Yes, and if you take Linux for example, there are also tons of exploit for it.
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Hard no. Have you tried activating encryption in personal chats?
If you're not testing integration with Kafka, and the producer, your service is still lacking integration tests.
Testing classes in isolation with testcontainer is fine. But I observed that with microservice architecture the line between E2E tests and integration tests are blurred.
Microservices can and should be tested from the client perspective.
To test integration with 1 dependency at class level we can use test containers.
But to test the integration of the whole microservice with other microservices + dependencies we use a test environment and some test code. It's a bit like an E2E test for an API.
I would argue that the test environment is more useful if I had to choose between the two as it can test the service contract fully, unlike lower type testing which requires a lot of mocking.
This suggests that anti-monopoly laws may not be effective.
It's indeed still useful when traveling to those countries that speak these languages. But that's mere few weeks per year. English could have worked anyway as everyone is becoming proficient in English.
I speak four languages out of necessity, not by choice. When you can focus on fewer languages, your proficiency in them improves. Although I can speak four languages, I always feel as if I'm lacking a certain level of expertise in each one. I wish I only needed to speak one language, saving my mental capacity for other things. Constantly juggling languages doesn't help.
The main benefit of knowing multiple languages in everyday life is eavesdropping on people in the street speaking their language, but that's about it.
Moreover, all my friends from my country also speak four languages. Unfortunately, I don't hear of people from Moldova faring much better than others.
*My mother tongue is Romanian, but everyone in Moldova also speaks Russian (due to the Soviet past). At school, I learned French and later studied in France. I picked up English mainly through computers and the internet. Now, I'm in the Netherlands and need to learn another language, but this one is proving slow to learn. I don't feel any advantage in learning a new language either.
I would gladly trade Russian and French over knowing Dutch right now ;o) There are months when I don't speak those two so they are of little use for me anymore.
Even with Telegram's encryption, messages can be compromised through a straightforward SIM swap. This means that their encryption is essentially irrelevant since messages can be read without needing an encryption key from the client.
I recommend checking out Moxie Marlinspike's Twitter thread on this topic for further insight. You can find the link I previously shared in another thread.
https://www.wired.com/story/moldova-leaks-google-privacy-set...
Decompiling and inspecting mobile apps is relatively simple, so if there were any issues with the WhatsApp client, they would likely have been uncovered already.
As for Telegram, its messages are stored in plain text on their servers, and it doesn't offer default end-to-end encryption. This means that if Russian secret services were to gain access to Telegram's backend, they could easily read all the messages.
Therefore, when using Telegram, it's important to be aware that its administrators have the ability to read all of your messages.
I recently examined a situation where confidential messages from high-ranking Moldovan officials were leaked through Telegram. Unlike WhatsApp and Signal, which offer end-to-end encryption by default, protecting your messages even in case of a SIM swap, Telegram does not offer the same level of security. A SIM swap or a breach in their system can lead to message leaks.
Despite advertising themselves as a "secure messaging" platform, Telegram lacks default end-to-end encryption, making it less secure than its competitors.
Read this excellent thread from Moxie https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1474067549574688768
This is a lie[1]. If you don't enable backups yourself, you loose your messages. You can enable E2E encryption for your backups.
WhatsApp is vastly superior to Telegram in terms of E2E encryption. Telegram can read users messages on their servers and they are not even trying to tell their users to enable E2E.
[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/news/whatsapp-encrypted-backups
Microsoft Edge is the default web browser on Windows 10, Windows 11. [2]
Meaning at a huge amount of population will see Yandex when they search for something at least for the first time. Unless they install another browser immediately or change the default search engine.
And yes, I wasn't expecting to see my inquiry deleted on their forum. I'm posting again without the screenshot. In case they didn't like what Yandex returns as results (which is weird, as it is their "business partner").
I'm also very humbled by the support of the hacker news community. As a long time lurker, it warms my heart a lot to see so much support. I hope it reaches Microsoft.
[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/d...
The list includes Ukraine! I've tested Edge with Ukraine as a Region on my MacOS, and it no longer appears to set it to Yandex.
But it still does for several other countries. Which includes Moldova. Moldova is a country that Russia has repeatedly threatened. While advanced users may try and remove Yandex as default, non-tech savvy users likely leave the defaults.
Meaning Microsoft Edge shares data with Russia by setting Yandex as a default search engine for their users, which is really bad.
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You really don't get why E2E encryption is necessary, do you?
Open source client doesn't matter in mobile world, as you never compile the app yourself. This is only misleading to the non-tech users who don't get how the whole thing works. That's why Telegram's claim of security is total garbage because while their client is "open source", the backend is that has all the messages is not. Something they don't clearly state on their website.
So the Telegram's admins can read all the messages in plain text on the backend. So "open source" client means absolutely nothing for the security.
Works like a charm!
Here is what I stated doing recently and feels like it helps:
1. 15 minutes mediation daily before work starts and 15 minutes after work. This marks the end of a work day and can start thinking about something else.
Lately due to some changes in the company I found myself thinking a lot about work even after working hours. Without being able to stop. Meditation trains my mind to calm down and switch off.
I also feel that I can now switch tasks easier. And my mind feels lighter.
2. Try to reduce the bad stress at work. Refuse nonsense deadlines.
3. 1 cup of coffee per day is enough. Move your body with 30 minutes of running and daily walks.
With the remote working we now have plenty of time. So 15 minutes of meditation across the day is really easy to integrate.