Lol

Lol, at least Palantir are named after openly evil shit, this should be called the Goliath.

It’s a pretty big assumption that any regime change in Iran would be orchestrated by the US/Israel, what if I told you Iranians are actually individuals not controlled by their regime or the one in Washington, and can make their own decisions?

Iran’s nuclear development ambitions are about as real as Iraq’s WMDs it’s a nice myth that benefits both Israel and Iran’s regime, but that’s about it.

Hamas gets more money from Qatar than Iran, and a Democratic Iranian regime would be likely to keep that funding going, funding Hamas is a popular in the Middle East for a variety of reasons.

since US/Israel would be the ones picking who ran the new regime

So not a democracy then? Sure Israel would benefit from a puppet state, but how did that work out last time?

I’m not sure Israel benefits from regime change, Iran does a lot of sabre rattling but if the regime was replaced by a democracy, Iran would likely be more aggressive to Israel not less.

I’m no fan of Tankies or the CCP, but I’m really not seeing any more pro-china propaganda than you see elsewhere, mostly excitement as a result of their green tech stuff or HSR (while ignoring why China has a need for HSR)

I am seeing a surprising amount of anti-china paranoia from the UK press right now that frankly seems like it’s engineered by the US given its timing. Like articles about diplomats using burner phones as if that isn’t standard (for all countries).

Not really, travel the global South and you’ll find most people like the West and dislike Russia, China & Trump.

People should understand the limits of E2E encryption.

I’d rather be unhinged than wrong.

Morocco was colonized by Spain, as were several other places in Africa, hell the Conquest of the Canary Islands was the first instance of European genocidal settler colonialism in Africa.

People have always migrated, but modern mass migration is a result of the economic extraction & resulting instability being so extreme that someone with minimal opportunities in Spain can make more money than your average person in a colonized country.

It’s not uncommon for migrants going from having middle class jobs (teachers, small business owners, etc) to cleaners and still having money to send home to support their family.

Additionally many people will migrate to Spain, England & France because their language is widely used in colonized nations.

No encryption is largely based on encryption algorithms, security is much broader than that.

It’s a lot easier to ship 1 app with a backdoor than reconstruct messages by scanning memory.

Can you label rules, that would be a better approach IMO.

Not familiar enough with UFW but could you parse the output and store the rules number as a variable if this is all one long running script?

I’m sure some rightoids will be mad, but if you don’t want people to migrate, you shouldn’t have colonized their homelands.

Sure but it by necessity sends some encrypted data to the server, Wireshark isn’t going to tell you if that’s just your message or your message and additional information.

Does WhatsApp make it visible when you add a new trusted device? Does Signal?

But yeah Meta have full control of the client and it isn’t audited so they could do it a lot of ways.

UK is requiring age verification on VPNs too

Nobody is saying signal is just as bad, simply that it’s not invulnerable to this kind of attack, even with reproducible builds, especially as we don’t know how the attack works.

When is the last time you checked the linked-devices tab in signal?

I didn’t realize Signal now has reproducible builds (in my defense it didn’t when it launched)

and you can monitor outgoing traffic on your devise to see whether the signal app is sending data that it shouldn’t.

This is mostly useless as the traffic signal is sending is encrypted, so you really have to just trust the code.

creating a backdoor to access plaintext messages is still very difficult if the app is well audited

Well audited is key, this attack likely works by doing something like adding Meta to the list of trusted devices, then hiding itself from the list (either because of code in the client or because it the meta device is only added for a moment), so the backdoor wouldn’t be send_all_messages_to_hq(), it would be in the code to list trusted devices, either explicitly hiding some devices or some sort of refresh timer that’s known so you can avoid being there when the UI is updated).

Or it works through the some other mechanism that still preserves E2E encryption.