He says nothing about the PIN, so I don’t think that is what protects Signal as OP writes. It simply doesn’t rely on SS7.
You only type your PIN into Signal about once a month.
I found it confusing. Did he explain how the IMSI number is obtained?
Towards the end he said there was a special “interrogation” command that would reveal the IMSI but that loophole is now closed.
You make it sound like an arthouse movie yet it is the extreme geeky opposite.
Or were you talking about AI summaries in general rather than this one?
There is no mention of the compensation amount to be paid to Grant.
Not even the linked order says (which I would have thought makes it a “reasons for decision” not an “order”). It says “The parties have now filed cross-motions for partial summary judgment.” So I guess it isn’t over yet?
My point was about free apps going commercial (not about selling data).
Give FreeTube time to get bigger.
Open source cannot be commercialized.
Steam is commercial, Firefox received about a million dollars from Google to set it as the default search engine.
Wikipedia, Whirlpool, GiHub are the only big sites I can think of which resisted going commercial. They may still be selling user data though.
Can you think of others?
Sorry, I didn’t read the article. Thanks for picking me up on it.
I just use my Brave browser which avoids ads and doesn’t require login but I see now that FreeTube offers a few customisation features and allows you to import your subscriptions.
And there are privacy benefits too. With Freetube your watch history is stored only on your computer, not YouTube’s servers
Really? I imagine it is free because FreeTube collect data on you.
Isn’t this exactly like the original YouTube?
They get users to provide free content with the impression it is a genuine grassrots community then when the site becomes popular enough they cash in. imdb was like this too.
Not necessarily. It might be because of the crimes in the public groups and channels in Telegram. That makes it no more immune from responsibility than Facebook or Twitter.
See this thread
Signal doesn’t have those.
I think you and most people in this thread have been mislead by the article because of the closing remark.
Beyond terrorism, the most dangerous pedophiles communicate on Telegram to exchange content.
But it isn’t the private stuff he is being prosecuted for though AFAIK (although it might have been reported by “traitors” within those chats).
Unlike Signal, there are public chat groups and channels and I presume these are the ones which got him into trouble for propagating illegal activity.
From another article…
terrorism, narcotic supply, fraud, money laundering, receiving stolen goods and others… he allowed an incalculable number of offenses and crimes to be committed, which he did nothing to moderate
The platform has faced issues of misinformation and hate speech, especially antisemitic speech following October 7, 2023.
A Petabyte would be a thousand movies. No cinema has a thousand movies on its program.
No mandatory 2FA as far as I know.
Then how is the authenticity of a number tested by Signal?
Isn’t spoofing a phone number easy for scammers? If so, I don’t understand why there is (admittedly) so little spam on Signal.
Does Signal require 2FA upon registration? (I cannot recall)
If they are the only two options then it isn’t practical. Wouldn’t six characters be enough? One in 56,800,235,584 chance of guessing and brute force attacks could be avoided with a limit of 3 tries per hour.
EDIT: Or I could just content myself with the first 6 characters matching. I suppose there is my solution.
Definitely a UI issue because it is not clear what the user is supposed to do according to the UI.
Should I be sitting physically next to the person to confirm? Read out the gazillion character code to them over a regular phone call?
Symmetrical transparency.
It was Edward Snowden who said that “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
But the Australian eSafety Commissioner isn’t giving up her “won’t someone think of the children” rhetoric.
And good news in Australia (despite the disingenuous headline).
I think it is just Ireland though (which is why I added Ireland to the title).