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byMidnight_Falcon
uary 29, 2026 @04:52PM
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Attached to: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
It has for years. I am not sure what you are doing wrong but strongly suspect a PEBKAC. Here's the doc: https://faq.whatsapp.com/49059...
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byMidnight_Falcon
ary 27, 2026 @02:53PM
(#65952940)
Attached to: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
Whatsapp asks for a backup password, which applies symmetric encryption (AES). I have restored backups many times and needed to go to my password manager to retrieve my extremely long key. So no, if one sets a backup password, backups cannot be viewed by someone with access to the cloud storage it's saved in.
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byMidnight_Falcon
ary 27, 2026 @01:02PM
(#65952710)
Attached to: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
End to end doesn't mean TLS encapsulated. For the purpose of HIPAA and HITRUST, it means "encryption in transit." That's because data is going to the EMR server/db. In messaging, end to end encryption means encrypted on senders device for decryption only on the receiver's device. So no, having TLS doesn't give you end to end encryption and was never what was meant by WhatsApp when they said they had E2E, you can look at the specs of the Open Whisper Systems and later Signal protocol to see why.
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byMidnight_Falcon
ary 27, 2026 @03:04AM
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Attached to: Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption
I don't think that's how it happened at all. Original WhatsApp didn't have E2E encryption. After it's 2014 acquisition, in 2016 they implemented the Open Whisper systems E2E protocol.
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byMidnight_Falcon
ry 25, 2026 @03:02PM
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Attached to: Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM
Stallman's other critiques include criticism of Epstein's detractors (which is essentially any sane person) and of statutory rape laws.
Stallman said that a 17-year-old girl who allegedly was instructed by Epstein to have sex with AI pioneer Marvin Minsky likely seemed "entirely willing" to engage in the illegal act. He also argued it is unfair to call such an incident "sexual assault. A person on the email chain noted that the girl was 17 at the time, and that sex with a minor is statutory rape, Stallman replied, "I think it is morally absurd to define 'rape' in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17."
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byMidnight_Falcon
ry 19, 2026 @04:45PM
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Attached to: WhatsApp Texts Are Not Contracts, Judge Rules in $2M Divorce Row
Oral contracts are a thing, which one should avoid like the plague, because they're notoriously difficult to enforce. In common law jurisdictions, real property is treated very specially, for example in the US one typically requires a notary on any signature dealing with real property like a deed, quitclaim, etc; the instrument is invalid unless notarized.
That said, the texts went like this:
One of the messages stated: "I suggest that the responsibility for taking care of the kids goes to u 100%, then I can sign over my share of Southcote road to u without any complications as I don't need any accommodation in London."
He continued, “Please let me know that u r happy with this and we can then close the financial part of the divorce this week,” with Ms Lin replying, “with some monthly maintenance then ok.”
In my reading, that's an offer to sign over a share, not actually doing the signing and completing the transaction. It calls out "closing the financial part," and "then I can sign over," and not anything like, "I hereby sign over my interest to you." It feels like the wife is grasping at straws with this.
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byMidnight_Falcon
ry 19, 2026 @03:05PM
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Attached to: WhatsApp Texts Are Not Contracts, Judge Rules in $2M Divorce Row
Sounds like this couple was a class act with the Icelandic financier husband being accused of addiction to meth and cocaine. The wife is a successful painter with an elite education who claims her only source of income is renting rooms in that home to Airbnb guests. She probably could teach, resume her painting career, do something for income... But she makes a choice of wanting a house and monthly support money from her now ex husband, and having strangers in the house with her kids. The text in question is more of an offer than anything and she replied accepting the house offer as long as there's also monthly money paid to her. Meanwhile he's declared bankruptcy and probably doesn't want to work to avoid paying her. At least their problems didn't set a precedent a WhatsApp message is a written contract.
