> app-driven
Does that mean that you can only order for a cab via an app? Or are apps an alternative?
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Does that mean that you can only order for a cab via an app? Or are apps an alternative?
> This is the overwhelming consensus of the cryptography and security community
Yeah, having your client (automatically and without a warning to the user first) let a "trusted" 3rd party make it re-send and re-encrypt a message with another unverified public key is the "overwhelming consensus of the cryptography and security community".
This article did not try to debunk what the original article said at all. Instead its main argument seems to be "Sure, whatsapp resends a message encrypted with a different key when the server demands it without even informing the user but this is not bad (because of "usability concerns") and damn you for even daring to inform the users about it!". Its secondary argument seems to be "b-but users will switch away to less safe applications if you inform them about how much whatsapp sucks - even if you suggest signal afterwards!".
> Here’s a difficult attack that could allow a sophisticated, resourceful adversary willing to invest a good deal of effort, some components of which have never been demonstrated in practice, to read a few messages that had been sent but have not yet been read after events like the intended recipient changing phones or SIM cards
It's not a "difficult attack" if the trusted third party (or anyone who can compromise their servers or force them) can perform it at will.
In any case, even if this backdoor did not exist it would not make whatsapp any better as it still is a proprietary software that might perform shady things in the background (or might be updated at any time to do so).
For anyone else seeing this and wants to read more about the story see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13389935 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13394900
This is quite weird, I was never able to access it with TBB nor with any proxy without the cloudflare captcha page popping in.
I wish that open hardware (CPUS specifically) were more popular and closer to the market. RISC-V is still quite a long way off for everyday use (though I did see a risc-v based arduino thing, which is nice)
I doubt that. In fact, from my experience in a "completely open" I would say that this is false.
This is actually a LOT. My mother who even has a PHD and works as a teacher only makes 16.8k per year.
Yes, and it makes sense, after all you made that part of the code. The same holds true for licenses like the GPL.
Remember the shitstorm about MIR and the CLA that it required? People do not want to sign their rights away and allow a company to sell away their code.
I would probably use org-mode for that.
If you use the tor browser you are actually expected to have it disabled.
CSS sure, but most people can learn the basic html tags in a minute. Same for the basic latex conventions.
And referring to DJB just by his twitter handle, seriously?
How about TeX? Many sites already use js libraries that integrate latex.
From both actually, take the UK for example, the anime=CP law was made under a right-wing government.
Do they? They are the ones who define the law after all.