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

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Post by righthand »

uyzstvqs wrote: post #12
wilburx3 wrote: post #2

Anything Meta should be binned if you care about yourself.

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.

> They didn't actually crack WhatsApp traffic. Someone in the group probably just reported it.

So you don’t know any of this? You have no proof someone in the group reported it. You have no proof they weren’t using a backdoor they found with or without Meta knowing this…

You’re just here to defend Meta then?

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

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Post by andai »

andai wrote: post #50
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.

I visited and asked a friend there if women can vote. She became very offended. What! Of course we can vote!!

10 seconds later

Hang on a minute. We have a king. Nobody can vote!

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

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Post by throwawaysleep »

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…

The UAE is a bunch of absolute monarchies. You are applying the processes of a democracy to hereditary absolute monarchies.

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

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Post by hackingonempty »

Maxious wrote: post #28
charliebwrites wrote: post #14

This is why the First Amendment is so important

“[w]hen a nation is at war, many things that might be said in times of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.” Schenck v. United States (1919)

"In 1969, Schenck was largely overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which limited the scope of speech that the government may ban to that directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot)." - Wikipedia

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

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Post by flyinghamster »

I'm of two minds on this. In peacetime, I'd consider something like that to be unreasonable and harmful, not that I'd ever even consider setting foot anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula. But, if anyone has noticed, World War III is raging all around us, and when an enemy who wants to kill you is backing that up with explosive payloads, you really don't want to be handing them battle damage assessments.

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Post by t0mas88 »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #40
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…

Foreign residents cannot criticize UAE or its government and monarchy in any way, under threat of prison and/or torture. How is that complicated to understand? It's a brutal regime with a fake Monaco to attract rich tourists, influencers, investors and prostitutes, but the moment you fall in disgrace in the eyes of the authorities, you're done. > ‘I was beaten and tortured’: how a British father and son made a fortun…

Exactly. A dictatorship with a medieval religious view on human rights related topics.

And most of those influencers aren't even rich...

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Post by LightBug1 »

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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Why worry about it. Sudan has been getting a front seat viewing of "existential risk" for some time now.

Fuck the UAE. Beautiful people - bullshit governments. Per usual.

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

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Post by kibwen »

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 entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment during wartime.

> The objective of wartime censorship was to prevent the exposure of sensitive military information to the enemy. Similar censorship had been practiced by the U.S. Army in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During World War I, however, the press censorship system was formalized and extended, according to the Army's official history, to include anything that might "injure morale in our forces here, or at home, or among our Allies," or "embarrass the United States or her Allies in neutral countries."

https://www.army.mil/article/199675/u_s_army_press_censorshi...

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Post by t0mas88 »

wat10000 wrote: post #34

And people wonder why I refuse to connect through Dubai.

Indeed. And interestingly those people also believe this myth that Emirates is somehow always super luxurious. Emirates Economy is just as cattle class as all other large airlines, but with a worse safety record and having to go through Dubai. Just don't do it.
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