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Any sort of 'ethical' clause will open you to endless legal battles, and make such software effectively impossible to use for anyone but large corporations able to afford those battles, or to buy themselves custom licenses.

I.e. it will even further concentrate power, and accomplish the exact opposite of what free software set out to do.

Not to mention the ethical nature of the software could be interpreted by potentially hostile courts. "Spreading disharmony against the state" will fall under "evil", and 'ethical' software will be reduced to another tool of control and propaganda.
Did you notice the article doesn't say anything about decrypting the messages? It just says they have to turn over encrypted messages.
Perhaps acquiring users is not their goal? Open source does not have to be a popularity contest. Sharing for the sake of sharing - for increasing the knowledge of the world at large - is many people’s goal.
Main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21099996
I've been digging on a lot of Observable notebooks lately. Having code and visualization and description so neatly presented together makes for a powerful presentation.

I'll just link to Bostock's, but there are many other informative and enlightening ones. This will only get better ;)

https://observablehq.com/@mbostock
iPhone X is irrelevant?

I'll give the bad news to my mate who just bought one.
If people consider a patriarchy bad does that mean a matriarchy is also bad? Or just that there isn't an even number of each type?
It makes more sense you keep only the files you need, I do not understand how exactly the author should bundle this OOP using algorithms in 1 source file that will satisfy everyone requirements and at the same time won't contain some code you won't use.
While going 1 on 1 over email is interesting and useful it is also very time consuming. I've done a lot of this over the last several years. It served a purpose when I wasn't sure, as people with equal or stronger scientific backgrounds than me asked difficult questions.

I have been thinking about this for several weeks actually. My conclusion at this point is that it might be time to get off the sidelines and present this to a much wider audience. To that end I am organizing my journey, findings and conclusions into a paper. At the moment I am thinking of publishing it through the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which I am a member. That part isn't set in stone though, there might be better options.

To be candid, one of the serious concerns I have is related to the just how vindictive and violent ideological mobs have become over the last decade or so. Going up against both climate change mobs (believers and skeptics) can have serious and permanent personal consequences for both individuals and their family. This is the real tragedy of our times and something that has turned this particular topic into what it is.

Saying anything against the mobs can make you radioactive, and life is over. I mean, just look at your reaction to a simple statement (not to single you out, I see this all the time). You have a set of conclusions that you are convinced to be correct and reject even as much as having a somewhat public conversation about the possibility these conclusions might be wrong. Now, you don't strike me as a vindictive violent zealot at all. However, those people are out there. Social media amplifies their voices and influence. That is precisely how they are able to cause tremendous damage to anyone who counters challenges the positions they have taken.

It reminds me of a recent case of the guy who raised around a million dollars to donate to children's hospitals. The mob didn't like him. They dug into his social media record and found a stupid thing he said when he was 16 years old. They pushed that hard all over the place. They then went to his sponsors and pounded them just as hard. The end result was that the sponsors pulled out their matching contribution and the entire effort was destroyed. Children's hospitals did not receive the much-needed funding because an angry mob attacked one person with such fervor and violence that they made it impossible for that to happen.

Climate Change is a hundred times, a million times, worse than this. The minute you have children marching on the streets all over the world you have to consider how personally dangerous it could be to speak up. Not because of the children, but rather due to the unavoidable fact that there are people and companies making millions, if not billions of dollars selling an ideology. If you screw with that you are dead, perhaps even literally.

I want to do the right thing, just not entirely sure how to go about doing so without the potential for great harm to those I love most.
Use signal, use tor.
Yes, and most newsagents will let you top them up with cash.
The US healthcare system is the only system in the world that bankrupts people for receiving medical care. We constantly hear how we’re getting charged many times more than other countries for the same health services.

Is it really surprising that large segments of the population distrust the medical community? I’m actually one of those people.

Luckily I realize the difference between valid research that has over 100 years of proven effectiveness like the research behind vaccines, versus the type that’s done so there can be a new ad to “ask your doctor” about on TV.

A lot of people generalize and can’t tell the difference. If we want to fix that maybe we should fix the system first.
Yes, if you host the JS SDK yourself. However, certain destinations require loading their javascript anyway (segment calls them client-side integration) and those will still be blocked. However, a vast majority of others (e.g. analytics) products would work
Yes, however if copyright did not exist, GPL would be unnecessary, all software would be free software. Sure, the source code sometimes wouldn't be available, but there would be nothing legally preventing decompilation.

