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Tibert

@ Tibert @jlai.lu

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  • The French government doesn't consider WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram secure enough, replaced by Olvid (Google translate link in post text)

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  • The French government doesn't consider WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram secure enough, replaced by Olvid (Google translate link in post text)

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  • Well let's give some counter examples in the softwares I mentioned :

    • WhatsApp closed : Owned by Facebook. Well Facebook had multiple data leaks, privacy violations and nothing substantial was done about it. Definitely not trustable (also zero days are getting sold on the black market for WhatsApp (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/05/zero-days-for-hacking-whatsapp-are-now-worth-millions-of-dollars/ ).

    • Telegram closed : not end to end encrypted. Russian app. Not trustable.

    • Signal open : well this one is e to e encrypted. Open source, maybe could be trusted. Seems to have passed some security audits (https://community.signalusers.org/t/overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243), tho it's based in the US and uses servers, maybe the US may have super computers capable of decrypting such communications. However is signal has switched their encryption to quantum computer resistance it may be too hard even for a state actor. However they also "debunked"/ignored zero-day reports which were not reported through their own tool, and by asking the US for confirmation. I am not sure if the US can be trusted to give confirmation about the existance or not of vulnerabilities when they are very likely to use them (https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/signal-debunks-zero-day-vulnerability.html?m=1).

    • Olvid open (servers closed) : is French, e to e, and backed up by an encryption PhD. And why not use a local messaging app witch also is very secure and open source.

    Notice how closed source is untrusted here. The economic activity of the tool changes how trustable it is. Military équipement has a huge and strict budget, it has to be secure.

    Communication apps are user first. So they do what they can get away with, and that is very true for Facebook.

  • The French government doesn't consider WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram secure enough, replaced by Olvid (Google translate link in post text)

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  • That is an European proposition, and not French at all. France can stand for or against that.

  • Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble

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  • Because lots of people aren't smart enough to make the link with a factory.

    But the non smart people see smoke or steam and they think pollution.

  • Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook

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  • Sending the entire email content to their cloud isn't that good.

    However an advantage to doing so is to be able to use push notifications on the app without having to poll continuously the email address from the device. Which in return reduces the battery usage compared to constant polling.

    However, they could have done something like spark mail, only get the email subject, sender and a little bit of the content to put into the noficiation then delete after the push notificdation has been sent.

  • Are there any good Black Friday deals this year?

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  • We're on @privacyguides! 🎉

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  • There is a way to create a Google account with an external email address. If you don't have anything tied to your Google original account, it could be a way to access Google tools.

  • ChatGPT, how do I use OCR in Word?

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  • This looks like scam email and Aliexpress products merged together.

  • Distros bad

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  • Red Hat enterprise Linux?

  • Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source

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  • Sry did it. The apps I use seem to be smart enough to stop at html.

  • The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart, Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will now take over as interim CEO

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  • Rather push by Microsoft instead of Google?

  • Google's Manifest V3 changes will soon disable uBlock Origin on Chrome

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  • It was something else. Web drm : Web Integrity API.

    Tho I don't think they canceled the mobile variant of it for apps.

  • Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source

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  • The article is English. Only the one in the post text for additional info is French.

  • ‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months

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  • ‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months

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  • Links now opening in Chrome instead of my default browser Firefox on Android

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  • It seems it it using the first chromium browser it finds.

    I have brave and kiwi browser installed.

    It was opening in brave, then after un installing brave it opened in kiwi, then after uninstall too, in Firefox.

  • The EU will finally free Windows users from Bing

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  • Most certainly the today tools to uninstall software from windows would still be usable, but not official like in EEA locations.

  • The EU will finally free Windows users from Bing

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  • Well you see, there is a reason I'm on windows, because I can't use Linux for what I need, unless... Maybe you want to do a commit on the Linux kernel and amd driver to enhance the libVF.IO compatibility for recent amd gpus? Oh and don't forget commits on overwolf for Linux/wine support and some other things too hmm?