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by yaris 5y ago
As I read the text of the study ( https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v... ) it directly says: "First, we confirm and extend our previous findings in more than 42 million persons that the
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by yaris 5y ago
Basically this is exactly ehat they do. FBK (Anti-Corruption Fund) is declared ”extremist organization” in Russia for it discloses corruption among Russian gov-t and top administration. And Google is guilty of not removing information from&
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by yaris 5y ago
According to Russian law all traffic via satellite should first go through ”landing” stations in Russia and then via usual cables to IXs. And if a satellite provider does not comply - their terminals cannot legally be bought in/importe
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by yaris 5y ago
Why on Earth would one use malloc in C++? Instead of using ’new’ if explicit allocation is desired.
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by yaris 5y ago
"If someone did want to do something at such a sporting event, nothing is stopping them from doing it at the gates" - this has already happened in Russia (Volgograd, 2013). A suicide bomber blowed himself up in front of a security
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by yaris 5y ago
A phone number is PI as long as it is tied to your ID. If you managed to get a SIM that is not in any way tied to your ID - then you are fine. This is assuming that nobody tracks your calls etc... but if you use Tor to register a PM account
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by yaris 5y ago
Either you are confusing Switzerland and Sweden (which were two quite different countries last time I checked) or I'd be very much interested in data on why you see my words about Comviq giving away SIM cards as lie. As you probably kn
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by yaris 5y ago
Disobeying laws can become very costly, especially when you have something that can be taken away.
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by yaris 5y ago
In Sweden you can get a prepaid phone number completely for free: Comviq literally gives away SIMs and to pre-pay you can still use cash. So from this point of view PM is not lying, not one bit.
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by yaris 5y ago
Well, if that matters, nothing stops _any_ email service provider from doing those things. And I would prefer a provider that at least tries to be clear about what to expect. One thing that PM failed to account for is how many people live i
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by yaris 5y ago
2. was missing when the activist started using PM. 3. also missing (unless there is strong evidence of presence). So no, no fraud. PM has to follow Swiss law and they have stated this long before the incident pretty clearly.
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by yaris 5y ago
If you can make sure you and your relatives and your friends never cross Russian (or for that matter Russia-friendly state) border and/or you never write anything remotely resembling criticism of Russian regime - then maybe yes.
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by yaris 5y ago
The ways you've listed would work only once (each). With several hundreds of requests per year PM would pretty quickly run out of plausible excuses to not start storing the requested info. Also - what is so precious about this particul
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by yaris 5y ago
So you suggest them to drop their business (which took years to build), abandon their families and run because their local court (or police) issued an order, one of several hundreds they have to process each year? Also - in which country co
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by yaris 5y ago
While I have no data to discuss the second item, regarding the first item you seem to be misinformed. PM did _not_ cooperate with a random foreign police. PM had to execute on _their local authorities_ order, and judicial oversight was pres
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by yaris 5y ago
Only for US buying that same government in their turn, plus a couple neighbour governments to ensure peopleware excess in case of war?
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by yaris 5y ago
If they were shutting down their service every time police requests logs then their servers wouldn't have time to even boot properly. In their "clarification" they claim they received 700 orders in 2020. It is ~2 orders/
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by yaris 5y ago
While there may be examples of activists being oppressed by Swiss law, in this particular incident activists where messing with others' property which is hardly changing society for the better.
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by yaris 5y ago
What did you expect from their "swiss-ness"? Because to me being swiss means nothing more than having to obey swiss law (which is still better than having to obey EU laws or US laws).
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by yaris 5y ago
All those who stop using ProtonMail after this incident - could you please describe what PM should've done differently? From what I know they received a valid/legal request from authorities in Switzerland. Since they operate under
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by yaris 5y ago
"we should be advocating for people who are not at risk to go out and aggressively live life" - given that the virus can cause severe long-lasting effects even if the infection does not move the person to ICU, I would say it is pr
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by yaris 5y ago
For any vaccine (and the corresponding disease) there are people that cannot be vaccinated, but that can have quite severe symptoms (and/or die). If a person is not vaccinated - then this person can spread the disease among those vulne
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by yaris 6y ago
I wonder if it is possible to implement an "out-of-band" cache clearing command(s). On Linux it would be quite straightforward, but I know next to nothing about Windows or OSX.
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by yaris 6y ago
Good joke about Germany being privacy-conscious. From what I've read about state-of-the-art in Germany it is the most draconian state in EU (now when Britain has left).
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by yaris 6y ago
Maybe it is some _copyrighted_ beacon? I've read somewhere that Oracle have made some verse a part of some network API of theirs to be able to copyright it.
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by yaris 6y ago
I wonder what could serve as the replacement for Netgear switches. I have a couple GS108s at home and thought to buy a couple more. After such news I don’t want to even come close to NG, but from possible alternatives I’m familiar only with
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by yaris 6y ago
I really hope that this COVID situation will be a strong enough kick in the ass. Sweden as a country and as a social group is nowadays not swift enough to react to things turning bad, so it _has_ to learn to be proactive.
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by yaris 6y ago
Swedish authorities relied on their citizen to behave, follow rules and use common sense in general, plus some administrative measures that can be implemented only by organizations. To me this is much better than to force people into lockdo
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by yaris 6y ago
Some of them are also job-free - unemployment in Norway went up manyfold since March
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by yaris 6y ago
Well, I live in Stockholm and here is what I see: during the first few weeks (maybe a month) people really followed the rules. There were significantly fewer cars on roads, some parts of the city looked as if completely abandoned etc. But t

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