Sure, GPL software couldn't enforce releasing the source code, but for that matter, this is how it already works in European Union (as in EU, linking for purposes of interoperability is explicitly allowed).
I doubt the politicians who signed this treaty actually understand this technology.
I live in London.It has already gone way beyond of what Orwell could have ever imagined. However,despite of all the surveillance, London is the crime capital of the world.This is probably the best place for criminals,as unless you pull a machine gun on a crowd,not much will be investigated.
Say you develope a targeting algorithm to be used by a robotic arm with a water pistol — wouldn’t it then be totally legitimate to say: you are allowed to use this freely, as long as you don’t use it with a real gun?

The non commercial clause in the creative commons is also sth like this: free for non-commercial usage, all others have to ask.

I don’t see why authors shouldn’t be allowed to excert at least a little bit of control what their creations are used for, if they like to do so.
Aka something that should never be that way in the first place.
Crockford actually puts this requirement in most of the software that he writes. A few years ago he told a story where he had to relicense JSLint for IBM, stating "I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil."
(disclaimer, speculation) The Times article says this has been in progress for four years, so I suspect that this is the culmination of https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/UK-US_Bilateral_Agreem.... Which was originally planned to be encryption-neutral, but maybe things have changed in the past two years.
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Tesla and Wawa (a convenience store) have a partnership to expand superchargers at these locations. Some Wawas that have no gas pumps are only getting Superchargers. Tesla still (in most locations) sites Superchargers near malls, grocery stores, and other locations where you can comfortably dwell for 30-40 minutes.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-superchargers-to-double-in-w...
I suspect being qualified would in this case involve doing an MA in an esoteric field like gender studies in post revolutionary France, having a large education debt and poor writing skills, but at least being in-group.

The author isn't quoting to reference that the words are verbatim (which they are often not eg [1]), but because he wants to identify as someone who disagrees with the subject's world view, to diminish and mock them.

I comment on the writing style because it is jarringly poor and detracts from the argument. I thinks we are allowed to make such observations, but you are free to refrain from spending your time on counter arguments.

Ugh rate limiting is killing me. Is it like 3 posts per hour or something?

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>> The “violation” felt by thee two men at the attention of female prostitutes disrupted their ability to move about the city as they so chose, but it did not necessarily put into question their status as potential clients. Insofar as these “assaults” may have elicited a sexual response, they may have heightened their awareness of their status as sexual beings even as it challenged their gender privilege.
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Yes, I do have great disdain for Elon, he's an absolutely terrible human being. Thanks for digging it up.

You may define "extremely high" at any level you want, but you don't get to claim that Tesla is shorted to any kind of unusual, extreme, never seen before level. None of those companies gets to claim that "it's all shorts' fault" either.

You driving a Tesla probably affects me positively (well, apart from the taxpayer fleecing angle anyway), but the complete lack of intellectual honesty on the part of Tesla supporters is... not even annoying, it's rather amusing. Where else do you get to see people seriously claiming that it is more convenient and safer to hunt and peck several buttons on a touch screen that pressing one on a door? Only in Tesla world!
If I'm reading that right, they are getting the encrypted messages, not the decrypted ones. Either whoever wrote the article doesn't know the different or the uk police have been fucked over by the us...
Well that isn't evidence, that can barely be called conjecture. If it had been buttressed with references to other contemporary documents (arrest records, diary entries etc) it would have some weight.
Inequality literally makes people sick

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-economic-ineq...
I’m much more interested in the wording of “in the ordinary course,” which I don’t think is just a quirk of the language and I believe it is an indication that certain differing measures can take place after being compelled to provide information.
I don't quite agree, the GPL is after all a licence founded on a set of ethics.
It never made it to the mobile age.. webdevs started serving iPhone-compatible pages by sniffing "Mobile Safari", so now Chrome on Mobile also says it's "Mobile Safari".
I believe so. I know there's definitely a way to get transport with cash. It's just a cost saving measure to only take contactless.
I still have to write a blog post, so I'll try to follow up when I do
More like use facial recognition to identify religious and political minorities that disagree with you and round up those people and send them to the farm to count insects, plants, or whatever. When I think of this tech I think there would be no way for a spy to walk around a city and not be known. No more blending in with the crowd, not that I am even sure this kind of intelligence work takes place outside of the movies.
I may trust Comcast as far as I can throw them. I still prefer that they get my data, rather than even more of my browsing data go straight to Google.
Signal may or may not be ok at the moment, but not in a couple of years (it has all the power to silently push an update with a backdoor). Among all the popular messaging apps only Telegram is in a position to not cooperate with five eyes.
Historical messages, yes. However an app maker can be coerced into adding a hidden user that can participate in chats and receive all future messages decrypted. It doesn't require any special crypto hacks for that to work.
The way androids do it is to wipe the device on root, which sounds reasonable
The phrase "In the ordinary course of providing our service" seems to imply that in some circumstances they do/can store messages?
The 50-60% figure is based on ten annual mammograms.

