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Woman sentenced to death in Pakistan over ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp activity
- commandlinefan 5y agoA good reminder to the UK government why end-to-end encryption is absolutely necessary.
- sofixa 5y agoWhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, which doesn't help when one of the ends forwards the messages to the police.
- antisthenes 5y agoOr when you get the good old "give us your phone and unlock it or we beat you with a wrench" treatment, which bypasses any sort of encryption altogether.
- josephcsible 5y agoOff-the-Record Messaging uses deniable authentication to fix this problem. Instead of proving that a message could only have come from the real sender, it proves that it must have come from either the sender or the recipient. If you are the recipient, you know you didn't write it, but you have no way to prove that to anyone else.
- awb 5y agoAny apps using that currently?
- josephcsible 5y agoYes, a bunch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Client_support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Clien... And Signal also has deniable authentication, although its protocol is a bit different than Off-the-Record Messaging.
- smaddox 5y agoHow civilized.
- smegsicle 5y agoi assume you are being sarcastic, but whose definition of civilized are you relying on where threatening the very core of social order is permitted?
- ykevinator2 5y agoHe is saying it's bad what they are doing to the woman.
- clejack 5y agoI suspect the reply is saying a western notion of civility is irrelevant because the woman in question, and those like her, are acting against 'the core of civilization' as they know it.
- nagasadhu 5y agoThey have nuclear weapons
- friendlydog 5y ago906 Million in foreign aid to Pakistan by the US. Giving taxpayer money to an oppressive regime that believes it is okay to order a woman to her death for a cartoon seems inappropriate. Congress values your feedback and would love to here your thoughts on this topic: https://www.congress.gov/contact-us https://www.congress.gov/contact-us Don't forget to look up their voting records before calling so you can ask why. Aneeqa Ateeq shouldn't be murdered over a cartoon.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoDo you think the good done with the 900 million is outweighed by this death? Do you think Pakistan would overturn blasphemy law if it were threatened or the funds taken away? Do you think a more liberal and prosperous government would form were the current regime overthrown?
- friendlydog 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass... They need 0 US tax payer dollars.
- smegsicle 5y agoare you suggesting they threaten israel for funding?
- s1artibartfast 5y agoI'm not seeing the connection.
- josephcsible 5y agoWMDs are expensive. They wouldn't need aid if they would have used that money instead.
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- jgb1984 5y agoAh yes, the good old religion of peace.