Oh. I thought you were referring to a backdoor being found in iOS.
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True. Not exactly a back door maybe. But this has been known for years:
Why is germany yellow, olaf?
Hmm. Seems like it should be an Android phone, or maybe a Windows PC.
"98 percent of PRISM production is based on Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft".[1]
That, followed by the San Bernardino case, eh… I’m comfortable with my choices. Big Brother is always watching. Gotta take precautions regardless if you’re gonna engage in wrongthink.
How about this though? What is deemed acceptable today will be wrongthink tomorrow.
This is true. It’s a difficult balancing act. There are legitimate use cases and features built around tracking, etc but it comes with trade offs.
I’m an advocate for knowing your threat model and compartmentalization of your activity. I don’t mind Amazon knowing I like cats, but might not want them knowing I am pro-gun for instance.
I use both Telegram and Threema for the same reason. Telegram is a very nice app, but I don’t say anything there I’m worried about coming out. There are things like Threema and SimpleX for that.
Which is why networks *must* route agnostically. This bit to me is crucial for this exact reason.
Filtering is a *node* issue, and must be watched real close.
Oh, so 2010 /s
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I think you could see that flaw from low earth orbit. I remember it being a real clusterfudge.
And if I heard about it at that time, it was massive.