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byMidnight_Falcon
uary 08, 2026 @01:50PM
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Attached to: Samsung Hit with Restraining Order Over Smart TV Surveillance Tech in Texas
I am not supporting Samsung at all with my comment. Where did I say anything positive about them? I'm just pointing out the obvious hypocrisy of a deceitful, corrupt person going after a deceitful corporation. In Texas, the wolves are guarding the henhouse and they've opened up a KFC.
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byMidnight_Falcon
uary 08, 2026 @12:38PM
(#65910709)
Attached to: Samsung Hit with Restraining Order Over Smart TV Surveillance Tech in Texas
Paxton's deceptive practices as a law enforcement official are some of the most egregious in the post-WWII era in America. They include:
Whistleblower Complaints (2020): Eight senior aides reported Paxton to the FBI, accusing him of bribery, abuse of office, and retaliation for helping Nate Paul, a real estate investor and campaign donor.
Extramarital Affair: Paxton admitted to an affair with a woman who was employed by Nate Paul, adding to the scandal and linking personal conduct to official duties.
Impeachment (2023): The Texas House impeached Paxton on charges including bribery, misuse of official information, and abuse of official capacity, stemming from the Paul allegations.
Securities Fraud (2015): Paxton faces a long-running indictment for felony securities fraud, related to soliciting investors for a tech startup before becoming AG.
Divorce & Adultery (2025): In mid-2025, his wife, Angela Paxton, filed for divorce, citing adultery, which has reignited public attention to his alleged infidelity.
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byMidnight_Falcon
ary 06, 2026 @02:09AM
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Attached to: The Nation's Strictest Privacy Law Goes Into Effect
Except that California is not responsible for fostering the data broker industry, like, at all? I think you're confusing adtech (which also sucks) with data brokers. Adtech platforms are often customers of data brokers but don't wholesale resell data like them. Data brokers have been around for a long time, the biggest is TransUnion in Chicago. The second biggest is Equifax in Atlanta...then Moody's in NY...the list goes on, but California isn't HQ to any of the largest data brokers. They've been harvesting data since the days of Publishers Clearing House (NY).
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byMidnight_Falcon
ry 05, 2026 @08:05PM
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Attached to: Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years
PBS content includes some great scientific documentaries, like NOVA and Nature, that would be very hard to consider "leftist propaganda." Of course, these days any TV programming aimed above an 8th grade education level is considered leftist. Educated audiences have never been the GOP's base, and given the current war on education it seems like anything intelligent, truthful and informative is branded "leftist." You can tune to OAN to watch low-IQ rightist content with little factual or educational value.
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byMidnight_Falcon
ber 14, 2025 @12:21AM
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Attached to: Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs
Does it solve a problem humans haven't solved? AI is good at regurgitating solutions it's been trained on. It's currently terrible at determining what the solution should be for novel or unsolved problems.
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byMidnight_Falcon
ember 13, 2025 @10:14PM
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Attached to: Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs
That's not creative, it just fills in blanks with what it expects the data to look like based on extensive training, wherein a lot of data is available. GANs and discriminators are good at this. They're not good at coming up with new methods of doing things. If you ask an LLM to please unify electromagnetism, gravity, the two nuclear forces and quantum mechanics into a cohesive theory, you'll get slop. Same if you want it to make a better mousetrap.
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byMidnight_Falcon
ember 13, 2025 @06:41PM
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Attached to: Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs
Right now AI models are very good at solving problems people have already solved, like finding geologic deposits and features. There's plenty of data to train them on. AI is still poor at coming up with new ideas and solutions, so discovering a workable method of fusion seems unlikely. A new kind of AI would need to be developed that is very different from our current AI models which rely on differential analysis (like a GAN) and probabilities and weights of words (a GPT LLM).
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byMidnight_Falcon
ember 11, 2025 @05:33PM
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Attached to: Cisco Stock Hits New All-Time High, 25 Years After the Dotcom Bubble Burst
Yeah, and then if you add dividends you also have to note those are taxed in that year at qualified dividends rates, somewhat negatively offsetting the dividends. It's a complicated math but I think we can see from the basic calculations the stock is not at an "all-time high" realistically.
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