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by modeless 1y ago
It's rich for you to complain about me "using vocabulary" when your previous comment was trying to put words in my mouth that I did not say...
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by modeless 1y ago
Surely you aren't arguing "I once saw a farm in the mountains, therefore small remote mountain farms are critical to our food supply"?
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by modeless 1y ago
Food doesn't come from remote mountainous areas. Farm fields may not have cell service but living way out there isn't required even for farmers. I grew up on a farm so it's funny when people on the internet try to educate me
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by modeless 1y ago
People choosing to live in rural areas aren't freeloaders. Until they demand the rest of us subsidize them. The demand for subsidies is what makes a freeloader, not the lifestyle choice.
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by modeless 1y ago
Homeless people get free smartphones and free service in the US. Living in very rural areas is in fact a lifestyle choice. Not all choices need to be subsidized.
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by modeless 1y ago
Google Fi can receive all SMS 2 factor messages on Wi-Fi including short codes. It doesn't even require that your phone is on, you can get them in any web browser on any device even if your phone is destroyed. One of my favorite featur
937.
by modeless 1y ago
It's a shame that Chrome OS was subsumed by Android instead of the other way around. IMO in many ways it had better foundations.
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by modeless 1y ago
Differently-shaped buttons and more swoopy animations are not what Wear OS needs. Wear OS needs better information density and more attention to detail in interaction design and implementation rather than appearance. The whole thing feels l
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by modeless 1y ago
Again, the original stuff was great too, I don't think it was just the familiar themes.
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by modeless 1y ago
X-Wing just had great music. Even the original stuff was great. The music for the training run was perfect. Modern games have similar reactive music systems but I've never heard one I felt was better than X-Wing's. They got it rig
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by modeless 1y ago
Hey, at least it's not doing `curl | bash` like some people's installers do. It's only 109 characters, you can review that right? :-P
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by modeless 1y ago
Try this one liner pasted into a Unix shell: cc -w -xc -std=c89 -<<<'main(c){int r;for(r=32;r;)printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}'&&./a.*
943.
by modeless 1y ago
It's not security theater. You didn't read, or didn't understand, the blog post I linked that explains how it provides strong security despite the low entropy passcode by using secure elements in the datacenter. I believe App
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by modeless 1y ago
Google calendar notifications are useful. Slack notifications are useful (I prefer not to run the Electron version).
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by modeless 1y ago
I think you missed my point that the screen lock code is not at all like the account password in terms of resilience to forgetting. I know people who have forgotten their account passwords and lost photos etc, similar to what you describe
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by modeless 1y ago
Those other Apple services are not marketed over and over with the promise of end-to-end encryption. It's a major selling point of iMessage and it is a false promise when Apple deliberately collects the keys to the majority of iMessage
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by modeless 1y ago
The e2ee for Google backups is based on the user's screen lock code, not account password. https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h... Unlike the account password that users need only on
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by modeless 1y ago
I'm sorry, a messaging app that in its most common configuration has its encryption keys stored on its developer's servers in a way that allows them to decrypt messages at will cannot be reasonably called e2ee. I don't care i
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by modeless 1y ago
OK, if you have or buy a $599+ Mac from Apple in addition to your iOS device, and first connect your iOS device with a USB cable, and then enable the optional Wi-Fi sync, and regularly connect the Mac and the iOS device to the same Wi-Fi ne
950.
by modeless 1y ago
Rogue insider threats are far from the only thing e2ee protects against.
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by modeless 1y ago
ADP is overkill. Apple already end-to-end encrypts keychain passwords, health data, and other stuff even if you don't enable ADP. They need to do the same with iMessage, or otherwise they need to stop falsely advertising iMessage as a
952.
by modeless 1y ago
> There's no way to satisfy those demands and have your desired level of security False. Google has done it with their backups. And Apple already does it too! Keychain passwords, health data, and a lot of other stuff is end-to-end e
953.
by modeless 1y ago
If you turn off Messages in iCloud then the messages are instead stored in your iCloud backup and encrypted "In transit & on server" with key storage by Apple, not just on your devices, as specified in the fourth row of the &q
954.
by modeless 1y ago
It is definitely not the default to exclude iMessage from iCloud backups.
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by modeless 1y ago
That's all fine, but tangential to my complaint, which is about iMessage specifically. iMessage, as a system that strongly promotes e2ee as a core feature, should not be backing up its encryption keys to non-e2ee iCloud backup in any s
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by modeless 1y ago
My complaint is not about guarantees, it's about defaults. Default non-e2e-encrypted backups of message encryption keys are the problem here. No system can guarantee absolute security, but that doesn't mean they're all equiva
957.
by modeless 1y ago
Yes, your backup is e2e encrypted after you enable the off-by-default ADP. But some of your friends probably didn't enable ADP, and the keys to decrypt your messages to them are stored in their backups which Apple can read at will.
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by modeless 1y ago
Unlike Google's comparable backup encryption feature, ADP is off by default. And ADP protects your messages from Apple only to the extent that everyone you message also turns on this non-default option; otherwise your messages are stil
959.
by modeless 1y ago
Yes but when Messages in iCloud is enabled that "client-side" encryption key is itself included in your iCloud backup (that Apple can read), as disclosed. So Apple can read your messages regardless of whether you enable or disable
960.
by modeless 1y ago
This is false. If you turn off the "Messages in iCloud" feature then your messages are included in your regular iCloud backup which Apple has the keys to decrypt, as disclosed. Of course iCloud backup is itself optional. But Apple

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