Rubio Uses Terrorism Law to Ban Secure Email Service
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Each of these sanctions is sending a really strong signal to the world: "stop relying on anything US".
The US technically has a parliament but it's function is largely ceremonial.
Funny that this thing happened _only_ after Trump came to power. US has been doing such things from some time but nobody noticed it. Nowadays it is even exporting this.
I don't know if the upheaval Trump is causing is sufficient in scale that it will be visible in US growth rates.
But the point is that business will adapt to pretty much any regime to various degrees if it is predictable. The US used to be predictable. Now it's increasingly looking unpredictable, and that could potentially become a much bigger problem than any specific policy Trump puts in place.
(For an extreme example, compare China under Mao and under Deng: Both periods saw lots of year on year growth, but under Mao there were cataclysmic resets whenever there were political upheaval before rapid growth eventually resumed and those resets massively harmed the long term growth average; more than Deng's economic reforms, the biggest change was a long period of predictability)
The problem is the lag. It allows for the responsible party to escape ownership of creating the problem. And of course the responsible party’s party will just finger point at the other party and say “they did this to you!!”
In 2030: "You have DeltaChat installed on your GrapheneOS phone? Why would you use that unless you're a terrorist? Good citizens use government-blessed choices, like Signal and iPhone once they passed the Freedom2029 compliance mandate."
It is clearly not just that, pls see the article and the allegation.
> Why would you use that unless you're a terrorist?
It is already like this: "why would you want privacy, what do you have to hide?" is often repeated.
Just think of the push towards cashless, in some areas cash is considered antisocial: I have seen fools that should be humble frown in front of it, silently screaming that "every good citizen sends his practices to the twelve largely anonymous private-public data collectors established by european law (and through monetic from the USA)" - the manipulation of the ignorant, in which vilty becomes pride...
Is xeonmc the only person in this world, aside from me, that is extremely suspicious of walled garden applications like Signal, regardless of how open their source is?
There are ways to ascertain how and when a person is using their device by analyzing Signal's metadata, then build a predictive model based on months of daily usage to infer when they're most likely about to pick up their phone.
Delta Chat is years behind Signal's protections, and its claims of "zero metadata" are straight up lies. SimpleX has at least four remote execution zero days that I'm aware of, all relating to media processing. I told Evgeny to make the blur effect actually hash the image instead of acting like an overlay, but I was repeatedly ignored before being set as an "observer" role in the SimpleX Public Group.
We as a group of techy citizens need to keep building applications like this, whatever the designation it gives us.
The mentioned entity is making accusations: the point could be that an authoritative institutional judgement is missing (at list in the article) to establish a responsibility.
In fact, the target's rebuttal was «false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering».
> our civilization
The mentioned entity is making boasting statements: again more justifications should be provided in order to make the stated less perplexing.
This is the future that is unfolding and yet there is an alarming number of people who are still being dismissive.
Edit:
> alarming number of people who are still being dismissive
The "alarming number" of dead people in practical terms here is probably ~99.9995% - if one checks indirect signals.
They should close instagram (at least half of it) then