else’s) found it and was utilizing it.

Or that the government offered Meta $50 for a list of agitators and they said why not. Given Meta's track record it's totally on brand.

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Post by esskay »

varispeed wrote: post #43

If you think WhatsApp is encrypted, I have a handful of magic beans to sell you.

Care to back that up? We know they don't encrypt metadata - that's not a secret. Message content however is E2EE - thankfully these things get audited: https://blog.cloudflare.com/key-transparency/

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Post by righthand »

pixl97 wrote: post #16
charliebwrites wrote: post #14

This is why the First Amendment is so important

Eh, there was a lot of media censorship during WWII.

“It’s fine because it happened during WWII, the only thing we base history off of to determine limiting rights is fine. Dumber less informed people did it, so should we!”

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Post by moralestapia »

What people do not know or understand about the Arabian Peninsula is that you have essentially zero rights.

People think, "It cannot be that bad" because a lot of money is spent on good PR for the region, and also because they never find themselves in situations where they get to see how little their lives are worth in those places.

You go to a hotel for a week or take a business trip, everyone smiles, the food is good, whatever. You are not going to trigger any of the bad stuff that way. Before you say, "Well, yeah, if you do something egregious...", nope. Something as innocuous as disagreeing with a superior at work could land you in jail. You are 100% at the whim of people who have more power than you over there.

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Post by andai »

Someone1234 wrote: post #3

> publishing information deemed harmful to state interests Is the charge, which I think kind of speaks for itself. Full on: "You embarrassed us, straight to jail." In most of the world such photos would be deemed of public interest and shared by the media then we'd reflect on if our routing is safe/correct and make proportional changes for safety. Not a big deal, nobody is fired, life moves on. I feel like actions li…

>How can you improve if there is no dialogue

Didn't UAE have a phone line to the king that anyone can call?

Sounds like the cost of actually calling it may be higher than I thought though.

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