BTW - I still have a thumb but there is a huge huge chunk missing. :D thankfully, the hospital said a lot of the skin on the hand will heal and grow back.
Dang sorry to hear about it, I sliced off a piece of my left pointer finger a couple years ago and it sucked (it’s healed and the only issue I had was my finger print changed so I had to re-register it with my phone). Missing a part of your thumb is probably worse in these smartphone times.
I read it as an implication of Apple's goombas saying something like "it'll be a real shame is something were to happen to your thumb if that article gets released", but did it anyways. Too many Scorsese movies I guess.
I wouldn't even say it was that. No one asked me to write it, but I also want to make sure it was clear when and how the mistake was made. I'm not above pride in this case and in the long run I saw the two teams arguing over something that I had done and I value developers more than that.
The article says “The EU Commission wants all smartphones to search messages and photos for allegedly suspicious content before they are sent via encrypted messaging services.”
So then you just sideload the messaging app instead of using the official build that complies with the legal system. Just like many crime groups do already - look at the EncroChat phones that gangs were using.
This just isn't enforceable. Yet more laws made by people that don't understand the technology.
With no proof, yes it's a conspiracy theory. As others have stated, there is another app linked in the wiki article about EncroChat which was developed by the FBI, with evidence to back that up.
> "So then you just sideload the messaging app instead of using the official build that complies with the legal system"
That's not how computers work.
The scanning would take place at the lowest possible layer (ie. keyboard input, or kernel-mode input driver, etc), such that the user-mode software itself wouldn't be able to bypass the scan. It could also happen at the hardware layer.
You'll need to bring your own hardware/software to ensure you're not being monitored.
If you had a look at EncroChat at all, you'd see that they were running a custom Android OS with a bunch of their own apps on it.
Yes, we can take it to hardware level, however, that's not what was being discussed. The idea of mandating app developers to use the scanning tech can be trivially circumvented. i.e. Law makers not understanding the technology.
Mandating a hardware implant to achieve the same goals is a better understanding of the technology involved, but that ends badly for everyone. At least with software, a vulnerability can be fixed. In hardware, you're stuck with buying a new device or living with the vulnerability. Not to mention it's an open statement that the law makers want to spy on you.
How is that going to help you? Googles recent android version are also making sure you can't change the default camera app for in app photos. So you'd have to run a bunch of third party apps in conjunction.
It's possible, just really inconvenient. Except for the "few" people running their custom rom android phones.
So roll back to a previous version and start there. Android is open source. No reason a community couldn't fork it, maintain it and do what they want with it.
Jailbreaking is also a thing. Modifying the OS enough to break through vendor imposed restrictions. Why is that implausible for this example?
I'm not saying it's easy. There are certainly limitations due to the secure boot process of Android devices. But what if there was a way to change the root keys? Then it's an open game. Black market for devices with modified keys, unique per device, sign the image loaded on them to ensure the same level of security, and then load whatever you want.
This idea that our corporate overlords define what we are able to do is the only thing stopping us from proving otherwise. If someone says something is impossible, you ask for proof, question them, check their work. You don't accept and move on. This is a foundation of security research - any business claiming their product is "hack proof" is just asking to be hacked. Same goes here - if the vendor says you're not allowed to do something, you find a way around it.
It just seems like we're moving trust further and further down the stack. Sure, you can do verification of your OS, but then the question becomes can you trust your firmware, hardware, etc.
Nope. We'll never have truly free computing until we can make our own hardware at home. Just like we can make free software at home.
Governments will eventually decide that unrestricted computers that run arbitraty code are too subversive. They turn laws into a joke. They destroy entrenched business models. Stuff like copyright barely makes any sense now that networked computers exist. Encryption alone is a potent enough weapon to defeat militaries
They don't want the masses to have access to such a poweful thing. Industries and governments are completely aligned on this matter.
A lot of people need to see this. If you don't control something, you will be disappointed eventually. Philosophically this can even be extended to your mortality.
Ah, but this brushes an interesting, yet inevitable fact: there is no such thing as control. We tend to imagine to have control to various degrees, as that makes it easier to cope with the chaos around us.
Still, we have to accept the fact that we’re all going to die, eventually, for example.
Many people never do that; they simply pretend they’re immortal, until one day something bad happens and shakes them awake.
I guess what I’m getting at is that change is inherent to life. By accepting that things will change, no matter how much „control“ you imagine to have about them, you will probably be happiest in the long run.
I think anger is a natural part of life sometimes - but we have some control of how we react to anger. I certainly would quit a job if one of my co-workers was allowed to shout at me!
Often when we feel anger, there is something that needs to be expressed, but the art is in choosing the right moment and expressing it in the right way (which I add is certainly not an art I have perfected!).
While anger is a part of the human emotion spectrum, I doubt it should be the thing driving conversations at work. It sounds like you identified what you don't like and you found a place where you can thrive, and that is something many people won't do, so kudos to that.
But it isn't. Circumstance molds you. The Great Depression did untold psychological damage to entire generations. I don't think they could just will the anger and resentment and destitution away
Circumstance is what you allow it to be. Short of being put in a Chinese concentration camp ala Uighurs, you generally have the last say in circumstance to experience anger.
Dynm, i can tell the difference between hfcs and non-hfcs soda. I get blockage near the vocal cords about 5 - 15 minutes after consuming it, so there's definitely something worse than sugar about it.
Sounds like allergy. (I am not a physician. This is not medical advice.)
Difference in trace constituents, triggering allergy, is completely plausible. But either way, it is the fructose identical in both that is actually poisoning you.
I am indeed, i know allergies vs non-allergies. Consider the reactions people have to fried food. You would bin that all under allergies with your logic.
Allergy is defined as an anomalous auto-immune reaction to an introduced substance. Indigestion from a common foodstuff is a good candidate. You would of course need a medical examination to reliably determine that your particular intolerance is allergy. But that's the way to bet.
You miss "anomalous". I.e., it does not happen to almost all other people who eat identically the same stuff. Indigestion and diarrhea are common responses to dietary allergens. Thus, onions make my sinuses bleed and cause indigestion.
You need to have a 'mid-life crisis' early-on and figure out the meaning of life then and there.
Imagine the people who have these crises, now on their deathbeds.