Midnight
Posted by @MrMakabar but here it is as well
How is the police able to access camera and microphone? As far as my knowlegde the security of the OS on the phone is quite tight. Maybe apple or Google have built in a backdoor but 5 years ago they were quite resistive towards governments.
We have seen that tech giants are very pliable to the police, I’m not sure why you think otherwise. There are companies whose only purpose is automating requests from police to tech giants and collating it for ease of use.
Also the legislation of EU is quite tight on privacy where cameras are not allowed to be used for tracking individuals. So police is not able to use the information in court.
Even if this is the case it ignores the problem of the police using parallel construction techniques to create a case that is admissible to a court. It also ignores that this is people’s privacy being violated and thats wrong even if it never shows up in court.
More reading on traditional uses.
I just really want to point out that there’s some very dark humor in the UAE’s unsubtle attempts to use COP28 as a PR campaign. Not that almost every other COP wasn’t a complete waste of time, but the ridiculousness truly elevates this to the level of comedy.
I don’t even know if they’re being sarcastic or if they’re just that craven.
I think a lot of these points have been made better elsewhere.
The extended discussion of hypothetical US interference just because of a tenuous chain of connection to the CIA is just typical US-badism. The US frequently funds tools which they think further geopolitical goals and this doesn’t inherently mean its untrustworthy, just that their methodology of control is more resilient to uncensored speech; the best example of this is TOR, decentralized, anonymous, and created by Naval Research and DARPA. The author can’t concede this point as it’d bring up they’re unsubtly simping for a different colonial power, one who does require such censorship.
Signal’s centralized nature has always been a major criticism (and it’s reasonable), however as a trade off it’s easy to on-board the tech illiterate. It’s nontrivial to set up a Matrix server and I’ve seen the difficulty of migrating activist groups there. It’s good as a long term goal, but one also has to recognize that a person struggling with housing has different concerns and will prefer to use whatever their friends and family do.
As background twox was the original reddit name, which was chosen way before trans issues became more seriously highlighted. Both the reddit and Lemmy twox are explicitly not transexclusionary and welcome posts by trans women.
Its not my shot to call, but the history of the name, why it was chosen, and given they’ve never been regressive it doesn’t seem overtly awful. Its just outmoded.
It made some of the worst liquor I’ve ever had.
@kevin Did you boil the methanol off first?