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by wyuenho 6y ago
He's implying Euromaiden in 2014 as a EU and US instigated event to erode Ukraine's political independence, thus, justifying Russia's invasion of the Crimea. We should know by now whenever region moves away from an authoritar
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by wyuenho 6y ago
I wish there was a way to use the regular password dialog to sudo on older macs, and persist that credential just like the touch ID pam module does.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
I think in general, a nation not overly reliant on just one industry that doesn't actually produce anything tangible is probably a healthy thing in the long run. To a very similar extent, Hong Kong is largely the same as London, the ci
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They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them(nytimes.com)
4 points by wyuenho 6y ago|0 comments
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Ok. What's the significance of this observation? They no longer have any leverage.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
The BBC had never been allowed to broadcast freely or investigate freely or accessible from the Chinese side of the "internet" anyway, so who cares.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
That's the issue at hand. Telegram is popular in countries where their primary thread model is getting arrested, not being MITM'ed by their governments
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by wyuenho 6y ago
The problem right now is this strategic asset is so strategic for everyone, Softbank can't sell it to any single entity unless there's some guarantee of ARM's continued independence and impartiality.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
I don't understand why Softbank won't just put it back to the public market and list on the LSE.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Then you may be very disappointed to learn that most of the Internet, I'd wager >90% of it, is, in fact, unencrypted by your definition.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Great. Now they are not catching up with Telegram, they are catching up with WhatsApp.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Features that the masses actually care about, features like stickers, voice and videos messages and calls, disappearing messages, groups that you can manage membership and channels... wait forget about that last one.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
I really don't think Signal is going to dramatically improve on their feature set any time "soon". The gap between any feature Signal copied from Telegram is 2-3 years, they haven't exactly been known to be quick to resp
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Well, if you go that far lol. I remember OTR on Pidgin and Adium back in the days. Not sure I'd consider these third party tacked on solutions e2ee messaging app that can e2e encrypt your chat. OpenPGP doesn't come with email and
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Non-E2E encrypted chats should not be called unencrypted because they had encryption in transit to the server. The contradiction is right there in the sentence.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Telegram for macOS is the one that's just called Telegram on the App Store. Current version is 7.3. The cross-platform Electron version of Telegram is called Telegram-lite on the App Store. The secret chat button is hidden behind 3 lev
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by wyuenho 6y ago
The timeline seems to suggest e2e had always been at the heart of the protocol, but I'm not sure if TextSecure and RedPhone were actually apps that people could install after Whisper Systems was acquired by Twitter. Regardless, instant
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by wyuenho 6y ago
So Telegram launched by about a month early, but the people behind Signal had released prior art earlier, and merely the protocol a few months later, but the Signal app didn't come out until 2015 according to Wikipedia.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Sending plaintext in a secure transport is not what they do either. They do have e2e encrypted secret chat on day one, and the ends are bound to the devices, so even if you login from your desktop app, you won't see the secret chats on
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by wyuenho 6y ago
They indeed were one of the first if not the first to come out with a messaging app that can e2e encrypt your chat. This was a time when WhatsApp was found using a plaintext protocol, and right after the Snowden revelations. They did move t
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by wyuenho 6y ago
> Telegram does not encrypt most conversations, you cannot compare it to Signal. I wish people will stop repeating this nonsense. Just because they don't do end to end encryption by default, doesn't mean they don't encrypt
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by wyuenho 6y ago
There sure are many technical reasons to not have e2ee by default. In Signal, at least as recently as in August, you may still get messages from the group you just quit if a member send a message to the group before the group metadata is re
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by wyuenho 6y ago
I disagree with this. A point the FAQ didn't mention is user psychology. Technically, the correct way to use e2ee chat on both Signal and Telegram is to verify the key fingerprint using a secure channel separate from Telegram. In reali
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Telegram's MAU is 400 mill last checked [0]. On the desktop, you just can't register, so you can't create an auth_key, but that doesn't mean you can't use the Telegram API over a TLS transport, and encrypt messages
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Default 1:1 chat and group chat are secured by the server-client protocol. No e2e encryption by default is deliberate https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-just-make-all-chats-39sec...
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Automated Symbolic Verification of Telegram's MTProto 2.0(arxiv.org)
64 points by wyuenho 6y ago|53 comments
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by wyuenho 6y ago
You've said it, this ruling only applies to the government. Private companies are not bound by this case law.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
China has two now, and it's building a third.
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by wyuenho 6y ago
In case you forget, your country still has enemies, it's called Russia, and if you are not careful, Turkey and North Africa too. France has already way underspent it's NATO target of 2% GDP for many years, this is just replacing a
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by wyuenho 6y ago
Does anyone know how "hardened" various AWS/Azure/GCP linux distros are? Also, what about those popular base docker images? How "hardened" are they?

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