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Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel
  • What precisely can be stolen from those officials in the first place? Oh no, you’ve discovered our large banking system with rich people money!

  • 'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites
  • It could literally have an x.509 signature from the Chinese government written in the DNA. What would Republicans have done about it? Nothing.

    Lab Leak is bullshit, but the bigger problem was the reaction.

  • More rich Americans are opening Swiss bank accounts fearing U.S. risks
  • Any guide on how I could open one up? As part of my diversification of my $600 USD

  • DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
  • Sounds like a lawsuit by concerned citizens asking for data deletion. Don’t databases need to be approved by legislature?

  • Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
  • Noob. Gotta have somebody host the mumble server 24/7. Persistent private chat with images amongst your buddies.

    And absolutely destroyed by discords reaction gifs and emojis.

  • it's holding on
  • Keanu is peak sciencememes

  • Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
  • Well fuck me if history/persistence isn’t really a problem in an age when we were being warned the government was spying on everything.

  • Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
  • ? Mumble is text chat also.

  • Is Signal safe and still private on an IPhone?
  • You’re correct, it doesn’t make a difference in regards to signal.

    I meant it more as a general iPhone use. Your iPhone with ADP off is uploading everything to Apple iCloud unencrypted. By default only your passwords & health app data is encrypted.

  • Supreme Court to hear challenge to Trump's birthright citizenship order in May
  • Can somebody explain? It seems Trumps best case is that SCOTUS tamps down on nationwide injunctions. But how does narrowing the injunction work?

  • Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation
  • A Lemmy or mastodon instance could just make an onion address?

  • 1900-year-old Roman papyrus details elaborate tax evasion scheme
  • TLDR: it showed that legal training was robust and even in the provinces a Roman lawyer was competent. The tax evasion involved the enslaved being freed? And you don’t fuck with Roman tax collectors.

  • Is Signal safe and still private on an IPhone?
  • Theoretically: fuck no. Private operating system, not open source code, installation source is Apple itself, Apple helps law enforcement, Prism scooped up all unencrypted data.

    Practically: signal wouldn’t keep developing an iOS app if there was hard evidence Apple couldn’t be trusted, Apple gives plenty of options for your data to not be collected in plain text and given to law enforcement (turn off iCloud backups, turn off biometrics, lockdown mode, advanced data protection) but not default because they’re trying to balance being a luxury product with compliance, as a luxury product it’s used by rich people and rich people love their privacy (citation needed), Apple is the only practical choice if you don’t get a google pixel, FBI is always fighting them on allowing full phone encryption, they rolled out a contact encryption key verification feature for their own iMessage.

    Signal explicitly doesn’t allow its files to be uploaded to iCloud. You practically will be fine using it on iOS. Unless you are in China which has its own iCloud/Apple servers, or the UK where Apple disabled advanced data protection.

    Apple provides encryption for its customers, but not by default. All its encryption features hint to me that they would prefer not having anything to hand over to the hundreds of law enforcement agency’s around the planet, but don’t want to piss them off by making it default. This aligns with it being a hardware and service company, vs the advertising company Google.

    Privacyguides has a page on steps you can take in your iPhone to harden it.

    You are in a better situation than most. Make plans to get onto a graphene pixel. But if that wasn’t available then an iPhone is the next best choice.

  • Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
  • Diplomatic corps in many countries usually can bend the law here and there.

    Also a really troll move. Expect /r/conservative to take all these photos to show non-Nazis that they’re being hysterical.

  • U.S.-born citizen held by ICE in Florida jail despite birth certificate presented in court
  • A blue sky post by a present journalist confirmed he had been released. I don’t have the source though…

  • Maryland Sen. Van Hollen says he finally met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia
  • "I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance," Sen. Van Hollen said. "I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return."

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