In a given mammogram it's more like 7-12%.

The younger you are, the more likely your positive result will be a false positive. And it also varies based on tissue density (women with more dense breasts have higher false positive rates). The higher false positive rate in younger women is of course why they've shifted screening times, pushing back the suggested start age and or doing every other year instead of every year.
Never understood why buying special licenses is an issue.
Don't feed the troll. Just walk away.
Definition:

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Not the parent, but true in a sense. Communication is the act of conveying information from one person's consciousness to another. In the usual encrypted chat scenario, that path is unencrypted at two points (plaintext input, and plaintext output at the far end).

It is entirely possible though to have a true end-to-end encrypted channel if both parties are able to do the encryption in their heads without the plain text message ever being visible. A trivial practical example would be a single bit message with a single bit one time pad (agree ahead of time that if I say yes on the phone, it means no and vice versa).
Oyster cards can be shared and bought anomalously, and topped up with cash anonymously

You can also buy cash tickets like a travel card
Digital imaging also has a higher FP rate than film.
WhatsApp controls both ends.

Also, the article is unclear about whether the messages have to be decrypted before being shared, so they may just have to share the encrypted message.
I did not say an X was useless, so you’re the one being disingenuous. I said it was old, which it is, and old things do not make big headlines or attract large crowds.

The X is already 2 years old. It doesn’t matter that it’s still a capable phone (using one to write this now). The heyday of jailbreaking was when Apple would release a new phone, and then the tech press watched with baited breath to see how quickly it would be hacked. It only took weeks or months, not years, and it was a collective, community effort. It made news and it stirred up a large interest in jailbreaking and the ecosystem around it.

You clearly have not looked at the state of the jailbreak community as it stands today. It’s essentially gone. Repos are filled with old junk that couldn’t run on modern OSes even if you wanted to, and the main developers have just left. And there’s no reason for them to come back. The App Store and the current iOS features cover almost everything that people need, and the effort to get the other little things is just too high.

As I said, this is interesting and possibly useful academically, but it’s not going to magically reinvigorate the jailbreak community.
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Mostly it's because demography is very bad. We had 700 000 kids born yearly in 80s and less than 400 000 in 90s.
Since it’s already fixed in the Xs and newer iPhones, I’m not sure Apple would have considered it a new exploit worthy of a payout.
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>In London alone, it is not possible to pay for public transport with cash and a card is required. Their reasons for doing this because it "benefits criminals" is echoing the "ban encryption" nonsense.

Not strictly true. You can buy an oyster card with cash, you can load it with cash and use that. After a weeks worth of journeys you can return it and get your £5 deposit back and buy another one.

Not exactly perfect but it's essentially the same as having a burner phone.
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That is kind of what I am doing myself, still learning some concepts so the code is not very reliable but merely educational.

https://github.com/sh4ka/coding-exercises
The Whatsapp binary is sufficiently transparent to enable someone determined to write their own client. Thats enough info for an expert to verify their "messages are end to end encrypted and we don't know the key" claim.

The fly in the ointment is the client might have additional functionality to leak the e2e encryption key. That is far harder to find, but if it's use were widespread, it would be found by researchers.

The whole point is moot though - whatsapp is designed to (by default) upload cleartext chat logs to google/apple servers. Since all chats have 2+ recipients, the conversation is only safe from snooping if nobody in the chat has backup enabled, which is unlikely.
This video is an excellent presentation on the subject by Dr. Allison.

https://youtu.be/r1Fp6C1xx6Q
Please do. I, also, want to read it.
Your white trash family are trespassers.
For iOS, you can check out DNSCloak, Adguard, NextDNS, Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, etc. which are all system wide resolver.
Let's say you write such targeting software and I make hardware using it. I add a sticker saying "don't put a real gun into it" on it. Are we good? Or is it like "known to cause cancer in California" stuff?
Signal code is open. You can build it yourself and compare that build with whatever you download from the app store. So it's not that simple.
The daily mail comments section makes the Mos Eisly cantina look like a respectable day at ascot.
Thanks for sharing!

Given its debugging capabilities Smalltalk sounds like it could be a surprisingly sane option for banks actually, all things considered. Was it like that in real life too?
>Completely block all foreign information from reaching its people?

