None of that counts for anything unless the technologies can be independently developed and controlled by individuals and networks of people
let commercial implementation and intent be as opaque as it wants provided people aren't required to interact with it
it’s the anonymity that empowers people to say the absolute worst things.
humans behave badly when they perceive they have social license to do so. anonymity has little to do with it
your second paragraph makes you sound like Larry Ellison. all you're arguing for is the extension of the capacity of corporations to constrain and coerce invidiual behaviour, which is gross
The 1.17.8 flatpak onward doesn't even work. Every IFO I give it comes back with 'can't read lol' - it used to work flawlessly for remuxes
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But it is secure. Secure against you the genpop end user from being able to keep secrets or pursue interests that may not align with the government's interests
Look at salt typhoon. The fact that 3P actors can use the exploit/bdoor too only matters to Gov to the extent that those actors can threaten its own interests by using it. Aka fuck the end user
Turning the clear web into a wasteland of corp/gov service portals one investigation at a time
that's the point, to secure itself against $enemy-nation the state will first secure itself against the citizenry, by having a way of compromising citizens security on demand
ultimately governnment only cares that IT can exploit the mechanism, not that other actors cannot do so via the same mechanism
strip away all the obfuscation layers (there are so many lol) and thats pretty much the extent of the thought process of natsec orgs. you're the threat. its an utterly retarded mind virus thats infected them we can all agree, but from an individual's standpoint we can only protest and hope to shame the policymakers into a constructive course of action
Skinks are cool but they don't beat the olm
Homogenizing Productions with Netflix’s Slop Cauldron Suite
A firearm isn't worth much money in the scheme of things either its real worth is in publicly displaying it on your person, and having it loaded
So does MS know what I look like and have my age and phone no? presumably the tenant cloud is zero-knowledge from Redmond's perspective
Conflict? A good image is a good image regardless of its provenance. And yes 2020s era 4chan was pretty much glowboy central, one look at the top posts by country of origin said as much. It arguably wasn't worth bothering with since 2015