an RCMP intelligence official testified in court that it was a honeypot

That counterpart, according to Ortis, briefed him about a “storefront” that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies.

The plan, he said, was to have criminals use the storefront — an online end-to-end encryption service called Tutanota — to allow authorities to collect intelligence about them.

“So if targets begin to use that service, the agency that’s collecting that information would be able to feed it back, that information, into the Five Eyes system, and then back into the RCMP,” Ortis said.

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of course tuta replied, with their reply basically being “no we’re not, you have no proof”. so.

i don’t see this as “proton being the bad guy”, or them “betraying their userbase”, i see this as proton being fundamentally unable to offer the kinds of service they claim to offer

they’re a lot better than google or microsoft, for sure, but still not fully private. if you have any important privacy requirements, don’t rely on big commercial services. this goes to others like tutanota, too (in fact there’s credible evidence that tuta is a honeypot lol)

invaders, colonizers

tonight radio-canada (the french-speaking counterpart to the CBC) was interviewing a lot of people from Iran, and one of the questions the interviewer asked was “so, with Khamenei dead, do you think people will go to the streets to protest their government and bring about regime change?” to which the interviewee just answered “no people are hiding and fleeing, Tehran is being bombed!”

so idk about the usa but canadian state media certainly seems to want to spin it as an act of liberation 🤮

also, short attention span ≠ low intelligence, as the title implies

assigning moral value to software is such a weird thing when you really think about it

“haha look i’m a morally superior person due to the specific 1s and 0s that run on my CPU” ok

if it’s a computer, it can be hacked

if it’s connected to the internet, it doubly can be hacked!

that’s right! she can simply turn off her phone, and go to school where the boys oh no they’re the same boys aren’t they. oh well, good things school aren’t known for harassment, bullying, and girls not being taken seriously by staff!

any socialist society will be inherently disadvantaged by the fact that the global hegemon, the USA, is hellbent on destroying them. so, given that, maybe the soviet union? china? they certainly aren’t perfect, soviet union especially, but any future socialist project can (and should) learn from their successes and mistakes

it’s almost like she’s a woman and not a man and she sees things from the woman’s perspective.

yeah right, how dare she!!! the audacity of females these days, talking about their problems. unbelievable!!!

you’re no better than the shitheads this article is about. fuck you and your “both sides” nonsense.

educating men and boys, and actually moderating misogyny (and other bigotries) would be a good start, how many reports of horrific posts end up with “after careful examination by our moderation team, we have found that this post does not violate our community guidelines…”

holy shit these comments

lemmy users stop being individualist-brained, victim-blaming misogynists challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

you don’t stop misogyny by just ignoring it you twats, and hot take, mainstream social media being filled with nothing but privileged assholes being bigots (because all the good people were told to just go somewhere else 😇) is not good, actually!

good thing these men don’t exist outside of social media! whew, we dodged a big one there…

and i sure hope this school girl doesn’t go to any place regularly where she sees these teenage boys, oh wouldn’t that be unfortunate???

is that tom scott

the fact that they picked a woman of color to be the new lead of xbox lmao. least obvious glass cliff

anyways play cassette beasts instead

everything about this release is ridiculous

20$ is way too expensive for what it is, it should honestly be 10/15$ at most
why just fire red/leaf green? why not other pokémon games? ruby, sapphire, emerald, these have never been rereleased!
why are all language versions separate purchases??? you couldn’t be arsed to bundle them?
the only new feature of this release, and really the only reason one might want to use this version instead of emulating on another platform, pokémon home compatibility, is not available at launch and will be added later. come on.

be gay do crime etc etc

it may even be a selling point depending on how you look at it

a phone that’s painful to use is a phone that you won’t feel incentivized to doomscroll on 😁👍

i’d rather the genocide collaborator lose but maybe that’s just me