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You're completely missing the point, it's about Windows ignoring users browser choice and opening stuff in Edge anyway.

Yep, I think so too, it wouldn't have protected him. Whoever was in charge of the operation would've noticed and identified this killswitch, and prepared appropriately. The suspect would be incapacitated as a matter of priority to prevent him from activating it.

Despite not being in 5 eyes, Israel does get special treatment in the form of raw intelligence data from the US.

>The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.

>According to the agreement, the intelligence being shared would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications.

>While NSA documents tout the mutually beneficial relationship of Sigint sharing, another report, marked top secret and dated September 2007, states that the relationship, while central to US strategy, has become overwhelmingly one-sided in favor of Israel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...

It's a reasonable concern for a government if the surveiling capability is shifted from themselves to a foreign government (USA with PRISM and all the other programmes)

And US might be using them because Apple/Google are American companies and can just be sent a National Security Letter along with a gag order.

>The contact tracing protocol for Covid was anything but more surveillance. This is what happens when you buy into simplistic narratives.

Guess you're not following the news. Things that look simple can be deceiving.

>It did seek to assuage fears, however, by repeatedly assuring Singaporeans that the data collected with such technology would be used only for contact tracing during the pandemic. And that’s where things went wrong.

>Earlier this month, it emerged that the government’s claim was false. The Ministry of Home Affairs confirmed that data could actually be accessed by the police for criminal investigations; the day after this admission, a minister revealed that such data had, in fact, already been used in a murder investigation.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/11/1016004/singapor...

...that's being "retired" at the end of 2021 so an alternative for ~2 months only.

That's pretty much what happened after Snowden, everything is much more locked down, access is tightly controlled and employees are more closely monitored.

That's why I'm glad he released as much as he did, any followup whistle-blower leak is bound to be much much harder.

How is it superior? Quest 2 is the only wireless headset (arguably the biggest QoL feature unless you like pulley systems on your ceiling), and spec wise it roughly matches the Index (you win some, you lose some). I despise Facebook but I got the Quest 2 cause of wirelessness, as for the account you can create a dummy Oculus Developer account (workaround will work till January 2023).

How was your experience with them? Mine wasn't too great a few years ago - I switched, everything was great, had that nice fuzzy feeling inside that I'm using a pro-freedom/anti-censorship DNS, until a couple of months later when the DNS server just stopped responding. Surely I must've simply been unlucky I thought, so I switched to another instance but the same thing happened a few months later.

I love the idea in principle but it didn't seem to work for me in reality.

This seems to be a clickbait headline - where is the AI part? It was just a remotely controlled gun.

>Next, the report details how the sniper who took out Fakhrizadeh did so remotely from Israel, over 1,600 kilometers away, since the hit squad had long ago left Iran.

That's standard practice afaik, it's a machine learning blackbox after all

Google ‘fixed’ its racist algorithm by removing gorillas from its image-labeling tech - https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...

> The page you have tried to view (A stable bug fix bites proprietary modules) is currently available to LWN subscribers only.

The !g can be almost anywhere in the query, it just can't be followed by non-whitespace or prefixed by special signs.

Ransomware: Another great "feature" of non-backdoored encryption.

See how silly you sound?

JIDF doesn't exist anymore but others have replaced it, eg ACT.il, they use "hasbara" documents that describe how to use logical fallacies and how to twist history to win online arguments. It's a really disgusting document.

https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsw...

Cutting into people's flesh and taking out an implant will discourage petty/squeamish/opportunity thiefs, furthermore you'd need to know which arm the implant is in and where. I'm not sure about the exact size of the implant but cutting it out in a dark alley from a bloodied wound will certainly take more effort than grabbing a wallet from someone pocket. More effort -> Less frequency

The barrier of entry to theft is raised from pick-pocketing and mugging in alleys to chopping off a limb, no doubt it'll happen but I'm certain it'll be MUCH much rarer.

It can't be stolen.

You can't lose it.

You can't forget it.

You don't need to charge it.

You're overcomplicating, Zerodium exists.

Very depressing how in the UK you could've been forced to disclose your password under section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and gotten even 5 years jail time if you refused. I presume there isn't a US equivalent?

As I have pointed out in a comment some time ago [0], there have been multiple instances where US (ab)used their intelligence for economic gains - be it getting a US company to file a patent (that the NSA "obtained") before the German company who actually came up with the idea does, or subverting Airbus so contracts go to Boeing.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24546046

I personally want to have a choice between NSA/GCHQ and the CCP.

All you've mentioned (apart from Nest) is available in Life360 so why wait for the ad company Google to do this?

I gave Deezer a try and I've been quite pleased. The main problem I had with Spotify was missing music from specific genres/countries. Deezer let's me upload my own mp3 files, which means it has the most complete catalogue for me that any service could have.

>As for papers like the Guardian, who benefited the most from Assange's work, they've been even more conspicuously silent. Jonathan Cook, a former Guardian journalist, explains why in his piece 'The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life. Why is the paper so silent?'

Long story short: they've been neutralised by the UK security apparatus. I could try to summarise the article below but that won't be doing it justice, just give it a read. Declassified UK, the below source, has a few former members of The Guardian on the team.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-u...

>If so, is there any evidence that the EU tech sector has been stifled because of US government espionage?

Other sectors have been, and there's no reason tech would be immune to this. Also, it's only logical that attempts to create an EU tech sector, therefore threatening the US dominance, would be met with attempts to stiffle it similar to the ones below.

>In 1999, Enercon, a German company and leading manufacturer of wind energy equipment, developed a breakthrough generator for wind turbines. After applying for a US patent, it had learned that Kenetech, an American rival, had submitted an almost identical patent application shortly before. By the statement of a former NSA employee, it was later discovered that the NSA had secretly intercepted and monitored Enercon's data communications and conference calls and passed information regarding the new generator to Kenetech.

>In the early 1990s, the US National Security Agency intercepted the communications between the European aerospace company Airbus and the Saudi Arabian national airline. In 1994, Airbus lost a $6 billion contract with Saudi Arabia after the NSA, acting as a whistleblower, reported that Airbus officials had been bribing Saudi officials to secure the contract.[65] As a result, the American aerospace company McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing) won the multibillion-dollar contract instead of Airbus.

>The American defense contractor Raytheon won a US$1.3 billion contract with the Government of Brazil to monitor the Amazon rainforest after the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), acting as a whistleblower, reported that Raytheon's French competitor Thomson-Alcatel had been paying bribes to get the contract.

>In order to boost America's position in trade negotiations with the then Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, in 1995 the CIA eavesdropped on the conversations between Japanese bureaucrats and executives of car manufacturers Toyota and Nissan.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

You can argue that the bribing cases make the US government the "good guy", but I can safely say that the NSA/CIA would not leverage it's espionage capabilites to subvert a US companies deals/operations.

And remember, these are only the cases that we know about.

Barely anyone is OK with the ads, people just use uBlock in their browser and YouTube Vanced on their android phones. Or suffer, if they're not tech-inclined.

>And we all kind of blindly walking into this no questions asked.

It's already happening, now, unfortunately. All your tweets (posted & liked) etc analyzed and flagged for bad language, drug/alcohol mentions, bigotry etc. and a report generated for HR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22211363

The company in question is used by Sterling and HireRight, so this isn't some unknown/niche company.

Thanks for this, seems to confirm my suspicions. The camera popup happened quite often on Glassdoor, which I remember once blocking me for some time after I blocked their canvas fingerprinting attempts. Just checked and that seems to no longer be there.

Disappointing state of affairs overall.