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by tonyztan 7y ago
> "Android and Wear OS App" > "The app will no longer be available for download. Service to existing users and subscribers will continue until July 1, 2020, at which point the app will be shut down. Subscribers who are
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by tonyztan 7y ago
Interesting. It reached #2 an hour after submission, and then it suddenly dropped to position #13 within the same hour, around the same time when it was renamed by the mods. #2: https://imgur.com/a/qgKQWxU Sudden Drop
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by tonyztan 7y ago
From Zoom's website: "The following in-meeting security capabilities are available to the meeting host: Secure a meeting with end-to-end encryption" https://zoom.us/security https://web.archive.org
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by tonyztan 7y ago
Original title: "Zoom Meetings Aren't End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing" For some reason, the title was trimmed an hour after submission to omit the "misleading marketing" part. The ranking also app
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by tonyztan 7y ago
My problem with this is Zoom's misleading claims. If Zoom can't implement end-to-end encryption, it shouldn't claim that it does.
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by tonyztan 7y ago
"Zoom... claims to implement end-to-end encryption, widely understood as the most private form of internet communication, protecting conversations from all outside parties. In fact, Zoom is using its own definition of the term, one tha
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by tonyztan 7y ago
That's terrible for national security. Zoom engineers are based in China: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...
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California dismantled its mobile hospitals and ventilator stockpile(latimes.com)
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by tonyztan 7y ago
"Officials in Spain said testing kits it bought from a Chinese company had only a 30 percent accuracy rate, rather than the 80 percent rate they had expected." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/busi
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Namecheap blocks domain registrations with ‘coronavirus’ and ‘vaccine’ in name(theverge.com)
2 points by tonyztan 7y ago|0 comments
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Zoom has one key profit driver: engineers in China(cnbc.com)
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Security, Privacy and the Coronavirus: Lessons From 9/11(lawfareblog.com)
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by tonyztan 7y ago
IANAL, but while lawful permanent residents do not have the same protections, they still have certain protections that make it legally unclear whether the president can categorically bar entry without an immigration court proceeding for eac
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by tonyztan 7y ago
"Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/
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by tonyztan 7y ago
"Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population" "All types of masks reduced aerosol exposure, relatively stable over time, unaffected by duration of wear or type
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by tonyztan 7y ago
Well, I know many minorities who carry guns to protect themselves. Both racial minorities and sexual minorities (LGBT+). Racism and police violence are real problems that need to be addressed, but taking away guns is not the solution.
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by tonyztan 7y ago
> "Not having guns at worst would force a group of people to find a new and less dangerous hobby" No, not having guns at worst would deprive minorities of the ability to protect themselves. It is not only a hobby; it is also an
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by tonyztan 7y ago
Killing in self-defense is justifiable. Encryption is designed to hide information. Hiding information for privacy is also justifiable.
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by tonyztan 7y ago
The drug being tested is remdesivir, not tenofovir. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/24/investing/gilead-sciences-cor... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/health/coronavir
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by tonyztan 7y ago
For what it's worth, the extension is open source: https://github.com/privacypass/challenge-bypass-extension
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Facebook’s New Privacy Tool Is a Data Landfill(theatlantic.com)
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by tonyztan 7y ago
"Novel Coronavirus May Not Have Originated in Wuhan Seafood Market": https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22157067
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by tonyztan 7y ago
> "Back in the 2003-04 SARS outbreak, the cause was partly a laboratory in Beijing that let the virus slip out accidentally." Could you provide a source on this? I'd like to read more.
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by tonyztan 7y ago
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873
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California Privacy Directory(github.com)
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Facebook’s Privacy Tool Launched Months Ago. Or Did It?(nymag.com)
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Update on Belarus Blocking Proton Servers(protonmail.com)
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by tonyztan 7y ago
See Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/status/1147259303268454400... And paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3415726
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Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies(telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by tonyztan 7y ago|4 comments
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OnionShare: Securely and anonymously share a file of any size(onionshare.org)
5 points by tonyztan 7y ago|0 comments

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