There are many studies that shows that racism is still present in US, in police,justice, work place

Now you give me the excuse for the racism then think maybe China may have their own excuses that you will not understand, then maybe think about school shootings tell me the excuses for why those happen ..then think maybe China has some excuses too for other shit.

IMO there are problems that don't have a simple solution, tell em the simple solution for the gun violence or racism in US. Is the same for China or other country, there is a large number of people in that country, they have a different culture, they have different values and you can't change them over night and some US values should probably be not exported.
I doubt they would have to change a single word to allow a third party (yet another recipient) to decrypt any message ever sent over this service.
You sound very sanctimonious and unwilling to consider the idea that in order to be compassionate on a large scale, such as population ethics, you have to minimize the effect of idiosyncratic stories and consider aggregate measures of well-being or harm.

> “Maybe you should consider why human empathy is so abhorrent to you.”

This is just egregious trolling. Seriously, you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to equivocate my point of view with finding human empathy “abhorrent.” In all seriousness, that is borderline psychotic of you to say.

Far from finding human empathy abhorrent, I care a great deal about human empathy. In fact, it is because I care about human empathy that I don’t attach nearly as much importance to idiosyncratic stories as I do to large scale measurable outcomes and statistical understanding of how policies are actually likely to relate to outcomes that help people.

You are never going to get to constructive policy decisions that have high chances of success across large cohorts of people if you make up your opinions from idiosyncratic emotional journalism.

You’re just going to lobby for bad policies driven by emotional thinking and end up hurting people with policy contrary to your intentions.
Wouldn't someone from inside the Facebook/Whatsapp team denounce it if that was the case? Like a whistle blower
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It's been true for a long time that since intelligence agencies aren't supposed to spy on their own citizens, they agree to spy on each other's citizens instead and subsequently share the data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
No to everybody.

Human rights for humans. Until that's the case, your monkey debates enables vitriol like the trespasser comment.
>Sure, the source code sometimes wouldn't be available, but there would be nothing legally preventing decompilation.

This is true but generally unhelpful. The result of decompilation often isn't nearly as readable as the original source, and at the very least you've lost all documentation. A world without copyright would look much closer to one with entirely permissively licensed software than one with entirely copyleft software.
At minimum, it seems the kind of thing a competent lawyer would require.

Even if FB / WhatsApp doesn't currently have such a capability, there's no legal guarantee they couldn't be compelled to add it, thereby putting them in conflict with language that didn't include that clause.

Afaik, case law is murky over whether creating new code qualifies as speech (illegal to compel) or facilitating legally-approved wiretapping (legal and required).
George Burns smoked a huge cigar every day, and he died a rather old man. By your logic, this proves cigars aren't all unhealthy.
Reasoning can tell you how to achieve an objective. It can't tell you what the objective should be.

In the case of sex workers, getting people to agree that they don't deserve violence from clients or police is the difficult bit, and only once we can get people to agree that can we make progress on how to achieve it.
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This would only be likely if lack of snippets means people click more wrong links but I think prior experiences show people clicking less not more
That was back when Apple was primarily a desktop computer manufacturer. In any case, they could place restrictions on licensed clone makers to avoid cannibalizing sales of their more popular products (e.g., no laptops).
The GPL is based around a well-defined set of ethics that centers around giving the user complete freedom to use and modify the software. This is necessary for software to be considered free.

It's certainly possible to restrict usage based around a moral code. Look at the JSON License: https://www.json.org/license.html

> The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

So, yes, it would be possible to restrict software licensing based on a loosely-defined moral code that would constantly need updates to keep pace with new social injustices, but this would not be free software.
Having fewer options for getting news is an upside?
* "Security Check" - Airport style security everywhere even on the subway.

* Cartoons - Authoritarianism was wrapped up and packaged with cute police cartoons https://www.google.com/search?q=china+police+cartoon&sxsrf=A...

* The Red Armbands - Communist party volunteers, in the subway, and in the community keeping watch https://bitterwinter.org/red-armbands-are-watching-you/

* Passport check at sensitive locations and to buy a train ticket. To get into Tiananmen Square I needed a passport, I was denied entry to my train and separated from my group because the passport number didn't match my ticket

* Police everywhere. Literally everywhere

* I saw a a mosque surrounded by security cameras. They didn't even hide its surveillance.

* I was watched everywhere, except the great wall - but I was told cameras are being constructed there too. The feeling I had was like being in the forest of District 12 of the Hunger Games, I felt free there.

* Signs in the Hotel warn you that you DO NOT have a right to privacy, and you must register your passport or state ID
The question should be why on Earth would they ask access to encrypted messages if they couldn't already decrypt them, or be able to do that soon.