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5y ago
Whats the point of that? You dont need to exchange phone numbers for telegram just the @username and only one side needs to know the others username. And once you have a chat with someone both can share their own contact directly in the cha
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The article also says UAPs. UAPs include UFOs but not interstellar comets and such stuff. The A stands for Aerial. The title is not misleading UAP is what normal people name UFO. Its just more correct because some things visible in the sky
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You can bypass user login by simply removing the drive and access the data on it. This is not a bug or vulnerability this is completely normal for unencrypted disks. Default options do not enable any drive encryption Secure boot is as the n
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>...so we really need to cut even more This is the whole pitch of the green movement. Reduce emissions at whatever cost, they completely miss the point that we (the humans on this planet) dont know how to do this. Its not about what we s
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Daily reminder that all the emission reduced by the complete "western" world (the rest doesn't care about the green move) in the last years was all reversed by the additional emission of a single Asian country (China) and thi
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cope harder
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No, similar bugs are found and fixed all the time and no one cares. Also no plausible connections to the ransomware attacks. Which usually need a remote vuln. or targeted attack especially against people.
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You should not, I dont care which IM app you use or why or why you dont wanna use telegram. And you dont care or understand why people use telegram and what they use it for. I tried to explain it but people like you dont want to know. You j
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>The choice is choosing between another app entirely, not from within options in Telegram. Thats exactly what you should do. Telegram is not the tool/service that does what you want. It just as much not what you want like Skype isn&
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5y ago
>...a goal of reaching something like "X is True"? Not really, It would serve no purpose, only the people who agree with it will agree with the system that outputs "their truth". I dont think the goal should be such a
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5y ago
"Good for Bitcoin" - Bitcoin people
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5y ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877472
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5y ago
You are such an idiot
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5y ago
You ignore everything I posted and just list stuff Not even gonna read it all Have a nice day and keep using whatever you want (signal obviously)
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Whats so hard to understand about having a choice? Telegram doesn't keep a plant text copy of your message if you use the secret chats. Its up to you beside the fact that its also completely voluntary to even use telegram. >The most
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5y ago
FBA is BFT + decentralization. The F stands for "Federated" in contrast to "just" distributed system which are only physically decentral, federated system also decentralize the control. The key difference is that it does
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5y ago
>Oh don't be so vague, go on and name one! See my reply above. >I've been wondering the same thing... Its not possible (or feasible) to implement the key telegram features in Matrix or other always-e2ee protocols. >It mig
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>Which feature? Almost all. Either not possible or not useful. Telegram has huge public community. People need to be able to join/leave and forward stuff to other places etc. etc. It just makes no sense to add any e2ee to that. Even
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Almost everything will be "not really known for sure". So the next step to make it useful would be somehow count/vote and get "an X is more likely true than Y". Maybe even add % and now you essentially have "mo
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5y ago
And FBA consensus "coins" don't need countermeasures because they dont need any kind of proof of waste lottery to make progress.
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"This is good for bitcoin" - Bitcoin people
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Maybe try telegram someday? Because you dont seem to know what it can do? The features is has are NOT possible with e2e. Its not an implementation flaw its a implementation decision they made on purpose and clearly explained in their FAQ wh
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No drawbacks over what? Over WhatsApp before they got e2e? Compared to telegram both of these are 5+ years behind. And have a different use case for a lot of users. Telegram being some kind of social media IM with a focus on public content
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The worst part is that people will be told "You don't know for sure" rather than people using their brain and come to the conclusion that they dont know for sure. Which is actually the default for any critical thinking person
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>force fact checking Its not possible, period. You can remove this option. FB/Twitter/YT all have "fact checkers" and they are neither neutral nor do they get it right. Even if outsourced it still fails miserably. On
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It has severe drawbacks if you use e2e. The default is without because that's what most people want.
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Another user said that.
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Its the kind of vulnerability that would normal not get any attention. Its not a remote code vulnerability and has nothing to do with the recent remote code vulnerability other than the fact that it happens to be in the same part of the OS.
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It put "normal" into quotes because I specifically wanted to excluded anyone who is willing to tinker with the system risking to break things or simply lacks the knowledge how to do it or how to figure out. I'm fully aware th
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So you wanna say you keep running windows 7 because you dont have the tech skills to turn off updates in win 10? If that's the case I dont think there are many of you out there. I run win7 on hardware that cant run win10 and I know peo
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