That’s exactly why a law like this wouldn’t make sense, even if you don’t care about privacy.
To enforce a ban of encrypted messaging, any software capable of encryption would have to be banned. Next step almost every existing operating system would have to be banned as well.
If you leak one of the 2FA codes, especially together with a timestamp, in theory it allows someone to brute force the seed, since they now have one known plaintext. If you leak multiple, it reduces the amount of time needed to do that.
For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it’s not open source, you can’t be sure that the encryption keys aren’t sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able...
It does not matter how good the encryption is. The app on your device has to be able to decrypt the content to be able to show it to you. If it has access to the decrypted data, it could just send it somewhere. If it has access to your private key, it can leak it. Even if the app is open source, you do not know if the binary on your phone matches that source, unless it uses reproducible builds and you actually verify the binary on your particular device, after each update.
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
If you really want to control your TV from your phone, why not just use an app to control it over the local network that’s probably available if your TV has been released in the past 10 years or so? Doesn’t even have to be in line of sight for that.
The main issue here might not be the application including its own updater, but the operating system not including a common updater so each application needs to provide one for itself
Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,”...
Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware....
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Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption (www.patrick-breyer.de)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/6469594...
Is it bad to expose the 2FA codes?
In a few weeks I’ll do a workshop about security for people who are tech illiterate, I plan to teach about password managers and 2FA....
Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?
For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it’s not open source, you can’t be sure that the encryption keys aren’t sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able...
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A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
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Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (www.washingtonpost.com)
Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,”...
TIL the adjective 'daily' in the lord's prayer is actually written in the original Greek as *epiousion*, which occurs nowhere else in known history (en.wikipedia.org)
the full line being “Give us today our epiousion bread”...
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BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)
Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware....
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